hey chris liepe here what does it take to get good at singing
well in this video i'm going to give you the only exercise you will ever need to be a great singer
and if you work at it it'll help you in only 21 days no i'm totally kidding
there is no magic pill for getting good at singing there is no magic program there is no
exercise there's no routine what does it take to get good at singing
i'm gonna share with you three things that i believe help every singer get better
and help everybody who wants to start singing learn how to start on the right foot
things are better
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foundations down i'll help you feel out your voice i'll help you look at your voice and listen to
your voice in certain ways that's going to help you move faster than if you didn't have someone
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really fit under the umbrella of ownership you see learning a new craft or getting really good
at something you have to pass from initially taking in information or having a coach
or getting instruction to really owning on a deeper level whatever it takes to really master
and define that skill in you that's why i said it doesn't really work to just get a program or
follow some directions and then oh you're going to be a great singer if you do exactly what is said
that just won't work there the programs can be great but there comes a point where you
have to take ownership and you have to make it your own and you have to start going well
the thing that he suggested here worked but this doesn't work so well i can really lean into this
but i can't lean into that and and then start taking inspiration from everywhere
so we have to take ownership this is the umbrella that we should i don't know if this analogy is
going to work this is the umbrella that we should use when we're wanting to get better at singing i
don't it doesn't work but that's the overarching theme ownership and here's the first thing that
you need to do whatever your skill level if you want to start getting better at singing listening
and i'm not talking about passive listening i'm talking about observational listening
what did that singer just do and ooh that little part that that uh snuck in there
on that vocal arrangement or man it sounds like he's pushing his voice in a strange way there and
and oh he backs off in that area or huh it sounds like he's
resonating different there's this different sound out of just this word
start picking all sorts of things out using your favorite singers as examples but then
start listening to your own voice start listening to your own voice as it comes out of your face
and start listening to your own voice as it's recorded back or as it's playing back from a
recording yes you can do this with singing but you can even do this with your speaking voice
start listening intensely and intently to your voice and to other voices start listening to
music in the context of what you can pull from it inspirationally and a lot of us who
love music and love singing do this to some level all the time you know oh yeah you know this song
was inspired by so-and-so's song but there's an extra level of detail that we can really
zone in on when we are listening if you can listen this way you are going to develop patterns as you
practice singing as you practice doing the courses and the exercises and learning songs you're going
to develop passageways and habits that infiltrate you almost unconsciously and make you way better
the next area you need to practice getting better at and maybe even just starting to do if you want
to get better at singing is introspection looking inside yourself learning to feel sensations
in your body in your voice learning to adjust where you direct those sensations as you're
singing and as you're speaking let me give you an example if you were to just sing this note
and do it so sort of nonchalantly the the first area you might think about feeling is your
throat because after all that's where the sound's being made but we have the power to pay attention
in a sense listen to our body so it really builds off of learning to listen to other things we have
the power to pay attention to different areas of our body our vocal tract our face really all over
the place that are resonating or that maybe are being involved in our tents in areas that they
don't need to be so if we're introspective and we are see you know sing that note again
i can direct my energy and my attention to different areas of my body as i feel out that note
even this simple drill of singing a note and picturing where it's coming from and trying to
move it around is huge for you to improve in your sound in your comfort level with singing these are
basic level ideas but they infiltrate every area of singing and performing and music and the third
thing and it's more of a quality than anything that you're going to need to get better at singing
is fearlessness i've talked about this to some degree on the channel before
you can't be afraid to be bad you can't be afraid to sound bad you can't be afraid to make mistakes
to get up in front of people and croak a note or or miss something the goal as a singer is not to
be perfect it's to be expressive and relatable the best singers draw you in with emotional connection
the best singers are not perfect they are wildly and engagingly imperfect and they don't get there
by pursuing perfection or being good in any way they get there by being fearless
and experiential channeling inspiration turning it into their own self-expression and you simply
can't do that if you are afraid of what will happen the main thing that i get when i ask
people to start working with some of my methods as a vocal coach is wow this doesn't sound good
i don't sound the way i want to doing these no you're not going to sound good ever or at all
until you can learn to feel out the way that your voice works and the ways that it can work
we have to we must drill down into sensation before sound and we must do that in a fearless way
if we are going to get better at singing i've been on a bit of a my chemical romance kick
lately and one of the things that i notice about any track that gerard way sings on is
his wide range of expressiveness yeah he's got a good range and he's got
some interesting textures that come in and out the vocal production is fantastic
but the way that he's able to really get his words out form vowels in certain ways and be yeah
all over those performances he's not thinking about oh i better form this vowel a certain way
or i better do i better call on this particular technique that my vocal coach said instead he's
he's sort of abandoning and emotionally engaging in whatever he's doing
and at the risk of sounding like a broken record you you just can't you you can learn
techniques that are helpful for feeling out the way that your voice works
but there comes a point to where you have to choose to go okay i've learned all these things
i feel like i understand them and i understand how to place and think and
listen and feel out and then you got to go just like any other thing you got to go okay
i'm ready and you kind of sweep all this stuff over here and then you just go
and you do so in a way that's that's connected to something else that's going on here
and here so what does it take to get good at singing
it's mindset and there's a lot of great information out there but if it doesn't start
with these types of mindsets and this openness and willingness to own these aspects these ways of
thinking you won't get better but if you can start by embracing these things you will again if you'd
like more help from me developing not only these mindsets but in specific ways with your voice
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