I have huge respect for this guy. He is such talented vocalist and artist and I love that the way he imparts knowledge from his personal experience is so down-to-earth and relatable.
Absolutely spot on!!! First person I’ve seen to actually explain mimicking in a positive light. Been doing it since grade school with singing, sound effects, etc and I’m in my 50’s now. So, basically I hide behind the ‘windshield audience as a result. This vid was such a breath of fresh air! THANK YOU S. Mackey!!!
Mimicry was the first thing I discovered on my own when I started my singing journey. It's true that I learned to understand my voice the fastest that way. What he doesn't really say is that by copying someone who is good at singing, it teaches you control of your voice and shows you new ways to move your voice and trains your ear to actually listen.
As a vocal coach, HE IS 100% SPOT ON! This is the gospel, literally! Love Stevie Mackey! Much love and mad respect!!! I did all the same annoying stuff too as a kid, LOL!!!
Stevie is so spot on. It’s from mimicking that you’re able to master sounds & techniques but more importantly discover your own voice. Stevie gets to the point & gives you insight that most vocal coaches don’t share. Yep, I’m a fan & have taken both of his classes!🙌🏽♥️🎶👍🏽
You cannot be a singer if you can't copy sounds! He is 100% correct! This dude is singing one of the highest notes Celine Dion did as I type this... holy shit!
To me, the key to find your style is mimic...I tell this to all of my singing students...in combination with speech therapy knowledge....singing teachers are like good stylists...it is just style advice, what suits your voice best ( in aa healthy way) together with the student's interest...every singer and style is like learning a new language in placement, phrasing etc
Thank you! You are truly a gift. Two things really resonated. One - from early on, I began learning to sing by listening for hours and copying other singers long before any vocal training. An explorer/adventurer by nature, I knew my body was the instrument. Every coach brought value. Often the lesson was finding my way back to listening to my body. Two - I LOVE your encouragement to listen to the body...trusting it. I remember learning to ski with a friend. While riding up chair lift, he asked, 'What's the worst thing that could happen?' I said, 'I'd die!'. He said, 'Well, that's not going to happen today..so here's what you're going to do. Just follow me and mimic everything I do.' I did, trusted it, and skiied like never before. Something I'm reminding myself when continuing to explore sound moving through me...and out. Always exploring! Thank you -
I can vouch for this, mimicking vocals in singing/rapping styles from Americans was how I started as a British kid. However, it can give you a distorted mindset if you're not self-aware. It took me until my late 20's to realise that my vocal range is deeper than the standard range I use it in. Despite being able to falsetto Jackson 5's "Who's Lovin' You", I found out that I'm a Baritone and not a Tenor.
14:10 what he said was so true, My daughter always asks me for advice on how to sing or if her voice sounds good. I don't think that I can sing but sometimes I'm able to help her with where the voice is coming from. Like if it's coming from the chest or the stomach or the nose or the throat.
As a natural born Beyhiver. I grew up mimicking Beyoncé’s runs and harmonies and belts. So much so I’ve gotten to the point where I feel like I have use my voice almost like an instrument like she does. I really want to build on that and go to vocal class
Def should be a video on clarity control. The things youre doing is mimicking but when people want to do it at home home theres a ton of issues that they can run into that is not present in this video
I learned so much from mimicking. I am lucky to have power and range, but control, riffs, runs and holding a note++ I learned from copying, and it's like a fun game. I feel validated, because I never heard anybody say this before, but of course we learn lots of techniques from this. And singing with someone who's as good or better makes me better in the moment, like pure magic. It's inspirational.
Steve's talent is Divine and is so down to Earth. We are truly blessed to see his approach. What a phenomenal talent for this planet to benefit from. Thank you!
This amazing. Getting the insight, and some very good pointers. Thank you Stevie, and Studio! I wonder what the rates are for Stevie Mackey, would be such a superb teacher to ones in a while get a session with
Mimicking my favorite artists is such an invaluable tool to figure out what your voice can really do. Hayley Williams is a big one for me, helped me transform my belt
I have so much from this video than all my years in a choir. This explains so much about my journey thus far in music and I’m excited to start mimicking.
