I laugh because here's Ken pouring his heart out, telling everyone how to get going, but most of the people watching are either not doing the work, or want to be an Indi driver having never driven a car. Do the work! I'm here to say it works, if you put in the time!
Some of us do the work five to six days a week, 5 to 10 hours a day. Don't make assumptions. People will learn what they want to learn. If they don't want to practice they won't grow the voices! It's that simple. They weren't real singers to begin with. We have to always be looking to learn more!
I'm teaching myself that when I get ready to perform a song I remind myself that I need to relax to give the song what it is due. That relaxes me because I owe the song A truthful telling and it opens my throat and relaxes my shoulder and neck. I really enjoy open throat singing! When you practice it everyday and try to sing those high notes it's like soaring. It's like you open up your soul as you open up your throat and you just let the music become. If I start to get tense I remind myself; hey I'm just here to sing a song. Now to me that is heaven!
Finally a coach who's not seeking so much for money and accepts being an open book. Only with the open throat and vowel placement you helped already a lot. I mean many teachers will do these but not a lot will teach us how to do it exactly right. They'll just sit on the piano and let us singing within our minimum range. Thank you again!
Here's a success story. This worked. I spent my life stuck in low chest voice with NO call register that wasnt super squeezed then spent 6 months in church doing ONLY head voice soprano and got real strong up there. Now i am at the point trying to bring the two together so Ken has been was very helpful! Here's what happened: I was working away getting out of full chest earlier & starting my mix lower like those 'other' coaches wrongly suggested (cos i am an alto sick of clunking between registers) when i suddenly thought of Ken: "what if i stopped squeezing and started this phrase in head voice (bring head v lower Ken said) but opened my pharynx really wide - lift soft palate, yawn etc". What do you know my chest caught my head voice and the note started spinning - and pinging - naturally! This was an awesome feeling. A real breakthrough. I could even increase abdominal pressure to make the sound fuller. The key for me was not 'getting' to the note so much as keeping it (spinning) then i KNEW i was in mix. Ken was right again.
@@kentamplin * i forgot to add my chords are getting buff as Ken said they would. He was right in that buff chords help....vocal folds get stronger... relax into sound... resonance takes over & creates volume.
The story that Sir Ken Tamplin have told about how he increased his range is super duper true. I have done that too. started lightly with my mixed voice almost sounded like a whisper then built it up these past few years and now my mixing is great. Though my problem is my belting chest register but im working now on it and my goal is achieving bruno mars' mixing and I'm certainly having improvements.
The story about you fatiguing and returning to old habits speaks to me as it is exactly where i am at now, this is the most info i got out of a single video, Thank you Ken
I train mi Voice With Evertingh You teach ken since 2010 and to to this day and i dont have nix voice but My head voice a a lot of chesht resonance right now , ny chest voice high is c5 an low id d( sharp) 2 and My head voice the low is d3 and mi high is d6
Hey guys, it's Ken. The question I was just asked was: Is "Bridging" the same as "Mixed Voice?" Bridging is the "passaggio" (i.e. the passage way from chest to head / reinforced falsetto and back) using approximately one or two notes to "bridge" to get from chest to head and back. Mixed Voice is expanding that "passaggio" where you can have a percentage of chest and head voice (i.e. "mix") throughout around an octave of your voice. This octave will vary in note value registration depending on the voice type. Some people can only mix 2-3 notes (because they haven't worked on it), some can do more than an octave.
7:53 Ken Tamplin: We do this over several notes ,It's not like one specific thing and then all of a sudden we move on Other coaches : You gotta find mix voice in between. and then we end up thinking can't hit this e5 then not mixing correctly lol almost every other coach I've ever heard never says its actually a process . I swear when I do what they say and "let go" I end up with falsetto :p its like I have some kind of feeling that I need "certain amount of effort" to hold it . Rn I can hit up to C5 well I can't really sing those notes in a song but I've only been doing exercises properly(!) for 2 months. I'll just do exercises and let it be! if u wanna do something right u should never expect it to arrive fast after all right :p
Yes, it's a process, and it's also a result of properly growing a robust chest voice and a robust head voice, not airy, hooty-sounding falsetto. It takes time and effort, and mastering of the passaggio. The combination of these things allows you to use the mid voice in a much more practical way. It's a blend.
