From the course: Vocal Lessons: 1 Warm Ups and Cool Downs

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Exercise 5: Connecting vocal range and tone (hmm)

Exercise 5: Connecting vocal range and tone (hmm)

From the course: Vocal Lessons: 1 Warm Ups and Cool Downs

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Exercise 5: Connecting vocal range and tone (hmm)

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- One of the things that I've found in developing the voice, not that this doesn't apply to life as well, is that the simpler, the better. On the other hand, we can get very used to things being complicated and as a result when we go for something simple, expect that it's going to be complicated and add extra things that aren't needed. This approach uses a very common sound that you might use when you're just considering something, you're just kind of thinking about something and then you go hmm. So just try that, hmm. And your voice might be pitched higher or lower but whatever your kind of go to note as it were, is in speaking hmm or hmm or hmm. Whatever it is, find it first, hmm. You'll notice that there's vibration coming through the lips. This simple approach applied in an exercise, can help to balance the muscle actions of your voice that need to occur to make the sounds with the other element that enriches your voice tonally and gives you an improved quality of sound, which has…

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