Chords for How To Sing Better For Guys Part One

So, everybody ready?
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_ [N] Let's go!
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_ _ _ _ How [Ab] to Sing Better for Guys.
_ Welcome to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where we're going
to be discussing how to sing better for guys.
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_ _ Hi [Ab] guys, Ken Tamplin from Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, and [Eb] I'm going to teach you a little
bit about the voice and voice lessons [Gm] today.
[F] This is part [Bb] one in a three-part series on
how to sing better for [F] guys.
Now, there's a lot of different styles and a lot [G] of different
approaches to singing, so [Eb] that one subject isn't just how to sing better for all guys,
because it's how to sing better in whatever style you're looking to sing.
Well, there are some very basic non-negotiables to singing, and I want to point out that most
of the time, not all [B] the time, but most of the time, guys want to sing harder than girls.
They want to get out there and just belt and wail.
[Gb] Save me!
Help! _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And then there's the other side of R&B or pop guys that are just looking to have some
soul and some good licks and some good tone [C] and good resonance and [E] stamina and so forth,
and range, which we all want. _
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But _ [N] I want to cover both aspects fairly briefly.
I'm going to discuss rock singing first, and
then I'm going to break into more pop and R&B.
So the very first thing is, is that we want to have awesome posture.
We want to sit up
straight, or stand up straight.
And by the way, when you sit, you lose up to 30% of your
strength in your abdomen when singing, so I recommend you stand if you can.
But anyways, you're going to want to stand, and you're going to want to take a breath
from your belly, from your abdomen.
Instead of breathing like we do like this, from our
chest, we want to _ _ [Eb] breathe from our abdomen, from our [E] belly and our diaphragm.
So you've heard a lot about [C] diaphragmatic support, so I'm not going to cover that here.
I have some tutorials on my website regarding diaphragmatic support, and I have an amazing
course called How to Sing Better Than [N] Anyone Else.
So anyway, I want to talk about how to sing better for guys, so we're going to start first
with this bright ping in an AH vowel. _ _ _ _
AH.
AH.
I coined a phrase, it's called It's the LAH.
AH.
And it's that nice, open throat, bright ping sound that keeps us from sort of choking on
our vowel sounds, or pinching and squeezing as we go up.
Now there's a lot to this, but I'm just going to go through the basic elements of this first,
and then if you're interested, check out my course, or check out my channel, and I cover
a good amount of this stuff.
So, we're going to start with the mean average of singers, and that would be a bare tone.
And so we're going to start down in like a mid-barre or upper mid-barre range, and we're
just going to go through a simple [Bb] triad scale like this.
_ _ _ _ LAH. _
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_ [D] _ Now try to keep the jaw as stable as possible.
Try not to move the mandible or the jaw.
Keep it in a marble or static or stable position.
We're going to continue [B] up a triad scale like this. _ _ _
_ _ LAH.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Don't forget your breath.
Take [C] your breath and use your breath.
Bring in the breath, kind of like you're doing a sit-up, the feeling of how much strength
is required when you're doing a sit-up.
So let's continue. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] LAH. _
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ [F] Take your breath.
[E] Relax the shoulders.
Relax the arms.
Relax the neck.
Let's continue.
Nice, bright, open AH.
I don't mean _ LOH, _ or AH.
_ [D] I mean AH. _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [N] LAH. _ _
_ _ Do yourself a favor.
Even get out a handheld mirror and look at the back of your throat and see if your throat
is nice and wide open, and that your tongue is placed to the base of the jaw so it's not
causing any stricture or any _ constriction in the back of the throat so that the throat
can be as free as possible to create this nice, bright timbre [Eb] of sound. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] LAH. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [B] LAH.
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_ Okay, now, for most guys, for the mean average, like me, I'm a high baritone, but I can sing
well into the soprano range.
There are some different registrations, and I want to talk briefly about them, and I cover
this extensively in my course, and that's that there's something called the speaking
register, and that's the register that I'm talking to you at right now.
I'm speaking to you in a specific registration of the voice.
Now, as we move up into higher notes, the chords actually vibrate quicker, so they become
a little bit more tense, and they become a little bit, _ _ you know, what's the word?
There's a lot more strength in the sound, or more strength is required in the sound.
So, what we really need to do is have a [C] greater relaxation response so that we don't create
[Ab] tension in the neck or the throat as we ascend a passage or a scale.
[Bb] _ This [Gm] concludes Part 1 in a series on how to sing [G] better for guys.
Stay tuned for Part 2. _ _
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