How to Sing Your EE Vowel With More Ease and Resonance
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If you struggle with a tight, thin, swallowed or pushed EE vowel, this video may just be your knight in shining armour! Singing vowels with the best shape makes ALL the difference to your sound.
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Helpful!
You've reminded me an old technique I learned in a college choir director about 38 years ago.
Thanks!
after watching 5 videos on the subject, this is by far the best tip and explanation!
Ahh that makes me so happy to hear, thanks for sharing! :)
O so cool, curving the tongue idea was so helpful... The back of mine tends to rise and close off with the ee sound so this helped. Thanks!
So so glad this helped Steve!
I love singing EE!! If I could sing whole songs just on EE, I'd be so happy lol. Thank you for the information, I also love finding out why a sound is working :)
Haha me too Bron but apparently not everyone is a huge EE fan like us! ;)
wow, what a difference in the sound. I've been struggling for ever to hit that hi ee. Thought I just couldn't sing or wasn't my range. All it took was a small shift of the tongue. Thank you.
J I'm so happy it made such a difference for you! Often what we feel as huge challenges with our voices can transform with a small change. 😊 Thanks so much for sharing your story!
Thanks for the suggestions. Struggling with a musical theatre song that is quite short and relatively easy in melody, but half of the lines of the lyrics end with crescendo on "years", "tears", and "-ing".
Hope it helps - good luck! :)
Thank u so much Kimberly it totally helped!! I felt so strained before, but it suddenly feels like any other vowel now!!!
I just realised this weekend I have a problem with resonances singing E. Thin whiny sound. I experimented with different things and realised I can get it more open doing silly things inside my mouth. Did a Google search, found you and you confirm exactly what I've experimented. Thank you!!!!
Ooh I love that you experimented first and then came across this video to confirm it. We can learn so much about our voices simply by exploring different approaches, shapes and ways of expressing. I hope this video helped you feel more confident to follow your intuition when it comes to your voice. :)
THIS LITERALLY WORKED LIKE MAGIC OMG THAT'S NOT AN EXAGGERATION TYSM I CAN BELT THE E VOWEL SM EASIER Y'ALL OMG
OMG!!! That fixed it...Thank you!
Woohoo, I'm so glad it worked for you Jimmy. Thanks for sharing!
This is great. I never heard this from my vocal coach
I've been struggling with this for so long! Thankyou!!
Hello Kimberley. Thank you for this great lesson, I'm so glad I found your channel!
I'm so glad you did too, thanks John! :)
So helpful! You are such an inspiration to me! Thank you so much for all the free great tips! 💗
It's my absolute pleasure, thanks so much for watching my videos - it means a lot to me!
This really helped me, can you also make a video on the ‘ah’ vowel?
Hi Rem, so so glad it helped you! Unfortunately the Ah vowel is a little more complicated as it resonates differently and we may have to modify it as we go higher in our range (especially in contemporary music).
It is included in a paid program I have over here though: thatsweetroar.com/vowel-shaping-studio
This made me subscribe!
That's fantastic Kamen, welcome welcome. It's wonderful to have you here and I hope you find lots of the videos useful! :)
Brilliant, only video that precisely explains what to do with your tongue. Do you have similar tips for the OO vowel?
Thanks so much Kim! This was an especially good walkthrough for me.
My absolute pleasure lovely, so thrilled it helped!
You make such great videos. You need more subs! You’re awesome
Thank you so much, that means the world. x
I agree om Every thing but likes to ad the relaxed yaw even if that goes for all the vowels.
I don't know who gave you that lonesome downvote, but your video helped me out.
No matter whether or not I'm in chest or head voice. I appreciate the help, @Kimberley Smith!
Bye the way, my mother's name was Kimberly and she sang too! How about that.
Aww thank you, I'm so excited to hear that it helped you all the way across your range! :)
With a lot of us covering "Free falling" lately, we get quickly acquainted with needing a good E on A4....LOL!
Haha great song to practice it on!
Thank you! Please I didn't see the link to the soft palette video
You have helped me soooooo much! Bless you!
Thank you very much for such beneficial advice!
My absolute pleasure Joe, I'm delighted that it helped you! :)
Unlike some say that stretch lips ,but practically that looks not natural while speaking fast and in flow. The one which you explained is better .I have been trying it ,but while speaking fast ,it also is missed or skipped unintentionally.
Oh my god this totally works!!!
Woohoo, glad you noticed a difference! :)
I think hands in front of ears it is more efficient to hear your voice outwards of you than behind.
OMG THANK YOU
My utter pleasure, thank you for watching!
Hay Kim! First of all, thank you for the gorgeous work here on TH-cam. I'd like to know: what do you think about nasal resonance(I don't mean nasality)???
Hi Antonio, thanks so much for your lovely compliment and for taking the time to comment!
Well the nasopharynx is certainly one of the resonating cavities for the voice. We want to alter the shape the vocal tract for what we perceive as the best balance in the resonating spaces and unfortunately sometimes when people try to add twang (nasality) to the tone, it's creating more tension than allowing the sound to resonate more naturally. One thing you do want to watch out for is letting air escape through your nose. Not sure if that answered your question, but I hope it helped!
I hope I won't let you become exaggerated and overconfident: But you're the best singing coach I found - though I just looked at youtube (for a longer time - and thought it's not helpful at all).
Wow what a compliment Timothy, thank you. I promise I won't let my head get too big. ;)
Yay
Where is the link?
Omg i get it..thx
Woohoo, so thrilled to hear that Alka!
I couldn't-t find the link to the soft palate video Kimberley talks about.... Could anyone share it with me?
Omg i suddenly can sing better 😂 thank you!
I don't see any link to the soft palate video
I'm so sorry Bravilor (and thank you for pointing that out, I'll add it to the caption now. But it's this one here: th-cam.com/video/0j4FjjHHXqY/w-d-xo.html
There's a certain point in the top of my range where I can sing the ee sound without my tongue touching my top teeth, is that okay to do or should that be avoided?
If it feels better to have the tongue high but not completely touching that's okay, just make sure it's not because you're over-lifting your soft palate though (I have a vid all about that too just in case).
Kimberley Smith Oh that makes sense! Thank you! I'll rewatch that video as well
why is E my easiest vowel =/
I like EE too Peter, so you're not alone!
What about "I" as in Side, I, Night, Ride.
Great question! This is what we call a "diphthong" (two vowel sounds next to each other). You'll want to sing most of the note as an AH and the the very last second switch to an EE. :)
Kimberley Smith AWESOME! Thanks for clearing that up.