Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. We get a lot of requests and a lot of
questions about singing and I just want to go through a bunch of requests that
we have. Now before we get started here and I'm gonna repeat myself a few times,
when I answer these questions. I remember vividly going through trying to figure
out when a vocal coach says just do this or another vocal coach says do that and
they don't really demonstrate it themselves and they don't really prove
it out themselves so you're kind of left going well gosh you know you told me how
to do it or you read it in a textbook or you read it online somewhere but
you're not physically demonstrating this for me. Can you please demonstrate what
it is that you're talking about and man I just spent I know a couple decades of
going to some of the world's greatest vocal coaches and most of them could not
demonstrate what they teach. So that drove me nuts and in fact it's what
drove me to doing my singing course called How to Sing Better Than Anyone
Else is that I could be very explicit and very simple and not get bogged down
with big technical terms and big fancy ways of trying to make me look good and
pretend that I have all this great knowledge of the voice or pretend or
really have great knowledge of the voice whatever that means but and then not
really be able to explain it to you clearly succinctly and simply okay. So as
I go through some of these questions I'm gonna you know try to do my best to do
just that so you really apprehend this. Now please also understand that when you
ask a question it is multifaceted, there is a lot to this so it's not just one
answer here, one answer there and not one-size-fits-all. Or there could be
multiple answers or there could also be a combination of you know you start at
this point and then you do this and then you do this and you do this. So to give
you a quick five-minute tutorial or a 5 minute answer is really I want to use
the word irresponsible. No one is going to be able to just get it from one quick
tip or a quick answer but at least it'll clarify a lot of things for you to
really help have you see the vision of how you can see yourself doing whatever
question is that your answering and I'll do my best to answer those questions
okay. So with that said I'm gonna put this at the head of a lot of these
little or a lot of, not little but big questions that I have coming in, to
really again clarify and just make simple for you to understand how to do
some of the things you guys want to know okay. So with that said let's get started.
and the next question is how can I sing on pitch ooof well that's a good question
because the way that you get to pitch and the reason that people have bad
pitch, vary from person to person. It's not a one size fits all. How I like to
look at pitch myself personally is I like to see it or think of it like a
color or something I know that I I can go to and go oh that's that that note
okay. Now some people will get out a tuner and they'll just sing into to a tuner (sings)
and when the tuner goes green they know they're an A or G or whatever that note
is they're looking for but the way I have liked to learn how to teach people
how to be on pitch is to have a pitch reference. So something you can audibly
hear arly here and something that and by the way I don't mean to be ambiguous and
esoteric about how how I look at color when I see pitch because you have to in
chords where you're singing a note that's very difficult to find in a chord
like a tetra chord or a poly chord which is a chord on top of a chord and you're
singing like a jazz thing or something. Some notes are a lot harder to find than
others but in a really basic sense I like to think okay here's an A. So you're going..
right. So it's kind of like a Cessna Aircraft you got two engines and one's
going (sings) and as soon as they start to resonate and they're clean and the
resonance is consistent, you know that you hit the note okay so (sings)
right you have to kind of you know fish around a little bit and search for that
note.
Bingo I hit the note right. So I have a pitch reference and start out by by
having identified you know whether it's on guitar or whether it's on piano or you
know whatever you have as a pitch reference, use that and fish around for
that note and try (sings) and when you finally get to that point where you're
able to get to it quicker, you're not having to go all over the road to find
it. Some people say Ken I'm morbidly deaf I
just couldn't even do that like what you just did. I don't even know how to do
that. Well that isn't isn't true. Have you
really tried is the question and have you actually recorded yourself and listened
back to it so that you're familiarizing yourself with your own sound and what
your voice relationship is to pitch right. So now let's do it over over a
chord here so .
Now there's different notes in the chord (sings)
and you may accidentally land on another note in the chord and that might
resonate like those little engines on the aircraft because it's actually in
the chord but you really got to start with what's called your anchor note or
your root note.
Right so trying to kind of hone and zero in on that note (sings) and get a little quicker at
it okay. Now as you start to advance a little farther and then I like I said I
cover this in my singing course and I go through a whole tutorial on how to
find this. Is you want to take notes we just did a thing on how to write a song,
how to write a good song and I want to take you to this chord progression because
it's fun to just take..his chord progression only has one moving note
which is you know right and we want to find that note. Let's say we want to get
that note that's in the song and it's let's just say the song goes (sings) you're try to
find that note right so.
You visualize it going half a step so you think it'd be like you're going
down a ladder or going down a stair step. So you know that the first note is (sings)
think of yourself only walking down to the next note. You're not going down to two
stairs or three stairs or four stairs. You're not going up a stair,
you're just going down a stair so (sings). So all I did was I walk down three stairs.
Yay I got it right okay. So again this is an oversimplification
there's a lot of ways to approach this but it's one really strong and powerful way
that you can do this on your own is to try to find.. first find the note
resonate with the notes so that you're in pitch and then when you're singing a
song or you're gonna play chords that have moving parts in them like that. Try
to pick off the note in the chord so that you can sharpen your skills and get
to that pitch quicker okay. Hopefully this was helpful if you like what you
heard please like and subscribe to my channel and until next time peace out.
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