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by Adam Mishan · 2,160 words · 347 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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0:00all right so first when talking about
0:02improving vocal resonance we have to
0:04discuss what is the definition of vocal
0:14resonance
0:16is a term that describes where the sound
0:19is
0:19vibrating so we're talking about
0:21vibration now there's a lot of
0:22places where we can feel the voice
0:25vibrating we can feel it in our chest we
0:26can feel it in our mouth in our hard
0:28palate and our soft palate we can feel
0:30it up in the nasal cavities into the
0:32head
0:33so our locale of vibration is very
0:36important when it comes to the voice
0:37because i could
0:38sing or talk kind of like this where
0:40it's far back in my throat or
0:42even down here where it's got it right
0:44in my throat or i can bring my
0:46tone forward into what we call the mask
0:49so that's like feeling the vibration
0:51right over here in the front of the face
0:53that really helps bring the sound
0:56forward
0:56and gives it a bright resonant quality
0:59so
1:00that is really what we're talking about
1:01when we're talking about improving the
1:03resonance we're talking about finding a
1:05quality that is pleasing
1:07and that carries when it comes to
1:08singing so that you don't have to work
1:10so hard
1:11to make the sound project so now that
1:13you understand what resonance is it's
1:14important to identify
1:16what is your resonance pattern and how
1:18do you go about producing resonance
1:20so resonance occurs whether you're
1:23singing or talking
1:24so i want to do this on two steps first
1:26we're going to talk
1:27see what the resonance is there then
1:29we're going to sing and we're going to
1:30use the tool
1:31of recording so then that way we can
1:33have more of an objective idea of what
1:35our voice is sounding like alright so
1:37pull out your phone right now and i want
1:38you to record yourself speaking out this
1:40phrase
1:41oh say can you see by the dawn's early
1:44light so we just want to
1:45record that now i want you to play back
1:47and listen to that
1:48notice where do you feel the sound is
1:50coming from does it sound
1:52oh say can you see or does it sound oh
1:55say can you see
1:56or does it sound like oh say can you see
1:58where is your
1:59kind of locale of vibration happening
2:02where is the resonance occurring
2:03also while you're doing it try to
2:06visualize
2:07what that feels like in your body right
2:09so we're going to also
2:10feel the resonance and that's an
2:13important
2:13tool that we can use to then get the
2:15correct sort of resonance when we're
2:17singing
2:18now what we're going to do is we're
2:19going to record it and we're actually
2:21going to sing it this
2:22time so hit record and sing oh
2:25say can you see
2:29by the dawn's early light
2:33okay that's all i want you to do for now
2:35is i want you to
2:36focus in on the spoken and the song and
2:39i want you to now listen back to those
2:41two
2:42options and i want you to hear what is
2:43the difference between your spoken
2:45version
2:46and your sung version for most of you
2:48what you're going to notice about your
2:50spoken version
2:51is that there's going to be a lot of
2:52forward resonance a lot of us
2:54speak and communicate with very forward
2:56resonance because we're trying to convey
2:58a message
2:59we really want the sound to project as
3:01far as possible
3:02and so a lot of people will have a very
3:04forward tone
3:05but if you're tend towards mumbling or
3:08you have
3:09an overly squeezed type of don't or a
3:11squeeze type it down like this
3:12there's different ways to squeeze the
3:14tone but that will also come out in your
3:16speaking if that is your tendency so try
3:18to notice what's happening there
3:20also notice what happens with your
3:21resonance as you're singing the line
3:24does it change does it shift at all from
3:27that spoken piece to the song piece if
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3:50now remember in this first step our only
3:53job is to notice what is happening so
3:55we're not actually manipulating or
3:57changing anything just yet but we just
3:59want to notice
4:00what is the process and how are we using
4:03our voice when it comes to resonance all
4:05right so now that you've noticed what
4:06your tendencies are we're going to jump
4:08into some
4:09exercises that are going to help to
4:11isolate
4:12specific types of resonance and they're
4:14gonna help you
4:15balance out your resonance and find more
4:18of an
4:18ease throughout your singing voice so
4:21first one we're gonna do
4:22is an ng sound as in the word sing so at
4:25the end of the word sing
4:27we're going to hold that ng sound just
4:29make sure that the back of your tongue
4:31meets the soft palate and we don't want
4:34to tense up the front of the tongue so
4:36the back of the tongue is going to be
4:37doing all the work the front of the
4:38tongue is going to stay very relaxed
4:39we're just going to go again
4:40sing and just hold that out
4:44now we're gonna put that on the melody
4:47[Music]
4:52[Laughter]
4:54itself
4:56and try to notice here where we're
4:58isolating just our nasal resonance
5:00what happens to the tone does it sound
5:02overly nasal now
5:04here we want it to sound overly nasal
5:06because when we add the mouth back
5:08into the picture we're going to get much
5:10more of a resonant tone so i'll show you
5:12what that
5:12sounds like so if i go it sounds really
5:15nasal
5:16but then when i drop my tongue i'm not
5:18actually shifting the resonance
5:19it's just we're getting an additional
5:21resonance chamber which is your mouth
5:23into the picture so we're going to go
5:31and so there it doesn't sound nearly as
5:33nasal on the ah
5:34as it does on the ng it's just because
5:36we're isolating that specific spot so
5:39that we can really
5:39hone in and fix that area so that's what
