SINGING TEACHER reacts to BOYINABAND's 30 day singing challenge

hey everyone today I'm gonna react today from boyinaband and his 30 day singing challenge they say to me so hey everyone my name is Adam Ashan I'm a singer songwriter and vocal coach and if you're interested in singing lessons I provide them online check out the link down below my website and vocal studios.com and if you're interested in a vocal critique where I will critique your voice either in audio format or video format check out the link down below without further ado let's jump in hi I'm Dave from boyinaband a lot of people say that they can't sing even though they would really like to in fact according to Google singing is the most desirable skill people want for themselves but people also wonder is singing a talent or is it a skill is it something you're born with or is it something you can learn let's find out I'm a vocalist and I really want to perform live however I suck at singing I don't know if this will come as a shock to anybody because I've been singing in quite a few of the songs that released but that's just because I use auto-tune you really did not want to be in the room when I was recording those parts a lot of live shows before but it was always non melodic vocals like screaming or rapping though if it's possible I want to teach myself to sing well enough to perform live at my own shows and I want to recall so for those of you who don't know boyinaband Dave he is a rapper slash singer and he does a lot of original music from what I've heard of him on YouTube and his original songs are really quite good he's actually a very good producer and a very good rapper of great lyricist as well and he talks about really important and meaningful concepts in his song so I think they're really really cool and I thought it was interesting because actually in one of my videos my vocal transformation video it always suggests this video as the next video so I figured why not check it out and do a quick reaction of it so let's see wouldn't measure the entire process so other people can see whether one hour a day of practice can actually improve your singing if I fail then whatever one thing I want to do to keep things relatively scientific is to do tests periodically to see whether certain statistics change like my vocal range for instance so the lowest I can go would be and the highest okay and then also miss my falsetto voice so let's find that man who's always poolside talking for fun the next thing I wanted okay it's very interesting so he split up his voice into his highest full-range voice and his his lowest full-range notes and then his lowest falsetto and his highest fall so tom to do his lung capacity so I guess I'm gonna have to try and hold the note quite consistently the next thing I wanted to do is to actually okay so for 12 seconds okay that should improve practice document the researching process because that's a huge part of teaching yourself stuff is figuring out how to do things how to sing he looks like he knows what he's talking about I've heard about this before like having to sing from the diaphragm I actually talked to my friend Vela about it and she called it her chest voice in the head voice I have absolutely no clue how to do this so this is perfect by golly I okay so very interesting he sounds like he's totally new to singing because chest voice and head voice has nothing to do with diaphragmatic breathing chest voice has to do with sound resonating out of your mouth and head voice has to do with sound resonating out of your head so this is like very you new to him I'm using this hand a lot I like your Eric I want you to try to focus your breath to make your hand move forward like this with your fingertips or your knuckles and see your side ribs and we're gonna breathe outside the side so I'll do them every day let's find someone else and get another opinion just to make sure one of the problems that most singers have is that when they go to sing high notes know what they're doing is they they're raising their larynx maybe you do this as I was doing that wasn't I do you want to keep your Lehren steady when you sing and that's what this exercise will help you to do this exercise is the mum-mum exercise but I'm I'm from the Midlands in England so I would say mum mum mum mum mah mum mum mom and then raise it up I said just saying because he said he would call it mum which actually can sometimes help you get for your bridge mirroring the bowel a little bit more like that like you just said as opposed to going mum mum mum that's us Canadians or Americans do mom add it to the list day two I'm gonna start with the exercises that I researched yesterday go sideways then the last one was the mum one which emo dandy from gamegrumps was suggesting ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma don't do that thing with the Lark I'm just saying okay so there this is why learning on your own can only get you so far because what I would have them do immediately is get rid of the throat tension Y as near the end there you might have just been doing it as a joke but going mom mom it's not going to help you with singing per se you know it might be a funny way to do the scale but as far as improving you're singing we want to we want to keep everything as consistent from the bottom of our range to the top of our range as possible so doing these kind of awkward weird things in the middle are actually going to hurt our tone over time so