In terms of singing, what are runs, riffs, adlibs, falsetto, vibrato and all that stuff?

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If you really mean "all" that stuff, we could be here for weeks. The terms you've chosen really come from very different aspects of singing and music. For example, falsetto is a high octave in the male range that is actually a "false" range and sounds almost like a woman. Vibrato is the pulsating (like a "vibration") sound from the human voice as well as some instruments. Opera singers have a very obvious vibrato; some contemporary singers don't use one at all. An "ad lib" is something not in the original music (or scipt) that the singer (or actor) makes up at the spur of the moment. There are runs and scales, which are generally used in rehearsal, along with arpeggios, which are certain note progressions that help with range and versatility. Riff is a musical slang term that means a quick succession of notes within a musical work.

If you're really intersted, take some music lessons of some kind. You'll learn these and many more terms that way.

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In terms of singing, what are runs, riffs, adlibs, falsetto, vibrato and all that stuff?

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It's hard to do vocal runs in your lower register, which is where the word "night" is. If you go through the run slowly, many times, you will be able to do it faster and faster, and soon you will sound just like Beyonce! To develop vibrato you can do the same - pick a note you are comfortable singing, for an example C4. Hold the note, and then jump up to D4, then down again and so on. Do this faster and faster, and this will help you develop vibrato :)

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runs would be when you are kind of singing like a guitar solo...not really words, but that bluesy r&b type thing singers do on bluesy r n b songs. I don't know what a riff is, falsetto is not your "real" voice...used to get out higher pitches. Vibrato is a wavering of the sound that makes it sound pretty

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I know a few of the words...adlib is to make up the words..just go with it. Vibrato is the sound of a voice with the vibration. Falsetto is the range of your voice of a higher pitch that does not sound natural...

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runs are when you climb up or down a scale, also called arpeggiating
riffs are just licks or hooks that repeat
adlibs are when you make up some words that aren't part of the song normally (like changing a line to include the name of the town you are playing in)
falsetto is high pitched singing in a 'mickey mouse' voice, like roy orbisson
vibrato is rapidly changing the tone up and down, sometimes called 'warbling' and it sounds like the sound is vibrating
tremolo is rapidly changing the volume up and down so it sounds like it is vibrating (also like roy orbisson, or if you saw lukas sing 'creep' on rockstar, the big 'ruuuuuun' note towards the end had tremolo.