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How to Sing Better For Guys.
Welcome to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where we're going to be discussing How to Sing Better
for Guys.
Hi, Guys. Ken Tamplin, from Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, and I’m going to teach you a little
bit about the voice, and voice lessons today.
This is Part Two in a Three-Part Series on How to Sing Better for Guys.
Lah, ah, ah, AH, ah, ah, ahhh... OK, now, for most guys, for the mean average, like
me, I'm a high baritone, but I can sing well into the soprano range. There are some different
registrations, and I want to talk briefly about them... and I cover this extensively
in my course. And that's that there's something called the Speaking Register. And that's the
register that I'm talking to you at right now. I'm speaking to you in a specific registration
of the voice. Now, as we move up into higher notes, the cords actually vibrate quicker,
so they become a little bit more tense, and they become a little bit... there's a lot
more strength in the sound. More strength is required in the sound, so what we really
need to do is have a greater relaxation response, so that we don't create tension in the neck
or the throat as we ascend a passage or a scale.
So because of
this fast vibration, we also need to control the actual tone or the vowel sounds themselves,
and these are called vowel modifications. I'm just going to go through one of them.
There are many for each vowel, but we're going to focus mainly on the "AH" vowel today, so
we're going to go here: "Lah, ah, ah, Ahw, ah, ah, ah..."
Did you notice how I kind of migrated a little towards "Aw" like "loft" at the top? Listen
closely: Lah, ah, ah, aw, ah, ah, ah..." What I'm doing is I'm "paring-down" the sound,
or "closing down" the sound so the sound doesn't get so big that it splats and gets away from
us, or becomes too Top Heavy to control the sound. This is one of the key mysteries and
key elements of learning how to sing better for guys. So guys, what we want to do is you
want to close down that sound with good vowel modifications, strong support, and a relaxation
response that allows for this. Now, we talked about the Speaking Register, and around the
E, we start to move into the F, which is called the Call Register, or the Belting Register.
So if you notice, as I start to resonate louder and the cords vibrate quicker, I start to
create more resonance that creates more sound, like this: "Lah, ah, ah, ahw, ah, ah, ah...."
...moving to the F#4... "Lah, ah, ah, ahw, ah, ah, ah..." and little-by-little, I'm closing
down the sound safely a little bit more at a time, so that again, I'm not over-singing
and the sound is getting away from me. Now, as you grow the voice, you can actually
lean into that sound and get more "Yeah!!!!" and you can belt into that sound and get kind
of a dirty or distorted, you know, raspy sort of tone, but you want to start with a clean sound first
and build up into this. Now, if you're an R'n'B guy and you don't necessarily want to
sing that heavy, we can actually create a mixed voice, or the idea that you're mixing
this Call or Belting Register with what's kind of like a Reinforced Falsetto that's
joined or fused together, and I'll demonstrate that like this...
This concludes Part Two on our Series of How to Sing Better for Guys. Get ready for Part Three.
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