💓💓💓💓💓💓 I VE GOT HOMEWORKS YESSSSSS (so many time surching in me....and forgetting the capacity of work in many directions by mimicking others) TY SO MUCH!!!
Oh crap mimicking the bells and everything just reminded me that I'm doing this shit all the time. The bip when the microwave is stopping, the coffee machine, everything really lmao !
Probably doesn’t particularly want to be. Could have gone on countless platforms to show what he does but didn’t. He’s probably so good at teaching and getting results that people find him through word of mouth.
Very nice lesson. I lost some vocal ability due to sickness and I'm slowly regaining it. This strategy will surely help to exercise my voice in ways I never knew how.
I can mimic a lot of these noises almost perfectly. My ear just sucks, I have that middle in-between he was talking about and always mimicked, but I'm one of the slowest to progress when it comes to singing, but im still trying and Im finally understand after 5 years lol. It always interested me why I could hit the mimics but never actually elongate or translate them to singing.
Yes jungkook from bts is amazing at mimicking everyone and everything literally like cartoons, sounds in the environment etc etc and he is an absolutely amazing singer!! Its helped him be able to sing in english and reproduce very spot on pronunciation . He even talks about the mimicking in various interviews and lives hes done. He has refined his listening skills in a very similar style to you💜💜💜💜
Wow, this video makes so much sense to me and makes me realize why singing came naturally to me since I was young. I practiced using different voices and later being taught to recite Arabic I'm sure helped a lot too. I found that I always made the biggest breakthroughs in singing better when I tried to mimic an artist like Michael Jackson, Billie Joe Armstrong, keshi or GIVEON down to the syllables and doing that made me have those tools naturally when I'm singing other songs. I always felt like I wanted vocal lessons but I didn't know what exactly to work on. I'd just search on TH-cam for exercises and stuff and hope that it would somehow make me better. This video was very validating for me and I think it makes me want to dedicate "mimicking" into my vocal practice, always seemed like a natural and fun thing to do anyway.
Wow !! This is Genius !! What a brilliant approach. !! i'm in ...Thanks for your inspiration Stevie !! ... Best Wishes RodGold :). Every Success to You Sir,,,
For my whole life up to this point I have always had the desire to learn to sing, I was very little when I would sing at the top of my lungs, my mom told me I was about 6 or 7 years old. I sang at my wedding in 1977. I took voice lessons for a little while from 2 different teachers. But, I got discouraged. I don’t think they were really good teachers. But, I am hoping one day, I will get to learn to sing 🎶 😮 this has been a very awesome video! I thank you. 😊
When I read "Celebrity Vocal Coach" I have to admit that my first reaction is "mmmhhhhmmm". But during the video that mindset is quickly changed to: "this is useful", "he acts very down to earth" to "clearly a good coach who can sing himself and intelligently pass on his knowledge". 👍
i am almost 40, and have been a mimic singer for my idols and i noticed i practice more on that and i did so as a hobby, it's true that it gives you a "perk" to be able to sing somewhat close to the original, but in doing so i forgot and lost practice on my own voice and in doing so lost the thrive to continue, so don't do what i did, keep practicing your own voice because it may seem like the perk let's in some sort of "cheat mode" but also effects the basics of singing, a great example of that is beatboxing when before one delves enough in the basics which is "boots n cats" without out-warding the sounds for it to sound like a drum kit, they go straight for the base throat or any advance technic for that matter, i can sing but not as good as i need to be by now, but i don't stress it because it still remains as a hobby of mine, but if you want to be serious keep practicing your own voice 1st but have no doubt in your abilities just like @studio has mentioned, your biggest limiter is you.
I used to hum along to the vacuum cleaner and match the tone This video reminds me of something fundamental I’m trying to access so I can sing like I always dreamed Except I for song and haven’t sung for a single soul
Thank you for this. I am a polyglot (someone that speaks multiple languages). The mockingbird is the ultimate copycat, and part of its latin name is poliglotis. I have been able to copy and mimic sounds, including the sounds of other singers. It always felt like i was not finding "my voice." Now, i can let go of decades of feeling less of a singer.
