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1. Singing Course Summary: That you turn out to be Oh. Seeing that satisfaction on
someone's face when they finally hit the high notes has always been the
best part for me. There's a huge difference
between singing in tune and singing with soul,
passion, and feeling. Sharing the methods that I personally use together
with my experience, enable students to develop their own wonderful
vocal qualities. If you've got determination
and passion for music, you're already halfway there. Yundibz are that
you're given to me. Students who follow the course
exercises step by step can expect to see
noticeable improvements even within the first few hours. And then six to eight feet. So again, inhale and push your tummy out now,
so I breathe in. You need to pull it right back. And I Y as You Li Oh. Hi Emily Red. And I hope
you enjoy my course.
2. Course Intro & About Emily Reed: Hi, I'm Emily. Thank you so much for purchasing this course. I'm really grateful that you've given me the opportunity to share all of my knowledge and help you become the singer that you would like to be. It's taken me tens of hours of planning and filming, and I've made sure that I have included the most helpful and best advice from over 20 years of experience in this course, I will completely reveal the strategy behind my entire method that I have used over the last 20 years, which has allowed me to progress from a beginner to a successful singer. This will firstly include a basic knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the voice and understanding ways actually going on inside your throat while you're singing can help you improve your vocal technique. I'll also be teaching you breathing techniques. Warm up exercises, good posture. Microphone technique, how to structure a song, how to overcome nerves. Tips for going to auditions. Three secret tips on how hi notes. And I'll show you the five most common seeing stakes and how to overcome them. And I will even give you a complete understanding on how to market yourself online for paid work. Showing you how to put together your own publicity, your photos, audio show reels, video show reels, etc. To tipped on building your own website, working on cruise ships and more. For the price of one singing lesson, I've included a wealth of knowledge that you can keep forever and learn at your own pace.
3. Physiology & Anatomy of the Voice : So firstly, I'd like to explain how the voice actually works. And this is mainly for the beginners out there, but also for some experienced singers who maybe would just never introduced to the basics of the voice. It's nice to know exactly how the voice works is it gives you a better understanding on what is actually going on in the body while you're singing. And this will also help you maintain your vocal techniques and also your vocal health. So you certainly don't need to remember all the ins and outs and the terminology that I'm going to use. But it's certainly useful to have a basic knowledge if you currently are or want to become a singer. The first and foremost, how you actually breathe is essential for singing properly. So I've got a diagram here which will just show you first of all, your lungs, obviously, as you can see here. And just under your lungs is this dome shaped muscle, also known as the diaphragm. So air will enter the lungs through the trachea, which is this pipe here, which is also known as the windpipe. And it runs in front of your esophagus. So when you inhale, your ribcage will move out and sideways and the diaphragm will move down. And as you exhale, your lungs compress. And the air is pushed out as the ribcage and diaphragm return to their relaxed position. So let's move to the larynx, also known as the voice box. The larynx sits on top of the windpipe and actually plays the role of protecting the windpipe. This is home to your vocal folds, also known as vocal cords. And the larynx is made up of cartilages, joints, ligaments, and muscles. We then have the pharynx, which is a part of the vocal tract. And this is shaped during the singing to produce a good sound. The sound that is produced in the larynx comes up the vocal tract and is amplified based on the position of your neck, tongue, your mouth, the resonance of the nasal cavity and the shape of the pharynx. Now here is a photo of the larynx from above. You won't be able to actually view your own larynx yourself, but you will be able to see the top part of your pharynx, which is just here at the bottom. The front part of the larynx here, It's actually called the epiglottis. And during breathing, the epiglottis moves upwards so that the air enters and exits the windpipe and into the lungs freely. When you swallow, the epiglottis moves back and covers the entrance to the larynx to prevent