Quick Picks: Piriformis Stretch Exercise for Good Pos...
 
Sign In Sign Up — It's Free!

Understanding Vocal Arpeggios When Learning to Sing

Viewing videos requires the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player.
Get the latest Flash player.
Showing 1-5

Part of the video series: Learn to Sing Better: Free Voice Lessons

left_arrow right_arrow
Add to My Playlist What is a playlist?

Summary: Learn about vocal arpeggios with expert music tips in this free vocal coaching video clip from a professional music theory teacher.

Views: 17,848 | Tags: vocal, voice, singing, instruction, sing, performance, teacher, singer, vocal exercises, voice lessons

Get the latest Flash player.
Email Video Add to Favorites
About the Expert
Contact: dallasmusiclessons.com

Mark W. Black Armed with a master's degree in music and theory and owner/founder of Promethean Studios in Dallas, Mark W. Black has taught hundreds of beginners how to adva... read more

Hide Comments

Conversations About This Video

  • Comments
    (0 comments)
  • Questions & Answers
    (0 questions) (0 answers)
Be the first to comment on this video.
Have a question about this video topic? Ask our community members and let them share their knowledge with you!
Ask A Question

Video Transcript

Understanding Vocal Arpeggios When Learning to Sing

Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com. We are going to be talking about vocal performance. Stepwise exercises build facility and skill in other words if I want to be able to sing lyrics or sing… I want to be able to sing like that, I need to do stepwise exercises. Both things are important, but an exercise like this… or the all time favorite… that is not a good way to build range because once I hit up here or here and when… every half step of that I am feeling… so I feel all of that and it is harder to do psychologically yes, physically yes but mostly in the head. So what you should do is do arpeggios to build range. Again both kinds of exercises have benefits for you but arpeggios are going to build your range, and you got a lot more range. Certain schools of thinking would say basically we are trying to discover your voice, but as to me that is like Arnold saying “I am going to discover if I am a body builder.” No, he went and built his body and that is what you are doing with exercises, you are saying I have done or had or whatever I had a weenie voice and I want to make it a massive and amazing excellent voice and I can work on it and build it and so okay so maybe you won’t get a seven octave range, you can just be content with a four octave range. So I definitely believe in students to prove it that you can dramatically increase your range and the way to do is arpeggios, so I mostly want to encourage you about that, there is a lot more range for yourself, than you may be able to think of.

Watch these related videos

Singing Ads

Community Members who...

  • Favorited this Video
  • Rated This Video
Read these related articles
See more articles

Top Tags

auditions belting break breathing capella chest chord chords confidence cords disorders exercise exercises falsetto guitars head hymn instruction instructional instruments larynx learn legit musical musical instruments nodes nodules notes performance pop position rock scales sing singer singing songs songwriting teacher technique techniques training vocal vocal chords vocal exercise vocal exercises vocals voice voice lessons vowels
Check out what people are watching now
left_arrow right_arrow