interesting that that just came up right there it's too low deeper but it's just before it sounds stupid mm-hmm mom mom yeah so he it's really funny that he just mentioned hey Kermit because that sound that he was going from that is called a canoodle the canoodle is where you squeeze in the size of your throat and it creates this Kermit the Frog here type of sound and what we want to do that has nothing to do with lowering the larynx so that's actually a squeezing into the throat to lower the lyrics what we want to do is always cut a little bit lower the legs down in your throat so you're gonna try just talking while you're in the middle of the yawn and so then you want to do the mums on that scale yawn feeling throughout good I gotta give them their belly let's try that ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma mom since the whole point of yesterday he got it a little bit his leg state a lot more neutral there I'm gonna do a test now to see how I sound singing one of my own songs so I'm just gonna be singing through my song limelight I did with cryotic in the lower register first and then I'm gonna try the higher register so this is gonna be absolutely terrible particularly the higher register yes the credits you with the limelight you were the limelight girl and I'll never find another and I'm never going to recover here comes the painful bit sorry [Music] might be out of my range on that one the lower one wasn't that bad to start with maybe that could be somewhere to aim if the other one is totally out of my range it seems like a lot of his style of music requires a lot of very fast pace I mean because he is a rapper he says a lot of stuff in a ver on one breath so for him working on breath support and specifically breath management it's going to be make a huge difference for him suggested singing along to things I warm up much much better just by singing songs if I'm recording something that's going to be difficult for me to pull off I'm gonna spend ten minutes before and just sing songs loudly to warm myself up someone okay so see this is when when people are getting tips from other singers that are speaking for themselves it's not the best way to work on singing yourself here's why for a trained singer singing a song might be a great way to warm up their voice because technically they already have everything down pat for a inexperienced singer that is trying to warm up his voice and doesn't have the technique down what you're doing by singing to warm up your voice is you're embedding a lot of the bad habits that you've always sang with you're just further embedding them into your voice so I don't recommend doing that again this is a problem with learning on your own it's the free way to do it but as I like to say you can get things done free fast or right you can't get all three but you have to pick two so if you want to get it done free and fast that's you know there's that's one way to do it but generally if you want to get it fast and right you generally want to do singing lessons from a proper vocal coach I always noticed that I was more in the range of was Fred Durst from them biscuit when I was going on cuz he's not a spectacular singer [Music] it's it's funny that he mentioned that because growing up I also did not have a wonderful voice and I always liken myself to Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and for many years I liken my sound and tried to sound as much as I could like Anthony Kiedis you do I can see it in your eyes you have to make sure you know your range because if you're doing a song that's really out of your range you're just gonna hurt your voice some people can't sing high it's really difficult focusing on the technique while I do that like focusing on breathing through my diaphragm so is that's the whole point find your vocal range sima that's that's the issue is that when you have a song that requires all these different vowel changes all the different consonant changes all these constant pitch changes how are you supposed to be able to figure out what to do with your body that's why we have exercises that simplify it to just one consonant one vowel or just noise and then that way we're able to just focus on the one part of the technique that you're working on so that's why you don't sing to warm up I'll leave a tiny bit yeah it's a round of B for okay let's leave below okay now we know that my vocal range is from D sharp - to be four like in my main voice not the falsetto the chest voice we can find out what the name of my vocal range is I might be a bass but they're like I can go between a base and a tenor I think then practice all your bowels and every pitch every single pitch all infinity of them here are some of the pure vowels to practice with finding out whether you're a bass you're baritone or you're a tender doesn't really matter or if you're a woman and also or soprano whatever it is doesn't matter unless you're singing opera E I think eat yeah as in pin how do you sing in pet is in food as in nut so I'm done in London at the moment on day six of this project I am going to first of all find an app which can this already is going to help a lot give me a reference pitch vocalist of the white [Music] [Music] [Music] I'm definitely gonna look into doing more app stuff tomorrow since that actually had real-time feedback which is fantastic there was another app that oh so there's that how he's doing the lip roll there is not so helpful if he were taking a lesson in