HOW TO BLEND VOCALS
Blending is
the art of combining different and unique vocal sounds and make them sound like
one. Blending involves mixing, merging and integrating individual voices, tone
quality and even accents into one sound! It all begins with recognizing that no
matter how good singers can be as soloist they’ll have to yield some
individualities to obtain a blended sound! That takes willingness and a bit of
education. How to blend:-
-
POSTURE. Your
posture can either free u or bind you up; balanced, upright, athletic posture
allows good breathing, resonant tone and a physical appearance that doesn’t
distract from singing and the message.
- VOICE TYPE (TONE). It’s not possible for a group of singers
to blend their voices if everyone will be singing their own preferable tones! Here
am talking about the Head voice, Chest voice, Mixed voice and Nosal resonance. Before
singing a song it is important to chose which type of tone you would like to
use for that particular song and either with or without nosal resonance.
- DICTION. Agree on the vowel and consonant
sounds that you want to use. Blending will be difficult if everyone will hold
on to their own accents!
- FORGET YOUR INDICIDUAL SKILLS. Remember that you are not singing a
solo instead you are singing as a team, there for this is not the time to show
your vibrato, runs, tremolo and so forth unless you all agreed to do it as a
team.
-UNDERSTAND AND WORK ON YOURSELF. Take time to study yourself if you
have a very loud voice or a very low one, a very high pitch or a very low one
and try to fit in so as to achieve the blending. For example if you know that
your voice is too loud naturally you wouldn’t wanna use all of your energy when
singing so as not to over shadow your fellows!
*BE BLESSED AS YOU MOVE
TO THE NEXT LEVEL*
