the fun way to sing in better pitch hey gang ken tamplin from ken tampa vocal academy where the
proof is in the singing i want to talk to you guys about a fun way to sing in pitch and uh it should
be fun i mean singing shouldn't just be all about arduous scales and all this technique and all
stuff i'm not even gonna talk about technique i'm not even gonna talk to you about a singing course
that i have i'm just gonna talk to you about how to sing a better pitch and a fun way to do it
now i want you first to say to yourself okay i have a little command of my singing so i'm
not great but i'm just pitchy what do i do well you need to know and be able to hear
that you're pitchy for one thing so i do have a bunch of videos on pitch on youtube i have them in
my singing course as well but you're gonna find the free ones in the description just get your
feet wet so watch my videos on pitch but before you watch those i want you to listen what i have
to say now there is a a really good karaoke uh company that's online called karaokeversion.com
and they've really upped their game on their tracks and what you can do i think it's like
299 2.99 you can go in and buy one of their tracks but it's not just an instrumental
track that you sync to you can actually mute different instruments so it'll you can do the uh
the uh stems version you know the isolated tracks version for 299 i think they're normal
just the instrumental versus like 99 cents or something but this other one is you for 2.99
it'll give you all of the instruments and you can decide which instruments you want you can pan
them you can do all kinds of stuff you can even download them individually into a recording system
and manipulate and mix them any way you want so but what i want to do is i want to start with the
version that they have with their original singer that you're going to sing into okay so you're
going to get your phone out and you're going to record yourself or whatever recording apparatus
or device you have and you're going to record yourself doing this and you're going to fire up
their track with their original display singer the guy that's going to do a demonstration and you're
going to i'm going to so i picked wild horses by rolling stones because i wanted to make something
really accessible and really attainable so we're gonna start with just the chorus of wild horses so
check this out i'm gonna play it and we're gonna i'm gonna play it once here we go
okay and you know sometimes the demonstrating demonstration singer is better than others
now i want to back this up to the beginning of the course it's like about 1 18 i think if i'm
not mistaken yes i need glasses these days but anyway i'm going to back this up and i'm
going to sing to it all right i'm going to sing it with you and i want you to join in
and sing the course get your phone out so that your voice is louder than the track
so you can really hear monitor your progress but let's just do this together here we go
couldn't drag me away
i'll get closer
wild wild horses
couldn't drag me away okay now so we've got this version well horses couldn't
drag me away right the point is to stay pitched so if i would have gone wouldn't drag me away
and if i'm under i'll really notice it because i'll listen to my phone i'll listen back to this
i can really tell whether i'm in in track with him now another way to do this which i didn't do
in this version is i could mute the entire band completely and assuming that his demonstration
track is up to snuff enough i could sing only to the lead vocal okay i didn't extract that
and do an isolated version but you can on your own because i didn't want to take too much time
on this video to do that but so i say that because the cool thing is is that you can now sing into
this so you have a ghost or or you know a comp track to sing into or you know you know something
a guide track a guide vocal all right now the next thing you do is after you've done that a few times
okay you've done that a few times let me call this up here hold on here we go let me get it get it to
the chorus at 118. now what i've done on this one is i've gone ahead and i've removed the lead vocal
track but i've left the backgrounds in because it's a little wallpaper just a little bit to
kind of keep me from slip sliding around so let's listen to it first with just the background vocals
alright now i'm going to back this up again and i'm going to sing into
this and i've got my phone out right or i've got some recording device out some recording
equipment so i'm going to sing to it so here we go
well the horses is harmony and my batman well horses is what i should have done here we go
wild horses
couldn't drag me away
wild wild horses
couldn't drag me away all right so now i've got that version right now
i've got a version where i'm taking all of the backgrounds completely out
so i've taken all the backgrounds completely out i'm singing again and each time what i'm
doing is i'm eliminating the crutch okay so i'm eliminating being able to hang on to one
thing that's going to force me to stay in pitch and i'm trying to fly solo on my own
so i'm going to do it again here we go wild horses got my phone out couldn't drag me away
wild wild horses
couldn't drag me away
and why this is fun is because i picked something so attainable i believe um and so accessible
that i start here and i just do this a lot right and i listen back and i monitor if i'm flat i'm
sharp find out where in the throat like is it the same word i'm flat on over and over again like
don't be oblivious don't you know put your head in the center oh i don't know i'm just what or
i'm just sharp ask yourself am i always sharp on the same note so i get a little feedback here am i
always sharp on the same note or is the same part of the song is it only when i go to the high note
is it because the music gets louder and i can't hear myself like monitor yourself and just take
an inventory you know hold yourself accountable and um you know ask yourself those questions and
you're going to find that the more you do this the more you listen back with repetition and
really listen and correct your mistakes even if it's just taking the first few words at a time
you're gonna see that over time you're gonna be able to pull this off so the first thing we do
we go to karaoke version we get whatever song we think would be really easy take it easy by you
know the eagles whatever it is really easy right and we first we do the vocal version
okay with the voice with the vocals and we practice that a few times
then another cool thing like i said would be to mute all of the instruments and just do it
only with the vocal and see how close you can get if it's a good vocal demonstration you can do that
and then eliminate the vocal leave the backgrounds in if there are any practice sat for a little
while then eliminate the background vocals so it's just you and the track like you normally would do
an instrumental track and then even like in this case there's a piano and an organ an acoustic
and sub bass eliminate all the instruments except maybe the acoustic one instrument so it's really
intimate you kind of have to struggle a little bit to make sure you're hearing that guitar by
itself so it's just you and the guitar where it's really intimate and this my friends will really be
a fun way and you can pick a bunch of different songs and try this over and over again and the
more songs you add to your repertoire the better you'll get at it okay all right gang thank you for
joining me ken campbell vocal academy where the proof is in the singing until next time peace out
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