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BachInv13
07-14-2005, 04:22 AM
and there's no spot for vocals so I'll just slip this in here.

I was apparently a really good singer(I didn't care to think so but the entire choir and my choir director would always compliment me on my "beautiful voice" and nonsense like that) this past school year(I'll be a senior next year), and well this requires a little more story than I thought. Before this past year(junior year) I had never been into singing at all but I decided I loved it junior year.. and the only reason I joined choir is cause my choir teacher asked me to join(she had never heard me sing, I think she was taking a shot in the dark just because she had heard me playing piano). So I was pretty much a choir noob. The only credibility I should have had is that my range is beyond college choral performers(so I've been told.. as a bass I can hit a low C[two octaves below middle C] and a high F#[the F# above middle C] and my falsetto goes to a high D two octaves above middle C's adjacent D[sorry this was such a confusing use of brackets]). But I caught on pretty darn fast and was soloing and performing in quartets and whatnot.
But I kinda.. well my vibrato was never really that great(and it didn't have to be for the stuff we were doing). It always felt really mechanic and uncomfortable. Right now? My falsetto vibrato is better than my full voice vibrato(don't ask, I have a really good falsetto for a bass). Again right now, I have practically no vibrato talent in my full-voice.

SUM: How do I improve vibrato? Excercises or something? I appreciate the help.

mattblack850
07-14-2005, 11:15 AM
As far as I was aware, Vocal Vibrato is a purely natural occurence, some peoples vibrato being wider than others. As for practicing it, it is caused by the tightening and relaxing of the vocal chords, it's almost like gargling with mouthwash!!!! Try asking you Coir Master, I'm sure that he would have some more constructive advice!! I only know this stuff from years as a junior choirester in a church choir!!:D :D

live
07-14-2005, 11:40 AM
Don't force it to come! It will appear with kind of feeling for the literature you sing... But you can try to sing SHORT(!) vocals with a 'h' like 'ho' and stop all of a sudden so that you'll get a feeling for the impulse and the vibrato feeling...

Hope my exc. was understandable -> it's not very easy to come up with such things in textform!!! Be careful with your voice!

live

BachInv13
07-16-2005, 02:06 AM
Um, no, there are ways to train it and enhance it and crap. I guess nobody here knows?

live
07-16-2005, 11:09 AM
My post was serious!