Description:
Welcome to your 2-week course on developing vibrato! If you haven’t already completed a level 1 beginner course, we recommend you start there. This series assumes that you are matching pitch and accessing the different registers in your voice. You can still be a beginning singer, but if you’re brand-new, the level 1 beginner course is where you should start.
The pitches covered will be low to medium-high range for most low-voiced singers. We won’t sing much lower than a C3, or higher than an E4. That’s consistent with the Bari-tenor range. Because vibrato is most likely to appear when your voice feels relaxed, we’ll stick within a pretty limited range for the majority of exercises.
Vibrato is your voice’s natural method for protecting itself! We can encourage vibrato by working our voice, and then giving it a chance to relax and find proper balance. The two following exercises will do just that.
Exercises:
Rapid 15151 (sustain at the end) Wah
Descending waterfall 8531 (sustain at the end) Yah
Lessons:
- 1: What Is Vibrato?
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2:
Body Engagement
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3:
Cord Closure
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4:
Resonant Space
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5:
Relaxation
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6:
Imitation
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7:
Diphthongs
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8:
Recreating Natural Vibrato
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9:
Straight Tone & Vibrato
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10:
Slowing Down A Tremolo
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11:
Speeding Up A Wobble
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12:
Vibrato At The End Of A Phrase
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13:
Vibrato At The End Of A Sustained Pitch
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14:
Congratulations & Vibrato Focused Warmup
Instructor: Abram Poliakoff
Abram Poliakoff is a singer, guitarist, pianist, teacher, conductor, and composer. He received a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Arts from USC’s Thornton School of Music and has been teaching music for 8 years. He is currently both the Associate Artistic Director and a tenor in the L.A. Choral Lab, which recently released its first studio album Sonic Visions in the fall of 2019. Abram teaches and performs a wide range of genres including Classical, Jazz, Folk and Popular music in the Los Angeles area. He has also sung with the San Francisco Opera and Pocket Opera in the Bay Area. His teaching mission is to help his students utilize vocal technique to find their authentic and healthy voice while maximizing genre flexibility and a naturalness of expression.