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I know I'm a bit late, but I find the high voice book works better for most men and the low voice book works better for most women. Yes, most vocal books are published in a high edition for sopranos/tenors and a low edition for altos/baritiones, vocal ranges for solo jazz singing tend to be different. In jazz (and many pop styles), women tend to stay in a lower range while the men sing higher in their range.

As a woman studying vocal jazz, I have found the Real Book high voice to be too high to allow me to color the sound the way I want. I only recently discovered the Real Book low voice! Works much better for me.

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As a choir director, I'm always thankful when the music publisher provides a recorded performance of the vocal music I purchase for my singers. But I'm ecstatic when they provide practice recordings of the individual SATB parts (which, unfortunately, isn't all that often) because I won't have to create them -- spending hours recording myself plunking out notes on a piano. For decades, I've made "practice tapes" this way, all the while hoping for some future magical tech that would one day enable me to produce usable recordings in an automated way, directly from the printed music.

Cantamus consumes only MUSICXML, so you still have the prerequisite of creating a file in Finale, Dorico, MuseScore, or any notation tool that can export MUSICXML. OCR-like music "scanning" tools have improved greatly in their ability to produce notation from printed music, and these can still be significant time-savers if your source material is simple and laid out well -- but often I find that hunting for, and fixing-up, all of the scanner's miscues requires more time than just transcribing the printed music manually, into my notation software. And if your music publisher prefers the paper-saving device of "divisi" scores (Soprano/Alto and Tenor/Bass, intertwined on single staves, with up/down note flags to distinguish the two parts), you will have to do this anyway, since Cantamus requires a score where each voice is presented on its own staff.

But once you have notation sorted -- and not just the notes, but the lyrics as well -- then magic does indeed happen. Feed that MUSICXML file to Cantamus, and after a couple of minutes of processing it will produce a mixable, multi-channel recording of your vocal arrangement being sung by human-sounding voices, singing actual words. Read that again; actual words -- not just vocalized "Oohs and Ahs" like you can get by hooking-up any MIDI file to a "voice" instrument in your DAW.

Not only is this kind of mind-blowing for me, it's also incredibly useful because I can then mix and download an audio recording for each of my SATB vocal sections, for practice. Maybe they prefer just their part, in isolation, with nothing else; or perhaps they'd like their part quite loud, but with the other part(s) softly in the background. With piano accompaniment; or without. And listening to an actual voice singing is SO MUCH better than a plunked-out piano line.

Ha! I supposed you could, yes. Or load the vocal tracks back into your DAW with a click-track, and then layer on your real guitar/bass/horns accompaniment. The vocals are almost good enough that you could actually use them as "sweeteners" for the live performance (if there were some way to influence the pronunciation of those words that aren't verbalized quite correctly.)

I wrote a blog post about using a Microsoft voice from their browser, loading it into Studio One, and pitching it to create a vocal. It's pretty wild This link should take you directly to the audio example, check it out. I think it's a lot of fun.

I play sax, flute, wind synth, guitar, bass, drums, keyboard synth, and I sing, to various degrees of competency. The hardest one of all to learn was voice. I sang lead for years in bands, before I got to the point where I thought I was decent. My excuse is that I wasn't blessed with a good 'instrument'.

My daughter is a choir vocalist with nearly a photographic (audiographic?) memory for music -- she hears something once, even when she's not focusing on it, and it's in her head forever; songs, soundtracks, advertising jingles. She can sing anything, even harmony parts, *if* she can hear it. But she doesn't read music, so learning things from printed notation is still a struggle.

I've always wondered how that works for trained vocalists -- is there a spatial or physical connection from eye to voice (that note feels like this), or is it aural (that note sounds like this)?

I remember teachers telling me to close my vocal cords, and occasionally do other stuff with them I had no idea how to do. Obviously that was frustrating, so I was relieved when I finally learned how to control them. Because closing the vocal cords is where real vocal control is achieved.

If you ask me, people who end up using effort while singing usually get a false sense of control over their voice by using extra muscle tension. They tense up the jaw, tongue, throat, neck, shoulders. It gives a feeling of "doing something to make the sound happen". I was like that, too. But actually all we are doing by that is narrowing and limiting the resonances of our instrument and pressuring the larynx and vocal cords. It's extremely difficult to control anything vocally that way.

The bottom line is that you are able to manipulate your voice do sounding in different ways, volumes and qualities with minimum effort. The biggest challenge normally is: producing a full, rich and loud sound without effort. That can be done if know how to close your vocal cords. At least this is the basic requirement, and here is why:

We can compare closing the vocal cords to a balloon that you let air escape through. The opening has to be tight enough to produce a real sound. Yes, it's super horrible sound, but don't worry, with the help or our vocal resonances our voice won't sound like that when we close our vocal cords ?

The sound and the air play a zero sum game: more air - less sound. Less air - more sound. Think of a whisper, it's a lot of air, almost no sound. That's the idea. So closing your vocal cords only a little bit, will allow for more air through, giving you an airy, whispery sound. Closing them fully (without totally shutting them of course) will give you a rich and loud sound.

No. And yes. The default healthy function of the vocal cord is to close fully when they vibrate. But there are quite a few singing styles in which it is more than appropriate to use some air in the voice, such as pop, rock and jazz. But I wouldn't recommend singing airy all the time, that is not vocally sustainable, because, well, in so many words, the vocal cords don't like that.

5:03 in the above video. This is a way to make the mechanism of closing the vocal cords active and conscious. Breathe out, breathe in, then exhale a tiny bit and STOP. Make a small sound like 'he'. Don't give me a HUUH! Keep it small. We don't want to put pressure on our vocal cords.

Next part of the exercise. After closing the vocal cords in this way, start talking (without an additional breath) while pretending you're not breathing out. Of course, in order to make a sound, some air has to come through - but pretend that you're not!

Pro tip: you can replace this speaking with any kind of vocal exercise. In the video above I do the 5 Italian vowels.

11:35 in the above video. A nice way to practice the vocal cords closing real fast and 'small', is the 'uh-oh' sound. We will then say 'uh-oh' on the note: 'uh-oh' 'uh-oh' 'uh-oh' (3-2-1). Don't try to sing, really say it. If you feel a big pushy HUUGH, then think about a smaller sound. Thinking of a naive child helps: uh-oh...

14:53 in the above video. I really like this one for closing the vocal cords. I use it in every warm-up. Every time I need more volume, more range, it's just good overall.

We will do the magic ngya. So the NG and then the YA, but short after one another. Really simple, on the notes: 5-4-3-2-1. Put on your bad-ass-face: cheeks up, jaw down. Higher notes will feel much easier when you do them on the NGYA.

18:22 in the above video. The first step of the robot voice exercise is about closing the vocal cords immediately after starting each syllable. You're barely letting any air out in this staccato, 1980's robot way of speaking. See 20.03 in the above video. Say a phrase from a song you want to sing in the robot way. The next step is to do it on the notes, and pretend that you are not using extra air (even if you are!).

Awesome stuff matt! thanks for putting this together it is extremely helpful. I have a question about warming up. How long before a recording session or a performance should you warm up? and for how long should you warm up without completely tiring out your voice for the session? SHould there be a rest period between warming up and actually getting to recording?

Hey David, great question!

I would recommend warming up for 30-45 minutes, 2-3 hours before a recording session.

This is the perfect amount time to get your voice warm without wearing it out.

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These are great! I just have one problem. I am very self-conscious about practicing around people. Mainly because practicing will feel more like performing when I know people are around which makes me too embarrassed to experiment with my voice. Most of the time someone is around. I only find myself alone a few days a week. 17dc91bb1f