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Ricardo -> RE: Un poco de cante, toque, y baile, 1986 (Apr. 11 2020 0:50:06)
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ORIGINAL: kitarist
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And where I’m at with it:
DAMN!! This is seriously impressive. It sounds like you are also within range try some of Roberto Salavado's singing and screaming (!) How much range did you get out of this HVT training, i.e. how far did your top note get extended?
What I have learned is the pitches are not alone... it depends on the vowel you use and how you control the breath. And the vowels change in feeling depending on what register you are in. So below E4 I can say any word any normal way and it might all feel the same like talking... but if you have to take a melody above that (notes on high E string from e4 to e5 range) you need to change how the vowel gets “said”, and it’s not easy to change registers in a sustained melody so sometimes you need to change the way you say things in low pitches if you need to carry it up there.
The transition is called “passagio” by most schools, and the way you change “saying” a word is called vowel modification... buts not as simple as changing “ah” to “uh”, the change has to do with placing the sound in some resonance pocket in your skull, and those pockets simply
don’t respond to normal pronunciation. When you find that pocket of resonance you can slide notes easy around on a single vowel like “oh”, and that feeling is like you have covered your vocal chords with honey or something, and very little air production is needed so you feel like holding it back (control diaphragm). Maintaining that covered feeling is not easy as you start changing vowels AND pitches mixed with consonants. Losing that covered feeling results in cracking yodeling and distortion (ie falseto and fry) so long story short, I can now sustain an “easy” vowel up to G5 or so, but the instinct is to push too much air as you go higher so fighting that is the challenge. And two songs might have a similar range, but if the words of one song are harder to place I will run out of range and breath and the song will be out of my ability.
As an example of what I mean, the range of this song here is in E minor from A3 (A second fret 3rd string) to C5 (8th fret 1st string), but the words are easy to place the way he does it. I could sing it 5 times in a row and never get tired. Queensrÿche “I don’t believe in love” is in D minor but same range of notes. I still can’t make it through the verse and chorus as easy because of how the words need to be delivered, I run out of breath if I’m not careful, and when I do happen to get it nailed, I feel like I just ran a marathon. Singing up high ends up becoming a very involved mental exercise, and I’m watching pros slip up all the time and I never noticed it before. I’m at that early stage learning where I will try things and it works one minute and next time I forget and get stuck. At least I sort of know what I’m supposed to be doing.
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