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23/03/2018

​5 Things you should know​


Backup singers/vocalists provide harmonic accompaniment for the lead singer. The job of a backup singer is tasking and a lot of times harder than that of the lead singer. If you are a backup singer, there are basic requirements that enhance your success in that role. We will look at five of them.

1. ​BASIC SKILL SET​

A. Ability to learn songs quickly

B. Ability to recognize and sing the correct notes

2. ​BLENDING​
Blending requires you to blend your voice with others without a noticeable difference in timbre. Blending is a major ingredient that separates amateur backup singing from the professional sound you hear in top records. Every voice is unique. For a solo artiste, uniqueness is key, but for the backup singer, you need to blend, become invisible, and modify your vocal to fit the required sound. There are some factors in blending:

A. ​Volume and Dynamics​

Blending requires you to match your volume to that of others. Too high and you will overshadow others; too low and others will overshadow you. Every backup singer also needs to follow the musical dynamics of the piece. Any deviation will mess up the blend.

B. ​Breathing points​

Breath management ability varies among individuals by reason of training and practice. Good blending requires backup singers to breathe at the same points in a musical phrase.

C. ​Phrasing​

Sustained notes, crescendos, rests, delineation, staccato, etc., must start and end at the same time, and be observed by everyone.

3. ​HARMONY​

As backing vocal, 95% of your job description involves singing harmonies, hence you should be at home with singing harmonies. you should be able to sing any harmony given to you irrespective of what voice type you are. That is of course as allowed by your vocal range.

Please learn how to sing other harmonies no matter what voice part you normally sing.

4. ​FOLLOW - DO NOT LEAD​

5. ​EXTRAS​

A ​Look Good​*

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19/03/2018

Pianist use this viocing
E minor11
G major11
B minor 11
A major 11
G major11
F # minor 11
Fdominant 7sharp 11
G sus4

19/03/2018

What is a tritone?
A tritone is a symetrical interval of an octave. It divides an octave into two equal halves. Tritone of a key is 3-Whole steps or 6-Half steps from that key. Tritone, as its name implies, has a vast applications in western music most especially in Jazz. Now, the question is what are their applications? How do i apply them to spice up my usually heard chords? How to even apply them as passing chords and so many more. But before then, let's come up with how TRITONES are formed.
TRITONES ON KEYS.
Tritones or DEVIL's INTERVAL as they are sometimes called are 3-whole steps from the reference key or 6-half steps from reference key. The name DEVIL's interval came from the harsh sounds the chords produce to the ear comparing to the pleasant sounds we get from the major, minor, diminish, dominants and augmented chords. But those devillish sounds from tritones are the hidden tricks most eminent pianists apply to sink their listeners and get them hypnotized. Lolxzz. Next is how to form them up !

19/03/2018

TRITONES FORMATIONS
Tritone of a key is formed either 3-whole steps or 6-half steps away from the key. Let's consider the following C major scale as shown below:
C.D.EF.G.A.BC
1 2 34 5 6 78
Here, the dots represent the passing notes. So...
C-D....1 whole step
D-E....1 whole step
E-F #....1whole step(see that E to F has no dot interval in between and so is an half step.)
Therefore, tritone of C is the distance between C and F #. If we were to consider forming the tritone by 6-half steps, the dot intervals would be involved...
(C.)....1/2 step
(.D)....1/2 step
(D.)....1/2 step
(.E).....1/2 step
(EF).....1/2 step
(F.).....1/2 step
Here the dot in front of (F.) represent the passing note F # which completes the 6-half steps(C to F #). Therefore the tritone of C is a distance between C to F #(Gb). In conclusion, the tritone of any key is between the key in root position to the lowered fifth in the scale. Here are tritones of all keys...
C..C-Gb
C #..C #-G
D..D-Ab
Eb..Eb-A
E..E-Bb
F..F-B
F #..F #-C
G..G-Db
e.t.c

19/03/2018

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08/02/2018

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15/08/2017

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13/08/2017

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