I had a vocal coach who told me to never mimic other singers. It was strictly taboo. There was something in me that thought this was wrong but hey, they were the teacher and I was paying them good money for their expertise lol
At the end he’s trying to teach soul she’s used to trying to hit the correct note n enunciate. That grit n off note is the feel / soul . It’s what gives the emotion to the lyrics
@@user-ng3mr8wc3o No shade to anyone but i’m not sure there are any aspiring singers looking to get her flavor of talent. It’s more of a turn off as a person wanting to get advice from great singers
I’m honestly glad I wasn’t the only one thinking it… like… that’s not a selling point. If anything it shows she really isn’t into being a serious vocalist because… it’s definitely not the teacher. I’ve been singing since childhood, but if I could do the work to learn from someone as great as him?! I’d be showing up doing the work as often as he deemed necessary and then some. Got the best resource but doesn’t care about the craft smh.
It helps to have the vocal range you have. I'm not a singer, but I do sing a few songs, and mimicking is all I can do. If you can imitate Elvis, try tightening it up, raise the pitch and put it in your nose. Now Sing Every Rose Has Its Thorn.
Interesting. I remember hearing stories of MJ prank calling people and playing with different voices on the phone. Hillarious. Another MJ thing I remember, is certain recordings of him his breaths become part of the song
That second Celine high note was crazy. Gave me chills. 😲🔥
Same omg I put my hand on my chest when he started singing Celine ❤
I have huge respect for this guy. He is such talented vocalist and artist and I love that the way he imparts knowledge from his personal experience is so down-to-earth and relatable.
Very glad to hear this!
The Mickey Mouse mimic was wild🤣🤣 too good
OMW!! You are the first vocal coach that makes sense. Mimicking sound. It's exactly how I started singing. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome!
Absolutely spot on!!! First person I’ve seen to actually explain mimicking in a positive light. Been doing it since grade school with singing, sound effects, etc and I’m in my 50’s now. So, basically I hide behind the ‘windshield audience as a result. This vid was such a breath of fresh air! THANK YOU S. Mackey!!!
I really love this philosophy around singing
Holy. I was skeptical at first but damn this dude has a tremendous gift. O.O
He's amazing!
Mimicry was the first thing I discovered on my own when I started my singing journey. It's true that I learned to understand my voice the fastest that way.
What he doesn't really say is that by copying someone who is good at singing, it teaches you control of your voice and shows you new ways to move your voice and trains your ear to actually listen.
As a vocal coach, HE IS 100% SPOT ON! This is the gospel, literally! Love Stevie Mackey! Much love and mad respect!!! I did all the same annoying stuff too as a kid, LOL!!!
Stevie is so spot on. It’s from mimicking that you’re able to master sounds & techniques but more importantly discover your own voice. Stevie gets to the point & gives you insight that most vocal coaches don’t share. Yep, I’m a fan & have taken both of his classes!🙌🏽♥️🎶👍🏽
Great tips, and awesome singer!!
this TH-cam channel is a huge blessing
Thanks so much!
I triple this sentiment@@Studio
watching this I realised how patient singers are. You can't annoy them with sounds 🤣
As a artist my self that’s stepping into singing. This has been a huge help. What a talented man ❤
I’m not only learning valuable information, but I’m also being entertained!
Such a great talent 👏🏼👏🏼
You cannot be a singer if you can't copy sounds! He is 100% correct! This dude is singing one of the highest notes Celine Dion did as I type this... holy shit!
