How To Grow Your Head Voice - Ken Tamplin — Transcript

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1. 0:00now here's where it gets a little
2. 0:02dicey when a guy is in his falsetta
3. 0:05register if he hasn't built it yet we're
4. 0:07going to talk about how to do it we'll
5. 0:08do some exercises in a
6. 0:11[Music]
7. 0:15minute hey everybody welcome back again
8. 0:17to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the
9. 0:19proof is in the singing I get asked this
10. 0:22a lot how do I grow my head voice well
11. 0:26um head voice actually by definition
12. 0:29might mean a lot of different things to
13. 0:30a lot of different people now I've
14. 0:32discussed this before and I do have
15. 0:34other videos out on headvoice but I want
16. 0:36to make this really simple and precise
17. 0:39and concise okay first of all the old
18. 0:43operatic style of singing called
19. 0:45belcanto refers to head voice as
20. 0:48anything that resonates in the head so
21. 0:51when pavati sings n Dorma and he's
22. 0:54going and he's in the big note at the
23. 0:56end um that would be considered
24. 0:59headvoice
25. 1:00for the soprano her way up in the
26. 1:02rafters and her
27. 1:05singing you know for her that's
28. 1:08headvoice in the early 70s in the
29. 1:11Broadway era as it started started to
30. 1:13kind of float around where these
31. 1:14different definitions started to have a
32. 1:16continental drift between the two um Bel
33. 1:19early bonto and then sort of you know
34. 1:21belting and all this stuff that came in
35. 1:23in in in Broadway what that definition
36. 1:26meant for the female voice was literally
37. 1:30her falsetto I mean it really was
38. 1:32interchangeable it was synonymous with
39. 1:35falsetto um for the male tenor it still
40. 1:38meant anything that resonated in the
41. 1:40head and so there became this sort of
42. 1:43weird conflict information battle that
43. 1:46went back and forth of what headvoice
44. 1:47really is so I like to think of
45. 1:49headvoice personally for both the male
46. 1:52and the female as your falsetto register
47. 1:56now here's where it gets a little
48. 1:58dicey when a guy is in his falsetta
49. 2:01register if he hasn't built it yet we're
50. 2:03going to talk about how to do it we'll
51. 2:04do some exercises in a minute um it's
52. 2:07usually very hooodie and
53. 2:11fluty right and so that definition of
54. 2:14head voice to me should just still be
55. 2:15called falsetto okay now there's another
56. 2:18term called reinforced falsetto and all
57. 2:20these different you know things right
58. 2:22now reinforced
59. 2:25FAL right so that reinforced falsetto is
60. 2:29more in alignment with a definition of
61. 2:32what I like or would would determine as
62. 2:34headvoice okay so reinforce faletto
63. 2:37headvoice can be a little
64. 2:38interchangeable now for the for the gals
65. 2:40too even though they're in the rafters
66. 2:43or something they may be hoodie and
67. 2:47fluty they may have that sound and
68. 2:49that's still just falsetto I wouldn't
69. 2:51really refer to that as headvoice now
70. 2:54head voice can take on a lot of
71. 2:56different characteristics but for now
72. 2:58what we want to do and and by by the way
73. 3:00why is head voice important let's
74. 3:01discuss that so we know what I like to
75. 3:03call headvoice why is it important when
76. 3:05you first build your chess voice your
77. 3:07speaking register and your call out
78. 3:10register it's called the call register
79. 3:12or your belting register after you've
80. 3:14built that it's important to build that
81. 3:17first because it's the foundation that
82. 3:19holds up the brightness and the power of
83. 3:22your head voice okay now the difference
84. 3:25between your chest voice and your head
85. 3:28voice has this Mido thing that's called
86. 3:32Segundo pagio or second passageway which
87. 3:35is that register break uh uh that people
88. 3:39have guys and girls mostly guys it's
89. 3:40more pronounced in guys but it's this
90. 3:43register break where we have something
91. 3:44called mixed Voice or to mix your voice
92. 3:47okay and that's a percentage of your
93. 3:50chest voice and your head voice coming
94. 3:53together to create one long seamless s
95. 3:56and
96. 4:01okay so we can actually connect chest
97. 4:03and head and get a really big huge huge
98. 4:06long powerful note with a lot of range
99. 4:09but until you build your chess voice
100. 4:11first please see my tutorials on this
101. 4:13I've got a lot of things about building
102. 4:15chess voice if you're interested you can
103. 4:17go to Kent tampal academy.com I have an
104. 4:20incredible course called how to sing
105. 4:22better than anyone else um I have a 3.0
106. 4:25course that walks you'll probably never
107. 4:26finish it it's it's it's pretty involved
108. 4:29or you can can start it real simple with
109. 4:31my 30 minute singer course um and it'll
