Tag: Techniques

  • May 12, 2025
    Straight tone is a vocal technique that is common in various genres and stages of vocal maturity. Despite the name,…
  • May 12, 2025
    Sprechgesang or speak-singing is a vocal technique that combines elements of speech and singing. Sprechgesang is most closely related to…
  • May 12, 2025
    Sotto Voce is a musical term that translates to "under the voice". It instructs the singer to lower their voice…
  • May 12, 2025
    The moment at the beginning of phonation where exhalation and vocal fold closure occur. Depending on the order of events,…
  • May 12, 2025
    Offset is the end of a sound, in singing you can have a glottal, aspirate, or smooth offset. Which offset…
  • May 12, 2025
    Mode 2 is another term for Cricothyroid dominant production, head voice, or falsetto. Mode 2 means that the vocal folds…
  • May 12, 2025
    Mode 1 describes singing with a thyroarytenoid dominant production or chest voice. In this production, the vocal folds are thickened,…
  • May 12, 2025
    Modal Voice is another term for Thyroarytenoid Dominant Production or Chest Voice. Modal voice is characterized by a harmonically rich…
  • May 12, 2025
    Mixed Voice is a misleading term arising out of a balancing of Chest and Head voice. All phonation is a…
  • May 12, 2025
    Messa di voce or ‘mass of voice’ is a vocal technique where the singer phonates a single pitch and increases…