@@kentamplin Btw I really loved throwing every information out. maybe for the first time I didnt feel the vocal coach is trying to keep the info for himself/herself. Maybe its because they lack knowledge or only interested in commerce I said only cuz there's nothing wrong with making it commercial. As long as the knowledge deserves it Thanks for doing not even a bit less than your best!
My mixed voice got to B4 after a whole summer of a lot of work. I work a lot on my head voice and it's really in a good place. Chest voice really nice but there's a lot I have to do. I want a fully mixed voice that sounds one single note from the bottom to the top which sounds a high expection but having a powerful mixed voice give you a huge opportunity to step into any fave song you want. What really helped me was the open throat technique. I need to purchase this course. The more videos I watch 😭😭😭🎙
You are a harddrive of knowledge, and you sincerely want to pass this knowledge on to all of us who share this musical interest. I just wanted to say thank you. You are a good man. Have you ever thought of using a visual aid of the muscular anatomy of the throat that would make it easier for us to be able to visualize exactly which muscles we are trying to relax etc. If you could point out on a picture where exactly the feeling of tension that should be relaxed when singing with a closed throat, or what's happening with the speed bump when transitioning between head and chest voice would be very helpful. Thank you again for all that you are doing Ken!
This was awesome, dear Ken!!! I wish your Live Streams were at least twice as long...seriously...an hour just flies by sooo fast. I'm sorry you're still dealing with the aftermath of that nasty flu you were gifted by your grandson in Mexico! For anyone reading this...go check out Ken's cover of Chaka Khan's/Rufus' ''Tell Me Something Good'...it is truly amazing!!! 💗💗💗
hi ken, why not have a visit in Cambodia some day to inspire singers here. I really wish that u could come and give some helpful lessons. Because I feel discouraged for singing without a vocal coach like you. BTW thanks you for your helpful online vocal lessons but really wish to study in person with you even just one day.
Mr. Tamplin. What exercises can do, when i have already developed my chest head voices and open throat, to develop mixed voice? Can you show that exsercices in the next video? Thank you!
Can, people with acid reflux and laryngeal reflux can adjust their bid so that the head Board of the bed is 4in higher than the footboard so the mattress itself is on an angle. That and not eating or drinking after 7 p.m. will help people to keep the acid reflux from affecting there vocal cords.
Hey Ken, please do a cover of Brendon Urie (he’s the vocalist of the band Panic! At the Disco). He’s one of, if not the best, vocalists of our generation. It would be really helpful to aspiring vocalists if you could cover his technique. Suggestions for a cover are these songs: The End Of All Things (Live version, not the studio version) Emperor’s New Clothes Say Amen (Saturday Night) Death Of A Bachelor High Hopes Cheers!
Sorry for cursing but i fucking love these videos Ken!! Amazing information.. exactly the things i’m trying to figure out to sing better.. keep it up!!
Great Stream! Hey Ken, I'm curious to know... do you have any knowledge on how people are able to do different voice imitations which sound exactly the same as, or extremely close to the people or artists they're imitating that if we cover our eyes we could swear it was the real artist? What vocal techniques/mechanisms are involved in that so they are to do that...do you know Ken? Again, just curious to know, K...Thanks Ken!
That's a very interesting question, riomar9. What you say is true. If a good "impersonator" copies enough cues that are very commonly used by someone, especially anything that is or sounds unique, we get the same "impression" from hearing the impersonation, before we open our eyes or turn around to see it is an imposter. That's mimicry. Another technique is ventriloquism, because a lot of that happens through vocal tract shaping, speaking on vowels, and avoiding certain consonants. Along the lines of mimicry, is "mocking", and I don't mean the kind where you are making fun of someone or putting them down. I mean the ability to do what a mockingbird does or other creatures that sing and can also say words... by hearing and then repeating what they heard. By hearing and seeing a great singer explain and demonstrate singing techniques, and then emulating what you just heard and saw is a VERY EFFECTIVE way to learn very complex things in a demonstration of the concepts being taught. So some people are really good at observing a lot of subtle or not-so-subtle details that help to build a recognizable re-presentation of someone or something they have become familiar with. Add a little bit of humor to that, and it can be very effective. Morph your face into a few of their famous expressions, and say or sing a few lines, and you have just impersonated someone.
