Beginner Singing Lesson - Cord Closure - Adduction Practice - All Voices

hello new vocalists or beginners or people returning to singing after a while or those who have been singing for a while but maybe don't have as much of the training as they'd like and are experimenting with us this is a very very rudimentary video on cord closure or as it would be referred to in singing pedagogical terms adduction and that's the closure of the vocal fold mechanism so in order to do that you've got to have really good coordination of the beginning of your airflow and also the constriction of the muscles are on the larynx using only as much as we need to get the vocal folds to meet nice and efficiently and that really helps you with intonation helps you with phrase longevity in terms of singing a longer phrase and it also helps with your tone basically every aspect of your singing is directly related to how well or how poorly you get your vocal fold adduction or cord closure or sometimes refer to as compression resonance tone all that kind of stuff I'm not really going to talk I'll talk a little bit more than I might in a normal warm-up video in this just to introduce the exercises and what we're looking for and the potential challenges stays in a very moderate range but I'll be playing in two hands so those are the lower vocal persuasion I'll be down here those are they're a bit higher up and what kind of ascend and descend from there if it ever gets too high or too low just stop it's important that these practices be done in a comfortable range of your voice so comfortable as comfortable as you can thank you if you've chosen to subscribe if you haven't yet I hope that you'll choose to do so now there are myriad other ways to support this channel several of which are at no cost to you and those are in the description and I hope that you'll avail yourselves of something that you find there cord closure adduction we're going to use some short vowel syllables to set ourselves up and then we're going to sing a little bitty scale to try to see if we can feel that now things to listen for in this first exercise the civil week we're gonna do some starter tones before the scale sounds like this we and those short little notes give us an opportunity to let the vocal fold figure itself out try to let it do what it will do if you notice it being too Airy we then try to go for a more pure evil we we that was a little bit too much we we little too squeezed so we want to back away from that we we you might also say be be to give yourself an idea of where that evil is meant to be let's start that exercise [Music] now if you're very successful with that you can try he the H aspirates the vocal fold it separates them this makes it a little bit more challenging but it's a really good practice in terms of developing our coordination try to keep the h DS as short as you can you will be more successful the more consistent your expansion and engagement are [Music] alternately if you're finding we really challenging and you're not feeling as if you're getting a balanced eval you can try you the danger with you is that it's gonna fall too far back on you and it'll sound something like this it's really too far back okay we want to try to have a nice ooh balanced vowel ooh and if everything is going well you can try a descending scale with a couple extra starter tones this one sounds like this [Music] and if that is going well a nice H sound through there heat H e again that's gonna aspirate the vocal fold make it a little bit more challenging but it's a really great practice and [Music] and there you go as always I hope that helps my name is Jeff take really good care of your voices enjoy singing and hopefully we'll see you again bye

Channel: Jeff Rolka

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Keywords: cord closure, beginner lesson, beginner singing lesson

Id: VYDSXkEcDZk

Length: 10min 30sec (630 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 25 2018