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Singing Tips
for the Week - Previous Tips 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
2007
Previous
singing tips from the years 2000 - 2003 are now available for purchase!!!
2004, 2005 and 2006 tips comprise question/answer format and will
be made available at a later date in a different format.
Tips
have been arranged into 3 series and each series index is listed below.
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Series
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57 tips covering September 2000 to 2nd February 2002. $14.00
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Gilbertson Singing Tips © 2000-2005 Copyright
notice: Brian Gilbertson as per dates listed.
Series
1 - Index:
1
Food for thought, some appetizers
I. Thought
II. Learning how to Learn
III. Practice
IV. Change
V. Resonate, don’t sing
VI. How many parts of you sing?
VII. Your voice
VIII. Activating the voice
IX. What is singing
X. Self belief
XI. The diaphragm
XII. Vocal Chords
XIII. Pull the sound don’t push it
2
Breathing
3 The diaphragm in more detail
4 How important is the first note?
5 What is it to “smile” when you sing?
6 Learning how to learn before you learn how to sing
7 Awareness
8 Emotion
9 Emotion, thought and your audience
10 Remedy for sinus troubles
11 Energy of the breath
12 Breathing exercise
13 Breathing exercise
14 Breathing exercise
15 The breath becomes sound
16 Voicing on the breath
17 Letting the voice happen, not making it happen. How does this work?
18 Focus or awareness, is there a difference?
19 The high notes
20 The high notes continued
21 Exercising the voice
22 Remedy for the throat
23 Tight singing
24 Stiff Tongue
25 Distraction by frustration
26 Projection – singing in the silence
27 Fitness
28 Pacing yourself
29 Finding your audience
30 Singing in the nose part 1
31 Singing in the nose part 2
32 Singing in the nose part 3
33 Singing in the nose part 4
34 Singing in the nose part 5
35 Singing in the nose part 6
36 Warming up the voice
37 The thought. How important is it?
38 Warming up the body part 1
39 Warming up the body part 2
40 Warming up the vocal chords part 1
41 Warming up the vocal chords part 2
42 Warming up the vocal chords part 3
43 Balance in all things
44 Self development at home
45 Your own sound
46 Food and drinks we are told will help
47 Can an opera singer sing pop?
48 A visitor’s response to 47
49 Opera singing takes time….why? Part 1
50 Opera singing takes time….why? Part 2
51 Opera singing takes time….why? Part 3
–Voice types Male and Female
52 Opera singing takes time….why? Part 4
-Soubrette Soprano
53 Opera singing takes time….why? Part 5
-Lyric & Coloratura Soprano
54 Opera singing takes time….why? Part 6
-Dramatic Soprano (young spinto, dramatic and dramatic coloratura)
55
Opera singing takes time….why? Part 7
-Mezzo and Contralto Soprano (dramatic and lyric mezzo, contralto)
56
Opera singing takes time….why? Part 8
-Tenors (Helden or Heroic, Dramatic, Lyric, Germanic Lyric, Character,
57
Opera singing takes time….why? Part 9
-Baritone and Bass (Helden or Heroic, Lyric, Character, Comic Baritones,
Basso Profundo, Bass Baritone, Character Bass
Brian
Gilbertson Singing Tips © 2002 Copyright
notice: Brian Gilbertson as per dates listed.
Series
2 - Index:
1
Words used to teach singing - What do they mean? Part 1 - Technique
2
Words used
to teach singing - What do they mean? Part 2 -
Passaggio
3
Words used
to teach singing - What do they mean? Part 3 - Focus
4 Words used to teach singing - What do they mean? Part 4 - Dynamics
Part 1
5 Words used to teach singing - What do they mean? Part 4 - Dynamics
Part 2 - Pianissimo Singing (1)
6 Words used to teach singing - What do they mean? Part 4 - Dynamics
Part 3 - Pianissimo Singing (2)
7 Words used to teach singing - What do they mean? Part 5 - Falsetto
verses Mezza Voce
8 Words used to teach singing - What do they mean? Part 6 - Legato
9 Breathing is easy!
10 Using the breath
11 Singing in front of a camera
12 Choosing the right teacher
13 Technique or understanding?
14 Follow your instincts
15 Vibrato
16 Agents. Be pro-active yourself
17The art of teaching. Teach in the moment.
