hey chris liepe here with how to make your voice sound better now what does better mean to you
when i say how to make your voice sound better well a lot of people will start creating a laundry
list in their minds of what they don't like about their voice well my pitch is bad or i don't like
my tone or i i can't seem to be interesting when i sing and the problem with pursuing better pitch or
pursuing better range or even pursuing not being boring the problem with this sort of laundry list
i don't like this i want this to be better and then my voice will sound better approach
is that we are operating from a place of discontentment and reservedness
and lack as opposed to freedom and abandon so in this video i'm going to show you with three very
unlikely inspirations how to get better at pitch how to get better at timing how to increase your
range how to make your voice more interesting and engaging all at the same time by cutting loose
hypocritic and hypnotic computers you depend on our protection yet you feed us live from
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one and if you're going to get the most out of these exercises you're literally going to try to
imitate these examples and figure out how it works in your own voice don't try to sound like them
right off just just be them get into character jim carrey dumb and dumber got no food we got no jobs
our pets heads are falling off we got no food we got no jobs our pets heads are falling off
when was the last time and be completely honest with yourself that you got that animated when
you were talking or when you were singing we must get to the point with our voice where
we're comfortable making faces we're comfortable making voices doing bad impressions and jim carrey
is a wonderful person to imitate and i i discuss his his approach at length in some of my courses
our pet's heads are falling off now i don't sound like jim carrey but i'm i have the
energy i've taken the energy of his character and i've put it in my own voice and there's all
sorts of things happening i have to listen to my body as i'm doing this and make sure that
i'm not hurting myself but even if you're hurting yourself a little bit for a very short amount of
time that's okay because you're learning about how your voice works when you get hyped up like this
try it get out of your shell abandon into a character the best singers are musical actors
example number two also from jim carrey
notice the pseudo singing which is more about just
being sort of freaked out and crazy than it is singing la
you are getting out of your normal conversational tone
and being extreme with your voice and just doing whatever comes
holy hell our pets heads are falling off we got no food this is the key believe me this is the key
to unlocking a better voice become a completely alternate version of yourself now you might say
well i like vocals that are more controlled and better sounding you know they don't sound
like all crazy you're right but they're still full of character and these people
that are great entertainers that are great vocalists watch them on stage they're animated
and they're way more animated when they're performing than they are when they're doing an
interview they sound very very different they look very very different it's quite easy to
discover these fringes and extremes in your voice and then zero it back to a more controlled and
appropriate voice than it is to never go here and try to add more interest when we're a slave
to being good at pitch or a slave to learning a certain line the way we think we ought to learn it
this is the better way alright here's the last example i'm drawing from someone whom i believe
is one of the best character singers out there serge tankian over
byob for brand new spanking deals marching forward hypocritical hypnotic computers you depend on our
protection yet you feed us lies you depend on our protection i mean this is engaging all sorts of
things about my voice that i could never plan if i was being like okay that note i want to be really
gritty this note i want to be clean and sort of mixed i'm just becoming this like hair brained
you depend on our protection and now yes you can work on these type of techniques and and feel them
out in your voice and i have a lot of videos on that but you're never going to be able to access
them on the fly and access this muscle memory that you've practiced with these techniques if you
can't abandon into a character who feed us lies from the tablecloth why do they always send them
and you also notice and you know serge does the same thing i'm just using my example
because it's showing how how i have done this based on serge's uh singing and his inspiration
yet you feed us lies notice there's all sorts of pitch problems but it doesn't matter
that was not a perfect line
but it was in character
everybody's going to the party have a real good time notice even in here
you know my boy i got a little tired here
everybody's going to the party have a real good time dancing in the desert blowing up
the sunshine there's one thing that you can't fix you can fix pitch you can fix timing you can fix
wrong words and you can punch things in and do it but you can't fix feel you just can't
and and right here gum coming off of this strenuous thing on it computers you depend on our
protection yet you feed us my voice is a little tired but i stayed in character here everybody's
gonna or i i changed character everybody you know what i doubled it and he doubles it and a lot of
people double things and then it ends up sounding everybody's going to the party have a real
good time really great because the feel was there even though the pitches weren't there even though
the timing was kind of off even though i kind of ran out of breath a little bit the character made
my voice and the overall performance better so i urge you and encourage you if you're one of those
singers whose primary goal is to become better at pitch or expand your range or get better period
look at this perspective internalize this perspective trust me your pitch will get better
everything will get better about your voice if you become an alternate version of yourself
inspired by your emotions and inspired by other people's takes on their emotions actors
cartoon characters and other really extreme singers are great ways to do this
then as you're discovering how your voice works when you when you put these imitations in your
in your own voice you're gonna run into some pain you're gonna run into
some discomfort you're gonna run into some weird things that's where studying specifics
technique doing you know vocal exercises that are are supposed to work in certain types of
muscle memory into your voice that's where those things are really beneficial but you can't just
go there first you have to go where i'm talking about in this video first again if you'd like
more help with your voice in all of these things more uh strategic exercises to help you develop
muscle memory for different types of singing yes and if you'd like more help developing a mindset
of a great singer click that link below and try out my group coaching we'll see you for more