He killed it 😮😮😮😮
To me, the key to find your style is mimic...I tell this to all of my singing students...in combination with speech therapy knowledge....singing teachers are like good stylists...it is just style advice, what suits your voice best ( in aa healthy way) together with the student's interest...every singer and style is like learning a new language in placement, phrasing etc
Very cool interpretation and accurate
Thank you! You are truly a gift. Two things really resonated. One - from early on, I began learning to sing by listening for hours and copying other singers long before any vocal training. An explorer/adventurer by nature, I knew my body was the instrument. Every coach brought value. Often the lesson was finding my way back to listening to my body. Two - I LOVE your encouragement to listen to the body...trusting it. I remember learning to ski with a friend. While riding up chair lift, he asked, 'What's the worst thing that could happen?' I said, 'I'd die!'. He said, 'Well, that's not going to happen today..so here's what you're going to do. Just follow me and mimic everything I do.' I did, trusted it, and skiied like never before. Something I'm reminding myself when continuing to explore sound moving through me...and out. Always exploring! Thank you -
I can vouch for this, mimicking vocals in singing/rapping styles from Americans was how I started as a British kid. However, it can give you a distorted mindset if you're not self-aware. It took me until my late 20's to realise that my vocal range is deeper than the standard range I use it in. Despite being able to falsetto Jackson 5's "Who's Lovin' You", I found out that I'm a Baritone and not a Tenor.
Great knowledge existing free on the internet. Thank you for sharing🙏🏾❤️
Thanks for watching!
14:10 what he said was so true, My daughter always asks me for advice on how to sing or if her voice sounds good. I don't think that I can sing but sometimes I'm able to help her with where the voice is coming from. Like if it's coming from the chest or the stomach or the nose or the throat.
PS - Just to add my daughter is very good at mimicking voices like from her favourite TV shows and stuff. 😂
This is gold. And three minutes in, Stevie's facial expressions and way of speaking reminded me of MJ. Glad to see how he used him as an example.
wow, this is .... special. Pure understanding of how singing works. Good that we have so much "legends" to mimic from.
One of the most important things I've heard about singing, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Love and respect to STEVIE MACKEY, These are some incredible valuable lessons. It's gonna change my life.♥️🤟
"Sound bank" First time to hear this. Very intelligent
Nice!! So much talent!! You can do voiceovers dubbing for cartoons and animation movies as well!!
As a natural born Beyhiver. I grew up mimicking Beyoncé’s runs and harmonies and belts. So much so I’ve gotten to the point where I feel like I have use my voice almost like an instrument like she does. I really want to build on that and go to vocal class
Love you, Stevie!!! Honestly, amazing video! I mean the improvement you made with the female student was incredible.
This is the best channel about music on the whole TH-cam
Def should be a video on clarity control. The things youre doing is mimicking but when people want to do it at home home theres a ton of issues that they can run into that is not present in this video
I learned so much from mimicking. I am lucky to have power and range, but control, riffs, runs and holding a note++ I learned from copying, and it's like a fun game.
I feel validated, because I never heard anybody say this before, but of course we learn lots of techniques from this.
And singing with someone who's as good or better makes me better in the moment, like pure magic. It's inspirational.
Steve's talent is Divine and is so down to Earth. We are truly blessed to see his approach. What a phenomenal talent for this planet to benefit from. Thank you!
Never put words to it like this, but this is great. Mimicking is how I learned, too. It's essentially the intuitive study of a voice
Stevie...my goodness you are blowing me away with mimicking...so on point!!
This amazing. Getting the insight, and some very good pointers. Thank you Stevie, and Studio!
I wonder what the rates are for Stevie Mackey, would be such a superb teacher to ones in a while get a session with
I have echolalia, and agree it is a big plus to perfecting and expanding the range of your mouth instrument...
That voice 😭❤... I'm subscribing
Welcome aboard!!
absolutely fabulous vocal coach! what a gem!!!
Mimicking my favorite artists is such an invaluable tool to figure out what your voice can really do. Hayley Williams is a big one for me, helped me transform my belt
I have so much from this video than all my years in a choir. This explains so much about my journey thus far in music and I’m excited to start mimicking.
Crying out loud this dude did Cher INCLUDING THE AUTO TUNE!😂 😮
YOOOOOOO Stevie mimicing is crazy!
