THE BIG VOCAL ONSET VIDEO: Guided Practice & 5 Key Mistakes (Patreon)

EVERYTHING ABOUT VOCAL ONSET: Guided Practice & 5 Key Mistakes

Today we dive deeply into the beautiful world of vocal onset. Onset is an essential phase of sound production. Every time you vocalize you have an onset! Because of that, it's so important to ensure our initial attack to the sound is efficient, stable, and supportive towards our goals. Often times when students explore voice feminization, the effort applied towards resonance or pitch degrades the quality of their onset. It's important to be aware of these mistakes to work towards improving them. Additionally, beginners tend to try "overcontrolling" their voice where they actively try and think about making sound manually. This attempt to micromanage the voice tends to cause awkward and stilted onsets. Awkward and stilted onsets -- accidental unbalanced onsets encourage instability and turbulence in the voice. Today we will dissect everything you need to know about vocal onset. warmly, z 00:00 Intro 00:25 Table of Contents 00:46 Onset Basics 01:55 Why We Care 02:43 Where Onsets Come From 03:39 Quality: Breathy 03:58 Quality: Blocked 04:33 Quality: Balanced 05:55 Onset Rate 06:55 Rate: Abrupt 07:10 Rate: Gradual 07:45 Various Combinations of Onset 08:27 FIVE HUGE MISTAKES PLEASE WATCH 08:43 Mistake 1: Coughed Onset - Complex Inefficient Onset 09:50 Mistake 2: Scraped and Constantly Breathy Onsets 10:32 Mistake 3: Blocking and Squeezing from Overworking Resonance 11:10 Mistake 4: Too Much Pressure in Onset 12:45 Mistake 5: Mental Blocks / Overthinking 14:49 Gender & Phonetics 17:10 Guided Practice 21:20 Practice Notes 22:20 Summary 25:11 Conclusion