Matching Another Voice

From: Daily Intonation Practice For Low Voices: Pitch Matching Focus

by Abram Poliakoff

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Welcome to part one of the lesson: matching another voice. I’ll still play a chord on the piano for context, but you’ll be singing along with me the whole time.

Exercise: 3-tone scale 12321

Begin with a 3-tone scale:. If singing on numbers helps you, please do so! If you’d prefer to sing on another syllable or vowel, do that instead.

Exercise: 5-tone scale 12321

Now for a 5-tone scale. Again, please feel free to sing on a syllable or vowel you like.

Exercise: Major arpeggio (short) 13531

This next pattern is a major chord, or an arpeggio, since we’re singing each pitch individually. Notice the scale degrees are the same as before - we’re just skipping over 2 and 4.

Exercise: Major arpeggio (full) 1358531

Final exercise, adding onto our major arpeggio. We’re skipping over steps 6 & 7 now as well. If we sang them, it would sound like this [sing 5678]. Sing 58, and memorize the space between those two pitches.

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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.