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! How to increase vocal range, or how to
improve vocal range. Well, that's a big subject, and there's a lot of information
floating around there that can be very, very confusing, and I'd like to
demystify this for you a little bit. There's really only one way to safely
grow your range or improve your vocal range, and this is how. First we have two
components. We have something called our chest voice and something called our
head voice, which is also interchangeably called falsetto. I don't want to go into
all the details, because some of these definitions could mean different things
to different people. One person might call head voice
anything that resonates in the head while another person might call head voice - or anything that resonates in a falsetto register. So for my purpose, I'm going to
use the term head voice to talk about reinforced falsetto, not just something
that resonates into the head as what classically is termed head voice, okay?
Now so we have chest voice and what we want to do is we want to stretch and
grow our chest voice as high as we can. Now I cover this in my How To Sing
Better Than Anyone Else course, where first we stretch and grow a big, powerful,
robust chest sound, and I'll demonstrate let's do this together. With a nice,
bright ah... males you're gonna start here. Ladies, you're actually gonna be up and
I'll show you where you would come in in a minute,
but we're gonna start with an AH vowel. Let's go A nice, bright, open throat where if you had a
mirror you could look back in your throat and your tongue will be dropped
to the base of the jaw and your creating the maximum amount of space in the back
of the throat with good diaphragmatic support, and relaxing, and not letting the
shoulders, the chest, neck, or throat create tension Now for most baritones and high
baritones this is about the breaking point for you, where you feel so much tug
in the throat where you want to transition from your chest voice and
flip into your falsetto. Now ladies for the alto and contraltos, most of you
start here Now ladies, most of you start to feel the
tug around the C, the high tenor C or the D, and that's the d5 or the the c5
at the beginning of the c5 that's the highest note in the tenor range or one
of the highest notes in the tenor range. It's about where you start to feel that
tug, where you want to flip into your head voice. So what we do is we use our
diaphragm and the strength in our abdomen to relax our chest, our neck, and
our throat to have that nice bright sound with a big open throat we just
talked about, where the uvula and the soft palate in the back of the throat
Rises as we start to ascend these scales. Once we get to the point that we stretch
this as far as we feel we can comfortably, we work this area to make it
a nice, robust, strong, strong sound. Now, then, once we're all done with that, we
come back with a nice, bright, timbral sound from our head voice, and we stretch
that down into our chest voice. Now guys and gals, you both can do this in the
same registration, so I'm going to start here Now make sure this sound is nice and
bright, so that that brightness is what's really giving us the strength to match
the tonal quality from our head voice or falsetto, and match it to our chest
register, so that we can start to bring that down into our chest voice, and
eventually mix the sound, so... Okay now. Ladies, most of the time women
have a tough time with their falsetto and guys, some of you will have
experienced this as well, where your falsetto, or your head voice is very
Flutie... and you can't get good cord closure to create that bright timbral
sound. That being said, or that being the case, don't start and lean into the sound
so heavy. Work first on getting good cord closure and that nice, bright, timbral sound, again, matches your chest voice so that you can actually have one, long,
powerful registration, where no one will know that you're going from your chest
through the passaggio which is the passageway, mixed voice, on into head
voice. Now there are some exercises that we can do called "sliders" in order to be
able to facilitate this. First you're going to need to do them very lightly,
and then after you have done them lightly where you can connect without
hearing the break and cutting back the air for this nice, bright sound, little by
little, as you build muscle strength, you could start to lean into this sound more
and more, and that will be something like this You hear how I can go from my chest
register into my head register and back where you don't hear the break? So you
want to force the throat to stay open, so it doesn't spasm and regurgitate and
literally yodel through that LAH! and create that yodeling sound. I call it a
speed bump... And you can go up and down the scale as
comfortable as you can, to where you can start to build this connection, over time.
Now this isn't something that happens right away, and again I want to emphasize:
First we build chest voice, then we build head voice, and then we build this
connection quietly, softly, and then little by little, lean into that sound, to
match our robust chest voice with the robust powerful head voice that we've
developed. Okay? Thank you for joining me, Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy. Hey guys, if you like what you heard, please like and subscribe to my channel. And if you want to get notified when I have a new, cool video come out, you need to go to my
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