ok, still no new design for the site but this one’s better. finally a new entry of what this blog is supposed to be about…
this time i’ll give you a little exercise, or maybe call it an experiment that was used for hundreds of years but is almost fogotten today – at least it seems that way…
the next part of this series will cover the way the air takes and how you’re making use of it, but i believe it’s easier to understand what i’m talking about (especially regarding my somewhat creative english :-) ) if you mess around and make some experiences first. so for now have some fun with this little sucker here:
- light a candle
- if you find that you don’t have a candle, obtain one. in that case this should have been step one, deal with it.
- light the newly obtained candle. no, if you already completed step one before reading step two, you don’t need to light a second candle (if you happened to have two candles in the first place), nor do you need to light the first – already burning – candle a second time. you also don’t have to check if there would have been a second candle. one candle is perfectly fine, there’s absolutely no nee…..
- i’ll just assume that you have a candle and it is properly lit. this is no step for you. i just don’t know how
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- what the hell…
alright, there you go:
the following experiment requires one burning candle.
just hold it in front of your mouth while you sing a few words. the goal is to sing without the flame moving too much. that’s basically it.
now what is that good for you ask. the thing i’m talking about is efficiency. it’s vital to your singing that you become able to use the air you’ve got in the most efficient way possible. one reason for that is quite obvious: you may want to sing for hours without passing out – hyperventilating is not the best way to reach that goal… another reason is the sound, a full and round tone requires efficient use of the air. yes, wasting air can sound cool but you’d have to know what you’re doing first – and that’s what we’re working on right now. so stay focused on efficiency.
so take the candle and sing into the flame, especially vowels. you can try to sing a song, but there’s a bunch of letters like ‘p’ or ‘t’ for example that make this quite hard. you could sing those letters softer, as long as you’re not getting used to that! no matter what you sing, play around a little and try to find out how to ‘control’ the flame. what do you need to do to keep it calm? does volume make a difference? come up with your own questions and find answers by just singing into the flame… develop a feeling for a ‘flame-friendly-singing-mode’.
ok, here is some kind of a disclaimer in case there’s any wiseguys out there reading: this is just an exercise to develop a certain feeling and control. ‘flame-friendly-singing’ is not the way you should sing from now on. and while i’m at it: fire is extremely dangerous. do not burn your house down, not even with a voice-friendly flame ;-)
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