VOCAL INTENSIVES

What you’ll get

1. Unlimited viewing of all modules for 30 days.
2. Includes opportunity to submit questions to Dr. Warren.
3. Includes downloads of all course charts and other materials.

The online course is interactive. Topics may change as modules develop.

Week 1

Philosophy and fundamentals

1. Constructive polemics
2. A vocal journey: Epiphanies
3. Learn like a baby (Modeling)

Week 2

Philosophy and fundamentals

1. Intuitive listening (Listening for what’s right)
2. Why some singers say they don’t use “chest voice”
3. The difference that makes the difference

Week 3

Continuously Variable Registration (CVR)

1. Basic principles of CVR
2. Top down or Bottom up…or both?
3. What is a register shift?

Week 4

Continuously Variable Registration (CVR)

1. Onset/release (Good glottal/bad glottal)
2. How occlusion affects register function
3. How vibrato is affected by register balance

Week 5

Applying CVR principles to music learning (specific exercises)

1. How we change pitch
2. Smoothing out the register transitions
3. Crescendo/decrescendo (messa di voce)

Week 6

Applying CVR principles to music learning (specific exercises)

1. Coloratura and Trilling
2. CVR exercises for “problem notes”
3. CVR exercises for all musical styles

Week 7

Functional pedagogy

1. Science based on empirical observation
2. Resonance Matching (Intuitive vowel modification)
3. Why and how to use non-singing sounds in vocal development

Week 8

Functional pedagogy

1. Observation of great singers’ vocal habits
2. Observation of great singers’ speech patterns
3. Wrap up including response to selected viewers’ questions

Course description

1. Includes downloads of all documents used in course
2. Each module will include 30 days viewing
3. All modules must be viewed within 6 months of initial startup
4. No recording or distribution of content is allowed