You've been studying the greats, working on improving your vocal skills, and building vocal technique. Now it's time to take the next step in your singing career to shine as a vocalist. Singing Popular Music provides you with the essential skills to define your own unique vocal style and sing healthfully. The course begins with devices to support and alter your sound including vowel quality, tone production, and breathing techniques. From there, you will learn how to use techniques like mix voice and belting in contemporary singing styles. Then you'll take a cover song and make it your own. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to confidently and healthfully sing in your desired vocal style as well as understand how you can alter your singing to match other contemporary styles.

Singing Popular Music
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Singing Popular Music
This course is part of The Singer Songwriter Specialization

Instructor: Jeannie Gagne
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What you'll learn
Identify and practice using appropriate breathing technique while singing.
Identify and practice using your head voice, mix voice, and chest voice while singing.
Learn healthy ways to perform powerful singing/belting.
Incorporate improvisation techniques in your singing style.
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Reviewed on Jul 25, 2020
This course was helpful in learning how to improve my vocals.
Reviewed on Apr 23, 2022
It was a good experience and i also learnt many new things
Reviewed on Jun 25, 2022
The instructor is very talented and provided outstanding examples and models to follow

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