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Presentation - Phrasing and Interplay from the vocal point of view

 

Take a fast visual tour of my Master Research Project by browsing through this short colorful Presentation. 

If you get more curious, you can always open my full Master Research Exposition and go through all texts, videos and audios, presenting…

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Musical personality in jazz - shaping your musical identity

 

There is an increasingly active conversation within jazz circuits about this crucial subject: “find your own voice, your own musical identity” and so on. There are one or more reasons for that, of course. Along with the technological evolution (internet…

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Master Research Exposition "Phrasing and Interplay from the vocal point of view”

 

Free access to my Master Research Exposition (2018) entitled “Phrasing & Interplay from the vocal point of view - phrasing as the vocalist’s tool to stimulate interplay within a jazz combo”.  

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Interviewing Hein van de Geyn on Jazz Phrasing and Interplay 

 

As part of my research during my Master’s studies at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague (2016-2018), I conducted a number of interviews with renowned jazz musicians, educators, and academics from the International Jazz scene. 

Acclaimed Dutch jazz bassist Hein…

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Interviewing David Liebman on Jazz Phrasing and Interplay 

 

As part of my research during my Master’s studies at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague (2016-2018), I conducted a number of interviews with renowned jazz musicians, educators, and academics from the International Jazz scene. 

Acclaimed American jazz saxophonist and…

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Interviewing Eric Ineke on Jazz Phrasing and Interplay 

 

As part of my research during my Master’s studies at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague (2016-2018), I conducted a number of interviews with renowned jazz musicians educators, and academics from the International Jazz scene. 

Acclaimed Dutch jazz drummer Eric…

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Swing feel and syncopation

 

At the very beginning of one’s jazz studies, swing feel is the first and most basic thing, which the student comes in contact with.  

The musician learns what the swing feel is, analyzing the triplet eighths, in order to understand…

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Improvisation "from the cradle"

 

It is a quite common belief, that improvising in jazz music is something that requires knowledge, maturity, experience, aesthetics, etc. That’s the truth and this assumption is absolutely correct. Nevertheless, I would like to get straight to the topic of…

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Singing and psychism

 

Singing is one of the most archetypal human forms of expression whether these might have been vocalizations and yodels or more sophisticated improvisations and melodies along with words. However in our modern culture, people, especially those living in big cities…

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The appropriate teacher

 

Exactly like any other field of knowledge, the quality of the music learning process depends largely on the role of the teacher. Elements such as stimuli, information, tips, the technique of the instrument, general musical knowledge, the cultivation of aesthetic…

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Jazz means improvisation

 

Throughout its recent history, evolution, and contemporary route, jazz music has been identified with improvisation. One point in which jazz differentiates against other musical idioms (that also share the element of improvisation) is that improvisation in jazz is not a…

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Sound : Power And Homogeneity

 

The cornerstone, the center of gravity or however you call the mask in the process of singing, becomes immediately apparent how extremely important it is for the quality, power, and homogeneity of sound. The control of support in breathing (read…

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Sound: Articulation And Volume

 

One more factor that affects the quality of sound of a voice and the articulation is the mouth. The singer has to learn how to articulate properly and to be able to produce a homogeneous sound (read more at the…

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Sound: Control of diaphragmatic breathing

 

The first and most important chapter, regarding the "opening" of the vocal sound, is breathing. The great importance of breathing in singing, as in any other wind instrument, is absolutely understandable. It is even more important though, to realize the…

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At the beginning there was sound

 

The first thing we perceive (consciously or even unconsciously) when we hear a voice singing, is always its sound. And it is a matter of taste and of other conscious or unconscious factors, whether we're gonna like it or not…

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