💓💓💓💓💓💓 I VE GOT HOMEWORKS YESSSSSS (so many time surching in me....and forgetting the capacity of work in many directions by mimicking others) TY SO MUCH!!!
Wow. Those impressions were so on point! Subbed just for that
Welcome aboard!
Oh crap mimicking the bells and everything just reminded me that I'm doing this shit all the time. The bip when the microwave is stopping, the coffee machine, everything really lmao !
This Man is such an Amazing teacher🙌🏽
Amazing. Unreal insights and demonstration. Thank you thank you thank you!!! 😊
AMAZINGGGGG
Thanks for watching!
How is this guy not famous himself!?
Probably doesn’t particularly want to be. Could have gone on countless platforms to show what he does but didn’t. He’s probably so good at teaching and getting results that people find him through word of mouth.
So true.
He's famous to musicians haha
He is❤
Very nice lesson. I lost some vocal ability due to sickness and I'm slowly regaining it. This strategy will surely help to exercise my voice in ways I never knew how.
Amazing, glad it helps!
Awesome vocal coach and vocalist.
Thank you!
This was wildly insightful
Stevie just makes sense when explaining
I can mimic a lot of these noises almost perfectly. My ear just sucks, I have that middle in-between he was talking about and always mimicked, but I'm one of the slowest to progress when it comes to singing, but im still trying and Im finally understand after 5 years lol. It always interested me why I could hit the mimics but never actually elongate or translate them to singing.
Yes jungkook from bts is amazing at mimicking everyone and everything literally like cartoons, sounds in the environment etc etc and he is an absolutely amazing singer!! Its helped him be able to sing in english and reproduce very spot on pronunciation . He even talks about the mimicking in various interviews and lives hes done. He has refined his listening skills in a very similar style to you💜💜💜💜
Half ladies singer
This guy is a great coach!
Wow, this video makes so much sense to me and makes me realize why singing came naturally to me since I was young. I practiced using different voices and later being taught to recite Arabic I'm sure helped a lot too. I found that I always made the biggest breakthroughs in singing better when I tried to mimic an artist like Michael Jackson, Billie Joe Armstrong, keshi or GIVEON down to the syllables and doing that made me have those tools naturally when I'm singing other songs.
I always felt like I wanted vocal lessons but I didn't know what exactly to work on. I'd just search on TH-cam for exercises and stuff and hope that it would somehow make me better. This video was very validating for me and I think it makes me want to dedicate "mimicking" into my vocal practice, always seemed like a natural and fun thing to do anyway.
What a wholesome vocal coach.
This guy is the truth 🙌
Holy freaking shite, Steve is such a TALENT both singing and coaching!
Wow !! This is Genius !! What a brilliant approach. !! i'm in ...Thanks for your inspiration Stevie !! ... Best Wishes RodGold :). Every Success to You Sir,,,
thanks bro currently listening to it
Very well done. Makes me want to take singing lessons…🎶
you're in the right place! Make sure to check out Stevie's class on Studio!
He is incredible.
This was great. Far better than I was expecting
Great, thank you!
I lost it at 8:03 this man is incredible!
Really amazing, glad you enjoyed it!
this guy just dropped the best vocal advice
Watching this video makes me very humble to learn more about singing.. Thank you 🙏🏾 so very much
You're so welcome!
For my whole life up to this point I have always had the desire to learn to sing, I was very little when I would sing at the top of my lungs, my mom told me I was about 6 or 7 years old. I sang at my wedding in 1977. I took voice lessons for a little while from 2 different teachers. But, I got discouraged. I don’t think they were really good teachers. But, I am hoping one day, I will get to learn to sing 🎶 😮 this has been a very awesome video! I thank you. 😊
When I read "Celebrity Vocal Coach" I have to admit that my first reaction is "mmmhhhhmmm". But during the video that mindset is quickly changed to: "this is useful", "he acts very down to earth" to "clearly a good coach who can sing himself and intelligently pass on his knowledge". 👍
i am almost 40, and have been a mimic singer for my idols and i noticed i practice more on that and i did so as a hobby, it's true that it gives you a "perk" to be able to sing somewhat close to the original, but in doing so i forgot and lost practice on my own voice and in doing so lost the thrive to continue, so don't do what i did, keep practicing your own voice because it may seem like the perk let's in some sort of "cheat mode" but also effects the basics of singing, a great example of that is beatboxing when before one delves enough in the basics which is "boots n cats" without out-warding the sounds for it to sound like a drum kit, they go straight for the base throat or any advance technic for that matter, i can sing but not as good as i need to be by now, but i don't stress it because it still remains as a hobby of mine, but if you want to be serious keep practicing your own voice 1st but have no doubt in your abilities just like @studio has mentioned, your biggest limiter is you.