Thanks much for the explanation and info, really interesting indeed Ken. I refer you to this 2 1/2 minute video - just for laughs - so you can watch it whenever you're kicking back and not too busy, and just in case you haven't watched it yet? It's has to do with the AMAZING sounds a LYRE bird can mimic from construction workers working in the forest...it's HILARIOUS - to me anyway - hope you also enjoy it as much as I still do. I believe they're better than the parrots, at least on imitating big equipment sounds such as tractors, hammers, power tools etc, whereas, parrots are real good at doing voices. Anyway, not everything is included in this particular short video, but they can also do dog and cat sounds, police and fire truck sirens, school bell and sounds like 30 or fifty children playing in the middle of the forest, gun shot sounds, shot gun blasts and even two people talking. It's really amazing what they can do...and people believe we EVOLVED from a MONKEY? Enjoy Ken and Thanks again, appreciate it very much! th-cam.com/video/C0ZffIh0-NA/w-d-xo.html
Hi Ken! Thank you for a great live stream and a golden information! And for pronouncing my name, lol! After I watched live stream, I have 2 questions. Sorry if you already answered on them and I missed it. 1. When I do the scales on AH vowel, I go to the head voice after a D4 or D#4. I can sing them in my full voice, but if I do it lightly, I just go straight to the head voice. My goal is stretch my chest voice as high as I can. So is it right to use head voice right now, when I'm only on a volume 1? 2. And second question about stretching too. Should I take a long time for building chest before starting to train my head voice? I'm ready to give as much time as it need to build my chest as high as I can. But will it make sense to build only chest voice for, let's say, a year? From Russia with love! :)
Hello, Алексей! Thanks for tuning-in to the Live Stream. These are the types of questions that we answer in the student sections of the KTVA Forums. You need to register there and get your student upgrade and start a thread on the forums about these questions.
It's worthwhile to aspire to be like our favorite singers. How far we take that will vary with each of us as an individual. Mix is an advanced technique. It requires some development in chest voice and head voice before getting really good in mix. If singing like Morten motivates you, then YES, big YES for his mix sound to be a standard for your goal!
I recommend my home course. It's just 35 years of my life and people pay a small sum to get an incredible amount of information and they can access it over and over for years. You would spend much more on a vocal coach, over a period of years. And they aren't training what I train.
So I'm a baritone and lately I got up to D#4 freely, so now I need to work on my head voice, right? I have some strain in the fifth octave in my head voice. Or should I stretch chest through vowel modifications at least to G4?
Gray Have you had an opportunity to join my vocal forum? It's a great place to post your singing questions and others can benefit from the reply. Please join, it's free! forum.kentamplinvocalacademy.com/
Mr Ken I was practicing head compression songs like axle rose and vocal screaming and ended up blowing my voice .it cracks and it brakes when I try to sing head voice .how long it will take to come back is been 4 days now 😭😭 I should of had watch ur videos before doing so
Hi Ken, What is your opinion on Prof Eugene Feuchtinger's silent exercises for voice... I bought your program and have been through one round of the course... awesome stuff, big fan!
@@kentamplin So his method is putting the tongue in different positions to strengthen the underlying muscles. For example he advocates the tongue groove a lot.
I've been doing mixed voice exercises for a few weeks now, and it's became easier to go from chest to head but my mixed voice is very very very scratchy, I just want to know, will it clear up and the trasition and passagio become smoother?
Yes, it should clear up. Be sure to not sing too loudly, especially in mix or in head voice or upper chest. Oversinging can put that scratchiness in your passaggio, and mix happens in that same area.
Don't you think that even the "dramatic" opera tenors use some mixed voice when they get much softer and occasionally need to get a little "lyrical," like when they are doing their famous "messa di voce"? Isn't seamless mixing of the voice part of their skills, too? I mean, obviously, their "pianissimo" is actually loud enough to reverberate around an opera hall unamplified (as is the pianissimo of many Broadway belters)! And I'd agree, you can get soft to some extent in a chest-voice. But wouldn't you call many changes in timbre/volume a kind of "mixing" the voice? Maybe you should cover "volume" as a topic, and how it relates to our practice and "chest-voice," "head-voice," "mixed-voice," and "ping-resonance."
