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Vocalise: Scale Arpeggio combo

March 13, 2009 By Ian Sidden

This weeks vocalise is one that I just made up after getting bored with shorter vocalises. Its name is somewhat wrong because octave leaps can be their own vocalise, but the name was getting too long!

I can sing this on one breath at a moderate tempo. Of course you should play around with tempi, keys, vowels and dynamics (try decrescendo-ing while you ascend, for example). Also be sure that you don’t drag too much vocal weight too high or let it interfere with the ease of your scales. Sometimes, give into your temptation to sing the highest note for an extended period. It’s fun.

Enjoy! I certainly did writing it down for you. :)

arpeggio-and-scale-combo

[By the way: I recently saw that somewhere along the path of turning my notation files into picture files, the notes moved around the staff a little bit, which is weird. Just know that I am not trying to confuse you. If it looks like a major scale, it is a major scale. I am working on trying to fix this.]

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Comments

  1. Christopher says

    March 14, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    This looks hard…or I’m just a wuss. :)

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