Week 2: The Complete Singer
Day 8: Artistry in Practice
Share a clip of yourself rehearsing—let us see the process, not just the polish.
Day 9: Language Challenge
Choose a language you’re 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 delivery—even 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 you’ve 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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Guess what: I could understand every word, very well done!
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https://youtu.be/cAkzMxwRLeg?si=NKa_0UWlfa-KXY-n
that was supposed to be: master the mezzoforte, and right the first note was already a bit bumpy.
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Day 10- Billy's Farewell from Britten's opera Billy Budd
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Day 10: https://youtu.be/QL5wcmNfgDY
Sure requires more breath energy and more focus on relaxation to sing more quietly!
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Addendum / Late Entry Day 9: https://youtu.be/__BgCa5z55Y
These are the first two lines of Prince Gremin's aria from "Yevgeny Onegin" by P.I. Tchaikovsky. The challenges even in these few words of sung Russian are manyfold: the "hard i" (with the tip of the tongue pulled back so that it sounds between an English "e" and a German "ü"), the different ways of pronouncing the vowel "o" (an open "a" before a stressed syllable, a proper "o" when it's stressed, a "shwa" in all other positions"), the "bl" sound in which the l must be loosely flipped and fluttered with lips and tongue etc.. Also, I find that the Russian language invites artificially darkening my sound, so it takes extra effort to keep the resonance forward.
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Addendum / Late Entry Day 10: https://vimeo.com/1087291071/a4fce1773c?ts=0&share=copy
I chose the aria "O Isis und Osiris" from Mozart's The Magic Flute a my entry for "mezzo forte" because the character who sings it, the High Priest Sarastro, is such a wise, mature and equanimous personality seemingly without emotional extremes, so although the accompaniment is marked "p", the aria is probably to be sung in a full, balanced mezzo forte. However, there are limits to how softly a bass can sing in this register; one needs a certain amount of power to let the voice resonate in these slow, sustained lines. Anyway, it's the best I could come up with for this particular task.