It should be kind of obvious by the term "Mix" that a mixer has "faders" and part of getting an audio "mix" is done by manipulating and balancing elements. Certainly "volume" is a major element. And Yes, there are volume parameters in chest, mid, head, falsetto, and mix. The opera singers tend to shy away from calling it "mix" lest there be a pop invasion into classical singing, but certainly they do manipulate volume to attain some of the tonal shades, including in messa di voce.
Hi Ken, been following you for couple of months now, I am saving up to purchase your course.. meanwhile can I ask you a question please? I came across a vocal coach on youtube saying that there's various levels of mixed voice, differentiating in the ratio of mixing head and chest voice... is that true? How many types/levels of mixed voice are there?
Maybe you should tell me what that means to you? To me, it means a well-supported, bright tone, that is stable and strong, and, (depending on vocal fach) through a broad range of notes. Some of those notes may be considerably higher and/or lower than many peer vocalists have experience and strength with.
@@kentamplin thanks for your all advice and sharing tutorial how to do it. Head voice etc. I hope that you will tired sharing . Your so professional big help for me
Register. Then, If you want to post a demo, first post your recording on TH-cam or Soundcloud, then put the url for your demo recording in a post and explain the issues or questions you have. When you have registered on the forums, then click the blue "New Discussion" button and select a category, give your posting a title, and post your message.
marija - Mix voice is lighter than chest voice. You have to work it for a considerable time to grow it to become more stable. I have exercises for growing mix voice in my home course.
Hi Champ ;) Houston, we got a problem :P I am baritone and I want to sing "18 and life" by Skid Row. I send you a record. My email is mindarcher. Anyway, I Will be gratefoul for some tips to sing that gorgeus song, especially part "That Child blew the child awaay! Greet ;)
Artur- Please post your demo on my vocal forum. You will get great feedback from either myself or one of my moderators. forum.kentamplinvocalacademy.com/ Video: You will need to upload your video file to TH-cam. When it’s uploaded, play your video and copy the URL of your video from the address bar at the top of the page. Then go to the forum, start a post, and paste the URL that you copied into the post. Your video will appear within the text of your post when you save it. Audio: Same process, except instead of posting a video on youtube, upload your audio file to SoundCloud. Play your audio file on SoundCloud, and while the song is playing, copy the URL of their audio from the address bar on SoundCloud. Then make a post on the KTVA forums and paste the URL that you copied into the Forums post. A link to your SoundCloud audio file will appear in the KTVA forums post when you save the post. On either of these sites, you can set the access to “unlisted” if you don’t want the whole world to hear or see your video, but you can’t set it to “private” or nobody but yourself will be able to view or hear your demo. To do this, you will need to register as a member on the forums at forum.kentamplinvocalacademy.comAnd also register on TH-cam and/or SoundCloud.
I laugh because here's Ken pouring his heart out, telling everyone how to get going, but most of the people watching are either not doing the work, or want to be an Indi driver having never driven a car. Do the work! I'm here to say it works, if you put in the time!
Thanks for your words of experience, VIDEOHEREBOB!
Found Ken's guide very useful. I am really happy, I just need to start practicing.
Some of us do the work five to six days a week, 5 to 10 hours a day. Don't make assumptions. People will learn what they want to learn. If they don't want to practice they won't grow the voices! It's that simple. They weren't real singers to begin with. We have to always be looking to learn more!
I'm teaching myself that when I get ready to perform a song I remind myself that I need to relax to give the song what it is due. That relaxes me because I owe the song A truthful telling and it opens my throat and relaxes my shoulder and neck. I really enjoy open throat singing! When you practice it everyday and try to sing those high notes it's like soaring. It's like you open up your soul as you open up your throat and you just let the music become. If I start to get tense I remind myself; hey I'm just here to sing a song. Now to me that is heaven!
Finally a coach who's not seeking so much for money and accepts being an open book. Only with the open throat and vowel placement you helped already a lot. I mean many teachers will do these but not a lot will teach us how to do it exactly right. They'll just sit on the piano and let us singing within our minimum range. Thank you again!
Here's a success story. This worked. I spent my life stuck in low chest voice with NO call register that wasnt super squeezed then spent 6 months in church doing ONLY head voice soprano and got real strong up there. Now i am at the point trying to bring the two together so Ken has been was very helpful!
