Singing Lessons for Beginners. So you want to learn how to sing, or you want to start to learn how to sing.
Well, I want to help you on your journey to understand
some of the most basic, fundamental, and rudimentary things that takes a basic, or
non-singer into a decent singer, or even a great singer. And these are non-negotiables, these are things
that we all have to do, no matter what level of singing we are, these are things that really
help us on our journey for singing. So the very, very first thing is: Pitch. Now
I want to talk about breath support and vowel placement, and we'll get into some of that,
but pitch... can you carry any kind of a tune? You know, can you sing "Happy Birthday" or
can you sing a simple nursery rhyme? That's key, and then, basically holding that pitch
will help us determine how well you're going to be able to translate this and grow quickly
on your journey for singing. So I'm going to take us through some simple scales and
I'm going to do a male version and a female version, so hang in there, I'll do the girls
second, but the basic things are this: The first thing is posture. We want to sit up
straight. We don't want to get our spine tipped in any direction. We don't want to look up
at the ceiling when we're going for high notes, or look down. We want to have a good command
of our breath. Alright, so I'm going to have some scales and I'm going to have you match
the tone of the scale with a very, very simple arpeggio, which is just a three-note chord,
and I'm going to go through these notes very simply and show you how you can start your
journey for singing. So we want to open up our mouth, "AH, AH" we're going to do the
AH vowel, and there's several vowels that you have to work to build muscle memory so
that this becomes second nature, but for starters, we're just going to build some simple muscle memory.
We're going to take a breath from our belly, from our abdomen, not from our chest like
this. We want to take a breath from our belly, as best as we can, and then I have a whole
section on diaphragmatic breathing on my website so if you're interested, I have all this in
my singing course called "How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else".
So, to get started, I'm going to do the mean average of the male voice, which is the baritone,
or high baritone register, so we're going to start with an AH vowel, and we're going
to do something very simple. We're just going to go "Lah, ah, ah, ahhh, ah, ah, ahhhhh."
And what we want, is we want to match that tone, so try to match the tone with me.
"Lahhhhhhhhhhhh". And if you can, Open Up the Back of your Throat
as wide as possible, that's comfortable, and try to hear that nice, bright Ping...
AHH, it's not uuuu, owww, uhhhh... right? It's AHHH! Lah, ah, ah, AHHH, ah, ah, ahhhhh... we're
going to move up the scale... Lah, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahhh... and we'll move it up
a little higher. Try to match the tone... Lah, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahhhh... Remember
to take your breath. The breath is very important. It's the engine that drives your car for singing,
so take your breath, Lah, ah, ah, ahhh, ah, ah, ahhh... Now this brightness and this tone
is actually the only true sound that really grows the voice. So it keeps us from strictures
in the back of the throat, so it's not uh, uh, uh, uh, uh... (froggy voice sound) ... and
getting, choking on our vowel sounds, getting caught on the cord in the vowel, so let's
continue... Lah, ah, ah, ahhh, ah, ah, ahhh....
Now what you want to do is try to match this triad or this three-note chord that I'm singing
in order to be able to get into that pitch and really use your stomach to do it, so I
want you to take a breath between each one of these phrases that we're singing. Then
I want you to totally relax, and then I want you to keep that throat open every time you
go to sing one of these scales, so it actually can start to develop this good, open throat
technique, for on your journey to begin, for learning how to sing.
So, Ladies, the same is true for you. Now girls, you usually blow a lot more air
than guys, so your challenge is to, instead of going... and I'll start where a mean average
of an alto or contralto range, and I'm not going to move up real high into the soprano
range, but I'm going to start with you here... Lah, ah, ah, ahhh, ah, ah, ahhh.
Now, an important thing, too, is to not be real staccatto: LAH. AH. AH. AH. AH. AH. AH.
Be kind of portamento, and just kind of have it in a slope, so it's more like a sine wave
rather than a square wave as we're going up.
Let's continue: Lah, ah, ah, ahhh, ah, ah, ahhh...
Now we want to be really careful to seamlessly
connect these notes so we can build a nice, bright timbre, and start to really remove
any stricture or anything that sounds like we could be choking on our vowel sounds. So,
this is an excellent place to start for how to learn how to sing, and I have an amazing
course, it's called how to sing, and how to learn how to sing better than anyone else.
I cover all this in my course, and if you're interested, check it out, it will really help
you understand all of these different mechanics. I walk you through them, step-by-step. I demonstrate
them, and I have my students demonstrate them themselves so you can see all different levels
of singing. I also have an over 5,000 member singers forum that will help you with eight
different moderators, including myself, that help field and answer your questions. So,
I hope this helps. Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy. Peace Out.