one lesson I could correct that and show them exactly how he should be doing the lip roll and the changes would happen so much faster I wanted to try age I found called Singh sharp which is ironically not what I want to do try a vocal range oh this actually shows me my vocal range I went down to F sharp to with just talking interesting I thinks I can go down to C sharp too and Dave that's IOU lower you get to your lower range so this is a problem that many untrained singers have is that just it's just air but there's there's nothing down there there's no presence what you need to do is close your vocal cords you need to get you need to get down low by engaging vocal cord closure you're not going to be able to go so the bottom of your range because you're just going to bottom out on air if she'll 5 it's a dead but it looks like it's gone all the way this isn't perfect oh it's got tons of different warm-up exercises and see how these work my school 78 man I want to beat the score already scale octave jump if I do falsetto it's not so bad 62 this is actually really fun I want to keep going with all these apps is that yes they're giving you real-time feedback but the only thing they're giving you feedback on is your pitch nothing to do with tongue or string none of that is factored into any of these apps yeah one day you come on dude I really like the sing shot app and I know that this is just improving like pitch recognition and good Jill it I'm glad he realized that it's just pitch recognition T more than tone so I might actually sound really really bad even though I am technically hitting the notes I figure if I can get the pitch recognition then I can work on the tone personally by recording and thinking okay maybe there's something I can do that well by talking to some friends I have who can sing but a maker or a coach that can show you exactly what you need to do to get the right tone your mind what do you mean because we're running out of time what do you mean but a make up your mind I will not be did not see him singing Justin Bieber that's interesting that's another thing is that vocal runs the best way to learn vocal runs to break them down break them down take them slow to do that vocal run I had to fall to lose it all but the party don't stop no oh my god that's right at the top of my range it's like a workout for my abs all right doing tests oh are they going down to there today I see I think that's like a crossover of my falsetto voice and my main voice and I didn't even know that was a thing so I have to research that I guess hell yeah get more consistent with that now good at the end there that was like the best score I've got yeah Jesus today is going well that is the first time I've successfully done the exercises that came with the app without failing one of them like passed this threshold 94 again at 84 intermediate 74 expert that I set at the star that's awesome I have actually improved so it wasn't quite the resounding success that yesterday was but it was still only one mistake where normally it's considerably more than that not quite sure what exercise this is and what it's supposed to be doing for this voice oh you can basically be on the high end of a note or the low end of it up ah sure but basically it means you are really aiming for the top of a note you want to instead think of your notes as existing on the bottom of the circle ideally we want to aim for the center but just to overcome and say that first I don't know if I hit notes consistently flat or consistently sharp I think it's more flat but alright that idea down finally easier to go but most people who are experiencing strain in their voice will consistently back down to the lower notes after singing the high notes if I go more breathy much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of the circle is complete reaching out I have too much diaphragm push when I go back down from the really high intensity PI notes to the the quieter low notes that don't require as much pushing my muscles don't naturally go back down to that very quickly yet by being more breathy it gives me a bit of a kind of buffer so that extra push has somewhere to go it would be cool to be able to actually do it without that but I found a a technique that works for now yes there are you definitely don't need to go from your high range that doesn't quite make sense you should be able to do that as long as there's no strain in your voice and I think that's the key is that he's missing is that there is still that strain happening in his voice hello oh yeah yeah I keep forgetting things like using the correct breathing and that's something I've got to get into the habit of and that's just shows that I'm learning something different and new which is probably useful because it's not yet in my muscle memory I'm not just doing the same mistake over and over again now what I see is what I get how can I be too late Wow actually really good no one to break wait for whoever's at the door to go so they didn't hear me name if you have myself but the Internet can that's fine didn't recognize that as a note still counts prescribed bills to offset the shakes to offset the pills you know you should prescribe can I hit the note anymore I'm not using my abs inna need something lower your glutes rude abdominal push in order to sing you're overloading the vocal chords with too much air pressure and so thinking just adding more and adding more it's not always about adding more singing is