Here's what happened: I was working away getting out of full chest earlier & starting my mix lower like those 'other' coaches wrongly suggested (cos i am an alto sick of clunking between registers) when i suddenly thought of Ken: "what if i stopped squeezing and started this phrase in head voice (bring head v lower Ken said) but opened my pharynx really wide - lift soft palate, yawn etc". What do you know my chest caught my head voice and the note started spinning - and pinging - naturally! This was an awesome feeling. A real breakthrough. I could even increase abdominal pressure to make the sound fuller. The key for me was not 'getting' to the note so much as keeping it (spinning) then i KNEW i was in mix. Ken was right again.
Wow! So great to hear! Rock on!
@@kentamplin * i forgot to add my chords are getting buff as Ken said they would. He was right in that buff chords help....vocal folds get stronger... relax into sound... resonance takes over & creates volume.
I've been singing all my life and I consider my mixed-voice the area between my chest voice in my head voice and it's a very comfortable place to be
The story that Sir Ken Tamplin have told about how he increased his range is super duper true. I have done that too. started lightly with my mixed voice almost sounded like a whisper then built it up these past few years and now my mixing is great. Though my problem is my belting chest register but im working now on it and my goal is achieving bruno mars' mixing and I'm certainly having improvements.
Awesome, deejay!
The story about you fatiguing and returning to old habits speaks to me as it is exactly where i am at now, this is the most info i got out of a single video, Thank you Ken
Thanks for letting me know that, Sergio! I have had to learn these things the hard way. I'm glad to share them with you!
Once you apply open throat singing, you can sing in any style you want and control your compression, Force Etc..
I train mi Voice With Evertingh You teach ken since 2010 and to to this day and i dont have nix voice but My head voice a a lot of chesht resonance right now , ny chest voice high is c5 an low id d( sharp) 2 and My head voice the low is d3 and mi high is d6
Hey guys, it's Ken. The question I was just asked was:
Is "Bridging" the same as "Mixed Voice?"
Bridging is the "passaggio" (i.e. the passage way from chest to head / reinforced falsetto and back) using approximately one or two notes to "bridge" to get from chest to head and back.
Mixed Voice is expanding that "passaggio" where you can have a percentage of chest and head voice (i.e. "mix") throughout around an octave of your voice.
This octave will vary in note value registration depending on the voice type.
Some people can only mix 2-3 notes (because they haven't worked on it), some can do more than an octave.
7:53 Ken Tamplin: We do this over several notes ,It's not like one specific thing and then all of a sudden we move on
Other coaches : You gotta find mix voice in between.
and then we end up thinking can't hit this e5 then not mixing correctly lol almost every other coach I've ever heard never says its actually a process .
I swear when I do what they say and "let go" I end up with falsetto :p its like I have some kind of feeling that I need "certain amount of effort" to hold it . Rn I can hit up to C5 well I can't really sing those notes in a song but I've only been doing exercises properly(!) for 2 months. I'll just do exercises and let it be! if u wanna do something right u should never expect it to arrive fast after all right :p
Yes, it's a process, and it's also a result of properly growing a robust chest voice and a robust head voice, not airy, hooty-sounding falsetto. It takes time and effort, and mastering of the passaggio. The combination of these things allows you to use the mid voice in a much more practical way. It's a blend.
@@kentamplin Btw I really loved throwing every information out. maybe for the first time I didnt feel the vocal coach is trying to keep the info for himself/herself. Maybe its because they lack knowledge or only interested in commerce
I said only cuz there's nothing wrong with making it commercial. As long as the knowledge deserves it
Thanks for doing not even a bit less than your best!
My mixed voice got to B4 after a whole summer of a lot of work. I work a lot on my head voice and it's really in a good place. Chest voice really nice but there's a lot I have to do. I want a fully mixed voice that sounds one single note from the bottom to the top which sounds a high expection but having a powerful mixed voice give you a huge opportunity to step into any fave song you want. What really helped me was the open throat technique. I need to purchase this course. The more videos I watch 😭😭😭🎙
Great nicer ever always thanks so much for the best possible vocal couch ever blessings maestro
You're welcome, lazar!
You are a harddrive of knowledge, and you sincerely want to pass this knowledge on to all of us who share this musical interest. I just wanted to say thank you. You are a good man.