food going into the larynx and the lungs. You will now see this triangular shaped opening here, which is narrow at the front and a bit wider at the back. The narrow openings are called the glottis. And here on this first diagram you can see that the vocal cords are open here. And that allows air to pass when we breathe. On the other diagram here, you can see that the vocal cords are together. And the vocal cords actually closed when we speak or sing. So to bring the vocal cords together, you need to engage the muscles of the larynx that influenced the position, shape, and tension of the vocal cords. So let's view the larynx another way, and this is from the front. This is your voice box with two chords. You've got false vocal cords, which are here. And you've got true vocal cords which are here either side. The false vocal cords are covered in a mucous lining but don't have any muscle. And they slightly vibrate when singing, especially if you're using vibrato. They also play a part in resonance, but do not produce any sound. The vocal folds are important when you swallow as they prevent closure, stopping any food going into the windpipe. The true vocal cords have three layers. The outer layer here being called mucosa. This layer will vibrate during quantitation. The deep layer here is made up of muscle tissue. These muscles can contract, which shortens the muscle folds in between these two layers is a vocal ligament. So as previously said, when we are just breathing, the vocal cords will stay open, which will allow the air to travel to the lungs. And when we speak or sing, the vocal folds come together, which causes the air pressure to build up beneath the folds. And that's called subclass stick pressure. As the pressure builds, the vocal cords was slightly open to allow air to pass, which causes the outer layer mucosa to vibrate. The tension, the shape, and the length of the vocal cords determine the pitch of the voice.
4. Breathing Techniques : One of the most important and essential things to get right when you're singing is breathing. And if you don't breathe correctly, it could lead to vocal nodules and unnecessary strain on the voice. Generally, people tend to breathe only from their chest. From here. They may suck in their tummies. And we'll possibly shrug their shoulders slightly while breathing. And this is a kind of breathing that is classic from someone who is stressed or anxious. So as explained on the anatomy section, we have a diaphragm here, just below the lungs, which we must use when singing. So I'll now show you the correct way of breathing when you're singing. So as you inhale or BH3, then you need to push your tummy out. Okay. So you need to push your tummy out. Can you see my tummy? Doesn't look very nice. I know, but this is the way to do it. This is the correct way. So pushing your tummy out as you breathe in now you only have to breathe through your nose so you don't have to breathe through your mouth, just your nose. So we'll do it again. So this is using your diaphragm to breathe. So again, inhale and push your tummy out. You may also see your chest rise slightly as well, and this is normal. And this will allow you to inhale so much more air than if you were just breathing, for instance, from your chess and your diaphragm wasn't being used at all. One way of practicing this is if you put your hand on your chest and your hand on your tummy, your other hand on your tummy. And as you breathe you push your tummy out and the hand on your tummy should move, should come out. Okay. So let's try that. Okay. You can feel your hand coming out. Hands on your tummy. Now your chest may rise as well, and that's very normal. But really what we want is we want the main movement to come from your stomach. And this is where you'll be able to take the biggest breath. And then when you're singing those long notes, you have the breath to control them. So most of the movement happens on your tummy. So when you exhale, you should then be able to feel your tummy going back in again, returning to normal. Okay, let's do ten breaths together now. So breathe in slowly as you can and try not to allow your shoulders to rise. Okay, let's go. That's it. Well done. I've lost count, but keep going. Okay, Well done. Apart from standing up, you can also practice this lying down on your back. It may feel slightly easier for you by giving you more sensation of what's actually happening around your middle. And also by breathing in this way because you can inhale more air, you will find that you'll also be able to sing longer notes and also maintain more control of your voice. So at first you may not be able to do it and you may struggle a bit and that's okay. But like anything, if you practice enough, it will feel easier and easier and eventually just become normal to you. So I