Chords for Bass Singing Tips Discussion With Eric Bennett How To Sing Bass Technique

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_ _ _ Hey [G] guys, thanks so [Bb] much for joining us right here at the Bass Singing Central YouTube channel
And where we are giving you guys tips and thoughts and techniques and all kinds of different stuff
we're just basically trying to build a community for bass singers to come to to
Continue to develop as bass singers, maybe to get some ideas for going lower going higher
How to maybe make your voice sound fuller
Just anything bass singing, but this is my friend Eric Bennett
[N] And he is with a group called Triumphant Quartet.
They are great
they're in Southern Gospel music and Eric is a
Fantastic bass singer and Eric you're too nice and in another interview we did before [D] I actually told you that you were one of the
guys I listened to as I was a young man learning to sing bass and
I love your singing you are a fantastic singer.
Love yours.
Thank you
And so I want you to just give these guys
Not necessarily your history, but just some thoughts about bass singing what helps you along your journey
Maybe some tips for them and let's just have a discussion about singing bass
So maybe we can help these guys out a little bit.
Okay.
Well, first of all for me
I used to you know want to be I was a big Tim Riley fan
And I love George Yones.
I loved _
several different singers but
And I tried to do the mask, you know the
you've I'm sure all of you discussed that and trying to get it up in the mask and where the
you know point comes out at the forehead and
For me that works to some degree _ but _ _ I
Think there's a combination between for me.
I don't know that I want to be known as the lowest bass singer in the world
I just want to to be known as somebody that can hit a low note here and there and
So I don't and plus the the placement sometimes you have to can make
_ Faces and you know different things.
Yeah that I'm not willing to do on stage
_ But so I don't want to go that route with it so I just chosen to
Hit a low note here there and not focus so much on my lows.
I want to focus more on my upper range
Because and what we do
Not not everybody like, you know, sometimes some people are in different, you know forms of music country music or whatever
but if you're in gospel music
the number one thing is the message of the song and that the lyrics and
so you want to be able to deliver those lyrics in a way that _
You know would touch somebody so [N] I
Always told Matt me and Matt were talking about this earlier if you touch an ear with your voice
_ You'll be forgotten but if you touch somebody's heart with your voice
_ You'll be remembered _
and I always say that every
Every quartet whatever has a bass singer.
That's why they're quartet and every bass singer is low.
That's why they sing the bass part
_ So what is different about you if everybody if all bass singers just saying low all the time
Then there would be no difference in bass singers
so my thing is is to be figure out who you are figure out how you want to sing and
What kind of singer you want to be and do you want to leave the concert?
Especially if you're in the gospel music.
Do you want to leave the concert?
Somebody's saying wow that guy's low down that guy can sing low or do you want to leave the concert saying?
Wow, that guy made a difference in my life touch my heart, whatever
So that's that's kind of where I'm at with it and I think those are fantastic tips because
You know just going on what you were saying about what kind of bass singer do you want to be?
I mean that was kind of one of the things that I said in one of the videos that I posted was just I
Picked some guys that I liked their voice, but they were all different.
Yes.
I mean, I'll be honest with you
I picked you because you can sing a melody of a song just
Superbly, thank you.
I love listening to you sing a lead and Linga sing a verse on a song now
I listen to Tim Riley because Tim Riley can sit _ on a low F
Yeah, and just make it sound as big as a house.
Yes
But I love listening to you sing
Just a slight you were just saying a song that has a beautiful message
and so that's some of the things that people that I listen to for different reasons and then my voice just kind of kind of
Came into what it is.
I don't feel like I sound like anybody.
No, you particularly
_ _ Fouch that's what I want.
Yeah, there's only one Matt Fouch Yeah
and and the thing about it is
You know, I knew a long time ago that I I'm not I'm not the type of singer
To sit down on a low F every night.
I'm just not that I'm I'm the most
I'm the most consistent inconsistent singer that I know to be honest with you.
I never [F] know
How my voice is gonna [Abm] be so it's gonna be worried about it getting all freaked out about it
you know, right and because one of the I do know this one of the best _
Tips that I can give you as far as singing bass is to relax
_ Guys, sorry for the edit, but my arm started
_ _ _ [G] So I went ahead and did edit but [N] Eric you were talking about the best tip you could give guys
It's yeah relax to relax, but when I'm nervous
_ man, my voice cracks breaks all that stuff when I'm relaxed and just seem like the low stuff is easier and
the high stuff is easier but
You know God gifted us all in different ways
And I would just really suggest that you be find out who you are and be you
And be comfortable with that now
Do you have maybe just one tip for those guys that say, you know, I agree with that
But I really feel like I can sing lower than I am
Do you have a tip or an exercise or a technique that maybe they can?
Work on as a young guy or middle-aged guys to maybe get them to go a half step lower or a note lower
one thing that I do a lot of times is and this is gonna sound weird, but
[Ab] _ One thing I do is I put my tongue in the roof of my mouth
_ And I just uh-huh
Okay, if you just hum [Eb] with it with your tongue in the roof of your mouth _ _ _
[N] Can open up your nose
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And [E] and and it [Fm] seems to just it seems to make the voice come out up here as opposed to down here, right and so
That's what that's the one tip [B] that I have
Everybody, you know, I said everybody has these tips that come out here and this and that but that's my one tip
So cool, but guys, thanks so much again for watching.
Thank you Eric for the great [E] great words of wisdom
Eric's a pro man.
You've been doing how many years 20 about 25 full-time.
Yeah, so so old man
You're not gonna get any better [G] tips from anybody else for just straight up singing bass.
No matter what genre you're in
Just becoming a better bass singer.
So thanks for watching
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