How To Sing Better For Guys. Welcome to
Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where we're gonna be discussing How To Sing Better For Guys! Hi, guys! Ken Tamplin, from Ken Tamplin
Vocal Academy, and I'm gonna teach you a little bit about the voice, and voice
lessons today. There's a lot of different styles and a lot of different approaches to singing. So that one subject isn't just how to sing better for all guys,
because it's how to sing better in whatever style you're looking to sing.
Well, there are some very basic non-negotiables to singing, and I want to
point out that most of the time, not all the time, but most of the time guys want
to sing harder than girls. They want to get out there and just belt and wail! Then there's the other side of R and B, or Pop guys that are just looking to have some Soul, and and some good licks, and some
good tone, and good resonance, and stamina, and so forth, and range, which we all we
all want. But I want to cover both aspects, fairly
briefly. I'm gonna discuss Rock singing first, and then I'm gonna break into more
Pop and R&B So the very first thing is, is that we want
to have awesome posture. We want to sit up straight, or stand up straight, and by
the way, when you sit, you lose up to 30% of your strength in your abdomen when
singing, so I recommend you stand if you can. But anyway, so you're gonna want to
stand in you're going to take a breath from your belly, from your abdomen,
instead of breathing like we do like this from our chest, we want to breathe
from our abdomen, from our belly, and our diaphragm. So you've heard a lot about
diaphragmatic support. So I'm not gonna cover that here. I have some tutorials on
my website regarding diaphragmatic support, and have an amazing course
called How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else So anyway, I want to talk about How
To Sing Better For Guys. So we're gonna start first with this Bright Ping in an
AH Vowel. I coined a phrase. It's called It's the LAH!!! AH!!! and it's that nice, Open Throat, bright Ping sound that keeps us from sort of choking on our vowel sounds,
or pinching and squeezing as we go up. Now there's a lot to this, but I'm just
gonna go through the basic elements of this first, and then if you're interested,
check out my course or check out my my channel and I cover a good amount of
this stuff. So we're gonna start with the mean average of singers, and that would
be a baritone, and so we're gonna start down in, like a mid Bari, or upper mid
Bari range, and we're just gonna go through a simple triad scale like this Now try to keep the jaw as stable as
possible. Try not to move the mandible, or the jaw. Keep it in a marble, or static, or
stable position. We're gonna continue up a triad scale, like this. Don't forget your breath. Take your
breath, and use your breath. Bring in the breath, kind of like you're doing a
sit-up, the feeling of how much strength is required when you're doing a sit-up.
So let's continue... Take your breath, relax the shoulders,
relax the arms, relax the neck. Let's continue. Nice, bright, open AH! I don't
mean "Luh... " I mean "AH!!!" Do yourself a favor. Even get out a
handheld mirror and look at the back of your throat, and see if your throat is
nice and wide-open and that your tongue is placed to the base of the jaw, so it's
not causing any stricture or any constrictions, constriction, excuse me, in
the back of the throat, so that the throat can be as free as possible to
create this nice, bright timbre that timber of sound. Okay, now, for most guys, for the mean
average would, like me, I'm a high baritone, but I can sing well into the
soprano range. There are some different registrations and I want to talk briefly
about them. And I cover this extensively in my course. And that's that
there's something called the speaking register, and that's the register that
I'm talking to you at right now I'm speaking to you in a specific
registration of the voice. Now as we move up into higher notes, the cords actually
vibrate quicker. So they become a little bit more tense, and they become a little
bit, you know, what's the word? um, there's a lot more strength in the sound or more
strength is required in this sound, so what we really need to do is have a
greater relaxation response, so that we don't create tension in the neck or the
throat as we ascend a passage or a scale. So because of this fast vibration, we
also need to control the actual tone or the vowel sounds themselves. And these
are called vowel modifications. I'm just going to go through one of them. There
are many for each vowel, but we're gonna focus mainly on the AH Vowel today. So we're gonna go here... Did you notice how I kind of migrated a
little towards AH, like loft, at the top? Listen closely... What I'm doing is I'm paring down the
sound, or closing down the sound, so the sound doesn't get so big that it splats
and gets away from us, or becomes too top-heavy to control the sound. This is
one of the key mysteries and key elements of learning How To Sing Better
For Guys. So guys, what we want to do is you want to close down that sound with
good vowel modifications, strong support, and a relaxation response that allows
for this. Now. I talked about the speaking register, and around the E we start to
move in to the F, which is called the Call Register or the Belting Register. So
if you notice, as I start to resonate louder, and the cords vibrate quicker, I
start to create more resonance that creates more sound, like this: Moving to the F-sharp 4... Little by little, I'm closing down the
sounds safely, a little bit more at a time, so that, again, I'm not oversinging,
and the sound is getting away from you. Now as you grow the voice, you can
actually lean into that sound, and get my YEAH!!!! and you can belt into that sound
and get kind of a dirty or distorted, you know raspy sort of tone. But you want to
start with a clean sound first and build up into this. Now if you're an R&B guy
and you don't necessarily want to sing that heavy, we can actually create a
mixed voice or this, or the idea that you're mixing this call or belting
register with what's kind of like a reinforced falsetto, that's joined, or
fused together, and I like demonstrate that like this... It's a much softer intonation, a
much softer sound, so I'm connecting through what's called Segundo passaggio, or the second passageway, or that register break between our chest voice
and our head voice. So let's continue... It's seamless between my chest voice and
my head voice. Now in my course, I discuss how we connect that sound, so
we have a seamless connection. Now also, for you belters out there, you can take
that sound, and once you grow the passaggio, you can lean into that sound,
or allow more volume into that sound, as you build up strength in the muscles, so
that you can, in fact, belt into that sound as well So you can continue to go up and down
the scales, and up and down the scales, to build one, long, powerful note. So whether
you want to be a belter, or you want to be an R&B guy, or you want to do the you
know have a Pop sort of sound, or whatever that is, you can start to
incorporate these things to where you can build a one long note. With a seamless connection, to where you can
have full command of your entire voice, and not just your belting register, or
call register, but can include also your head voice register, and fuse them
together. So that's a basic tutorial on How To Sing Better For Guys. Thank you
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