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How can you teach a student proper resonance and tone quality?

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Resonance and tone quality are essential aspects of vocal production that affect how your voice sounds and feels. As a vocal coach, you want to help your students achieve optimal resonance and tone quality for their style and genre of singing. But how can you teach these complex and subtle skills effectively? In this article, we will explore some strategies and exercises that you can use to guide your students towards better resonance and tone quality.

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Deborah Ann Trott

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Kaffy Rice-Oxley

How you speak matters! | Speaker & Coach at Voice Confident | Camera Confident Media Training |

1 What is resonance?

Resonance is the amplification and enrichment of sound waves that occur when they vibrate in a space. For singers, the main resonators are the throat, the mouth, the nose, and the sinuses. The shape and size of these spaces affect how the sound waves are reflected and modified, creating different timbres and overtones. Resonance can also be influenced by factors such as posture, breath support, tongue position, jaw tension, and facial expression.

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2 What is tone quality?

Tone quality, or timbre, is the characteristic sound of a voice or an instrument that distinguishes it from others. It is determined by the frequency spectrum and the amplitude envelope of the sound waves, which are influenced by the source (the vocal cords), the filter (the vocal tract), and the environment (the room acoustics). Tone quality can be described by terms such as bright, dark, warm, cold, clear, breathy, nasal, or metallic.

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3 Why are resonance and tone quality important?

Resonance and tone quality are important for singers because they affect how their voice communicates emotion, expression, and style. A good resonance and tone quality can enhance the clarity, projection, and beauty of the voice, as well as reduce vocal fatigue and strain. A poor resonance and tone quality can make the voice sound dull, weak, or harsh, and cause vocal damage or discomfort. Resonance and tone quality can also vary depending on the genre, context, and intention of the singer, so they need to be adaptable and versatile.

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A good understanding of resonance and tone quality, and how to control them can be a powerful skill, especially as a singer. Tone and resonance are like different shades of paints in an artist's palette. It can help you create various moods, emotions, and paint pictures for your audience. It can help you sing different genres in styles and sounds that suit them. Especially in a genre like musical theatre where acting and singing go hand in hand, using different tonal qualities can help you portray a wide variety of characters, communicate the emotions those characters feel, and help the audience gain a multi-dimensional picture of the story being portrayed.

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Kaffy Rice-Oxley

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Resonance and tone quality are vital for both speakers and singers. Resonance is why your voice ‘rings out’ and is heard over the noise of a room or hall. Tone quality is what makes your audience feel safe, or excited, or sombre. Proper use of resonance means you can sing or speak for a long time without vocal fatigue. A range of tone qualities gives your performance texture and colour and keeps the audience engaged. And like everything else to do with the voice - both resonance and tone qualities can be developed with time and practice. So don’t settle for a voice that tires easily or doesn’t carry or can’t hold a room - give your voice some attention and get some skills!

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4 How can you assess resonance and tone quality?

To assess resonance and tone quality, you need to use your ears, your eyes, and your touch. You can listen to your students' voice and compare it to recordings or models of singers with similar voices and styles. You can also ask your students to rate their own voice on a scale of 1 to 10 for different aspects of resonance and tone quality, such as volume, brightness, warmth, clarity, or smoothness. You can observe your students' posture, facial expression, tongue position, jaw tension, and breath support, and look for signs of tension, imbalance, or inefficiency. You can also feel your students' throat, chest, and face for vibrations, and ask them to feel their own resonators.

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5 How can you improve resonance and tone quality?

To improve resonance and tone quality, you need to work on both the source and the filter of the voice, as well as the environment. You can help your students improve their breath support, vocal cord closure, and pitch accuracy, which are essential for creating a strong and stable sound source. You can also help them adjust their vocal tract shape, tongue position, jaw relaxation, and soft palate elevation, which are crucial for modifying and enhancing the sound filter. You can also help them experiment with different vowel shapes, consonant articulation, and vocal registers, which can change the sound quality and color. You can also help them practice in different rooms, microphones, and speakers, which can affect the sound environment.

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Kaffy Rice-Oxley

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Resonance and tone quality are just two elements of a properly produced voice - other key areas are posture, breathing and articulation. Resonance and proper placement, which leads to good tone qualities, can be worked on through resonance exercises including sirening and lip trills; but this should be as part of holistic vocal training. (You wouldn’t do an exercise programme that just worked out one side of the body!)

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6 What are some exercises for resonance and tone quality?

There are several exercises that can help your students develop their resonance and tone quality, based on their needs and preferences. For example, humming is a great way to activate and feel the resonators, by humming on various pitches, scales, or melodies. Lip trills can also help warm up the voice, improve the breath support, and balance the resonance. Additionally, straw phonation involves singing or speaking through a straw to create back pressure and reduce vocal strain. Vowel modification is another technique that alters the resonance and tone quality by changing the shape of the vowel. Lastly, singing with expression is a way to use resonance and tone quality to convey emotion, mood, and style.

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Kaffy Rice-Oxley

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The best resonance exercises I know, that I’ve used every day for thirty years, are sirening and lip trills. For both, start in the middle of your speaking voice range and then move up and down, a little further in both directions each time. Sirening - a constant ‘ng’ sound. Try to feel that you are pushing the sound out through your nose and cheeks - you will feel the sound moving at the back of your throat - it feels like it moves up towards the crown of your head as you get higher in pitch. Lip trills - this is the ‘brrrr’ sound, as if you are imitating a car for a small child! For singing, I like to follow this with scales or arpeggios to ‘ung ung ung’, another take on sirening. These exercises will improve resonance and placement.

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5 How can you improve resonance and tone quality?

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