How To Sing Better For Guys. Welcome to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where we're gonna be
discussing How To Sing Better For Guys!
Hi, guys! Ken Tamplin, from Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, and I'm gonna teach you a
little bit about the voice, and voice lessons today.
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
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!
Then there's the other side of R and B, or Pop guys that are just looking to have some
Soul, and and some good licks, and some good tone, and good resonance, and stamina,
and so forth, and range, which we all we all want.
But I want to cover both aspects, fairly briefly. I'm gonna discuss Rock singing
first, and then I'm gonna break into more Pop and R&B
So the very first thing is, is that we want to have awesome posture. We 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 singing, so I recommend you stand if you
can. But anyway, so you're gonna want to stand in you're going 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 gonna
cover that here. I have some tutorials on my website regarding diaphragmatic
support, and 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 gonna
start first with this Bright Ping in an AH Vowel. I coined a phrase. It's called
It's the LAH!!! AH!!! 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 just gonna go through the basic elements of
this first, and then if you're interested, check out my course or check out my my
channel and I cover a good amount of this stuff. So we're gonna start with the
mean average of singers, and that would be a baritone, and so we're gonna start
down in, like a mid Bari, or upper mid Bari range, and we're just gonna go
through a simple triad scale like this
Now try to keep the jaw as stable as possible. Try not to move the mandible, or
the jaw. Keep it in a marble, or static, or stable position. We're gonna continue up
a triad scale, like this.
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...
Take your breath, relax the shoulders, relax the arms, relax the neck. Let's
continue. Nice, bright, open AH! I don't mean "Luh... " I mean "AH!!!"
Do yourself a favor. Even get out a handheld 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, constriction, excuse me, in the back of the throat, so that the
throat can be as free as possible to create this nice, bright timbre that
timber of sound.
Okay, now, for most guys, for the mean average would, 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, you know, what's the word? um, there's a lot
more strength in the sound or more strength is required in this 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.
So because of this fast vibration, we also need to control the actual tone or
the vowel sounds themselves. And these are called vowel modifications. I'm just
going to go through one of them. There are many for each vowel, but we're gonna
focus mainly on the AH Vowel today. So we're gonna go here...
Did you notice how I kind of migrated a little towards AH, like loft, at the top?
Listen closely...
What I'm doing is I'm paring down the sound, or closing down the sound, so the
sound doesn't get so big that it splats and gets away from us, or becomes too
top-heavy to control the sound. This is one of the key mysteries and key
elements of learning How To Sing Better For Guys. So guys, what we want to do is
you want to close down that sound with good vowel modifications, strong support,
and a relaxation response that allows for this. Now. I talked about the speaking
register, and around the E we start to move in to the F, which is called the
Call Register or the Belting Register. So if you notice, as I start to resonate
louder, and the cords vibrate quicker, I start to create more resonance that
creates more sound, like this:
Moving to the F-sharp 4...
Little by little, I'm closing down the sounds safely, a little bit more at a
time, so that, again, I'm not oversinging, and the sound is getting away from you.
Now as you grow the voice, you can actually lean into that sound, and get my
YEAH!!!! and you can belt into that sound and get kind of a dirty or distorted, you
know raspy sort of tone. But you want to start with a clean sound first and build
up into this. Now if you're an R&B guy and you don't necessarily want to sing
that heavy, we can actually create a mixed voice or this, or the idea that
you're mixing this call or belting register with what's kind of like a
reinforced falsetto, that's joined, or fused together, and I like demonstrate
that like this...
It's a much softer intonation, a much softer sound, so I'm connecting
through what's called Segundo passaggio, or the second passageway, or that
register break between our chest voice and our head voice. So let's continue...
It's seamless between my chest voice and my head voice. Now in my course, I
discuss how we connect that sound, so we have a seamless connection. Now also,
for you belters out there, you can take that sound, and once you grow the
passaggio, you can lean into that sound, or allow more volume into that sound, as
you build up strength in the muscles, so that you can, in fact, belt into that
sound as well
So you can continue to go up and down the scales, and up and down the scales, to
build one, long, powerful note. So whether you want to be a belter, or you want to
be an R&B guy, or you want to do the you know have a Pop sort of sound, or
whatever that is, you can start to incorporate these things to where you
can build a one long note.
With a seamless connection, to where you can have full command of your entire voice,
and not just your belting register, or call register, but can include also your
head voice register, and fuse them together. So that's a basic tutorial on
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