VOCAL BLENDING

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*