suggest you do some practice for around ten minutes every day and eventually you won't even have to think about it anymore and it will just become a normal way of breathing. And when you are used to breathing from your diaphragm, you may find that you automatically breathe this way all the time. I now only breve using my diaphragm. And apparently this is a better way to breathe just in everyday life. And some scientists say it can potentially ideas onto your life as well. So good all around. So have a look as I explained this to one of my students alone. Okay. Now, I know that you are not a 100 percent sure on how to breathe. We're seeing obviously is slightly different. So normally for every day breathing we tend to use our chair so we'll breathe in and our tests will go up. Maybe our shoulders might go slightly up if we're a little bit stressed or anxious, that's how we normally breed. But with singing, you breathe in a completely different way. So you basically use your diaphragm which is your muscle just below your ribs, which is here. That means right? Yes. So what we do is when we breathe in, we push on Tommy's out. Show you here now. So, so I breathe in and I'll push my tummy out, debris then push Tommy out, breathe in and then push my tummy out. Yeah. Can you feel that you breathe in through your nose and push your tummy out? Yeah. So normally what we do is we breathe in here and we put our tummies in as well. Okay. But after awhile like me, I tend to breed like that normally. That's how a brand and so, all right, so that, that's really how we should think can after a while of doing it, you'll do it automatically. And I might even start breathing light automatically as well. Okay. As a beginner, it can be sometimes confusing to know when to actually take a breath. So I'll show you the correct way and the incorrect way while singing happy birthday. So this is the incorrect way. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Happy birth day, happy birth day to you. So hopefully you can see there that I've taken too many breaths. So this is the correct way. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday to you. So when you go to sing a song, obviously you don't have to exaggerate so much like I did there. So you would just do Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday to you. So hopefully in that example you didn't hear me breathing. What we need to do is I need to teach you when to breathe as well. So are you sure of when to breathe in songs when you're seeing, when you're performing and they're looking nicely, okay, so if I sing happy birthday to you now, all right, and I'm gonna sing. I'm going to show you exactly where to breathe. Okay? All right, so happy birthday to you. Breathe. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday to you. Or if you want to do it in the wrong way, you can do have a birthday to you, happy birthday to you. You don't need to breed that much at all. And yes, I understand that. Yeah. So if you want to sync back to me now, happy birthday and try and breed in the correct spaces, okay, but don't worry too much about it, just just relax about it and see how you get on. Yeah. Okay. Happy Birthday. Had EPA had the happy. Now we're going to do a little bit quicker. Okay, so happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy Death Day. Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day. Happy birthday to you saying exactly right there. Can you feel yourself pushing your tummy out as you're taking a breath? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So I know it's a lot of it and then I yeah, it's really hard to get into to start with, but you just think about it before you saying and you try and think about it as much as you can while you're singing the song. Yeah. And then after awhile, it really just will become second nature as it right. If it sounds loud, plan to fill up readings? Some yeah. Because you asked him are what you do is you eat, you're not breathing through your map. Okay. You're not doing that. Just think through your nose. Yeah. You won't hear it when you're singing a song, when you've got a vacuum music going, you won't hear that at all.
5. Posture : I've seen lots of people in videos explaining about posture, about how you need to have your feet, hip, distance apart, hands facing forward. But from my experience, as long as you're breathing correctly, you can sing in most positions. If you're trying to sing those high powerful notes while sitting, obviously you may struggle with your breath and in turn puts strain on your vocal cords. So that's probably not such a good idea. Some people who need to dance, for instance, while they are singing, can't just stand and keep their feet hip distance apart. So as said, as long as you are breathing correctly, you'll be fine.