Have you ever thought of using a visual aid of the muscular anatomy of the throat that would make it easier for us to be able to visualize exactly which muscles we are trying to relax etc. If you could point out on a picture where exactly the feeling of tension that should be relaxed when singing with a closed throat, or what's happening with the speed bump when transitioning between head and chest voice would be very helpful.
Thank you again for all that you are doing Ken!
Thanks for the suggestion, David.
One day I would love to hear you sing Sorry Is a Sorry Word by the Temptations...Your voice is PERFECT FOR THAT SONG.
Bianca Heath LOVE the Temptations!!
AMAZING EXERCISE
Thank Your 💋
You're welcome, Мария!
This was awesome, dear Ken!!! I wish your Live Streams were at least twice as long...seriously...an hour just flies by sooo fast. I'm sorry you're still dealing with the aftermath of that nasty flu you were gifted by your grandson in Mexico! For anyone reading this...go check out Ken's cover of Chaka Khan's/Rufus' ''Tell Me Something Good'...it is truly amazing!!! 💗💗💗
Thanks, as always, Shauna!
Great teacher!
Thank you, Carval! I hope you learned something that will be helpful to you! 😊
what,s the better way sir (or easier)? bright head and add chest or belt hight and relax to head??(with assumption same conditions)
Great information man! Thanks and God bless!
You're welcome, Tony!
Ken you rock my Brother
It's my destiny, Kent! I was b-b-b-b-born to R-r-r-r-rock!
hi ken, why not have a visit in Cambodia some day to inspire singers here. I really wish that u could come and give some helpful lessons. Because I feel discouraged for singing without a vocal coach like you. BTW thanks you for your helpful online vocal lessons but really wish to study in person with you even just one day.
Thanks for the kind words, narath! I appreciate your suggestion!
Hi Ken. Wish I hadn't missed the livestream. The mixed voice is the main thing I would like to improve where there isn't the defined yodel in between.
Maybe you will catch me the next time I'm on live, David!
Mr. Tamplin. What exercises can do, when i have already developed my chest head voices and open throat, to develop mixed voice? Can you show that exsercices in the next video? Thank you!
Thanks for the request, Володимир! You will also have to work on your head voice before moving to mix.
Hi, Ken! I found this song! Rainbow - I Can't Let You Go. Very powerful song.
Cool, Алексей!
Ken could u make a video for knowing ur voice types and what kind of genres u should be
William Kilip Check it out. th-cam.com/video/14hB4RFHmis/w-d-xo.html
thanks ken . i learned a lot
You're welcome, Noah!
This was great!!!
Thank you, Shawna!
Can, people with acid reflux and laryngeal reflux can adjust their bid so that the head Board of the bed is 4in higher than the footboard so the mattress itself is on an angle. That and not eating or drinking after 7 p.m. will help people to keep the acid reflux from affecting there vocal cords.
Hey Ken, please do a cover of Brendon Urie (he’s the vocalist of the band Panic! At the Disco). He’s one of, if not the best, vocalists of our generation. It would be really helpful to aspiring vocalists if you could cover his technique. Suggestions for a cover are these songs:
The End Of All Things (Live version, not the studio version)
Emperor’s New Clothes
Say Amen (Saturday Night)
Death Of A Bachelor
High Hopes
Cheers!
Thanks for the suggestion, Joshua!
Sorry for cursing but i fucking love these videos Ken!! Amazing information.. exactly the things i’m trying to figure out to sing better.. keep it up!!
Keep viewing, Tommy!
Ken. I listened to your September by Daughtry cover. You think you could do another daughtry cover? Your voice goes amazing with his songs
Thanks for the suggestion, Austen!
you are the best
Thank you, Pat!
The question that i need an answer for is: how do I know my chest voice is strong enough, so that I can move to extend its range?
The best place to discuss singing related issues is on the forum. Please join the discussion, enrollment is free.
forum.kentamplinvocalacademy.com/
@@kentamplin i did
Great Stream!
Hey Ken, I'm curious to know... do you have any knowledge on how people are able to do different voice imitations which sound exactly the same as, or extremely close to the people or artists they're imitating that if we cover our eyes we could swear it was the real artist? What vocal techniques/mechanisms are involved in that so they are to do that...do you know Ken? Again, just curious to know, K...Thanks Ken!
