How to find our chest voice-or how to belt
with our chest voice. Well, this is actually again, a very expansive
subject, and it’s really cool because sopranos, you are kind of at a disadvantage, in that
you are often taught to bring your head voice down really low into your chest registration,
so you are: (Sings from high to low, bottoms out on low notes). And you have this really weak, Flutie hooty
kind of sound. It’s true for some altos, as well. I want you to think of it like this, okay? It’s going to be a silly analogy, but you’ll
relate to this. If you’re in a restaurant, and you go to
the bathroom, and you asked somebody to watch your stuff. And let’s say you leave your phone on the
table. And you go to the bathroom and you come back
and you see some guy and he runs across to the table and grabs your cell phone and he
bolts out the door. You wouldn’t say (in a weak, heady voice)
hey! Stop that guy! He’s got my phone! Oh, ooh, hoo, hoo! No. You’d go: “HEY!!!! THATGUY!!! STOP HIM!!! HE GRABBED MY PURSE! MY WALLET!!! MYPHONE!!!! STOP HIM!!! NOW!!! Right? You’d Call Out. It’s called the CALLING or Belting Register. So you’d belt out to that guy. You’d say, you know, that guy just stole
my phone. Right? Well, as strange as it sounds, that is your
call register. Now we can’t do this with that kind of intensity
when we sing, but the idea is that we understand what that is so we know how to grow it and
then curb it or control it safely. So we do these exercises in the belting register. Now there’s two registrations in your call
and your speaking register. So right now I’m speaking to you in my speaking
register. And there’s actually what’s called Primo
passaggio. There is a, let’s call it a gear – shifting
between my speaking register “Heeey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!” Right? When I kind of move into that sound, that
kind of belting register, all of a sudden I kind of have to shift gears to get up into
it. So as I’m speaking I have to understand
that I have to shed or get rid of a lot of the weight from my speaking register to get
into my belting register. Otherwise there’s too much girth, or too
much mass that’s brought up into the throat. Well, that’s also true when I go through
secondo passaggio, the “passageway”. Remember we talked about mix voice in one
of my videos, where I had to “Heeeeey!” And I want to go up into that sound. I have to thin out the sound, make it smaller. Thin, not as in “weak” but thin as in
small, and thin out that sound to get through the passaggio to go up into my head voice
or mixed voice and combine those two sounds. So we could do some exercises, and we’re
going to do them now and there’s a simple one, actually there’s two of them I’m
going to do… This is going to be a little complicated at
first, so bear with me, 'cause I think you’ll appreciate this,
but it’s going to be: La. Ah,ah,ah. Ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… Just do just that with me. First, real quick. La. Ah,ah,ah. Ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… Next one:
La. Ah,ah,ah. Ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… Now ladies, you're getting up pretty high
especially if you’re an alto. If you’re a soprano your kinda just cruising
what’s easy for you. La. Ah,ah,ah. Ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… Now don’t forget. I have a whole thing on support,
which is super important. And also, how to relax and release tension
as I’m going through this, so I'm not going “HA! HA, AH HAH!” I’m not killing it on the bottom. I’m being really gentle. La. Ah,ah,ah. Ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… Okay. I want to add one more component to this mixed
voice/chest voice predominantly chest voice exercise. So we’re going to do this again, the first
two are going to happen the same way. La. Ah,ah,ah. Ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… And this is going to help strengthen that
chest voice that you’re looking to do. Now, by the way, there’s more to this, as
well. There’s vowel modifications if you notice
I’m going to do this quietly for a second so I’m not shouting at you. La, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… (lightly)
like I have these different vowel modifications and I have this whole section in my singing
course about how we modify the vowels to make it smaller as we go up top, so that we're
not over-singing or over-exploiting the vowel itself. We’re actually corralling, or literally lassoing
that vowel, kind of pulling it in and making it smaller and compressing the vowel as we
go up. So let’s do the next one… La. Ah,ah,ah. Ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… Now don’t forget… Support. Ping is king. If you watch my other videos about ping, ping
is king, that brightness. That Open Throat. Keep that throat nice and open. Let’s do it again… La. Ah,ah,ah. Ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… Now, by the way… As you get good at this you’re going to
speed it up. And I’m going to give you kind of a ridiculous
example: La. Ah,ah,ah. Ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… And you’ll want to kind of get to the point
where you can kinda have agility in the throat too, so theres not so much mass that builds
up and you feel like you have to struggle with the notes themselves because they’re
so thick in the throat. You can make them small. In fact, another cool thing to do is, this
is like getting way off track but I’ll throw it at you guys anyway, because I think you’re
smart. It’s Ha. Ha, ah, hah. Ha, ah, ha. Ha, ah, ha, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah… Where you actually have to kind of land the
vowel placement in the throat with each note along the way. It’s pretty advanced. And I cover this also in my singing course. But what that does is when if you’re ever
going to hit a high note, all of a sudden you feel the placement in the throat and you
don’t have to struggle for it. From the bottom or the top or whatever. You’ve already worked out the muscle memory
in the throat to get to that placement. Okay? I hope you guys enjoyed this lesson. Until next time. Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy. Please like and subscribe to my channel. Check out my course, How To Sing Better Than
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