This is your opportunity to work LIVE over two days with Tim Smith – MD of the recent MAMMA MIA!
Australian tour, Assistant MD on Billy Elliot, Vocal Coach on The Lion King in Australia and China, Founding Head of Music Theatre VCA, Vocal Lecturer at BAPA, MD of Caroline O’Connor’s Bombshells with MTC, Member of ANATS etc.
The Broadway Voice 2012 - Singing Workshop includes:
- fully practical and interactive 2-day workshop - 14 hours total - perfect for singers, dancers and teachers
- separates sessions on legit, contemporary and mix voice
- demonstrations, explanations, group and individual exercises covering belt, contemporary, legit and mix voice
- actor/singer-based approach to performance – learn how to use which
techniques when
- learn and incorporate BROADWAY advanced techniques including cry, twang and anchoring
- specialised sessions that bring all techniques covered into one practical and simple technical approach
- EVERY participant will receive specific individual instruction in the focused 4-hour masterclass sessions
Workshop Outline
DAY 1
10.00am-1.00pm The Framework of the Voice - technical and artisitic
Primal State, Variable Breathing for Legit and Contemporary Voice, Open Breath/Open Sound, Ego vs Vulnerability, Perceptible Effort in Singing, Singing Direction – To The Audience or Away From The Audience, Laryngeal Elevation and Depression, Vocal Fold Onset – 3 types, Fundamental Components of Vocal Sound, False Vocal Fold Retraction, Voice Registers and The ‘Break’, Variable Posture in Singing, Basic Vocal Acoustics.
1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm-4.00pm The Legit Voice – The Mechanics and the Art
Primal State – SOB, PLEAD, BEG and SIGH, Legit Vocal Posture, Classical Breathing and Support – appoggio, Legit Vocal Registers, Passagio and ‘The Break’, Low Larynx Position and Technique, The Vertical Italian Vowel, Free Resonance, Thyroid Tilt and Arytenoid Adjustment, Vocal Fold Function, Singer’s Formant – The ‘Ring’ (Squillo).
4.30pm-6.30pm You Sing Solo Masterclass
Solo Masterclass with Tim on vocal technique, song interpretation and technique application, audition preparation, your time to have any vocal problem diagnosed and fixed.
DAY 2
10.00am-1.00pm The Contemporary Voice – The Mechanics and the Art
Primal State – ATTACK, ANGER, UPSET and CRY, Twang, Glottal Onset, Compressed Vowels, Pressure vs Flow, Exhale Technique, Chest Breathing, Anchoring - body, neck and face, Elevated Laryngeal States Including SUPER elevation, Combining Twang and Glottal Sound, Auxilliary Vocal States, Contemporary Vocal Resonance.
1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm-4.00pm The Mix Voice/The Blend Voice – The Mechanics and the Art
Primal State – the actor/the self, Mixed Vowels – vertical and horizontal, Variable Vocal Support and Breathing – balancing the legit and the contemporary, Emotional Laryngeal Adjustment, Mixed Vocal Onset – the continuum, Thyroid Tilt vs Horizontal, Twang/Squillo in the Mix.
4.30pm-6.30pm You Sing Solo Masterclass
Solo Masterclass with Tim on vocal technique, song interpretation and technique application, audition preparation, your time to have any vocal problem diagnosed and fixed.
STRICTLY LIMITED to 20 places at each workshop. For more information please visit: http://www.vocalalchemy.com.au/news