Seven Myths About Singing! Hey guys! My name is Ken Tamplin from Ken Tamplin
Vocal Academy, and I'd like to discuss with you Seven Myths About Singing. And
the very first one is "You're either Born with it, or you're Not!" Well actually
that's not true. I wasn't born with it, and I had to earn
every note, and that's a fact. But I want to play a little clip for you by Ed
Sheeran, who also shares the same sentiment. Check this out: and do you
still have some of those old CDs that you couldn't sell? Yeah, I do, my mum eBays them.
That must be quite a nice little industry for her. What does she get for a CD? I don't
know. I think, I think, you know I mean they pretty much all go to charity she
says she supports the children - Oh, we all say that. Yeah well some some of them I
won't sell because they sound - well, those are the ones we interested in - of course... oh, I thought they were really bad. When you say really bad,
though, what was wrong with them and what was different in the music you were doing then as far as... I'm gonna
play you a song okay so this is this is my thing when when people go and people go "Oh! Oh!
you are so talented, you were born with natural talent (and I'm going NOPE!) Have a listen to this.
Right? This is this is the... Have you, has this been played in public before? No.
okay so this is a sort of exclusive, Ed Sheeran when he was shit basically
basically all I'm saying is when when people say artists are Born With Talent, You're Not. You have
to, you have to really learn and really practice. This is me playing guitar and
singing. I'm gonna put into my mic like this
Okay so far...
Oh!
But do you know what?
I did practice! After that you practiced. I did. Yeah no I just, I probably needed it.
It's not one of Justin Bieber's tracks. Bieber's not without his charm. I sat in a Range
Rover once with Bieber with him playing me his songs and him being like Yo, my shit's so dope! And I'm "Alright!" Sweet!
Okay so it's obvious that this is an acquired thing, and I'm
not saying that others aren't born with more talent and, you know some that, just
practically came out of the womb singing, that's fine. But I know for myself I had
to earn every note and it sounds like Ed Sheeran had to earn every note. So truth
be told, a singer is only a singer because they have the guts to be one and
to put in the time and put themself out there and really understand what it
takes to learn to train. That's the first one. The second one is that you can't
increase vocal range. Well, that's actually just not true
my highest note when I was younger was what's called an F-sharp 4. It's a pretty
low note and I learned through a specific sequence of training to sing
well over an octave of that and sing well into the soprano range. Did it come
overnight? Absolutely not, but I did get there because I understood how to get
there and it was very important. Number 3 People that sing light cannot sing heavy
and people that sing heavy can't sing light. Well, if you sing light, there's a
certain way to approach the voice to get a nice, bright Ping in the sound, in order
to be able to grow that sound. Now I'm not saying that you're gonna be have a big
huge voice like a Pavarotti or something, or your favorite, you know, pop or rock
star. But lighter voices can absolutely grow into a dark or darker and bigger
Timbrer or brighter Timbre, excuse me, and this is also true for the reverse. A big
voice can add air to the sound and also go into like R&B tones and jazz tones
and lighter things that are more sensitive. Pop tones... so they both can can
move either direction. Number 4. You should always rest through colds and flu.
Absolutely not true. You do if you have a respiratory illness
or if you have a constant post nasal drip that's causing the
voice to go hoarse and you have dysphonia which means there's no sound
coming out. But we actually sing through colds and flus because it keeps the
voice strong, it keeps moisture in the cord, and also the recovery time is much
much faster. So anyway, Number Five. You should only warm up 30 minutes a day
because you want to "save your voice" because you're scared that you're not
gonna have enough left. Well that's utterly ridiculous. It's like
any muscle in your body: The more you train, and train correctly, and by the way
I have a singing course called How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else, and I cover
all of this stuff in my singing of course exactly how to do these things but
anyway, so to save your voice you should only sing for 30 minutes and you know
whatever. I actually warm up for at least an hour. Sometimes ninety minutes before
I sing four or five hours, so the more we train and the more stamina that we build
up, the stronger we get. It's just that simple. Number six. There are many ways to
learn how to sing and train the voice. Well, that's kind of true and kind of not
true. Here's what I mean. There's really one way to learn to train the voice but
there's different facets on what kind of singing you want to do on how to train
the voice. So I would have a different training for a rock guy than I would for
an R&B guy, for example or a different training for someone that sings opera.
But so it's true and not true. The last one is that certain voice types or vocal
Fachs, they're called, can only sing in certain styles. That's absolutely not
true. You can train one voice to sing in another style and that voice to sing
also in a different style. So, anyway, I hope this information was beneficial to
you guys! Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where The Proof Is In The Singing!