Gospel Legend, Yolanda Adams, Teaches How To Sing Better Instantly | Soul Train Awards '19

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Circular breathing, a technique she's referring to in this video, works by storing air in the mouth while breathing in through the nose. Once the air is in your mouth it can't pass by the vocal folds again to produce a note. Horn or woodwind players have their "vocal folds", their tonal source after the mouth, so it works for those instruments.

What she's referring to doesn't work for singers, only for horn or woodwind players, so even though she may have a great voice or lots of sold albums, take everything in this video with at least a grain of salt.

Here's a great video on circular breathing for horn and woodwind players:

https://youtu.be/qcyY0tsGm6A

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- I'm Yolanda Adams, and today I'll be your vocal coach. (upbeat electronic music) The characteristics that make a singer great are enunciation. Please pronounce your words. The next thing is inspiration. Be inspired by what you're singing, because if you're not inspired by what you're singing, you cannot inspire others. And next, posture. Don't sing like this. Sing like this. Wow, all great singers have, first of all, breathing. You must know how to breathe, and I try to teach young people how to circular breathe. Circular breathing is the breathing that a lot of horn players and orchestra folks know how to do. It's learning to take the note around, well, actually, the breath around and around and around for example, like this. (vocalizing) And you go through your nose and try to bring it out through your mouth. I know it would take two hours for me to teach you how to do that. The next thing that great singers do is we learn how to start speaking lower when we are not singing because it does not tax the voice. The third thing that great singers know is that rest, rest, rest is so important. You can have the most beautiful voice in the world, but if you've only gotten 30 minutes of sleep and you think you're going to do a four hour show, you are kidding yourself. Adlibs and runs are very important. Let's go with adlibs first. Adlibs are what you sing around the chorus or around the bridge that gives you something other than the actual lyric that's there. For example, if we're talking about joy, what makes you joyous? Then you can start talking about the smile of a child. The beat of a heart, the this or that. Those are adlibs. If the line is, I have joy, I have joy, the choir or the background singers are saying I have joy, I have joy, it is your job as the lead singer to say something more than I have joy. Because if all you're gonna sing is I have joy, what do we have you for? Because the choir is doing the same thing. And so, knowing words other than the lyric of the verse, or the lyric of the chorus, or the lyric of the bridge is very, very important, especially when it comes to adlib. You know, and then that's where puzzle books and thesauruses and dictionaries come in. Learn words if you wanna adlib well. And runs, I am not, like, a run, run, run, run, run, run person, but I do a few of them. You can either start up, you can start down. Of course the descending scale. (vocalizing) Of course that sounds really horrible because it is early in the morning and I have not warmed my voice up. Or you can do the, well, one that ascends. (vocalizing) That is not a run, though. Trust me (vocalizing) that's a run. (vocalizing) That's a run. That other thing that I did, that wasn't a run. Don't do that. Just don't try that at home. Wow, high notes are, there's a technique to doing high notes if that is your voice. If you are a soprano, you are born with high notes. If you are an alto, contralto or tenor, you have to kind of fake your high notes unless you're a first tenor, and most first tenors, they're just covered, that's a nice way to call you an alto. I'm just saying. (laughing) First tenors are like, well, why she gotta call me an alto? You know, you can do a head tone, you can do a nasal tone, or you can do a throat tone. Most sopranos are, most true sopranos, first sopranos, they're all throat. There are some who sing for opera purposes where you come from the head, you know, or the nose, but those high notes, man. It's early in the morning. But (laughing) those high notes are, those open wide if you're doing it from the throat but make sure that you're coming from your diaphragm. So breathing, like I said before, breathing is so important, so breathe in. Not like (sharp inhale), no, you're choking yourself. Breathe in from your nose, warm that throat up real quick. (belting out a high note) You know, do something like that. That was really horrible, but it's okay, 'cause I'm just trying to teach you how to do it right now. And then if it's head note (screechy vocalizing) you hear the difference? Because I'm coming from the head and the nose as opposed to the throat and the diaphragm. Again, take it for what it is. Singing is all about emotion. Now, if you're trying to evoke a certain emotion, if you're singing about love and you want someone to capture what you're doing, you know, of course it starts with the face. Everything starts with the face in singing. If you're just looking like this, nobody's gonna believe it. If you're singing about love and you're looking like that, that's why Gerald Levert was so great at doing it, because he's just (grunting). That's it. But if you wanna evoke a certain emotion, okay, let's use love as an example. I'll do a couple of lines from one of my favorite songs by a pop artist. The straight emotion. Well, the straight face, no emotion. β™ͺ Love, look what you've done to me β™ͺ β™ͺ Never thought I'd fall so easily β™ͺ Okay, that's the straight face. You can't even fake that. If you sing that to someone like that, they're like, no, you don't love me, 'cause you ain't into this. And so, here it is, emoting and having emotion. And really feeling it. This is what I believe, you know. Don't laugh at my crazy face, 'cause my cry face and my crazy face, they kinda match, but here it is emotionally. I know that's the actress in me. I'm just going into character. (laughing) β™ͺ Love, look what you've done to me β™ͺ β™ͺ Never thought I'd fall again so easily β™ͺ β™ͺ Oh, love β™ͺ See? So you see the difference? You know. β™ͺ Love, look what you've done to me β™ͺ That's somebody that's mad at love. That's somebody that hates love right now. But somebody that's like. β™ͺ Love, look what you've done to me β™ͺ That's somebody that's in love. Mm, which one are you? Vocal warm-up exercises for me are really kinda crazy. You know, my vocal warm-up exercises really don't have to do with notes. I usually do something like this. (blurting out through lips) It sounds like a note, but it doesn't, because it clears this and it clears that, and so, by the time I get through doing that a couple of times, I'm laughing so hard that there's my vocal routine. Best practices for singing live are these. Number one, make sure that you have something to wrap yourself in just in case you get to your dressing room and it's cold, and then when you get out on stage, you're freezing and your notes come out like this. We don't want you cold. So make sure you wrap yourself up. And onstage, your onstage persona, listen, have fun. Those are the best practices for live music. Have fun, relate to your audience, let them know that you're there with them for the next two hours or the next 30 minutes, whatever it is, just to give them a part of you and just to serve them, and I guarantee you, you will get benefits over and over and over again. β™ͺ So much joy into all of our lives β™ͺ β™ͺ What would we be without this joy? β™ͺ (audience cheering uproariously)
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Length: 9min 27sec (567 seconds)
Published: Fri Nov 15 2019
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