Speeding
Up Trills
-by Brett
Manning
Q:
I'm working on my R&B/Gospel
styling, but my trills are slow
and sloppy.
Is
there any thing I can do to speed
up my trills?
A:
The first
thing
we need to do is understand what
trills are (also called licks,
runs and turns).
A trill is
a scale sung dynamically with
crisp delineation, fast vibrato
and a clean attack or onset. In
other words, going from one note
to another without slurring or
sliding, because slurring notes
together gives the impression of
poor vocal control.
On
the other
hand,
you don't want to add an 'H'
sound, a staccato or glottal
stroke (clucking noise) to your
vocal line to achieve separation
between notes.
This will
create an artificial and
artistically unpleasant sound.
So
how is note delineation
organically
achieved?
First,
start on an F below middle C for
the men or F above middle C for
the women.
Now sing up
to a G and then back down. Learn
to go back and forth as rapidly
as possible without sliding or
losing note distinction until you
feel a 'bounce' between notes.
Use
a
metronome
and start at sixty beats per
minute and speed up one or two
bpm at a time while singing
eighth notes.
Speed
up only as fast as you
can
while remaining clean in your
note delineation. If you can get
to 200 bpm, then you're up to
speed with Mariah Carey and Brian
McKnight.
Now you
just have to learn to put
together longer patterns of notes
within the scales used for the
style you are singing
in.
These
scales are cataloged in the
Singing
Success
Program.
It's important to understand that
learning is incremental with
this.
If
you only speed up one beat a
day,
which is so gradual that it can
hardly be felt, then in less than
four months, you can be at 200
bpm.
Happy
singing!
-Brett
Manning
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