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How to Sing Better for Guys. Welcome to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where we're going to
be discussing How To Sing Better for Guys.
Hi, Guys. Ken Tamplin from Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, and I'm going to teach you a little
bit about the voice and voice lessons today.
This is Part One in a Three-Part series on How to Sing Better for Guys.
Now, there's a lot of different styles and a lot of different approaches to singing,
so that one subject isn't just how to sing better for all guys, because it's how to sing
better in whatever style you're looking to sing. Well, there are some very basic, non-negotiables
to singing, and I want to point out that most of the time, not all of the time, but most
of the time, guys want to sing harder than girls. They want to get out there and just
belt and wail...
...and there's the other side, of R'n'B or
Pop guys that are just looking to have some soul, and some good licks, and some good tone,
and good resonance, and stamina, and so forth, AND range, which we all want...
But I want to cover both aspects fairly briefly... I'm going to discuss Rock Singing first, and
then I'm going to break into more Pop and R'n'B.
So the very first thing is, is that we want to have awesome posture. You want to sit up
straight, or stand up straight, and by the way, when you sit, you lose up to 30% of your
strength in your abdomen when you're singing, so I recommend you stand, if you can, but
anyway, so you're going to want to stand, and you're going to want to take a breath
from your belly, from your abdomen. Instead of breathing like we do like this, from our
chest, we want to breathe from our abdomen, from our belly, and our diaphragm. So you've
heard a lot about diaphragmatic support, so I'm not going to cover that here, I have some
tutorials on my website regarding diaphragmatic support, and I have an amazing course called
"How to Sing Better Than Anyone Else". So anyway, I want to talk about how to sing
better for guys, so we're going to start first with this bright "PING" in an "AH"vowel. "AH...
AH..." I coined a phrase, it's called "IT's the LAH!!! AHHH!!" and it's that nice, Open
Throat, Bright Ping Sound that keeps us from sort of choking on our vowel sounds or pinching
and squeezing as we go up. Now there's a lot to this but I'm going to
just go through the basic elements of this first, and then if you're interested, check out
my course, or check out my channel and I cover a good amount of this stuff.
So, we're going to start with the mean average of singers, and that would be a baritone.
And so we're going to start down in like a mid-bari or upper mid-bari range, and we're
just going to go through a simple triad scale like this:
Lah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah... And try to keep the jaw as stable as possible.
Try not to move the mandible, or the jaw, keep it in the marble or static or stable
position, we're going to continue up a triad scale, like this: Lah, ah, ah, AH, ah, ah,
ahhh... Don't forget your breath. Take your breath,
and use your breath, bring in the breath, kind of like you're doing a sit-up, the feeling
of how much strength is required when you're doing a sit-up. So let's continue... ,
Lah, ah, ah, AH, ah, ah, ahhh. Take your breath. Relax the shoulders, relax
the arms, relax the neck... let's continue: Nice, bright, Open AH. I don't mean "loh,
oh, oh, ohhh... or luh, uh, uh, uhh... I mean "AH".
Lah, ah, ah, AH, ah, ah, ahhh. Do yourself a favor. Even get out a hand-held mirror and
look at the back of your throat, and see if your throat is nice and wide open, and that
your tongue is placed to the base of the jaw, so it's not causing any stricture, or any
constrictions in the back of the throat, so that the throat can be as free as possible
to create this nice, bright timbre of sound. Lah, ah, ah, AH, ah, ah, ahhhh.
OK. Now, for most guys, for the mean average, like me, I'm a high baritone, but I can sing
well into the soprano range. There are some different registrations, and I want to talk
briefly about them. And I cover this extensively in my course, and that's that there's something
called the Speaking Register, and that's the register that I'm talking to you at right
now, I'm speaking to you in a specific registration of the voice. Now as we move up into higher
notes, the cords actually vibrate quicker, so they become a little bit more tense, and
they become a little bit... what's the word, there's a lot more strength in the sound,
more strength is required in the sound, so what we really need to do is have a greater
relaxation response so that we don't create tension in the neck or the throat as we
ascend a passage or a scale. This concludes Part One in a series on How
to Sing Better for Guys. Stay Tuned for Part Two.
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