That's a very interesting question, riomar9. What you say is true. If a good "impersonator" copies enough cues that are very commonly used by someone, especially anything that is or sounds unique, we get the same "impression" from hearing the impersonation, before we open our eyes or turn around to see it is an imposter. That's mimicry. Another technique is ventriloquism, because a lot of that happens through vocal tract shaping, speaking on vowels, and avoiding certain consonants. Along the lines of mimicry, is "mocking", and I don't mean the kind where you are making fun of someone or putting them down. I mean the ability to do what a mockingbird does or other creatures that sing and can also say words... by hearing and then repeating what they heard. By hearing and seeing a great singer explain and demonstrate singing techniques, and then emulating what you just heard and saw is a VERY EFFECTIVE way to learn very complex things in a demonstration of the concepts being taught. So some people are really good at observing a lot of subtle or not-so-subtle details that help to build a recognizable re-presentation of someone or something they have become familiar with. Add a little bit of humor to that, and it can be very effective. Morph your face into a few of their famous expressions, and say or sing a few lines, and you have just impersonated someone.
Thanks much for the explanation and info, really interesting indeed Ken.
I refer you to this 2 1/2 minute video - just for laughs - so you can watch it whenever you're kicking back and not too busy, and just in case you haven't watched it yet?
It's has to do with the AMAZING sounds a LYRE bird can mimic from construction workers working in the forest...it's HILARIOUS - to me anyway - hope you also enjoy it as much as I still do. I believe they're better than the parrots, at least on imitating big equipment sounds such as tractors, hammers, power tools etc, whereas, parrots are real good at doing voices.
Anyway, not everything is included in this particular short video, but they can also do dog and cat sounds, police and fire truck sirens, school bell and sounds like 30 or fifty children playing in the middle of the forest, gun shot sounds, shot gun blasts and even two people talking. It's really amazing what they can do...and people believe we EVOLVED from a MONKEY?
Enjoy Ken and Thanks again, appreciate it very much!
th-cam.com/video/C0ZffIh0-NA/w-d-xo.html
Hi Ken! Thank you for a great live stream and a golden information! And for pronouncing my name, lol!
After I watched live stream, I have 2 questions. Sorry if you already answered on them and I missed it.
1. When I do the scales on AH vowel, I go to the head voice after a D4 or D#4. I can sing them in my full voice, but if I do it lightly, I just go straight to the head voice. My goal is stretch my chest voice as high as I can. So is it right to use head voice right now, when I'm only on a volume 1?
2. And second question about stretching too. Should I take a long time for building chest before starting to train my head voice? I'm ready to give as much time as it need to build my chest as high as I can. But will it make sense to build only chest voice for, let's say, a year?
From Russia with love! :)
Hello, Алексей!
Thanks for tuning-in to the Live Stream. These are the types of questions that we answer in the student sections of the KTVA Forums. You need to register there and get your student upgrade and start a thread on the forums about these questions.
Master Ken
I am working my way to sing like Morten Harket, he uses mixes voice ALOT. I just wanted to know if that's a realistic goal?
It's worthwhile to aspire to be like our favorite singers. How far we take that will vary with each of us as an individual. Mix is an advanced technique. It requires some development in chest voice and head voice before getting really good in mix. If singing like Morten motivates you, then YES, big YES for his mix sound to be a standard for your goal!
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Mr tamplin would you advise getting a vocal coach or do you think I could manage being self tought?
I recommend my home course. It's just 35 years of my life and people pay a small sum to get an incredible amount of information and they can access it over and over for years. You would spend much more on a vocal coach, over a period of years. And they aren't training what I train.
@@kentamplin thanks again
So I'm a baritone and lately I got up to D#4 freely, so now I need to work on my head voice, right? I have some strain in the fifth octave in my head voice. Or should I stretch chest through vowel modifications at least to G4?
The best place to ask singing related questions is on the forum. Please join the discussion, enrollment is free.
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I am interested in seeing you for singing lessons
Donqlf, you can book lessons or order my home singing course here: KenTamplinVocalAcademy.com/
I might be to old. But I was given this gift that I cant share because of stagefright. I'll soon be 55.
I can Mix in exercises now But Can not Implement it on a Song. Will it Come Over time? Is it Normal?
