Monday 28 September 2015

Scales

Scales


7 Distinct Pitches
The atonic key, you start with "DO"

DO/ONE
RE/TWO
MI/THREE
FA (solfege)/FOUR
SOL/FIVE
LA/SIX
TI/SEV

                                                                      Number three is a scale because it goes into                                every atonic keys.

DO, RE (is a tone above a step)
MI, FA (is a semi-tone)


  • Musical Alphabet is A - G.

  • Leisure Lines

  • Clef

  • Key Signature

  • Time Signature

  • Everything you put on the 'staves' is a mines.

  • The map helps you identify where everything goes.


TREBLE CLEF -  You can remember the notes on the lines by the sentence Every Good Boy Deserves Football. The words in the spaces spell FACE.  




B SHARP - lower the note by a semi-note, (black key on the piano)






The Anatomy of the Voice


The Abdominals 
singing muscles


  • External Oblique  - Connect like pockets.

  • Transverses abdominis - Fibres run horizontally, Controls rotary action.

  • Internal Oblique -  One level deeper than the externais.

  • Rectus Abdominis - (Six Pack), Giant band goes around and connects, Fibres run vertically, Xiphoid Process in between. 


The Anatomy of the Voice

The Anatomy of the Voice.
  • An anatomical journey to the centre of the voice.
#VocalTech
-RIBS CAGE                                                                             (LUNGS ISN'T A MUSCLE)

Intercostal Muscles
When you breathe it lifts the muscles up.


-DIAPHRAGM

When it contracts the breath goes in.
The diaphragm only works with breathing in, 
not when you breathe out.

LARYNX

1. Hyroid Bone                                                                      (SOUND IS A VIBRATION)        2. Thyroid                                                                              
3. Cricoid
4. Trachea    


  • Epiglottis
  • Glotis
  • Arythenoids

Best position for projection is with the Larynx down.


Resenation                                                                   
  • Increase in volume                              Soft palet (moves)  Hard palet (doesnt move
Voice Box 

  • Vocal Chords