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Hi. I'm Anya Singleton. We're going to talk about how to use different
textures in your voice.
When you talk about textures in your voice, what does that mean? I think
the best way to describe that is textures are if you think of a canvas and
you have 5 different colors of paint, and you really love yellow. Yellow is
very bright and it's eye-catching so you put that on the canvas first.
Maybe you're in a little bit more of a reflective mood and you want to make
it green, so you bring in some blue. Where the blue and the yellow meet,
you have green, and that's the tranquil part of the painting. Where the
yellow is, it's bright and exciting and where the blue is, it's calming and
flowy, let's say.
When you're thinking about using textures in your voice, we talk about the
toolbox; that's exactly the same idea. If I want to sing a certain song,
and the song is 'Goodnight, My Someone' from 'The Music Man', there are
different parts of that that I might wish to illustrate, and I'm going to
want to sing them a little differently, depending on what the song means.
For the first part of the song, I might want to make it a little brighter,
a little more, 'Here's how I feel about you. I love you. I feel strongly'.
Then it's a lullaby, so I'm going to want to bring it down a little bit and
make it a little softer and a little more tranquil, just like the green in
the painting. Then I'm going to end on a very soothing note because this is
me longing for love.
You want to think about how are you going to use parts of your voice to
illustrate what the song is about? I think that is the most important thing
about using textures in your voice.