110. 4:33walk you through the basics on how to
111. 4:35build your chess voice the 3.0 streaming
112. 4:37course goes all the way to the end on
113. 4:39your head voice and combining the two
114. 4:41and I have 1,800 tutorials on YouTube so
115. 4:43you can kind of Google YouTube you know
116. 4:45and figure that out and I have a free
117. 4:46singing Forum by the way you can find it
118. 4:48right here K voal academy uh back forums
119. 4:51or or whatever or you can sign up for
120. 4:53free with over 20,000 people in there
121. 4:56all discussing how to get good at these
122. 4:57different techniques so anyway back to
123. 4:59the Head voice so once you built chest
124. 5:01voice it's the foundation that holds up
125. 5:03your head voice to help you to keep you
126. 5:06from getting that hoodie fluty sound if
127. 5:08that's not what you're looking for
128. 5:09you're looking
129. 5:12for that really belty powerful sound
130. 5:15that you want to be able to connect
131. 5:16chest with head through the pagio and
132. 5:19your mix voice to create different
133. 5:21variations of color in this sound or
134. 5:24volume or air and breath now when we
135. 5:27first start to build this this is very
136. 5:30important we want to start with smaller
137. 5:33sounds I like to choose e first cuz it's
138. 5:36the smallest sound now in singing
139. 5:39sometimes e and U could be the hardest
140. 5:41vowels to sing in a song but as we're
141. 5:44warming up and doing this for this
142. 5:45application and this purpose we actually
143. 5:48want to keep the sounds really really
144. 5:49small so on an eval and this might be a
145. 5:53little high for some of you guys and
146. 5:54ladies um please I'm going to start at
147. 5:57your register so guys this is up the oct
148. 6:00so wait until I'll even tell you when to
149. 6:02come in so ladies we're going to start
150. 6:03with you and
151. 6:05[Applause]
152. 6:10you're now what I want you to do is to
153. 6:12cut back the air as much as you can and
154. 6:15get the brightest Timber that you can
155. 6:17now what happens with a lot of people is
156. 6:19they get frustrated and they want to
157. 6:20sing loud right they want to go into the
158. 6:23gym and they want to pick up big weights
159. 6:24right away we don't want to do that
160. 6:26because the equilibrium will break down
161. 6:28and when that breaks down all you're
162. 6:30doing is breaking down muscle structure
163. 6:31you're not building it so we want to do
164. 6:33both we want to break down enough to
165. 6:34where we can wait a day come back do it
166. 6:36again and build it back up to grow this
167. 6:38area so that's called up here it's
168. 6:40actually this note okay it's called
169. 6:42that's called an fshp five
170. 6:49so get the brightest Timber you can now
171. 6:53I have coined a lot of phrases and that
172. 6:56particular phrase is ping is King ping
173. 7:01is King you want the least amount of air
174. 7:03to pass across the cord so the cord has
175. 7:06more tension in it you know your vocal
176. 7:08fold so have more tension in it to stay
177. 7:10bright on the sound so let's do the next
178. 7:12[Music]
179. 7:18one now the lower you go in your
180. 7:21registration the harder it's going to be
181. 7:23to get those cords to stay closed and to
182. 7:26stay bright on the sound so the way you
183. 7:28countermand that or overcome it is to
184. 7:31back off the sound so you can stay
185. 7:33bright because you want to keep that
186. 7:35bright ping all the way to the bottom as
187. 7:37much as you can without it sounding
188. 7:39hooty or fluty or using too much
189. 7:41[Music]
190. 7:42[Applause]
191. 7:47air okay now for some of you guys out
192. 7:49there you might be able to join in about
193. 7:51here
194. 7:58[Music]
195. 8:05see even in my lower registry as I'm
196. 8:07going low it still sounds bright almost
197. 8:10kind of like my chest
198. 8:16voice keep the
199. 8:23brightness okay so now if it if it
200. 8:27bloats or is overblow with air it's
201. 8:30going
202. 8:31to On The Low End you don't want that
203. 8:34you want to just go only as low as you
204. 8:36can to keep it nice and bright and
205. 8:38eventually you'll start to build that
206. 8:39registration lower with this bright tone
207. 8:42and then once once you're really good at
208. 8:44it you'll be able to combine your chest
209. 8:46with your head to go back and forth to
210. 8:48to complete this uh big long powerful
211. 8:50note now one more thing you can go
212. 8:53through all the vowels that I just did
213. 8:54but I'd recommend un staying e and U so
214. 8:57let's go woo
215. 9:01[Laughter]
216. 9:03o
217. 9:10w
218. 9:16w
219. 9:21[Music]
220. 9:22wo wo
221. 9:25[Laughter]
222. 9:27[Music]
223. 9:33wo don't sing too
224. 9:35[Music]
225. 9:40loud okay please don't forget to like
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237. 10:06and until next time God bless peace out
238. 10:10[Music]
239. 10:23[Applause]
240. 10:29[Music]