18 Preparing for competitions and performance
19 A follow up to the art of teaching regarding "ball" imagery
20 The rehearsal room - Part 1
21 The rehearsal room - Part 2 - The pecking order
22 The rehearsal room - Part 3 - Pacing yourself
23 The rehearsal room - Part 4 - In the theatre
24 Diction - Part 1 - the less you try to be clear, the clearer you
will be!!!
25 Diction - Part 2 - vowel assimilation
26 Diction - Part 3 - consonants
27 Diction - Part 4 - vowels bridge the consonants
28 Diction - Part 5 - visualisation
29 Diction - Part 6 - an extension of part 5
30 Breathiness verses Releasing the Breath!
31 Welcoming a breathy tone to develop singing with release &
to overcome breathiness
32 Experimenting with releasing the breath - Exercise 1
33 Experimenting with releasing the breath - Exercise 2
34 Experimenting with releasing the breath - Exercise 3
35 Experimenting with releasing the breath - Exercise 4
36 Don't let diction get in the way
37 Experimenting with releasing the breath - Exercise 5 - Part 1
38 Experimenting with releasing the breath - Exercise 5 - Part 2
39 Experimenting with releasing the breath - Exercise 5 - Part 3
40 Experimenting with releasing the breath - Exercise 5 - Part 4
41 Strengthening the vocal sound - Elasticity
42 Sensing your energy
43 Preparation for Christmas singing
44 Reviewing and planning your career
45 Understanding imagery
46 Believing is Seeing!!!!!
Brian
Gilbertson Singing Tips © 2003 Copyright
notice: Brian Gilbertson as per dates listed.
Series
3 - Index:
1
You are your own teacher, your teacher is your guide!!
2 Singing National Anthems
3 Reasons for clearing the throat - don't do it!
4 Humming the right way, with an open throat
5 Singing in the moment
6 Short practice idea for busy times
7 For singers in isolated places without teaching resources
8 Your energy is bigger than you think
9 A simple exercise in awareness
10 Teacher / Student relations - Part 1 - self assessment
11 Teacher / Student relations - Part 2 - don't listen, feel
12 Teacher / Student relations - Part 3 - finding and remembering
own knowledge
13 Journey of the breath
14 The importance of memory and remembering!
15 Singing on the breath - a visual exercise
16 Changing your voice?
17 Embrace your own sound
18 Space - Part 1 - volume = space
19 Space - Part 2 - letting the sound grow
20 Space - Part 3- singing in stereo
21 Space - Part 4 - Letting the breath fall up!
22 Freeing up the words
23 Finding the space
24 Bel canto or can belto? - belting -Part 1
25 Bel canto or can belto? - belting -Part 2
26 Experience!
27 Be prepared!
28 Vocal registers
29 Exercising the diaphragm and strengthening the body - Part 1
30 Exercising the diaphragm and strengthening the body - Part 2
31 Exercising the diaphragm and strengthening the body - Part 3
32 Vibrato! How can we lessen it?
33 An exercise in "Trust" - Part 1
34 An exercise in "Trust" - Part 2
35 Love the "taste" of your voice
36 A weird little exercise!
37 More on the " i " (ee) vowel - Part 1 - if you are free
on " i " you can be free on all vowels
38 More on the " i " (ee) vowel - Part 2 - opening the "i
" vowel. More on what is it "to smile?"
39 Letting the energy be more than your physical self - Part 1 - breathing
in a relaxed state
40 Letting the energy be more than your physical self - Part 2 - sounding
on the breath in a relaxed state
41 Experience sound, don't just sing it!!
42 When you've got nothing to say, don't say anything.
43 More on the journey of the breath
44 Intervals
45 Singing Tool Kit
46 Taking the road less traveled. Stepping out of your comfort zone.
47 Teaching
48 Constancy in vocal delivery
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