From the course: Vocal Lessons: 2 Singing Songs Better
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Song phrasing & timing
From the course: Vocal Lessons: 2 Singing Songs Better
Song phrasing & timing
- I'm gonna talk a little bit about phrasing and timing right now, so as to help you sing songs better as quickly as possible. When a song starts, many times there's an instrumental that leads into it, so you need to be able to count off how many beats there are before you start. You can do that very mechanically. Really count it off and know exactly how many pulses there are (rhythmic slapping) until you start the beginning of your first phrase. Now, when you start that phrase, here comes some juicy information. Let's say the first word is stay, so you're going, there's four beats, and then you're supposed to sing. One, two, three, four, ♫ Stay ♫ I'm late. Why? Because I was trying to get the note with my s-t, st, and that's all that an s-t is, air hissing, st, and a little percussive aspect. The s is called a sibilant, and the t is called a percussive. It's kind of like a plosive. If you're singing on mic and you really hammer into that, you'll have a nice electronic explosion…
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