Singing Lessons for Beginners. So you want to learn how to sing, or you want to start to learn how to sing. Well, I want to help you on your journey to understand some of the most basic, fundamental, and
rudimentary things that takes a basic, or non-singer into a decent singer, or even a great singer.
And these are non-negotiables, these are things that we all have to do, no matter what level
of singing we are, these are things that really help us on our journey for singing.
So the very, very first thing is: Pitch. Now I want to talk about breath support and vowel
placement, and we'll get into some of that, but pitch... can you carry any kind of a tune?
You know, can you sing "Happy Birthday" or can you sing a simple nursery rhyme? That's
key, and then, basically holding that pitch will help us determine how well you're going
to be able to translate this and grow quickly on your journey for singing. So I'm going
to take us through some simple scales and I'm going to do a male version and a female
version, so hang in there, I'll do the girls second, but the basic things are this: The
first thing is posture. We want to sit up straight. We don't want to get our spine tipped
in any direction. We don't want to look up at the ceiling when we're going for high notes,
or look down. We want to have a good command of our breath. Alright, so I'm going to have
some scales and I'm going to have you match the tone of the scale with a very, very simple
arpeggio, which is just a three-note chord, and I'm going to go through these notes very
simply and show you how you can start your journey for singing. So we want to open up
our mouth, "AH, AH" we're going to do the AH vowel, and there's several vowels that
you have to work to build muscle memory so that this becomes second nature, but for starters,
we're just going to build some simple muscle memory. We're going to take a breath from our belly,
from our abdomen, not from our chest like this. We want to take a breath from our belly,
as best as we can, and then I have a whole section on diaphragmatic breathing on my website
so if you're interested, I have all this in my singing course called "How To Sing Better
Than Anyone Else". So, to get started, I'm going to do the mean
average of the male voice, which is the baritone, or high baritone register, so we're going
to start with an AH vowel, and we're going to do something very simple. We're just going
to go "Lah, ah, ah, ahhh, ah, ah, ahhhhh." And what we want, is we want to match that tone,
so try to match the tone with me. "Lahhhhhhhhhhhh". And
if you can, Open Up the Back of your Throat as wide as possible, that's comfortable, and
try to hear that nice, bright Ping... AHH, it's not uuuu, owww, uhhhh... right? It's AHHH!
Lah, ah, ah, AHHH, ah, ah, ahhhhh... we're going to move up the scale... Lah, ah, ah,
ahh, ah, ah, ahhh... and we'll move it up a little higher. Try to match the tone...
Lah, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ahhhh... Remember to take your breath. The breath is very important.
It's the engine that drives your car for singing, so take your breath, Lah, ah, ah, ahhh, ah,
ah, ahhh... Now this brightness and this tone is actually the only true sound that really
grows the voice. So it keeps us from strictures in the back of the throat, so it's not uh,
uh, uh, uh, uh... (froggy voice sound) ... and getting, choking on our vowel sounds, getting
caught on the cord in the vowel, so let's continue...
Lah, ah, ah, ahhh, ah, ah, ahhh.... Now what you want to do is try to match this
triad or this three-note chord that I'm singing in order to be able to get into that pitch
and really use your stomach to do it, so I want you to take a breath between each one
of these phrases that we're singing. Then I want you to totally relax, and then I want
you to keep that throat open every time you go to sing one of these scales, so it actually
can start to develop this good, open throat technique, for on your journey to begin, for
learning how to sing. So, Ladies, the same is true for you.
Now girls, you usually blow a lot more air than guys, so your challenge is to, instead
of going... and I'll start where a mean average of an alto or contralto range, and I'm not
going to move up real high into the soprano range, but I'm going to start with you here...
Lah, ah, ah, ahhh, ah, ah, ahhh. Now, an important thing, too, is to not be
real staccatto: LAH. AH. AH. AH. AH. AH. AH. Be kind of portamento, and just kind of have
it in a slope, so it's more like a sine wave rather than a square wave as we're going up. Let's continue: Lah, ah, ah, ahhh, ah, ah, ahhh... Now we want to be really careful to seamlessly connect these notes so we can build a nice,
bright timbre, and start to really remove any stricture or anything that sounds like
we could be choking on our vowel sounds. So, this is an excellent place to start for how
to learn how to sing, and I have an amazing course, it's called how to sing, and how to
learn how to sing better than anyone else. I cover all this in my course, and if you're
interested, check it out, it will really help you understand all of these different mechanics.
I walk you through them, step-by-step. I demonstrate them, and I have my students demonstrate them
themselves so you can see all different levels of singing. I also have an over 5,000 member
singers forum that will help you with eight different moderators, including myself, that
help field and answer your questions. So, I hope this helps. Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy.
Peace Out.