about balance it's not about you know overdoing the salt that's kind of essentially what he's saying it's like I just this this dish isn't quite right I just need to add a little more salt a little more salt look it's served boy it's like no we gotta balance this dish out maybe it doesn't need more salt I can't hit notes above a certain point anymore so I think I must have pushed it too hard with that first song got to be much more careful to use my diaphragm rather than my throat when I'm singing that hi it's day 30 of what was initially at least a 30 day project to improve my singing ability so today is gonna be quite interesting to see whether or not I've actually improved [Music] [Music] a voice didn't stop being able to go up there which is a slight improvement but it's still nowhere near being able to sing it live was making it the tone suffer and but it's still pretty bad that said one thing I didn't notice until editing this video it was just how much better it was compared to when I started this is my auto-tune software Melodyne which measures the notes before it Auto Tunes them so these are the notes that I hit the first try now here in blue I've roughly overlaid the notes I should have hit to sing the song correctly you can see is really far off I had 23 notes where it wasn't even close 11 notes how it was touching the note it was supposed to and one note correct yay now on day 30 I had 17 notes that were wildly off eighth notes touching the note it's supposed to and ten nodes hit correctly you can see the improvement particularly on this little run here there was 30 days since I started and I've noticed some things have changed here's the lowest note I hit at the start and here's the lowest note I hit on day 30 if we take a look at all of the tests in melody and it basically stayed around a flat - the entire time the highest note was initially and by the end it was this that also didn't improve it stayed around g5 throughout but then I hadn't been training my super high falsetto apart from a few attempts at singing news I've been focused on trying to extend the range of my chest voice now when it comes to measuring give the chest voice range increased I ran into a problem I realized about halfway through that my range seemed to vary wildly my highest note could go from all the way down here to all the way up here eventually I learned I had sometimes been using what's called my mixed voice a crossover between the chest voice and the head voice I separated the tests I did which sounded like pure chest voice and that did seem to increase a little bit over the month but what I can accurately measure is my low falsetto range it went from this to this making it the biggest range increase of all so now I just have to write songs that sound like and I'm set here's all the lung capacity tests I did from day one to day 31 some days are missing for when I was too ill to sing or when I forgot because I'm an idiot also I've auto-tune them so you can enjoy a pretty choir instead of bar we did better on day one I didn't expect an improvement on that scale in such a short time another thing I noticed since I started using my stomach muscles as opposed to my throat muscles I was a lot more consistent and able to stay up in the higher range for longer his attest I did in day 3 where I sang on one yes and so it has to be finessed a little bit because it seems like now he wants to uses abdominals to the maximum but definitely if you start using your abdominal muscles and start to offset the pressure from your throat down towards your lower abdominals really what you want to do is your lower abdominals your pelvic region you want to get that down low activating that area when you're singing note near the top of my range for as long as I could before my voice wouldn't stay up there anymore and there it goes [Music] now here's the same test on day 10 after I'd learned to use my diaphragm rather than my throat to sing I noticed my tone sounded different as a result it was clearer and less strained I couldn't believe there was such a huge change in literally one week but I was able to stay up there for over twice as long [Music] also we didn't hurt which is probably a good thing overall I've definitely improved in some aspects not in others for instance the pitch thing I'm still missing the notes however my voice is a lot more powerful and I'm able to stay powerful for longer like I'm selling a drug so is singing a skill or is it a talent to be honest it's mostly a skill I'd say from what I've seen it's something that can be trained but there are people who naturally just are able to hit pitches more easily than I am for instance definitely it can be trained I think that that's that's probably why they suggest this video after my singing trance for me video because they're really showing the same thing is that singing is a skill that can be learned and it's not a natural-born Talent yes there are people who are born talented but anyone can learn to sing I hope you guys enjoyed watching this video if you did hit the like button please make sure to subscribe right next to the subscribe button when you hit it there's a bell so then you get new notifications click that when new videos coming to come out you'll get email notifications and until the next video I'll see you guys later

Channel: Adam Mishan

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Length: 29min 27sec (1767 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 31 2018