Audition Songs for Men by Paul Harvard

Author:Paul Harvard [Harvard, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nick Hern Books

VOCAL SET-UP⁄MUSICAL TIPS

1. The set-up for the verse is a version of Speech quality. If you lift the back of the tongue a little higher than you would do normally in this set-up and tighten the AES, you can add a little twang. This will give you a bright American Speech sound that is appropriate for the pop-based music of Schwartz. Don’t add twang if you are singing in Standard English.

2. In the choruses, take the opportunity to sing with a legato line – to show the panel you have the ability to deliver long phrases. This is important as the verses are very broken and conversational so may not reveal the full potential of your voice. To achieve the legato phrasing use simultaneous onsets wherever possible and look to run the vowels together. The voice quality for the choruses is Twang.

3. In both choruses you go up to a top G. Add a little torso anchoring at these moments to make them easier to achieve.

4. During the second chorus the word ‘lost’ is notated to be sung over three bars. It has become an industry expectation that you would riff higher at this point up to a high B, as de Haas demonstrates on the suggested recording. If possible you should sing this riff, which should be delivered in a mixed belt (see here). If this proves to be too difficult for you, you can sing the phrase notated on the music and sustain a single long note instead.

5. From the point where you sing the words ‘off we go’ until the end, there needs to be a gradual crescendo from an intense, hushed, excited quality to a powerful finish on the last belted note. You can affect this build in the following way. Start the section identified in a breathy Speech quality, by using lots of aspirate onsets. When you sing the lyric ‘where our future’, shift to a simultaneous onset to achieve a more legato line. Also tighten your AES. By doing so, you will have added a little volume and be in a Twang quality. During the next few bars release your thyroid tilt, and relax your AES so you thicken your vocal folds and transition into Speech quality. Add some torso anchoring from the word ‘there’ onwards to add further resonance.

Finally: lift the chin and belt the last note.

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