Week 90: Usage of Vowels (Part 1)

I'm dealing with our usage of Vowels within singing for 2 weeks, both in the part they play & any difficulties posed by certain formation.
1. Vowels are what we sing. Whilst we can pitch a consonant, we cannot actually open up a pitched consonant into open throated singing.
2. The Vowel clearly belongs to the note or pitch. Singers need to develop the centre of the pitch together with the centre of the vowel.
3. Vowels are all initially formed & produced from the back of the tongue before individually being further shaped governed by pitch.
4. An invaluable exercise is to build song repertoire into the singing voice using only the vowels of the words within seamless legato lines.
5. It is important for singers & their teachers to build a selection of exercises into the voice which work on ALL vowels equally.
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