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The Lyric

The Lyric. Mining The Emotional Depth of a Song. What Kind Of Song Is It?. Musical Theatre Pop Jazz/ Blues Other Each Style contains different feels and tempos including : Ballad : Shows vocal and lyrical interpretive abilities.

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The Lyric

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  1. The Lyric Mining The Emotional Depth of a Song

  2. What Kind Of Song Is It? • Musical Theatre • Pop • Jazz/ Blues • Other Each Style contains different feels and tempos including: • Ballad : Shows vocal and lyrical interpretive abilities. • Up tempo: (Medium or fast) Good delivery & lyric interpretation can cover a less than stellar vocal technique.

  3. The Lyrics as a Script • Start with the facts: • Who is the story about? • Where is it taking place? • What happens? (The Plot) • Why Are You Singing This Song ( What is your goal?) • Socio-economic status of the narrator: Schooling, life circumstances, family, age, etc…(The Character’s Backstory.)

  4. Going Deeper Into The Lyric • Tell Us The Story! • To whom are you speaking? This is your invisible acting partner. Make a choice that energizes your delivery in some way. • Where are you? Library, baseball game, moon hot, cold... It will affect your delivery. • Why do you need to tell the story? What just happened to make it necessary?

  5. Emotion Adds Interest and Energy to Your Performance It is not necessary to know the plot of the show the song came from ( although in an audition situation it is very helpful!) but based upon the lyrics you must decide the following: • Know what you are singing about, to whom and why! • POV – Point of View – attitude, feeling, state of being of the character. • Incorporate Feeling … Don’t just sing pretty syllables and notes!

  6. Exercises • Write out the first verse. • Sing it Acapella • Speak it naturally. Make sense of it. • Speak the words in time • Sing them again • Sing the melody using nonsense syllables, but communicate the emotional idea.(W/Jules)

  7. Phrasing TipsExcerpted from The Zen of Singing • A song is not merely a group of notes and words, or syllables and pitches. • Learn to think of the phrases as complete thoughts, and don’t merely sing from note to note. • Make sense of what you are singing and speech like, natural phrasing will easily follow. • Music is made up of sound andsilence. Well-placed silence adds depth to the lyrics. • Use Dynamics to help convey feeling, just as you would in speech. • Phrase from the intention of the lyric, but give way if it doesn’t make musical sense. Keep the integrity of the song intact. • Breathe when you need it. It’s not a contest to see how long a phrase you can sing.

  8. Misc Types of Lyrics • Subjective:“I” or “Me” is the recurring pronoun. • Objective:“You” is the recurring pronoun. • Narrative:Tells a story • Instructive:Tells us how, why or what. • Defiant:Like Don’t Rain on My Parade.

  9. And Finally • Sing Fearlessly from your heart… And Have Fun!!

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