11 Achieving Vocal Blend

This final lesson will bring it all together as we explore one of the most important things to master as a background vocalist—achieving a good vocal blend. We’ll talk about why blend is immensely important on a worship team, and you’ll learn practical strategies for how to blend your vocal tone, volume, vibrato, and phrasing.

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kyra_carter December 24, 2022

This has been incredibly helpful, thankyou so much!

Charmaine Brown December 31, 2022

You’re very welcome!

Jenniloryn1980 December 21, 2022

What can I suggest to a team member who struggles with pitch matching?

Charmaine Brown December 22, 2022

Hmm! Good question! If it’s not just that they go slightly flat or sharp, but that they consistently have trouble matching a pitch, I would recommend private voice lessons!

Mrs.KayPee July 26, 2022

I’m struggling with blending because the main vocalists on my team have very low voices and the places in the song where I would harmonize are right in my passaggio. I can’t change the key of the song because I’m not the main vocalist but if I sing lower then I’m kinda in their lane and if I sing higher it sounds very choir-ish and does not work with the contemporary music. (Although I can really hit those head voice notes! That’s great at Christmas time when we are doing carols but it’s terrible the rest of the time LOL) I really don’t know what to do about this. Any advice Charmaine?

Charmaine Brown July 31, 2022

I hear ya! It’s not an immediate fix but the best thing for you to do is to work on building your mix voice so you can sing on your passage/transition spot without it being uncomfortable!

RHenken83 January 11, 2022

I am not able to get my lower range to expand. I can’t strongly sing below an A. As a soprano, is that normal? I struggle because I sing as bkgd vocals to a male lead that often keys things out of my range.

Charmaine Brown January 18, 2022

Hi Rebekah! It sounds like the issue may be that you are keeping the resonance in your head voice, rather than engaging chest voice, because every female singer should be capable of going well below an A note. Have you worked your way through my Discover Your Voice course? I would suggest doing that (or touching on the chest voice exercises again!) and submitting a Checkpoint so I can check on your resonators!

Chris Tee October 24, 2021

For the BUH exercise here, is it different from the BUH exercise where it’s pronounced more like OO in BOOK? If so, what are the purposes of each and when do we implement them?

Charmaine Brown October 26, 2021

Yes, in different lessons on the site, you’ll find two different BUH’s—BUH as in “bunny” and BUH as in “book”. They are both exercises to develop our chest voice! The BUH as in “book” is a slightly more advanced exercise that helps lower the larynx to help us develop a rich, deep chest mix, whereas the BUH keeps the larynx more neutral.

11 Achieving Vocal Blend

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