{"id":1204,"date":"2007-01-23T01:18:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T07:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/singing-high-notes-on-the-e-vowel\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T07:18:56","slug":"singing-high-notes-on-the-e-vowel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/singing-high-notes-on-the-e-vowel\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing High Notes on the E Vowel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a single vowel is sung over multiple notes it&#8217;s usually good technique to keep the vowel sound consistent through the passage. (Unless it&#8217;s for intentional effect, aka rock and blues). One of the factors between a mediocre and professional chorus is consistent pronunciation throughout the group.<\/p>\n<p>To sing a closed locked vowel like the &#8220;eee&#8221; sound, prepare the back of the throat as if singing an &#8220;ah&#8221;, but keep your lips in the pronunciation of the &#8220;ee&#8221;. This will allow the voice to open up through the higher register while keeping a consistent vowel sound.<\/p>\n<p>In difficult classical passages for sopranos and tenors it may be necessary to slightly adjust the &#8220;ee&#8221; to more of an &#8220;ah&#8221; sound. The deciding factor is to keep the vowel sound as consistant as possible without negatively affecting the vocal tone. Only use as much &#8220;ah&#8221; as is necessary for good tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a single vowel is sung over multiple notes it&#8217;s usually good technique to keep the vowel sound consistent through the passage. (Unless it&#8217;s for intentional effect, aka rock and blues). One of the factors between a mediocre and professional chorus is consistent pronunciation throughout the group. To sing a closed locked vowel like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-jq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}