Hey kids welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I am doing a whole series on you ask and
I answer and you guys are sending me in all kinds of stuff through email, you're
posting it on my youtube videos, you're sending me messages on Facebook and I'm
doing my best to answer them kind of in the order I receive them and you know if
they come through more than once and unless it's a very obscure question.
This next one I thought was really relevant, it says when I sing alone I
think I do okay but as soon as I sing in front of people I suck why. That's a
pretty easy question to answer in fact most people go through that process
you're just you know you're freaked out right and your body shuts down. Well think
about this and I talked about this in one of my other videos because it had to
do with about how to sing a high note and why do I choke when I sing my high
note. Well the same is true for singing so I'll post that video why do I choke
when I sing a high note. It's because your body shuts down and you get all
freaked out and you get all tensed up and everything starts to tense up and
then you lose that relaxation response but I want to assure you that the more
you do this and the more you get out in front of people, go busking, go to a
karaoke bar or you know sing for your church as much as you can or join a band
or or you know just get out and start playing for your family and friends or
do it or play for your cat. I don't care or your dog you know do whatever you got
to do to do this with some repetition to where it just becomes so second nature
to you you're not so freaked out. Now the people that seem to have the most
trouble with this are the people that don't do that and so they wait two weeks
or three weeks or a month before they go out and they you know actually play in
front of somebody and then they just their body clamps down and the next
thing you know because they're so tense they can't sing. So it is true you
probably do sing better when you're home alone then when you do sing in front of
people but the more you get the opportunity to sing in front of people
and you know I know I've shared this story before so I don't want to be
redundant but I had someone come to me was in the Armed Forces and very high up
in the Navy SEALs and you know he was requisitioned or summonsed really I
should say to sing the and in front of you know a couple
thousand seals or whatever was and that was the last thing he wanted to do. He
said he'd rather go on a kill mission than to sing the national anthem in
front of his peers and so we actually started singing silly songs and he got
really mad at first and you know we worked it out and I told him why we were
gonna do this but we sang songs that were kind of nonsensical and it didn't
really matter and it could have been a nursery rhyme and it could have been
happy birthday, it could have been you know different things that didn't matter
that much an Eagles song (sings)
just things that are like
campfire songs or whatever and if you could do stuff like that that's kind of just
silly and fun, you can kind of make fun of yourself and not take it so seriously.
Then as you have fun with i,t your body starts to relax more and you're able to
reproduce this with consistency. Now I want to add one more thing because this
is also consistent with people that asked me well you know I can sing the
national anthem at home but I can't do it in front of people and I certainly
can't hit the high note. Well I've already covered the high note and I've
talked about Celine Dion, Celine Dion excuse me you know (sings) when she goes to sing
that note you know a lot of people choke at a karaoke bar but someone didn't tell
them that you know (sings) that heading is the
same note as the last note of (sings) right it's the same note.
Well that's true in the Star-Spangled Banner you know (sings). It's the same note as
you know (sings) right when somebody goes to hit that note because they're freaked out with
the last note and they're tensiously for that note, apprehensively waiting for the
note, they choked on the note before it. So the more you do it with repetition, the
more you have built confidence. Again confidence in understanding that your
diaphragm is the engine that drives your car. You have a relaxation response in
the chest, the neck and the throat and then you also understand that it's about
good vowel placement and the rela.. and building good open throat technique that
gives you the freedom and the confidence to do this with consistency.
Okay hopefully this was helpful and God bless you and until next time peace out,
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