Gray Have you had an opportunity to join my vocal forum? It's a great place to post your singing questions and others can benefit from the reply. Please join, it's free! forum.kentamplinvocalacademy.com/
Mr Ken I was practicing head compression songs like axle rose and vocal screaming and ended up blowing my voice .it cracks and it brakes when I try to sing head voice .how long it will take to come back is been 4 days now 😭😭 I should of had watch ur videos before doing so
Hi Ken,
What is your opinion on Prof Eugene Feuchtinger's silent exercises for voice... I bought your program and have been through one round of the course... awesome stuff, big fan!
I'm not a fan of silent exercises. It's OK to visualize things, but not without actually doing the thing, when it comes to vocals.
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So his method is putting the tongue in different positions to strengthen the underlying muscles. For example he advocates the tongue groove a lot.
I've been doing mixed voice exercises for a few weeks now, and it's became easier to go from chest to head but my mixed voice is very very very scratchy, I just want to know, will it clear up and the trasition and passagio become smoother?
Yes, it should clear up. Be sure to not sing too loudly, especially in mix or in head voice or upper chest. Oversinging can put that scratchiness in your passaggio, and mix happens in that same area.
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Don't you think that even the "dramatic" opera tenors use some mixed voice when they get much softer and occasionally need to get a little "lyrical," like when they are doing their famous "messa di voce"? Isn't seamless mixing of the voice part of their skills, too? I mean, obviously, their "pianissimo" is actually loud enough to reverberate around an opera hall unamplified (as is the pianissimo of many Broadway belters)! And I'd agree, you can get soft to some extent in a chest-voice. But wouldn't you call many changes in timbre/volume a kind of "mixing" the voice? Maybe you should cover "volume" as a topic, and how it relates to our practice and "chest-voice," "head-voice," "mixed-voice," and "ping-resonance."
It should be kind of obvious by the term "Mix" that a mixer has "faders" and part of getting an audio "mix" is done by manipulating and balancing elements. Certainly "volume" is a major element. And Yes, there are volume parameters in chest, mid, head, falsetto, and mix. The opera singers tend to shy away from calling it "mix" lest there be a pop invasion into classical singing, but certainly they do manipulate volume to attain some of the tonal shades, including in messa di voce.
Hi Ken, been following you for couple of months now, I am saving up to purchase your course.. meanwhile can I ask you a question please?
I came across a vocal coach on youtube saying that there's various levels of mixed voice, differentiating in the ratio of mixing head and chest voice... is that true? How many types/levels of mixed voice are there?
About three, but it's variable. It comes down to how well you can blend at different areas of the mix.
Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy thank you! Is this covered in your course as well?
Hey ken,
Can you please Define strong chest voice?
Maybe you should tell me what that means to you? To me, it means a well-supported, bright tone, that is stable and strong, and, (depending on vocal fach) through a broad range of notes. Some of those notes may be considerably higher and/or lower than many peer vocalists have experience and strength with.
@@kentamplin thanks for your all advice and sharing tutorial how to do it. Head voice etc. I hope that you will tired sharing . Your so professional big help for me
@@kentamplin I hope that you will not tired to sharing your video thank you very much
how to post in forum ?
Register. Then, If you want to post a demo, first post your recording on TH-cam or Soundcloud, then put the url for your demo recording in a post and explain the issues or questions you have. When you have registered on the forums, then click the blue "New Discussion" button and select a category, give your posting a title, and post your message.
@@kentamplin but when i click new discussion it says you dont have the permission :((
@@kentamplin forum.kentamplinvocalacademy.com/discussion/10152/help-me-i-want-to-be-a-singer/p1?new=1 check this link
my mix voice sounds very light and ugly,helppp
marija - Mix voice is lighter than chest voice. You have to work it for a considerable time to grow it to become more stable. I have exercises for growing mix voice in my home course.
can i email u pls i need help
You may want to become a member of my singers forums. The moderators there are awesome.
Hi Champ ;) Houston, we got a problem :P I am baritone and I want to sing "18 and life" by Skid Row. I send you a record. My email is mindarcher. Anyway, I Will be gratefoul for some tips to sing that gorgeus song, especially part "That Child blew the child awaay! Greet ;)
Artur- Please post your demo on my vocal forum. You will get great feedback from either myself or one of my moderators. forum.kentamplinvocalacademy.com/
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