vocal techniques
Ways of singing
Vocal techniques are methods singers and speakers use to control their voice—breath support, resonance, projection, vibrato, and similar skills.
The term appears in music education and speech training: She spent years developing her vocal techniques.
Extended to any deliberate manipulation of voice quality: His vocal techniques ranged from whispered intimacy to full-throated belting.
- beltingForceful chest-voice singing
- mixed voiceVocal register between extremes
- phrasingManner of expressing something
- vibratoOscillating pitch effect
- phonationVocal fold vibration
falsetto · resonance · ornamentation · coloratura · warm-ups · dynamics · tone color · improvisation · articulation · breath control · passaggio · melisma · rhythm patterns · head voice · glissando · harmony · interval training · crescendo
vocal techniqueskeyboard technique
Method of key operation
manual dexterity · piano technique · embouchure · sampling · sound design
vocal techniquessilence
Total lack of sound
instrumental music · pantomime · non-verbal communication · tacet · rest
vocal techniquessign language
Visual-gestural communication system
written expression · body language · gesture · mime · silent communication