Resonating the Registers
A Guide to Register Control Using Perception & Bio-feedback
How to Balance & Bridge Between Your Registers with Ease
The subject of vocal registers is extensive, and with so much conflicting information out there it can be difficult to know how to approach the subject, both for singers trying to improve their own voices, and for teachers trying to help their students.
This short course addresses the "how to" of registers from the perspective of resonance and bio-feedback, offering the teacher or singer an accessible, practical approach to developing and controlling registers using super-effective exercises and some simple rules. It includes an overview of the current voice science, without getting bogged down in it.
Copyright Notice
How to Use the Course Platform - A Brief Overview
Hello from Team VC and your course designer!
What is a Register?
Revision Quiz
Harmonics, Spaces, Resonances and Formants in a Nutshell
The Perception of Resonance
Horizontal Alignment - What Is It and Why Do I Need It?
Practical Exercises for Developing Resonance Awareness
Horizontal Alignment Exercise 1
Horizontal Alignment Exercise 2
Horizontal Alignment Exercise 3
The Primo Passaggio - Where Mouth Resonance Takes Over from Throat Resonance
Practical Exercise for Developing Vocal Balance - The Cuperto
Cuperto 1: The Standard 1-Octave Variant
Cuperto 2: The 1.5.Octave Variant & Holding a Line of Tension
Cuperto 3: The 2-Octave Variant
Correct Labelling of Registers
Using Cuperto for Voice Development
What and Where is a Comfort Zone?
What and Where is a Power Zone?
The "Change up Early" Approach
Audio Files for "The Change Up Early" Approach
Reversing the Polarities (aka the "Smoke and Mirrors" Approach)
The "Utilise a Big Interval" Approach (Part 1 of 3)
Audio Files for 'Utilise a Big Interval' (Part 1 of 3)
Developing the 'Use a Big Interval' Approach (Part 2 of 3)
Audio files for "Developing the 'Use a Big Interval' Approach" (Part 2 of 3)
Return to the Comfort Zone - Putting it All Together (Part 3 of 3)
Audio Files for "Return to the Comfort Zone - Putting it All Together" (Memory, Part 3 of 3)
Understanding Low-Turnover & High-Turnover Vowels
A Quick Recap - What did we Learn?
Before You Go...
Potential Future Courses - What's On Your Wishlist?
Hints on Singing by Garcia II
On Vocal Registers by Harry Hollien
Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Thomas Fillebrown
Full-length Practise Tracks for "I Drove All Night"
Full-length Practise Tracks for "Memory"
References