Vocal Styles Chart

Vocal Production Elements Which Influence Each Style

Classical Broadway R&B Pop Folk Country Jazz Rock Street

Yes-
Vibrato Yes-Throughout Yes Sporadic Sporadic Very Little Sporadic Sporadic Sporadic Very Fast-Predominant At End Of Phrase And Exaggerated
No-Usually
Yes- Behind
Beat Subdivision Accuracy Yes Yes Syncopated Yes Sporadic Yes Beat Yes-Sometimes Ahead Yes
Word Accuracy Related To
Speech No Yes Yes Yes Sporadic Yes Yes No-Exaggerated No

Word Completion Yes Yes No No Sporadic Sporadic Sporadic Yes Sporadic

Chest Dominant
(Female) No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes

Airy No No No Sometimes No No Sometimes No Yes-Sometimes Due To Vocal Abuse

Yes-Between or within
Slides/Scoops words of phrase Before Words Sporadic Yes Sporadic Yes-Within The Word Yes Yes-Before & After Phrase Yes

Riffs-Not part of melody No No Yes Yes No No No No Yes-Overdone

Tongue Placement Back & Down Back & Down Back & Down Front Front Front Front Front & Down Everywhere

Vowel Change/Dipthongs No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Sporadic Sporadic Yes

Mouth Space(Neck, Throat,
Mouth) Neck-Throat-Mouth Throat-Mouth Changes Changes None Sporadic Mouth Throat-Mouth Sporadic

Nasal/Soft Palate Raised Raised Raised Changes Changes Lowered Lowered Raised Changes

Onset Smooth Smooth Hard Changes Changes Hard Smooth Hard Hard
Throughout Word To Word To Word To
Dynamic Phrasing Throughout Phrase Phrase Word Changes Word Word To Word Word Throughout Phrase Not Much Dynamic

* These characteristics listed above only serve as a guideline for each style, and are generally adhered to but obviously not written in stone.
* As with all music, styles adapt to new elements of time and change, and interpretation is always left up to the singer.

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