Week 1: The Inner Artist
Day 1: Signature Aria
Start with your go-to piece. What do you love about it? Where are you in your journey with it?
Day 2: A Capella Phrase
Share one phrase—no piano, no accompaniment. Focus on breath, phrasing, and intention.
Day 3: Lied or Mélodie Moment
Sing a short excerpt from art song repertoire—German, French, Spanish, English. Keep it intimate.
Day 4: Early Music Exploration
Post a phrase or line from a Baroque or Renaissance piece. Explore ornamentation or purity of tone.
Day 5: Text First, Then Tone
Speak the text of a piece you're working on. Then sing it. Notice how intention changes everything.
Day 6: Recitative Realness
Post a recitative (or a short dramatic monologue). Focus on storytelling and delivery.
Day 7: Sacred Sound
Offer a moment from sacred repertoire—chant, hymn, or oratorio.
How to Participate
- Post daily (or as often as you can!) in the Tonebase Voice Community Forum
- OR post on social and tag @tonebase.voice with #TonebaseVoiceChallenge
- Watch others, leave encouragement, and build your artist circle
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Day 1: I've a go-to song, Queen's Somebody to love, which is included in the musical We Will rock you for Scaramouche (female).
For the go-to Operatic Aria I look forward to wathing the Soprano Verdi, Rossini, Bellini, Puccini courses here on Tonebase.
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Day 1: All I can do today is name my piece because I started coming down with a nasty cold yesterday and can't sing anything at the moment. But it looks like I can go back to my Signature Aria on days 2, 5, and 6, if I understand the roadmap correctly, so if my larynx cooperates and heals quickly, I hope to share some excerpts on those days. This is a piece I so far merely hope will one day become my go-to song; I have only started working on it with my teacher a week or two ago, but I love it so much already that I truly want it to become "mine". It is "O tu, Palermo" from I Vespri Siciliani by Giuseppe Verdi. It has a great introductory recitative, a wonderful dramatic arc, and the kind of rich and sweeping melody that Verdi usually only bestows upon his soprano or tenor characters while this time he actually decided to bless the bass. For a German expatriate who has called the U.S. home for the last quarter century, the themes of homesickness and patriotism also ring true in a special and emotional way. I'm looking forward to working on it.
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Day 1: I'm at the beginning of my journey in the world of classical singing, and haven't learned much in the way of repertoire. I'm in the process of learning "Caro mio ben," so will choose that as my go-to piece. We've worked on pronunciation, vowel shaping, phrasing, and are beginning to work on shaping consonants.
Before beginning vocal lessons this year, I typically sang songs written for the male voice as I had been told (and believed) that I should sing only in a lower register. Now I'm finding a side to my voice that I didn't know existed, and am enjoying exploring singing in a range that I thought was beyond me.
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I really love Avant De Quitter from Faust, with Valentin entrusts the care of his sister Marguerite to his friend Siebel. I am mastering the French language and getting progressively better with it. .
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Alrighty, here's my day 2 submission: https://youtu.be/UUd3HRRSI2A
As a funny aside, I was looking ahead to what we're doing each day and saw the Baroque/Renaissance piece day - not knowing anything vocal from this period, I did some searching and found one I liked. My son knew of it and shared his favorite recording. Unbeknownst to me, he then proceeded to mention it to our vocal coach during his lesson Monday morning. So I walked into my lesson and heard, "So, I hear you want to learn "Dido's Lament." Ha! Our teacher has sung Aeneas multiple times, so knows the piece well. And he asked me about Tonebase, looked it up while we were talking, and remarked that many of the artists on the voice side are friends and he'll be singing in San Francisco with one of them this summer. Small world!
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Today, my voice is almost completely gone, so I can’t even record anything spoken. But had I been able to sing, I would have performed the first 20 bars (including those played by the piano, so just 12 bars for the voice) of Schubert’s “Im Abendroth”. Like everything else, I will try to belatedly deliver that over the weekend.
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Day 3 is art song repertoire, which I do not have. But I'm posting to hold myself accountable to the challenge.