From the course: Singing Lessons: 2 Foundational Exercises

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Tone

Tone

From the course: Singing Lessons: 2 Foundational Exercises

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Tone

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- Let's dig a little deeper into tone. Many people argue that what sets any successful vocalist apart is a natural tone. Now you can be born with a certain tone, it's genetic, it's in your DNA, the shape of your instrument, the size of your body, the shape of your face and head and throat. So it's true that there are a lot of natural kind of built-in factors into any human being's tone of voice. But it is something also that you can develop, that you can work on. You can learn to control the little tiny muscles and ligaments and all kinds of very nuanced, small incremental controllers that you have in your vocal system to slightly change the tone or the sound, the color, the quality of sound that you deliver as a singer. Remember when we were looking at the relationship between pitch and frequency? And we listened to various waveforms at certain frequencies, which correspond to the pitch and a place, a keyboard note that we can find. We're going to listen again, remember the sine…

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