Dear Singers, this is the preparation for your 14th seminar

EMERGENCY AID 2:
The practical work with EA. Bring cases from your own teaching and own singing. Check your notes and the EA in the CVT App.

SCREAM & VOCAL BREAKS:
Read about Screams and Vocal Breaks in the CVT book or App. And read no.39 in the CVT workshop manuscript. Prepare a phrase/a sound with Scream and a phrase with Vocal Breaks.

INTUITION:

Just bring a pen, computer, tablet, etc to make notes 🙂

GO THROUGH AA STATUS C:

We will go through the AA status C in the class and you will get feedback to it at this seminar. You will listen to the examples again. Bring your original papers, so you have them while we listen to it again.

SINGING WITH DA  – EFFECTS:
Singing with backing track. Bring a song or phrase with effects you would like to work on. If you have things from you singing status that you already know that you need to work on, use part of your SW DA on that.
Bring your backtrack or your accompaniment ☺

THE WORKSHOP:

All of you will be active. 7 of you will do the presentation and 7 of you will teach a singer. You will not know in advance who is presenting and who is teaching. You will get your exact task(s) on the first day you come.
So prepare the whole presentation.

  • 1st Teacher: Introduction to CVT, A quick overview: CVT in one page, 10 minutes, and 10 minutes (after 3rd Teacher) to explain twang and avoiding protruding the jaw and tightening the lips.(10×2 minutes)
  • 2nd Teacher: The anatomic: The vocal cords, the constrictor muscles, breathing and the muscles we use when we support. Helping the singers finding the support (20 minutes)
  • 3rd Teacher: How to use the support, the tricks (20 minutes)
  • 4th Teacher: The modes, explaining the metal, the rules for the modes (30 minutes)
  • 5th Teacher: The practical use of the Modes, Volumes, Pitches, Speech, Centre of modes and How to practice classical singing (25 minutes)
  • 6th Teacher: The sound colours (20 minutes)
  • 7th Teacher: Effects and Summing up: Present the effects with a focus on distortion. Summing up and Questions to CVT (20 minutes) Summing up and Questions to CVT from the test singers (If details are missing in subjects 1st  – 6th teacher, this is the time to talk about them. The 7th Teacher looks through the ‘Single subjects’ from no. 41 and have answers ready, if someone got questions to this when it’s the 7th’s turn. While the others are making no. 1 – 40, you sit with the workshop manual and take notes. If something important is missing or questions from singers are not completely answered, then, when it’s your turn you go through the missed subjects and clear up misunderstood things. After the ‘summing up’ you ask the singers, if they have other questions. (10 minutes effects, 10 minutes for ‘summing up’ and questions )

7 of you who teach a singer have about 20 minutes and there will be a pianist (if IRL).

All 7 test singers will join us in the morning from 10–13 and see the whole presentation. From 13-14 we will have a lunch break. From 14-17 the teaching in front of the whole group.
The following day, you will all get a feedback.

Please meet in at least at 9.30. The workshop starts at 10.

 

INDIVIDUALLY EVALUATION:

There will be an individual evaluation with each of you with Christina

 

HANDOUT FILES ON CVI.MY:
Nothing new 🙂

 

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to write to us at christina@shout.dk.

Happy Seminar 🙂