Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy. I started to go ahead and do
a takedown of Sam Smith’s “Lay Me Down”. Now, Sam has a lot of soul, and some very
unique characteristics to his voice. So, I want to do it first, I’ll talk about it after.
But it goes like this. Here we go.
Okay. Wow, what a very beautiful, soulful piece. You know, there’s a lot to this,
because Sam has just gone through some surgery for a hemorrhage in his vocal folds, his vocal
cords. And, why I want to bring this up, by the way if you like the video, please hit
the like button, and if you want to subscribe to my channel that would be super awesome.
But I want to talk about this, because as I’ve emphasized over and over, and I can’t
stress this enough, that it is imperative that we grow and strengthen the chest register
first. Then we grow and strengthen our head voice, a reinforced falsetto into a head voice
with a nice bright timbre. Then we learn to mix this sound together, and fuse the sound
together into one long, powerful note. What happens in a lot of cases of R and B singers
is they rely a lot on the head voice, and it atrophies the chest voice. So when they
go to belt, and he pharyngeally spreads his sound: “HAAAAA” you know, really wide
in a lot of places, and it gets too top-heavy, and it becomes very difficult to sustain that
kind of sound. So, what happens is we end up forcing this sound with too much air that
passes across the cord and we lose good cord closure. When that happens then all of a sudden
the cords get thick, and we have a repeating process or a vicious cycle, so to speak, and
we start forcing more air, which causes vocal damage, and we see that with Sam Smith. I
pray for good recovery from him because he’s such a talented guy. So I cover all this in
my singing course Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy “How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else”.
I’m going to do a three-part series, a takedown on Sam, so I can walk you through the stages
of how to correctly grow this, so you can have good, long vocal longevity, and good
vocal health. OK. Thank you for joining me, Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy,
and more onyour way.