Reconnecting With Your Musical Voice - by Abigail Smith

COURSE

Reconnecting With Your Musical Voice

With Abigail Smith

Reconnecting with your musical voice consists of five short lessons that can be done over five days or in one sitting, It is your choice. I will guide you through simple vocal warm ups for your voice. I will prompt you to write a short mantra or affirmation. Then you will learn simple techniques to compose a beautiful melody for your words. I will provide the drone and chords for you to improvise and experiment over. This five day course is for anyone- no singing experience required. It is to reconnect to your own natural and powerful voice for you. Singing is a wonderful way to connect to our breath, body and our inner world. The warm ups can also be helpful to warm up before a singing performance or speaking in public. The course includes a bonus track with chords and a drone for you to use for your new affirmations and improvisation. Enjoy!

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Meet your Teacher

Abigail Smith
Dublin, Ireland

Multi-instrumentalist Abigail Smith is a Dublin based musician and composer. She has released two albums of her own music Night Time Walking and Fall Into Silence. Fall Into Silence was written and released with funding from the Irish Arts Council. She is a recent recipient of the inaugural 2024 Irish Contemporary Music Centre BRIGID Residency. Abigail was awarded an Arts Council Music Bursary in 2022. She was the winner of the 2021 Finding a Voice and CMC Emerging Female Composer Composition Prize for her work Certain of Uncertainty. She is a member of the Screen Composers Guild of Ireland. She performs regularly as a vocalist and viola player with string quartets and enjoys incorporating technology into her solo performances. She is a member of the NCH Gamelan Orchestra, Jati Roso, (Pure Consciousness). Abigail has composed music for film, computer games and theatre.

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6 Days

279 students

4.6 stars

12 min / day

Creativity

English

Lesson 1

Connecting With Breath And Simple Vocal Warm Up

Lesson One of Reconnecting With Your Musical Voice will guide you in how to warm up your voice using breath work. We will use humming and please pick any note that feels comfortable for you. Only hold each note for as long as feels comfortable for you. Allow yourself settle into the notes you sing without judgement. Then we will be using vowel sounds to warm up. You can sit or stand in a relaxed stance for these exercises allowing the shoulders to settle and you can place your hands on your belly. Enjoy.

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Lesson 2

Writing Your Mantra/Affirmation And Simple Melodic Ideas To Sing Your Words Over A Drone

Lesson Two of Reconnecting With Your Musical Voice will guide you in writing your daily mantra or affirmation. Grab a journal or a piece of paper and a pen for this lesson. This lesson will include a short vocal warm up and then we will sing our mantra/ affirmations. I show you a number of simple techniques to create your own beautiful melodies. Remember this is just for ourselves so be kind and gentle to yourself.

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Lesson 3

Using Your Affirmation/Mantra We Will Expand The Possibilities Of Melody And Explore Rhythm

Lesson 3 will begin with a relaxing vocal warm up. We will choose an affirmation/ mantra for today's lesson. We will explore melody and the possibilities there. We can expand the melody by using simple stepwise movement up or down. We will also use leaps by skipping notes. We will explore rhythm and how it can to change the melodic feel of a melody. I will show you examples and then there will be opportunities for you to sing using these techniques over a drone (held note).

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Lesson 4

Exploring Sad And Happy Moods In Melodic Exploration Using A Drone And Simple Chordal Passages With Your Mantra/Affirmation

Arranging the notes in relation to the drone note changes the mood of your melody. It can make the melody sad, happy, or magical. We can use this to express the words that we are singing. Sad is called a minor key and a happy sounding group of notes in sequence is called a major key. We will explore this in lesson 4. We will do a warmup and then we will explore the sad and happy moods in your melodic exploration using the drone and your chosen mantra/ affirmation. Then will use some simple chordal passages using the auto harp and a drone. Remember it is time for you to explore. It's not about being right or wrong. As Miles Davis said "do not fear mistakes. There are none." Yes!! I love this quote. Enjoy yourself.

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Lesson 5

Warming Up Your Voice And Singing Our Final Celebration Together Combining Techniques To Sing Your Chosen Words Today

Lesson five is the last lesson on this course to Reconnect With Your Musical Voice. Well done! I'm proud of you for exploring your voice. It's yours and there is only one voice like yours ever in this whole universe. That's amazing isn't it! We will warm up our voices in this lesson using our humming and vowel singing. We will sing over some chords played by the autoharp with a drone. Using your words or the words I provide we will improvise over the music. Take out your affirmations/ mantras that you have written over the last few days and sing whatever you want. Enjoy yourself, dance around or close your eyes and sit quietly. It's up to you. Whatever feels good for you. Celebrate your voice and life. Singing is a blessing for all. Thank you for singing. Thank you for being with me. Your voice is beautiful. Keep singing.

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Lesson 6

Use This Bonus Track To Improvise Over With Your Voice Using A Daily Mantra/Affirmation

I wanted to give you a track with music and directions that you can sing your daily affirmations or mantras over. You can write out some mantras or affirmations that are meaningful to you and sing over the track. Enjoy and keep singing! Here is a wonderful quote by Rumi, "I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think." Good luck on your musical journey. Abigail x

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Recent Reviews

Arimi

Arimi

April 25, 2025

I enjoyed it 💛

garo

garo

April 5, 2024

as someone who loves to sing i find this course very inspiring and lovely! thank you for the vibe!

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