How to sing like a Pro.
Hey guys, my name is Ken Tamplin, and welcome to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the proof
is in the singing.
Now, in order for me to be able to teach you how to sing like a Pro, I’d better have
achieved professional status myself, and I also better show you that I have students
that have gone from amateur status to professional status.
Now let’s be clear on something.
Most professionals themselves don’t sing well from a technical standpoint.
So just to sing like a Pro doesn’t mean your singing properly or great, but I have
to point out that no matter where you get your information, think about this: the person
giving that information, have they achieved a high level of professional status?
And do they demonstrate students that have professional status?
We have over 300 videos on my channel, with the plethora, which means a lot, of students
on my channel, many of which have achieved awesome professional status.
Now just quickly go to Sara Loera, check out Gabriela Guncikova, 10 second songs’ Anthony
Vincent, Mark Hudson from Dragon Force, I could go on and on and on with a lot of the
students that have applied my course and achieved professional status.
Now what does it mean to become professional and how do we do it?
Well it has to do with strength training and the way we think about the voice and the way
we strength train in order to build enough professional–ism in what it is that we’re
doing to be able to sing strong with confidence night after night with consistency.
So I have a singing course called How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else, you can check it
out on Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy dot com, and I walk you through, step-by-step what
it’s going to take to help you become a professional singer.
Now, to be a professional singer, there’s lots involved in this and it’s not just
only the physical or musical side, there’s a psychological side to this, but I want to
show you a few things that you can do that will be really, really awesome.
Okay?
We’re just going to run through a couple of warm-up exercises that will help you understand
how to clean up the voice.
Now, check out my video on diaphragmatic support, check out my video on open throat technique,
it’s the precursor of what you’re going to need to do, what we are about to do here
at this level.
We’re going to sing an AA vowel, and the AA vowel scale is going to go like this.
Lay…
Ahhh…
So AA and Ah, and we’re going to actually slowly go through this to start to strength
train the voice, here we go.
Ladies, you’ll do this up the octave…
Lay…
Ah…
Do this with us in octaves…
Lay…
Ah…
Now, going between vowels, AA and Ah help resiliency and the ability to relax the cords
and to, with freedom, be able to go up and down a scale without feeling tension in the
throat, because we want to build strength for the sound.
Lay…
Ah…
Now you shouldn’t feel any tension in the throat.
If you do, it’s because you didn’t refer to my video on diaphragmatic support, the
engine that drives your car is your stomach.
Lay…Ah...
Do it with me…
Lay... Ah...
Now as we do these scales, these scales build strength to help us, not with just confidence
psychologically, to know that oh wow, I can hit those notes, but that we can be consistent
night after night, heeding those notes and those word phrases.
Now there’s something else that’s involved in this, and that has to do what’s called
contiguous open throat phrase singing.
What do I mean by that?
That means that we want to keep the throat open through all of our phrases, so that as
we sing phrases, that we’re not getting caught and regurgitating, where the throat
spasms and closes off, chokes off the cord and inhibits our ability to sing through a
phrase without cracking or messing up, or what ever happens to us when we get nervous
when we sing.
So that’s the psychological part of this where all of a sudden we’ve strength trained
enough and we understand how to be able to sing certain things.
Like running a mile, we can run a mile in a certain time, and we’ve timed ourselves,
and we’ve done it over and over again.
We go: “I’ve got this!”
So no matter what song you sing, you’ve rehearsed it enough with enough confidence
to build the strength and the ability for you to do this.
Now, I also have another video called Stage Fright, or how to overcome the fear of singing
on my website, and that also will contribute to helping you understand how to be an awesome
professional singer, should you decide, really, to take on the task of doing it.
By the way, there’s no quick pill or something that we’re going to take where all of a
sudden we take this pill and we become Superman.
It comes from sweat equity, from putting in the time to really do these things in order
to be able to achieve that level of success.
So guys, we’d appreciate if you like it, subscribe to my channel, and check out Ken
Tamplin Vocal Academy dot com, where the proof is in the singing.
Thank you for joining me.