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Singing Lessons for Beginners.
So you want to learn how to sing or you want to
start to learn how to sing.
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Well _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ [E] _ _ _ _ [N] I want to help you on your journey understand some of the most basic
fundamental and rudimentary things that takes a basic or non singer into a
decent singer or even a great singer.
And these are non-negotiables.
These are
things that we all have to do no matter what level of singing we are.
These are
things that really help us on our journey for singing.
So the very very
first thing is pitch.
Now I want to talk about you know breath support and vowel
placement and we'll get into some of that.
But pitch.
Can you carry any kind of
a tune?
You know can you sing happy birthday or can you sing a simple
nursery rhyme?
That's key and then basically holding that pitch will
help us determine how well you're going to be able to translate this and grow
quickly in and on your journey for singing.
So I'm going to take us through
some simple scales and I'm going to do a male version and a female version so
hang in there I'll do the girls second.
But the basic things are this.
The first
thing is posture.
We want to sit up straight.
We don't want to get our spine
tipped in any direction.
We don't want to look up at the ceiling when we're going
for high notes or look down.
We want to have a good command of our breath.
Alright so I'm going to have some scales and I'm going to have you match the tone
of the scale with a very very simple arpeggio which is just a three note
chord and I'm going to go through these notes very simply and show you how you
can start your journey for singing.
So we want to open up our mouth.
Ah.
Ah.
We're
going to do the ah vowel and there's several vowels that you have to work to
build muscle memory so that this becomes second nature.
But for starters we're
just going to build some simple muscle memory.
We're going to take a breath from
our belly, from our abdomen, not from our chest like this.
We want to take a
breath from our belly as best as we can and I have a whole section on
diaphragmatic breathing on my website so if you're interested I have all this in
my singing course called How to Sing Better Than Anyone Else.
So to get
started I'm going to do the mean average of the male voice which is the baritone
or high baritone registers.
So we're going to start with an ah vowel and [Bb] we're
going to do something very simple.
We're just going to _ go_ _ _
[A] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] What we want is we want to match that tone so try to match the [Eb] tone with me.
_ _ And if you can, open up the back of your throat as wide as possible that's
comfortable and try to hear that nice bright ping.
Ah.
That's not_
Oh.
[Bb] Right.
It's ah.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] We're going to move up the scale.
[B] _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [Gb] _ _
We'll move it up a little higher.
Try to match [C] the tone.
_ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [N] _ _ Ah.
_ [B] _
_ [Gb] Remember to take your breath.
The breath is very important.
It's the
engine that drives your car for singing.
So take [Db] your breath. _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ Now this brightness and this tone is actually the only true sound that really
grows the voice.
So it keeps us from strictures in the back of the throat so
it's like_
and getting choking on our vowel sounds.
You know, getting caught up
on [D] or getting caught on the chord in the vowels.
So let's continue.
_ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [Gb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ [F] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ [C] Ah.
_ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Db] _ [E] _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ _ _ Now what you want to do is try to match this triad or this three note chord that
I'm singing in order to be able to get into that pitch and really use your
stomach to do it.
So I want you to take a breath between each one of these phrases
that we're singing.
Then I want you to totally relax and then I want you to
keep that throat open every time you go to sing one of these scales so we
actually can start to develop this good open throat technique for on your
journey to begin for learning how to sing.
So ladies, the same is true for you.
Now girls, you usually blow a lot more air than guys.
So your challenge is to
instead of going_
and I'll start where we're a mean average of an [E] alto or
contralto range and I'm not going to move up real high into the soprano [Ab] range
but I'm going to start with you here. _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ [B] _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now an important thing too [N] is to not be real staccato. _
_ Be kind of portamento and just kind of have it
in a slope so it's more like a sine wave rather than a square wave as [B] we're
going up.
Let's continue.
you _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [C] _ now _ [F] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Db] _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ we want to be really careful to seamlessly connect these notes so we can
build a nice bright timbre and start to really remove any stricture or [E] anything
that sounds like we could be choking on our [N] vowel sounds.
So this is an excellent place to start to learn how to learn how to sing, and I have
an amazing course, it's called How to Sing and How to Learn How to Sing Better Than Anyone Else.
I cover all this in my course, and if you're interested, check it out.
It'll really help you understand all of these different mechanics.
I walk you through them step by step, I demonstrate them, and I have my students demonstrate them
themselves so you can see all different levels of singing.
I also have an over 5,000 member singers forum that will help you with 8 different moderators,
including myself, that help field and answer your questions.
So hope this helps.
Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy.
Peace out. _