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Vocal Color

Vocal Color. Inga Swearingen Jazz Vocalist. L earning How to Fly/Fly Me to the Moon Inga Swearingen, vocals Ryan Garcia, guitar Clint Iwanicha , bass Mike Raynor , drums Linda Vanasupa , piano. Inga Swearingen Jazz Vocalist. Inga has received many awards for her performing including:

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Vocal Color

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  1. Vocal Color Inga Swearingen Jazz Vocalist

  2. Learning How to Fly/Fly Me to the MoonInga Swearingen, vocalsRyan Garcia, guitarClint Iwanicha, bassMike Raynor, drumsLinda Vanasupa, piano

  3. Inga SwearingenJazz Vocalist • Inga has received many awards for her performing including: • First Prize and Prize of the Public at the Montreux Jazz Festival Shure Vocal Competition • Numerous performances on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio show

  4. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF JAZZ SINGING ● Instrumental approach to the voice ● Vocal Improvisation ● Scat singing AND ● Use of vocal colors to imitate different instruments, highlight texts or specific words and/or emotions

  5. VocalColor “Vocal color is the varying of vocal timbre to highlight specific texts, words and emotions.” (Dr. Jon Clements, Assistant Professor of Music at Arkansas Tech University)

  6. Samples of adjectives used to describe vocal color • Dark • Breathy • Warm • Chocolaty • Mellow •Silky • Bright • Husky • Steely • Smokey • Tinny

  7. INGA’S USE OF VOCAL COLORS • How would you describe Inga’s vocal color? • Do you hear other ways in which she experiments with her voice to depict an instrument, word or emotion?

  8. INGA’S VOCAL INFLUENCES • Bobby McFerrin • Ella Fitzgerald • Joni Mitchell • Studied voice with Dr. Jon Clements while at Florida State University

  9. Resources • http://ingaswearingen.com/presskit/ • Ware, Clifton. Basics of Vocal Pedagogy: The Foundations and Process of Singing, 1998. • “learning how to fly/fly me to the moon.” Sabena Start and Patti CathcartAndress, Bart Howard, arranged by Inga Swearingen. Inga Swearingen with Trio 14. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing

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