Tone Concentration/ Texturizing
Today we started on REALLY advanced style technique! We started working on varying our concentration of tone to give our song more texture (or to help it sound more produced and give it more style). We started by drawing out a spectrum that looked like a color pallet -- with darker and more filled-in boxes on one side, gradually getting lighter and less filled-in until we reached the other end of the spectrum with the lightest boxes. Then, I explained that FULL tone, or something that sounded like our baseline forward and talking placement, was represented by the darkest boxes. Then, as we add more air, widen our vowels even more, and take out some of our tone in our words -- we travel down the spectrum to the lightest boxes that would sound like an airy whisper. When singing a pop song, or any song we want to add texture to (most of the time we will want to use it when we have a mic of some sort) - we want to be all over that spectrum, using different tone concentration for different words and phrases to give each line a more produced and customized feel.
This is hard stuff.
As we went through Erin's song, I started putting my finger on different areas of the spectrum and had Erin match the tone concentration based on where my finger was on the paper. We then switched and I had Erin choose the concentration of tone -- and show me where it was at on the spectrum.
She did so awesome!!
Airy vs. Growl entries
The other thing we worked on today involved the beginning of our words and how we approached each of them to get them to sound and feel different. We worked on two different ways to begin a word - airy and growl.
With an airy beginning, we push more air through the word at the beginning while widening our vowel even more -- giving in a very breathy texture.
With a growl beginning, we mute the beginning of our word with a sound like we are squeezing the note through our vocal cords like we would with air out of a balloon with a little growl sound.
Switching between the two is important to have a fully produced sound.
Erin did so great!!
Here are our videos from today!