Ian Astbury

Singer - Ian Ashbury

Band – The Cult

Song – Fire Woman

Singing style

Voice type: Baritenor

Vocal range: E2-A5

Exercise to demonstrate

sing your high notes as if they're not high notes, but effort with the same execution as you're singing your low notes.

Surfing the music – ssss tech one airflow

Pharynx space after large

Creating more space by lifting the soft pallet, between the back of the tongue

Epiglottis comes down

Directing sound towards teeth edge of the ridge

The feeling of space at the back…

More intention than effort… intention creating the noise.

Exercise with pen little effort in jaw.

Creating volume that doesn’t cost you.

Others that do it.

Elvis

Johnny cash

Fire woman

Fire woman, yeah

Shake, shake, shake, shake it, yeah

Wound up, can't sleep, can't do anything right, little honey

Oh, since I set my eyes on you

I tell you the truth

T-t-t-t-twistin' like a flame in a slow dance, baby

You're driving me crazy

Come on, little honey

Come on now

Fire

Smoke, she is a rising fire, yeah

Smoke on the horizon, well

Fire

Smoke, she is a rising fire

Oh, smokestack lightning

Smokestack lightning

Well, shake it up, you're to blame, got me swayin' little honey

My heart's a ball of burnin' flame

Oh, yes it is

Trancing like a cat on a hot tin shack

Lord, have mercy

Come on little sister

Come on and shake it

Fire

Smoke, she is a rising fire

Oh, smoke on the horizon, yeah

Fire

Smoke, she is a rising fire

Oh, smokestack lightning, baby

I was thinking what I've been missing

I'll tell you truthfully, well

She's coming close now

Oh, I can feel her

She's getting close to me

And I never, yeah

Fire

Smoke, she is a rising fire

Oh, smoke on the horizon

Fire

Smoke, she is a rising, rising, rising fire

Smokestack lightning

A-j-j-j...

Burnin' out

And shake it, baby.

Come on and burn it.

I say send down fire to me

Say send down fire to me

Say send down fire to me, yeah!

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Fire woman, you're to blame...

Watch glottal not such harder edge

Sway into the lines not hit them… lines through it.

Bouncing within the phrase keeping the line through it…

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