Week 2: The Complete Singer
Day 8: Artistry in Practice
Share a clip of yourself rehearsingâlet us see the process, not just the polish.
Day 9: Language Challenge
Choose a language youâre less familiar with and sing a short line. Share what you learned.
Day 10: Master the Mezzo Forte
Not everything needs to be forte. Share a moment of vocal restraint and intimacy.
Day 11: Duet Day
Sing with another tonebase member, a friend, or duet with a past recording of yourself.
Day 12: Staging in Small Spaces
Use gesture or movement to enhance your deliveryâeven if you're in your living room.
Day 13: Composer Spotlight
Sing something by a composer you admire. Introduce the piece and why it matters to you.
Day 14: Showcase & Reflection
Wrap it up with a performance you're proud of and share what youâve discovered over 14 days.
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 8: https://youtu.be/EUVu7oYj1mM
My teacher encourages me to "play" with my singing, and not have a super structured Practice Time (unless that's helpful for me). As a result, I tend to sing and practice all throughout the day while washing dishes, waiting for students to arrive for classes, watching water boil. When I do practice/rehearse in a structured manner at the piano, I do a fair bit of record - listen - record - listen, wash, rinse, repeat.
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Sorry that it took me until day 9 to post something, I hope it is useful for someone. Thank you!
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Now I see that although my video was only a minute long, it was too big to upload. I will try again with just sound.
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Day 9 - I chose an excerpt of the Welsh hymn Calon Lan. The Welsh hymns are beautiful but the language is very difficult to get a handle on.
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Day 9, I thought I would not have anything to post as I didn't know what to sing, but mentioned the Brahms folksongs - so I looked them up, found one I can probably handle (Heidenroslein), and will post tomorrow. Until then!
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And with my sincerest apologies to those who speak German as their mother tongue, here is my Day 9 submission:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ar4JLr0hAPc?feature=shareThis is a German folk song, Heidenroslein, set to piano by J. Brahms. If you know it, you will notice that I transposed the last few measures as my teacher does not want me to sing at the top of my range right now while itâs still so new to me. This was fun. I learned that I tend to be quite hesitant to sing in a language I donât know well, and had to take a deep breath and just go for it. Thanks to for mentioning these folk songs to me, and I do admit that watching myself in this clip I canât really imagine myself as Lady Macbeth either!
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Guess what: I could understand every word, very well done!