The tone of one’s voice is the texture, feeling, and color of one’s voice. Different songs and different types of music require a different tone. The shape of one’s mouth, posture, and breath support determine one’s tone. Everyone likes different tones, and your goal is for you to like your tone, as well as other people :)
What I sing for my voice lessons is either classical or musical theater. They both usually have different tones and slightly different technique. Both are super fun to learn and work on!
Singing classical music tends to call for a bit more technique than musical theater. For classical music, my voice teacher described a dark purple tone to be the kind of tone you want. Keeping your head straight, keeping sides of mouth in to create tall space, and having good feeling of your notes is what one needs to do to create a rich, dark purple tone. Also, vibrato is a higher-level skill to make a classical piece more beautiful and powerful. I also find that vibrato makes certain things easier while singing. Having good breath support will help your vibrato ring and move.
Singing musical theater is a blast! Musical theater doesn’t call for vibrato and is usually really pure, but still powerful. I would personally describe the tone of musical theater to be bright, light blue. Technique and placement of notes is still important, but musical theater pieces aren’t as nit-picky with that little technical stuff like classical music. None-the-less, being classically trained will improve your technique and knowledge in every type of singing.
Both types of music are great to learn! I’ve certainly had a blast with each one so far in my singing career.
This youtube video is of a classical piece called "Weep You No More".
This youtube video is of Chris Colfer and Lea Michele from Glee performing a musical theater song called "Defying Gravity".
If you listen to both types of music you will hear the different kind of tones they have!
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