How to Find Singing Resonance — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey it's John Haney today I want to show
2. 0:03you a few simple exercises so you can
3. 0:07discover and begin to develop and
4. 0:10experience vocal resonance these
5. 0:13exercises come from my book beginning
6. 0:15singing hey there this is John Henney I
7. 0:18am a voice teacher and the author of
8. 0:20beginning singing my new book be sure to
9. 0:23check out my podcast the intelligent
10. 0:26vocalist hey if you want to know more
11. 0:27about me please check out my website
12. 0:29seanhenney.com
13. 0:37what I want you to do to start off
14. 0:40act like you're agreeing with me
15. 0:41[Music]
16. 0:44and now let's stretch that out a little
17. 0:47hmm
18. 0:49good let's stay on that um
19. 0:51make it nice and Buzzy don't real
20. 0:55breathy
21. 0:58see what you feel the vibrations you may
22. 1:01feel them more in the front of your
23. 1:02mouth
24. 1:04um
25. 1:06good now we're going to take that sound
26. 1:09and we're going to Glide to a higher
27. 1:11note
28. 1:12um you now
29. 1:14[Music]
30. 1:16do you feel the sensation goes somewhere
31. 1:19else
32. 1:20um
33. 1:21does it maybe
34. 1:23go behind the soft palate you maybe feel
35. 1:26it even behind your eyes a little kind
36. 1:28of takes this pathway
37. 1:31um
38. 1:34now let's start on a higher note hmm
39. 1:38go down to a Lono
40. 1:41oh that sensation travels back down and
41. 1:45so this pathway even if it's really
42. 1:48really subtle at first is incredibly
43. 1:51important because this is the pathway of
44. 1:53sensation to your higher notes if we
45. 1:56don't allow that
46. 1:59feels like it gets blocked on the roof
47. 2:01of my mouth but if I allow the sound to
48. 2:04[Music]
49. 2:05um
50. 2:06go behind my soft palate the roof of
51. 2:09your mouth is your hard palate you drag
52. 2:11your tongue back you feel it gets soft
53. 2:12you'll go back behind there
54. 2:14good now let's do it on ooh perfect
55. 2:22now I want you to feel the difference
56. 2:25between some vowels I want you to say
57. 2:29ooh and then e
58. 2:35[Music]
59. 2:37see what changes right pay attention to
60. 2:40your top
61. 2:44[Music]
62. 2:46hear your tongue move forward this is
63. 2:48really important getting awareness of
64. 2:50your tongue in your singing is key
65. 2:53because the tongue is an incredibly
66. 2:56important part of singing That's often
67. 2:59overlooked very often we think okay we
68. 3:01don't want tension in our tongue but
69. 3:02that's not entirely true we need this
70. 3:04tongue to be moving it's a very
71. 3:06important muscle and it has a lot to do
72. 3:08with changes in resonance and feel what
73. 3:11the tongue does As you move from uh
74. 3:13[Music]
75. 3:15foreign
76. 3:17yeah the lips change a little the tongue
77. 3:20changes a lot it moves forward
78. 3:24and then you can even hear the
79. 3:26frequencies
80. 3:28[Music]
81. 3:31you
82. 3:32see how the E gets brighter the E has
83. 3:37higher frequencies in the resonance it's
84. 3:40kind of like an EQ system and the ooh
85. 3:43we've we've pulled down the highs right
86. 3:46it's kind of like a DG going DJ
87. 3:49[Music]
88. 3:51and that's our
89. 3:51[Music]
90. 3:52[Laughter]
91. 3:54who is a very rather mellow sound it's
92. 3:57very closed down doesn't have a lot a
93. 3:59lot of high frequencies but as we
94. 4:01[Music]
95. 4:04that's like the DJ going
96. 4:07with the filter now feel
97. 4:13[Applause]
98. 4:13[Music]
99. 4:17[Applause]
100. 4:17[Music]
101. 4:19you know how those change
102. 4:22not just not just the movements in the
103. 4:24mouth
104. 4:25listen to the frequencies listen to the
105. 4:27brightness and feel how the sensation
106. 4:30changes
107. 4:35[Music]
108. 4:38[Applause]
109. 4:39[Music]
110. 4:40these little exercises even though
111. 4:43they're simple just do these for a
112. 4:47minute or two each day
113. 4:49for a week or so
114. 4:50and you'll really start to clue in to
115. 4:54the Resonance of your voice because as
116. 4:57you progressed as a singer resonance is
117. 5:00essential and having a command of your
118. 5:02resonance is going to give you vocal
119. 5:05balance it's going to give you high
120. 5:06notes it's going to give you so many
121. 5:09good things in your singing but you need
122. 5:12to develop this awareness and some of us
123. 5:15when we begin singing and I know it was
124. 5:17this way for me these Sensations are a
125. 5:19little dull they're a little outside of
126. 5:22our awareness and so this repetition
127. 5:24allows us to begin to to feel what's
128. 5:28going on and once you get those
129. 5:32Sensations then when you start getting
130. 5:34into advanced concepts like Val tuning
131. 5:36you'll be much better prepared so I hope
132. 5:40this was helpful and uh we'll talk soon