5:42i want you to do don't let it be
5:44a lot of people have the tendency to let
5:47it fall back don't do that we want to
5:48try to find it forward
5:49feel the resonance as much as possible
5:51right here in the front of the face
5:59[Music]
6:01[Laughter]
6:03good now i want you to record this next
6:05part we're going to record ourselves
6:07doing that again
6:08we're going to do it double we're going
6:10to do first on the ng then on the words
6:12and see if the words sound a little bit
6:14different than that first recording you
6:15made so we're going to record
6:27oh say can you
6:30see by the dawn's early
6:35light now i want you to play back
6:38the very first song piece and play back
6:41that last song piece and see if there is
6:43any difference there what about the
6:45exercise was able to bring out more of
6:47that forward resonance and
6:49see if that improves it the next
6:51exercise is going to also
6:52focus in on bringing out a little bit
6:54more of that brighter quality in the
6:56voice but here we're actually opening
6:58the mouth the main keys to focus on here
7:00is number one bringing the tongue all
7:02the way down as close to the chin as
7:04possible
7:05number two making sure the upper teeth
7:07are showing that's going to engage your
7:09zygomatic muscles
7:10bring them up and that's important for
7:12finding this bright quality to the voice
7:14finally we want to focus in on a very
7:17whiny tone so we don't want this to
7:19sound normal we want it to sound really
7:22na na na na na little whiny kid
7:25style so what we're gonna do is stick
7:26the tongue out and we're gonna go try
7:30that
7:30now we're going to go into the melody
7:33[Music]
7:42now again i want you to pull out your
7:44recorder hit the record button
7:46and sing it again like that and we're
7:48gonna double it up this time so we're
7:49gonna go
8:00oh say can you
8:03see by the dawn's early
8:08light and see what happens with your
8:11tone when you're singing
8:12there now play back the first option
8:15that we did without any exercise and
8:17that option see what's the difference
8:19now the final exercise we're going to
8:21run through is a
8:22great exercise for finding the resonance
8:25now this is
8:26all purely imagined so this is all in
8:28your head but what your mind does tells
8:30your vocal tract how to shape so what
8:32we're going to do is we're going to play
8:34around with two separate different types
8:36of resonance one that is lower so we're
8:38going to call that
8:39below the pen and then one that is
8:41higher kind of occurs a little bit
8:43higher
8:43in the body that one we're going to call
8:45above the pen so i've got a pen you can
8:47get a pencil you can get a straw
8:48whatever you want but we're going to
8:50bite down on the pen
8:51and we want to make sure first to put
8:53our resonance below
8:55the pen so we're going to go
9:02i feel my resonance kind of occurring
9:03here in my throat that's definitely
9:05below the pen so we want to focus in on
9:07that sort of resonance
9:08that is something that we're going to
9:10want to get away from we don't want to
9:11use that when we're singing because
9:12that's going to put too much pressure on
9:14the throat and it's going to sound a
9:16little bit
9:16dull and dopey so what we want to do is
9:18bring that
9:19up now and we're going to try to put it
9:21above the pen so thinking and then it's
9:23all in our imagination we're going to
9:24imagine over the pen
9:31this is going to help you bring your
9:32resonance forward now you could do this
9:34without a pen
9:35but what the pen does is it helps to
9:37give us a focal point on where
9:39we're placing the voice up or down and
9:42play with both of those
9:43now we're going to try to put it into
9:46the melody so we're going to go
9:56[Laughter]
9:59now it's important to note that with
10:01something foreign in your mouth you're
10:03going to
10:04have the tendency to want to retract
10:05your tongue so you're going to want to
10:07pull back on your tongue
10:08try to avoid that make sure that your
10:09tongue touches the pen the entire time
10:11as you do this exercise that will help
10:13avoid
10:14any sort of pullback or retraction on
10:16the tongue and make sure that it's
10:18placed optimally so now that we've got
10:20that we're going to
10:21try to do it double we're going to go
10:35oh say can you
10:38see by the dawn's early
10:44light so i'm making sure to always
10:47keep that resonance even as i'm singing
10:49it when i take away the pencil
10:51i'm still focusing on keeping that
10:53upward resonance as opposed to
10:54oh say being falling back down there
10:58i forgot to mention that you should
11:00record that last one and when you're
11:02done recording it play back that first
11:04take that we did and then play back
11:06after doing the pen exercise and see
11:09what the difference is now this is just
11:11going to help to focus that resonance
11:13higher up and you're gonna probably
11:15notice
11:16a slight difference in the way that
11:17you're producing the sound or even a
11:19bigger difference now
11:20let me know in the comments down below
11:21which exercise did you find
11:23actually brought out more of that upward
11:26resonance more into the face into the
11:28mask
11:28and also which of them produce the best
11:30recording afterwards and what i want you
11:32to do now
11:33is take that and apply it to any songs
11:36that you're working on so this doesn't
11:37obviously just work on the only one that
11:39we were trying we're just trying
11:40something that's simple but you're
11:41welcome to try
11:42any of these exercises with any melody
11:45that you're working with it'll really
11:46help you
11:47start to apply these principles of
11:49resonance and proper resonance placement
11:51to the songs that you're singing that's
11:53how you're going to see the biggest
11:54difference in your voice so i hope you
11:56liked this video if you did please hit
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