How To Blend Your Voice While Choral Singing

By Ryan Mansfield

Period 2, odd

November 8, 2007

Topic 1: What does blending your voice mean?

Topic 2: Why is it important to blend your voice?

Topic 3: How do you blend your voice?

Topic 4: Ways to practice blending.

Topic 5: What advantages does blending your voice

have?

Topic 1:

What Does Blending Your Voice Mean?

Blending your voice is a necessity in choral singing. It can tell how good or bad a chorus is. Blending your voice means that each part sounds like one voice. We need to blend our voices together to have a good sound.

Topic 2:

Why Is It Important to Blend Your Voice?

It is important to blend your voice. It is important because it sounds good when you do it. If you don’t, the sound will sound bad or be unbalanced. This happens when a member of the chorus is singing like a soloist. Even if just one person is not blending, the music could sound bad.

Topic 3:

How Do You Blend Your Voice?

There are several ways to blend your voice while singing. First, you can listen to the others around you. A second way is to make sure the notes you are sing are on the same pitch as everyone else. Also, you can make sure you are on tempo and singing the right rhythm. Another thing you can do is have similar diction to the rest of the chorus. Finally, you can (if you sing louder than the rest of the group) bring your volume down a little.

Topic 4:

Ways To Practice Blending

Here are a few ways to practice blending. One way is to record and listen to yourself. This really helps because if you can hear yourself singing, whether it is because you are singing to loudly, off pitch, or off tempo, it can show you what you are doing right or wrong. Also, you can practice how you say your vowels. You can do this by doing many exercises such as the ones we do in class. When everyone does the same vowel sounds it will start to sound more like one voice.

Topic 5:

What Advantages Does Blending Your Voice Have?

There are many advantages to blending your voice while choral singing. Most importantly, it makes your chorus sound better. Without blending, the sound is unbalanced and doesn’t sound as good. Finally, people will like how it sounds and will want to listen to you sing.

Conclusion:

I have learned a lot doing this project. I know how to blend my voice. I know that if I work hard and do my best, I can become very good at blending my voice. This will help me to sing better. Without blending our voices, our chorus wouldn’t sound good. It is very important that we blend our voices while sing.

Bibliography

choralnet.net/

choirsinger.com/