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    R&B Vocals Silabus

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    This document outlines a 12-lesson syllabus for teaching R&B vocals. The lessons cover the history and evolution of R&B from its roots in blues and doo-wop through modern styles like hip hop soul. Key topics include vocal techniques, influential artists in each era, and the cross-pollination between R&B and other genres like gospel, soul, funk, and pop over the decades. The syllabus aims to provide students with technical skills and performance styles suited to different periods and subgenres of R&B music from the early 20th century to today.

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    This document outlines a 12-lesson syllabus for teaching R&B vocals. The lessons cover the history and evolution of R&B from its roots in blues and doo-wop through modern styles like hip hop soul. Key topics include vocal techniques, influential artists in each era, and the cross-pollination between R&B and other genres like gospel, soul, funk, and pop over the decades. The syllabus aims to provide students with technical skills and performance styles suited to different periods and subgenres of R&B music from the early 20th century to today.

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    This document outlines a 12-lesson syllabus for teaching R&B vocals. The lessons cover the history and evolution of R&B from its roots in blues and doo-wop through modern styles like hip hop soul. Key topics include vocal techniques, influential artists in each era, and the cross-pollination between R&B and other genres like gospel, soul, funk, and pop over the decades. The syllabus aims to provide students with technical skills and performance styles suited to different periods and subgenres of R&B music from the early 20th century to today.

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    R&B Vocals Silabus

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    This document outlines a 12-lesson syllabus for teaching R&B vocals. The lessons cover the history and evolution of R&B from its roots in blues and doo-wop through modern styles like hip hop soul. Key topics include vocal techniques, influential artists in each era, and the cross-pollination between R&B and other genres like gospel, soul, funk, and pop over the decades. The syllabus aims to provide students with technical skills and performance styles suited to different periods and subgenres of R&B music from the early 20th century to today.

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    R&B Vocals

    Syllabus
    Lesson 1: R&B History and Performance Techniques

    •Defining R&B

    •Introduction of Basic Warm-Ups and Basic Vocal

    Technique

    •Early R&B Music and Its Relationship to The

    Blues

    •A Brief Discussion of Key Suitability for Your

    Blues

    Lesson 2: Early Forms of R&B

    •Ribcage Expansion

    •The Blues Form and Scale as It Relates to R&B

    •Improvisational Styles of Early R&B Artists

    •R&B Improvisation Showcase: Ray Charles

    •R&B Improvisation Showcase: Jackie Wilson

    •R&B Improvisation Showcase: Sam & Dave

    •Doo Wop Songs and Groups: The Use Of Legato

    and Falsetto

    •Doo Wop Showcase: The Platters

    Lesson 3: The Motown Era


    •Registers, Releasing the Jaw, and Developing

    Range

    •Vocal Styles Used in the Motown Era.

    •Informal Diction and the Use of Colloquial

    Expressions

    Lesson 4: Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Soul Music

    •Registers, Voice Classifications, and the

    Importance of the Chest Voice in R&B

    •Characteristics of R&B and the Similarities in

    Gospel Singing

    •Vocal Improvisation Showcase: Aretha Franklin

    •Vocal Style Showcase: James Brown

    •The Connection Between Gospel Music of the

    1960s and Its Relationship to R&B

    Lesson 5: R&B Music of The Early 1970s: Soul and Funk

    •Discovering Forward Placement

    •Falsetto Singing Spotlight: Marvin Gaye and

    Curtis Mayfield

    •Falsetto Singers, the Sweet Sopranos, and

    Discovering Forward Placement

    •Performance and Expression

    •Singing Over the Ending Vamp While Using Light


    Textures

    Lesson 6: Transforming Pop and Folk songs into R&B

    •Using Crescendo

    •Vocal Dynamics

    •The Groove and The Importance of Accented

    Beats and Syllables

    •Examples of Song Transformation into R&B

    Lesson 7: R&B Music Mid 70s to 80s

    •Soul/Disco and Soul/Funk Groove Patterns

    •Nuances and Affectations

    •Vowel Modification and Sung Speech

    •Stevie Wonder

    Lesson 8: Gospel Influences in R&B/ Soul and Vice Versa

    •Summary of 70's- 80's Gospel artists

    •Glissando and Its Usage in Gospel and R&B

    •R&B Artists Who Grew Up Singing in Church

    Lesson 9: Prince, Michael Jackson, and Adult Contemporary R&B

    •The Music of Prince

    •Vocal Textures Used by Michael Jackson

    •Covered Tone

    •Adult Contemporary/Quiet Storm


    Lesson 10: New Jack Swing and Pop/R&B

    •New Jack Swing

    •Whitney Houston

    •The Commercialization of Melisma in Popular

    Music

    •Babyface

    Lesson 11: Hip Hop Soul

    •Hip Hop Soul

    •Crossover Commercial Success of R&B to

    Mainstream

    Lesson 12: R&B Mid/Late 90's – Current

    •Summary of Neo Soul Artists

    •Beyoncé

    •Putting it into Motion

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