Finishing a bite and wrangling a pup and then I’ll turn the camera on

Hi from NYC

NYC - I want to have more fun with riffing as opposed to have it be a scary thing

New York Natalee. And working the 12356 moment and how you used it in the insta post

Linda GLICK; in Neversink, NY (Catskills) for another week. I would love to be able to teach my students how to begin to riff

From: Yorktown, Virginia / Want to Know: Get some ideas for learning how to teach riffs/runs to my own students as well as improve my own

I’d like to understand how to practice riffing?

NYC!! Learn to incorporate riffing into songs. how to not make it feel awkward

I am from Fort Worth Texas. I would love to be able to riff in general

From: New Jersey!! I want to learn more about it and how to master it

Dallas - cleaner, clear riffs.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tm3tyHCazenxzQXoBoCrqLv0Vi8mSE1h/view?usp=sharing

I automatically started with a glottal onset on the thick

Medium thick was the most difficult

Thick to thick feb the easiest

Thick to medium was easiest.

Had a yodel on thick to thick easier was thick to thin

Thick to thin felt easiest. Going thick to thick felt like I was carrying way too much weight and squeezing

thick to thick was the easiest

Thick to thick was easiest — thick to thin kept trying to flip over

It buzzes in different places… thick to thin is different for me. The last one was easier to feel because of the register change.

It felt smoother

More controlable

Less air for thin

smoother and it didn't want to flip

Seemed easier

more supported

Feels like less air on the thick part

Lost the air on the way down. But can feel taking way too big breath

FUNNN

Was kind of fun haha. Like a little ride

I can’t get it as fast as her! Ah lol

Slowerbon OH and OOh

Got too thick up top

Much easier with pulse

The pulse help as a touch stone

He's so amazing

He just played the human piano

I saw him do this live. It's really incredible what he is able to do

A toast to the groom

Can you say solfedge minor again

Hamilton?

I am confusion haha and I read music 😂

Do mi or Do me?

is it fine to use fi instead of Se?

Was blues 3 or flat 3?

Enter sandman isn’t a blues song but it uses a blues scale, so confused

Gotcha

And the purpose of us learning the first scale is so that we could then riff within that song?

176765

176765

176565

1,7,6,5,6, 321

I think I started before the riff? lol

Shannah, I am so lost as to where to the actual riff starts…like, lost without a map. I understand the 17 but what word or sound is the 17. Next time you play the sound could you say where the 17 starts.

Can we hear the beginning one one more time?

Can you play the whole thing again?

Is there not a 7 in there?

3 2 1 2 3 2 1 7 1 2 3 2

I feel pretty confident that its’ going 176765

I do too.

176565-323565

Ok not crazy haha!

Visual learners are dying here

I’m doing it, Mom!!

The bottom note is tricky with air flow

3-2-3-2-1

3-2-3-2-1-6-5

3232

5454321

4343

Can you get that nice flow…faster, in time?

Uh vowel on 3232 is a challenge

Brain hurt

I think the trickiest part for me doing this on my own would finding the number for the first note

I think numbers are throwing me off.

https://www.shannahraevocalstudio.com/vocal-agility-riffs-and-runs.html

It was fun lol

And I felt a little ridiculous haha

That was so much fun I almost don’t even care that I suck!

Really fun - looking forward to getting faster at this

I did not like riffing on the word by. Hard part

I have to decide I’m ok feeling stupid b/c it’s like…moments of “oh neat” and moments of “oh yikes”

I keep repeating myself

Is it generally harder to come down fast?

Coming down is still a challenge. I’ll get excited on one part and then suck at coming down hahaha

Not TRYING to be original and just seeing what comes out

It became clear pretty fast that there were certain note progressions that I liked more and kept using

Me?

I volunteer Daron

Definitely doable! With practice. f

Youtube 1/2 speed for learning other’s riffs. I will start practicing these 3 scales for fun vocal exercises and to get it in my ear

pentatonic scale warm-ups to get the progressions in my ear

Riffing is so much simpler than I thought. Keep practicing keeping the scales in my ear. Listen to music and just try singing with and riff

the former opera singer here learned that the secret sauce is to let the vowel change!

I’m still reeling from the fact that it’s 5 notes.

Aha - that riffing is not just…random notes a singer happened to be able to do lol

Practice practice practice

I am with Katie that I Love YouTube 1/2 speed and the “name those notes” game - thx!