first of all thank you so much this is why I love what I get to do on YouTube you guys are helping
me discover music that I never would have stumbled on otherwise and not only am I really enjoying it
I'm learning a ton too and all of you keep saying if I love Ado I'll really get into Minami this is
my first ever experience hearing any Minami song crying for rain let's see what we [Music] got
[Music] just I just made another video on this this concept of vocal weight listen
to how she stays on one note and grows the intensity of it's more than just intensity
though it's it's weight it's a light note it's a heavy note it's a it's a
sheepish note it's an aggressive note and it totally changes tone and intent [Music]
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it that's really really hard to do well okay I'm going to let [Music]
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words there's a lot of syllables packed in there it's almost like a
what a rapper would be doing in terms of the way she pulls time and creates those
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I got to hear that heat up right into that [Music]
chorus one more time and she she has this really whispery sound right there and it's
layered in the recording and then she brings it in brings in all that heat oh that's so [Music]
cool it's the same sort of thing she was doing earlier but on a whole different level like always
I like to experiment and sort of reverse engineer non-judgmentally of course cuz I'm never going
to sound like or as good as what they're doing I like to reverse engineer these sort of sounds as
Sensations how do we heat up a note like she's doing so masterfully well
a simple way to start doing this is to divide it up into two more simple tasks
first off grow the note with your mouth whatever note it is so we might [Music]
go we just open it up by changing the shape next grow the note with air pressure or breath
pressure so we're going to start on this note and then we're just going to keep feeding more more
pressure to the note without necessarily getting louder so we're going to s ously hold back air
while we push more from our lower abdominals or our poop muscles as I'd like to say and if you'd
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so I'm growing it in terms of pressure both sound awkward by themselves but when you combine
[Music] them yeah it might still sound a little goofy as an exercise but if
you do this and then you listen to what manami is doing you hear in a
much more refined and musical context the same sort of thing going on it's a
twostep sort of process that you blend together and learn to blend together
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that was a really cool transition there listen to
what happens where how she kisses that higher note very very [Music]
quickly but she goes right into that heavier
note so
hard
again I love the variance a very similar playfulness to [Music]
Ado is that a vocal tone [Music]
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she has such a wonderful way of being darker and and more um somber without swallowing her
sound versus perfectly placed and [Music] balanced [Music] really neat production
aspect there the subtle octave up as she's singing the main line is is one octave and
she's singing an octave up and timing it really well it doesn't sound cynthy
it sounds like she's doubling it but really really keeping with the timing and that's a
theme I'm noticing on manami's vocals her sense of timing and rhythm is really really [Music]
honed
he that little
CHP this weep at the end of it I've said this in countless other videos but this
ability for singers to get really intense and then sigh out of intense phrases both
keeps you free as a singer but it creates this wonderful sort of desperate engagement
it's more than just an artistic thing for a lot of these singers it's a way to remain free and
relaxed very intense not intense intense release now I have to go back real quick
and point out some interesting breathing she's [Music] doing she doesn't need to breathe that
much she's using her air intake as an instrument this is another example of
something most great vocalists do they take something that is necessary to sing like
breathing or that sigh technique I just talked about but in this case breathing
and they use it in a way that doesn't seem necessary but that actually brings
more flare to a vocal line so yeah we have to take in air let's make it part of the vocal
experience this points to why she's so fre really rhythmic
with her voice because she uses air intake as well as phonation to create
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so here's another interesting thing to think about when it comes to breathing they are very
intentional about the production as well as how she engages the microphone with the breathing if
you listen to this last [Music] section you don't hear her breathing like she could be
doing that but she's choosing not to she's using Dynamics with her breathing as well as with her
singing this is very intentional stuff both from a production standpoint and a performance [Music]
standpoint
I like that spoken part right it feeds into that sort of almost rap rhythmic influence [Applause]
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listen to how pure her voice sounds on that highest note her ability to create different tones
in these fast lines it's almost like different vocalists per note I've talked about this in
's performance as well manami has this wonderful way of creating a different character out of each
[Music] note oh there was a really cool side listen
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[Music] it's fun to hear a guitar solo I miss that in new [Music] music kilo [Music]
her performance at the end as well as the production they dry up there's no Reverb there's
no layers there's this solitary voice projecting loneliness Solitude I don't even understand the
words and the way that the visual plus her vocal posture there like wow singing is so much more
than hitting notes this level of self-expression that manami has is absolutely [Music]
phenomenal thank you so much for this recommendation what a voice if you liked
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