Find and Control Your Vocal Resonance for Effortless Singing — Transcript

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1. 0:00You've heard that resonance is important
2. 0:02for singing, but you're not sure what it
3. 0:05is, how to find it, or how to develop
4. 0:08it. Well, don't worry because in this
5. 0:10video, I'm going to show you exactly how
6. 0:13to do that.
7. 0:20All right, before we jump in, want to
8. 0:22let you know you can click the link
9. 0:24below and get a free download of my
10. 0:28best-selling book, Beginning Singing.
11. 0:31So, if you want to delve further into
12. 0:32this singing stuff, there it is. All
13. 0:35right.
14. 0:36Resonance is what makes us sound like
15. 0:41us. Resonance takes the sound waves that
16. 0:46are created by your vocal cords and it
17. 0:49enhances them. It changes them. It makes
18. 0:53them brighter or darker. It even makes
19. 0:56them sound like vowels. It's analogous
20. 1:00to a trumpet.
21. 1:02A trumpet player has to buzz their lips
22. 1:05to create the sound wave.
23. 1:07That's what our vocal cords do. But, you
24. 1:10need the trumpet to really bring out the
25. 1:13sound, or else it just sounds like that
26. 1:15weird buzzing sound. Same with our vocal
27. 1:17cords. Our trumpet is our vocal tract,
28. 1:21our throat and mouth. And within this
29. 1:24space, this tube, there are acoustic
30. 1:28properties. And what this tube does is
31. 1:32it takes certain parts of the sound wave
32. 1:34and enhances them. And it's very
33. 1:38important to dial into this resonance
34. 1:40because we need to control the
35. 1:43interaction of our sound waves and the
36. 1:47resonance, especially as we sing higher.
37. 1:51So, how do we do this? Well, singers
38. 1:53primarily do it through listening, but
39. 1:57also sensation.
40. 2:00So, what I want to do is get you feeling
41. 2:05resonance. And here is the super singer
42. 2:10tip.
43. 2:11Resonance changes as you go higher and
44. 2:14the sensations of resonance change.
45. 2:17You've heard chest voice and head voice.
46. 2:20Well, these terms are terms of
47. 2:23sensation. We feel the vibrations,
48. 2:27the energy, the resonance of the voice
49. 2:30in different places depending on if
50. 2:32we're singing lower or higher. You can
51. 2:34feel this right now yourself. Put your
52. 2:36hand on your chest, say, "Ah." There's
53. 2:39your chest voice, so named because of
54. 2:42the sympathetic vibrations in the chest.
55. 2:45Now, give me a whoop, holler.
56. 2:49That feels different. We don't really
57. 2:51feel it here.
58. 2:52Actually, we feel it more in the head.
59. 2:57Head voice.
60. 2:58So, now, let's dial in to sensations of
61. 3:02resonance in your voice so you can
62. 3:04negotiate going from your lower to upper
63. 3:08register with less problems. So, what I
64. 3:11want you to do is give me the ng of
65. 3:14sung.
66. 3:17Good. And we're going to make this nice
67. 3:18and buzzy. So, go like you're
68. 3:21disagreeing with me.
69. 3:24You feel that nice and buzzy?
70. 3:27Now, as you do that, pay attention where
71. 3:31you feel the predominant sensation. And
72. 3:35I'll guide you a little bit. It's
73. 3:37different for everybody. It's a little
74. 3:39different, but I'm going to give you the
75. 3:42general consensus, what most people
76. 3:45feel. See if you don't feel this.
77. 3:47Pay attention to where your tongue is
78. 3:51touching your soft palate.
79. 3:55Do you feel it buzz right there?
80. 4:00Kind of dial into that.
81. 4:03Now, I want you to just glide up to a
82. 4:07higher note, as high as is comfortable,
83. 4:09and glide back down.
84. 4:15Does it go somewhere different on the
85. 4:16high note?
86. 4:19See if it doesn't do this.
87. 4:23It goes up towards the head.
88. 4:28That's the pathway to higher notes. It
89. 4:32can help if you take your fingers and do
90. 4:33this.
91. 4:37Good. Now, we're just going to take some
92. 4:40vowel sounds and we're going to put a Y
93. 4:43in front of them. So, just say,
94. 4:49Again, only as high as is comfortable.
95. 4:52If you can only go
96. 4:54that's all right. You'll feel a shift.
97. 4:57And
98. 4:59as you find that pathway, allow your
99. 5:01voice to go there.
100. 5:05If it flips,
101. 5:07that's okay. That's all right. But, see
102. 5:10if you can just cut a mostly little cry
103. 5:13in there.
104. 5:17That'll help hold it together so it
105. 5:19doesn't fall apart. Now, let's do ye.
106. 5:25Good. Now, let's start AT THE TOP.
107. 5:36THERE'S YOUR PATHWAY. RESONANCE gives us
108. 5:39sensations. These sensations become
109. 5:42guideposts for the singer. Singers, when
110. 5:45they go to sing high notes, anticipate
111. 5:47this shift in the sensations of
112. 5:51resonance. This occurs because the sound
113. 5:55waves interact with the resonances of
114. 5:57the vocal tract, but these interactions
115. 6:00change as we go higher and the
116. 6:02sensations change.
117. 6:05The trap we fall into when trying to
118. 6:07sing higher is we try and keep
119. 6:09everything feeling the same. My voice is
120. 6:12here. Ah. Ah. So, as I go higher, I
121. 6:16think, "Well, I don't want the quality
122. 6:17of my voice to change, so I'm going to
123. 6:19keep it feeling the same.
124. 6:21Ah." I hit a wall. But, if I allow the
125. 6:24sensations to change,
126. 6:29I can go higher. And changing the vowel
127. 6:32as you move up is a great way to change
128. 6:36the resonances. So, as you go higher,
129. 6:39let yourself go to an E.
130. 6:42Or go towards the U.
131. 6:46Those will guide you in. Those vowels
132. 6:50are easier to sing higher. Now, they can
133. 6:54sometimes cause us to flip.
134. 6:57Yeah.
135. 6:58Yeah. But, just stay on that glide. Keep
136. 7:01a little cry on the glide.
137. 7:09And you'll start moving between your
138. 7:12chest and your head voice without a
139. 7:15break because you're controlling the
140. 7:18resonance. You're changing the
141. 7:21interaction of the resonance and the
142. 7:24sound wave, and that's the secret. Hey,
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