Vocalises | Ian Sidden

Vocalise: Ascending Major Arpeggio, Descending Dominant Seventh Arpeggio

This is a very common vocalise, but it’s very useful for building accuracy in arpeggios. I tend to use different vowels for each repetition, which you can see in the score.

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Vocalise: Tongue Relaxing Scale

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This is something I learned from my teacher Andrew Zimmerman. As you pronounce the “mneh” let your tongue loll out of your mouth. Let the vowel “eh” sound kinda lazy. It’s not pretty, but it does help to keep that interfering tongue out of the

Vocalise: Octave Leap with Descending Scale

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This is a very common vocalise, but it’s a very fun one. I use it to help establish that sense of “flip” when moving to my high range. Try to avoid bringing up too much weight on the original ascent. As always, try this on

Vocalise: Scale plus 9th

Major scale plus 9th

[This is actually a repost of the first "Vocalise of the Week". I decided that rather than go back and redo all of the vocalises to work with Scorch, I would repost several of them.]

So by request, I am going to post a vocalise every week.

Vocalise: Front Vowel Leading Tone Exercise

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At a coaching this week with Julian Reed of Arizona Opera (which was an excellent coaching btw), I was instructed to sing this exercise. The goal is to take the pure [i] and [e] as high as your upper passaggio (flip, bridge, break). Use the