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3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Singing Range

Vocal coach Ken Taylor discusses three simple and effective ways to improve your singing range while at the same time addressing some common vocal issues. By Ken Taylor

Songwriters - Learn How the Position of Your Lyrics Can Change What You're Saying

Position lyrical phrases within your music so that the message you are trying to get through to your audience is the message they get. By Anthony Ceseri

Visualization

When writing lyrics why is visualization important? The use of effective imagery can be the difference between listeners connecting to your lyrics or not. This article is for lyricists who are looking to improve the use of imagery within their lyrics. By Jon Hanover

Why Do The Lyrics of John Mayer’s Daughters Work So Well?

A lyrics analysis of the song Daughters by John Mayer, looking at how he evolves the meaning of the chorus by adding extra information to successive verses. By Anthony Ceseri

How To Survive In Today's Music Business Recession

Jazz and blues singer, and HMMA nominee Cheryl Hodge shares 3 secrets of her ongoing success within the music industry. By Cheryl Hodge

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Wah Pedal (Wah Wah)
Guitar effect device where the frequency of a bandpass filter is varied using a foot pedal control, giving a distinctive 'Wah Wah' sound.

Watt
Unit of electrical power equal to 1 Joule per second.

Wave File
A wave file is a PC audio file format.

Waveform
A waveform is the characteristic shape of a graphically displayed audio signal.

Wavelength
The distance over which a wave repeats itself exactly once.

Weber
Unit of magnetic flux.

Weighted Noise
Noise measured within the audio frequency range using a selective frequency measuring device.

White Noise
A random noise signal that has the same sound energy level at all frequencies.

Word Clock
The accurate timing of digital audio is critical to the synchronisation of interconnected digital audio equipment.

A 'Word Clock', or 'Wordclock', is the 'metronome' that controls digital audio timing. Tha word clock also identifies the start and end of each digital word or sample, and which channel (left or right) samples belong to.

Word Clock Sync
Clock source used by your audio interface to synchronize "words" of sample data.

Wow
Unwanted frequency modulation introduced by the recording/reproduction process. Normally Wow is used to describe frequencies between 0.1 Hz and 10 Hz.