Recordings

So… … I’ve been messing about with making some humble little YouTube videos.

Some of the audio recordings used are my originals, and some are covers which have been recorded specifically to demonstrate to students how to start listening to the various elements of vocal technique used in covers, which can be applied to colour a song, or to discover how to personalise a cover… to bring something of yourself and your own style to the performance.

At times the principles of vocal technique can just seem like jargon to a student. A singer essentially just wants to ‘sing’ after all !

Talk of thick and thin folds, support, speech level singing, conversational phrasing, larynx position, onsets of phonation, making ‘space’, and of course the older terms of chest voice and head voice can make sense when a student can deconstruct a song and determine which principle is being applied. They can then find the ‘spots’ in their own voices where they can experiment with these techniques.

One of the exercises I like to apply for students is to have the student identify these elements in singers they absolutely adore and then apply these in their own voices. This is regardless of vocal range.

 

Wild Is The Wind

  • Vocals – Lyn Gillett
  • Recorded – 2007

I Thought About You

  • Vocals – Lyn Gillett
  • Recorded – 2009

Cry Me A River

  • Vocals – Lyn Gillett
  • Recorded – 2000

Find A Way

  • Vocals – Lyn Gillett
  • Recorded – 2009
  • Music and Lyrics by Lyn Gillett

Our Love Is Here To Stay

  • Vocals – Lyn Gillett
  • Recorded – 2009