hey Chris Liepe here with Veil of Maya vocalist Lukas Magyar hey what's up and I got three
cheats for you all so that you can increase your own vocal range
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magyar's warm-ups to outrun vocal fatigue all right what are your three cheats to increase
vocal range hum throw transpose hum yes very easy to produce and your vocal folds aren't
going to take an extreme beating while trying to do that okay hmm
[Music] there's something about the posture of humming that feels non-committal and it
feels Freer it's like sort of an afterthought so it's almost like you're relaxing into hitting
these higher notes right humming doesn't encourage pushing or striving it encourages sort of
this ambivalence and I think that's why humming works so well it almost tricks your voice
into hitting higher pitches then you wouldn't be able to do normally yeah with minimal effort
all right take us from hum to throw alright so it gets a little bit more aggressive at
this point because you're going to be really be utilizing your voice okay but we just almost
want to think about little quick bursts to hit these higher areas hey hey hey hey yeah
hey hey hey hey hey and you're doing it unless you're doing an open vowel um and it's it's
so short you're not trying to maintain the high pitches you're just feeling out what
your voice does that high later you can practice sustaining those notes but this is again it's
sort of another way to trick yourself into hitting things that you would otherwise think
really really hard about right right yep yeah and a good thing to do with that as well is
to execute different vowel sounds because you your body's not going to respond the same
to all of them throw different vowels yep hey hey hey hey
let me go a little bit higher hi hey hey hello hello
it's almost like your your rubber your voice is on some sort of rubber band and you're
just you're feeling out that over different resonances yeah and from there you can just
talk and whoa throw your voice way up there just to say if it responds well to you when
you do that so you're contextualizing in your normal speech and and going out there again
it's non-committal and experimental waking up that higher area without the striving to
hit a particular note yep and without that sustain which makes it really easy right then
finally you can start to sustain the notes while you throw them up there and be like
hey Chris how does that sound it sounds great it sounds great great
this allows your body a chance to kind of sit and live in that space as I like to describe
it that you almost arbitrarily entered all right transpose yeah this is a great one and
it's a lot of fun because now you can use things that you know and like and take a course
of a song okay sing it move it up a half step so if I were to take a line from one of the
songs we just demonstrated why don't I feel right at home why do I feel like a ghost okay
all right that's pretty easy for me so I'm gonna move that up a half step whoa why don't
I feel right at home why do I feel like a ghost okay and just up and up you go so you
start finding a problem okay go for that why don't I feel right at home [Music] so not
really noticing a problem no keep going
why not working the way I would like it to up there so I'm gonna slow it down okay and
work on that pitch where I'm struggling oh that one yep okay why do I
fell so I'm kind of moving it you're working out where I need to take it you're working
with the placement to find the most comfortable balance up there and then you start speeding
it back up then you just do it all again so but you wouldn't have discovered this idea
had you not gradually transpose the line and it should be noted that he's he's singing
this note here this line higher than normal so this is an exercise to expand and explore
your range not trying to strive to get something right he's already gotten it right so you're
you're kind of taking this another step with something that you're really familiar with
right I think mentally that's really important you've already done it it's already there
you're already familiar with it now you're giving yourself extra challenges and then
introspecting to try to find the right placement the right Comfort level to hit those pitches
in a familiar context great cheats yeah it's a lot of fun too all right the three cheats
again hum throw transpose and of course if you'd like to know more about my Approach
click the link below and sign up for our free vocal course Lukas magyar's warm-ups to outrun
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