I used to hum along to the vacuum cleaner and match the tone
This video reminds me of something fundamental I’m trying to access so I can sing like I always dreamed
Except I for song and haven’t sung for a single soul
Beautiful voice
I am not a singer, but I sing to feel, the resonance, I like the feeling.
Then you ARE a singer. Just shy. ❤
Thank you for this. I am a polyglot (someone that speaks multiple languages). The mockingbird is the ultimate copycat, and part of its latin name is poliglotis. I have been able to copy and mimic sounds, including the sounds of other singers. It always felt like i was not finding "my voice." Now, i can let go of decades of feeling less of a singer.
Why does this not have more views 😭 this is gold 😍
you are a collection of everything you heard so true
STEVIE IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
He is!!
That’s the Suzuki methodology. Nice perspective.
yeah he too nice with it!! his falsetto sounds great too!!
Thank you so much!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I had a vocal coach who told me to never mimic other singers. It was strictly taboo. There was something in me that thought this was wrong but hey, they were the teacher and I was paying them good money for their expertise lol
The Cher was spot on ❤👏
Legend.
I just started my interest in singing i love these videos
great to hear this!!
At the end he’s trying to teach soul she’s used to trying to hit the correct note n enunciate. That grit n off note is the feel / soul . It’s what gives the emotion to the lyrics
I thought this was a joke until he sang “my heart will go on” RESPECT!!!
“selena gomezs vocal coach” doesn’t really capture how good he is… more so the opposite. maybe amber riley would be a better name
In 0:03 it said he coached whitney, stevie wonder, avery wilson, nicole scherzinger and jojo like... WHY DID HE PUT SELENA'S NAME ON THE THUMBNAIL
@@summertime9332out of alllllll the choices…. i couldn’t believe my eyes knowing who he is
@@user-ng3mr8wc3o No shade to anyone but i’m not sure there are any aspiring singers looking to get her flavor of talent. It’s more of a turn off as a person wanting to get advice from great singers
I’m honestly glad I wasn’t the only one thinking it… like… that’s not a selling point. If anything it shows she really isn’t into being a serious vocalist because… it’s definitely not the teacher. I’ve been singing since childhood, but if I could do the work to learn from someone as great as him?! I’d be showing up doing the work as often as he deemed necessary and then some. Got the best resource but doesn’t care about the craft smh.
He probably thought Selena was the most mainstream so that would gain more engagement
He is so inspiring!! I love him!! ✨️
This was mind blowing to me - awesome.
6:57-7:40 Did you use mixed voice in hitting those high notes during that part ?
I love you Mr Mackey.
It helps to have the vocal range you have. I'm not a singer, but I do sing a few songs, and mimicking is all I can do. If you can imitate Elvis, try tightening it up, raise the pitch and put it in your nose. Now Sing Every Rose Has Its Thorn.
Não esperava aprender tanto em um vídeo
Your brilliant!
Interesting. I remember hearing stories of MJ prank calling people and playing with different voices on the phone. Hillarious. Another MJ thing I remember, is certain recordings of him his breaths become part of the song
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
100% agree with everything in the video. I like doing Elmo too but everyone begs me to stop LOL. Subscribed!
Thanks and welcome aboard!
Mimicking sounds as an instinct is echolalia (often a part of ADHD) not weird, just different ❤
That was actually insightful 😉
That's great, thank you!