Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing.
We get a lot of requests and a lot of questions about singing and I just wanna go through
a bunch of requests that we have. Now before we get started here and I'm gonna repeat myself
a few times when I answer these questions. I remember vividly going through trying to
figure out when a vocal coach says just do this or another vocal coach says do that and
they don't really demonstrate it themselves and they don't really prove it out themselves
so you're kind of left going well gosh you know you told me how to do it or you read
it in a textbook or you read it online somewhere but you're not physically demonstrating this
for me. Can you please demonstrate what it is that you're talking about and man I just
spent I don't know a couple decades of going to some of the world's greatest vocal coaches
and most of them could not demonstrate what they teach. So that drove me nuts and in fact
it's what drove me to doing my singing course called How to Sing Better Than Anyone Else
is that I could be very explicit and very simple and not get bogged down with big technical
terms and big fancy ways of trying to make me look good and pretend that I have all this
great knowledge of the voice or pretend or really have great knowledge of the voice whatever
that means but and then not really be able to explain it to you clearly, succinctly and
simply okay. So as I go through some of these questions I'm gonna try to do my best to do
just that so you really apprehend this. Now please also understand that when you ask a
question it is multi-faceted. There is a lot to this so it's not just one answer, one answer
there and now one size fits all or there could be multiple answers or there could also be
a combination of you know you start at this point and then you do this and then you do
this and you do this. So to give you a quick 5 minute tutorial or a 5 minute answer is
really I want to use the word irresponsible. No one is just going to be able to just get
it from one quick tip or quick answer but at least it will clarify a lot of things for
you to really help have you see the vision of how you can see yourself doing whatever
question it is that you're answering and I'll do my best to answer those questions okay.
So with that said I'm gonna put this at the head of a lot of these little or lot of not
little but big questions that i have coming in to really again clarify and just make simple
for you to understand how to do some of the things you guys wanna know okay. So with that
said let's get started. This next question is a good one it says how do I hold long notes
when I sing. I run out of air quickly. Well a lot of people run out of air and a lot of
people think well this guy just has great lung capacity and that may be true right but
there is a technique. It's called glottal compression. The caveat and the challenge
with this technique is when I'm sharing these tips with you guys please understand this
is just a small snapshot of what it really takes to do something. It's not the total
picture I'm just answering the question. I do have a singing course It's called How to
Sing Better Than Anyone Else and I walk you through step by step how to achieve the goals
of the questions that you're asking but in answer to the question topically we actually
want to get to the point while we literally hold our breath when we sing so that we don't
use up that air. Now I have a video it's how to sing, how to hold notes long or something
I forget what it is and I'll put it in the description. In fact I think it's Judas Priest
like "Painkiller" or something and I have other videos but I'll put it in the description
you can check it out cause I talk about it there and I demonstrate that but what it is
is the concept like try it where you literally, you hold your breath kinda like you know I
hate to use this example cause I haven't smoked pot since I was 14 years old but it's a good
example. You took the hit off the joint and you're holding your breath and you're talking
so for you parents that are gonna get mad at me for saying that, it is what it is but
you know you're holding your breath and you're talking to your friends. whatever you're holding
that in. Or another analogy could be when you're wanting to talk underwater. When you're
underwater and you wanna try to talk even though it's inaudible, you go how's it going man.
Pretty good what's going on. I'm doing alright but I can't really use my chair while I talk
because if I do I'm gonna run outta breath and I gotta go back up top to get more air
okay but notice too how I kinda pinched and squeezed just now when I was speaking to you
while I was holding my breath. This is why I said this is just a snapshot of how you
do this because you first have to build up strength in the abdomen to get good you know
diaphragmatic support, you have to build up relaxation response between the chest, the
neck and the throat to be totally relaxed in the upper torso. You have to understand
how to build good muscle memory for open throat technique and then once you learn how to keep
the throat open then you can compress air at the glottis at your vocal folds and then
(sings) right you can hold your breath and you can hold these really long notes and it
doesn't require a humungous amount of lung capacity though that's helpful but it's a
understanding how to compress that air correctly but please don't go straight to that. Understand
how to get good open throat technique first or your just gonna pinch and squeeze in the
vocal folds themselves, you're gonna build up muscle mass in the throat and you're gonna
stricture the sound and it's not gonna be a beautiful sound and it's gonna defeat the
purpose of why it is. Now a lot of people use this technique too when they're going
up to get a note (sings). You know they pinch and squeeze and they're just straining everything
to get to that note. It's kind of a similar concept in a weird sort of way done incorrectly
because they haven't built the open throat technique and they haven't built the relaxation
response and they haven't built the strength to sustain singing with glottal compression
okay. Hopefully this was helpful. God bless you guys and until next time, peace out.
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