Lisa, Gurenge, this was the next video all of you said I had to check out from
her after the impact that her previous video that I reacted to had on me she is
one of the most connected yet precise singers I've ever come across so I'm
really excited to hear what this higher energy as many of you have stated song
has
yeah like doing the final warm-ups and mindfulness
things turn on the
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I love that it's not just about the music it's about bringing a mood
intentionally bringing what she's thinking about bringing purpose
into the performance this influences her performance in ways that only doing that
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can her resonance is amazing do you notice how she dynamically
plays its part of this as vowels so and I'm not going to sound anything like her
I'm just going for inspiration here but so lower almost yond
positioning and then brightens it up as she goes
higher adds energy belts if I were just to keep that on one
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gives her voice interest right off the [Music]
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bat there
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there's that nice
huskier also did you notice listen [Music]
here [Music] very breathy head voice engagement lots of people are like I don't want to be breathy
when I in my head voice she's intentionally having this sort of side poror cord closure
but it's not poor isn't bad it's just adding that like breath dump in there for extra
flavor and then she closes right up and creates power right after that lots of variety going
on [Music]
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those size often make the performance the willingness to let yourself go and
exit a note with abandon keeps you loose keeps you in tune with how
your voice feels because you're not locking yourself you're not locking
yourself into something releases tension too and sounds amazing win win win win
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win
again there with that wonderful sigh after the beautiful belted note you see this pattern
happening she builds up intensity and energy and then releases build up and release build
up and release she's arcing this performance in a way that absolutely fits with the lyrics and
the emotions she's feeling but it also helps her budget her performance because she's not
singing the same way the whole time because there's all this variety of her approach she's
not going hard on any one area of her voice and it's allowing for lots of vocal stamina
this takes practice but it's not all about just being strong it's about learning how to
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description hear that cool growl in
there this is a low engagement this is not standard compression where we have
the Sensation that we're laying a constriction high in the throat
over the top of our primary chords instead it's almost like a cookie
cookie if I put it in my own range like she did there it's this thing that you
put in every once in a while cuz it's kind of hard on your voice to sustain but just kiss in
it is a really cool technique but you get there
by trying to talk like Cookie Monster and then just putting it in for just a
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[Music] such clear diction and I love how she leans into the mic she she's intimate
with that popper stopper right there uh in in this lower energy more wordy area it creates
this wonderful again Precision but not Precision that is sterile Precision that is highly engaged
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notice how once in a while she hits the popper stopper too it just doesn't matter like she's
so lost in her performance that she's not working on proper mic technique she's not
thinking about that at all I don't know how many times I've been asked by a vocalist am
I using proper mic technique while I'm singing I'm like don't worry about it if
it sounds if your performance sounds engaged there's a lot of wiggle room with proper mic
[Music] technique [Music] there's that wonderful breathy release there [Music]
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] again o the quality of that note listen to How it
changed [Applause] as she added her ver she brought the resonance placement back a little
bit hear it it's
subtle she warmed It Up by bringing the placement how she was experiencing that note back from this
forward belt that's really bright to maybe feeling it and experiencing it a bit more
back in the middle of her head this is a really powerful thing to notice and practice with your
own singing Because if you can move your resonance and placement around dynamically over one note
you create all these different opportunities for your harmonics to be heard differently by the mic
by the by your ears this is what gives vocalists richness it's not about having one great tone it's
about having a dynamic tone based on being able to move your placement around and there's no better
way to observe and practice than by holding out lots of notes where you don't have tons of words
to mess with while you're experimenting with this [Applause] [Music] [Applause] experience
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here as she's singing Someone sobbing do you hear the weepiness in her voice so [Music] cool
and the breath of a scream she adds that that's that's a compressed engagement above her vocal
cords to get that grit sounds very different than the sound she made
earlier but I love how she as she's saying scream she's doing that with her voice
then there's laugh there's shaking is like a laugh and then there's weeping is like a
song do you do these kinds of connected things when you sing if you sing or is it all about
the notes do you embody the character of certain words in your vocal expression or
do you just sing the words this is why this performance is so wonderfully connected to
us as listeners this is why Lisa is such an amazing vocalist and artist it's not
even about having a great voice to begin with although she does have a great voice
it's how she's thinking it's how she's Eng aging that helps her voice be truly [Music]
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oo that placement transfer was even cooler you heard this bit
of cry or weepiness at the very end of that that was really really cool
it was very consistent for a long time and then she she sort of let it f love
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that huh [Applause] yeah she's happy with that one she should be and what and what I
see I don't see it I see keep the connectedness concept in your mind as you're creating your
own music it's really important to practice hard and do cool techniques and learn about
how your voice works but then there comes a point where we have to forget about that stuff
trust the practice that you've done trust the muscle memory and fully engage in the
moment while you're delivering a performance and this is what Lisa is so good at be sure
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