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  Lesson 05/18 BVs  -  Can you?

  • Interact with your Backing vocalists where appropriate to enhance the stage presence?

  • Balance your volume, be it lead or harmony?

  • Blend your tone and vowels with other BVs and the lead?

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Look ahead:

Vocal Health - how do you keep your voice healthy?

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  Lesson 01/18 PITCH Can you?

  • Sing a major scale accurately

  • Sing major intervals – without scoops

  • Find Do in your song and use it to prepare your starting note

Look ahead: Improvise using the major scale (either stepwise or leaping intervals)

  Lesson 02/18 IMPROVISING SOLOS Can you?

  • Improvise a melody using the notes of the major scale

  • Adapt the rhythm and lyrics of an improvisation to suit the style of the song

  • Develop a melodic phrase
    (increase ascending/descending pitch, mirror the direction, sequences, complexity of rhythm

Look ahead: The Minor key

  Lesson 03/18 Natural Minor Scale -  Can you?

  • Sing the natural minor scale and broken chord?

  • Improvise an ad lib using the minor scale features – flat 3rd and flat 7th (blue notes)?

  • Use chord tones to build a harmony with the lead?

Look ahead:

Where would backing vocals add support in your own lead song choice?

  Lesson 04/18 Harmonies  -  Can you?

  • Maintain your lead line against backing harmonies?

  • Maintain your harmony against the lead line?

  • Choreograph the BV?

Look ahead:

BV continued – Is there anywhere in the song that would benefit from additional BV support to thicken the line?

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