6. Singing in Tune + Piano & Voice Tuner Apps HD: If you are a complete beginner and you're not sure if you are even singing in tune, then this is a section for you. Singing in tune is one of the most important things to learn as a singer to sound good. When you sing each note, you are effectively singing one note out of a quarter 3, and the middle note of the chord would be the desired note that you would want to hit. However, if you sing just slightly higher or slightly lower to that note, it means that you are singing either sharp or flat. So you want to make sure that you are singing the correct note of that chord, which always will be the middle note. You'll normally know when you've cracked it as it will just sound right on. Now try to show you a flat note and a sharp note. So this is the normal note. Okay, now I'm going to sing it slightly sharp. Okay, so hopefully you can hear there was just a slight change. There is very subtle and now I'm going to sing it flat. Okay, can you hear that difference? Hopefully, can. This is the normal note. You can hear hopefully that one of them, it sounds slightly lower than the desired node, and the other one is slightly off pitch. They may sound like different notes to you, but I'm trying to show you a slight change in sound using the same note. Now most singers who do not see in tune normally sing flat, so it's just below the desired notes. There are normally three reasons why people do not singing tune. And the first being that there isn't enough breath and a spoken about in my breathing technique section, you always need to breathe using your diaphragm. And by using your diaphragm in the correct way, you will have enough breath coming through your vocal chords to support the correct note of good exercise to try is to actually psi. So you just want to get used to having that feeling coming over your vocal cords. So just going just like you've had a really hard day and you just sat down, you just want to do and even make a bit of a noise. And you can feel that air then coming over your vocal cords. And just include this in your daily practice. And by having enough breath coming through will help you always hit that desired note as well. The second being that maybe you're not opening your throat enough to allow the breath to come out. So try you owning a couple of times and feel your throat opening as you are about to yawn. Like that and just feel that throat opening up. And again, by doing that, by practicing that, that will allow the correct breath and the correct note to come out as well. So again, as your housing at home, as you're practicing, just try these things. Just try to feel that breath come over the vocal cords and then your throat opening. It's like that feeling as I said when you're yawning, is that open feeling? And the third and probably the most important one is to improve your musical hearing and in singing terms, your musical ear. And by doing this, it will help you to think the note right in the middle without sounding sharp or flat. And will in turn help you to learn harmonies, as well as making you a more versatile singer. When I first started to sing, I used to literally sit right in front of my speaker in my bedroom. And not only listened to the main singer who was normally Mariah are Whitney, but to all the backing singers singing their harmonies and all the parts that the instruments were playing as well. And by doing this, it will definitely give you more of a rounded approach to listening to the music. And again, in turn, help your pitch and help you to stay in tune. There are a couple of exercises that you can practice. And with the first one, you'll need an instrument like a guitar or a piano, or maybe even an app on your phone. At the moment, I'm using an app called the real piano light. And it's great for practicing your notes, practicing staying in tune. So one exercise that you can use is to play a note on the app. Especially you can see it's just a bit of a piano here, so I'm just going to play a D, okay? Um, and an exercise that you can use is hot, trying to hold that note for six to eight beats without going sharp flat, or even into another note. So this is what it would sound like if you maybe were out of tune and you weren't quite sure on how to hit that note. You can hear that's a different note to the d. So what you need to do is try and work towards hitting that exact note. So it could be that you were saying. And you can then hear that That sounds correct. And then try and hold it for six to eight beats. So oh, no. You went off there. Can you hear that? So try again. Okay. And you stayed on that note. So first of all, it might be a bit tricky for you knew might slightly go off key or out of tune. But by practicing that, that will just keep you ready to then start singing a professional song in tune. So when you're doing this exercise and you're pressing the notes and you're singing the node, you might think that you are singing that correct note, but in fact, you might be completely out. So one tip is to record yourself actually singing along to these notes. And by listening back, sometimes you can actually hear that all gone. You know, that doesn't sound quite right. So then you go back again. You try again, record yourself again. And by keep doing that, keep listening back to yourself. You will eventually understand and you'll be able to hear that you are in fact seeing in the correct note. Another great way to practice staying in tune is by using a voice tuner app. And by coincidence, this is called the voice tuner app and it's free. So what you do is you sing a note and you can see that line going down or do it again. And then if you slightly go sharp or flat or even change the note, it will show you on here. Can you see that it's not staying in one line. So it's a great way of practicing by singing one note and staying in the same line. It's a great app to use actually, so you can download that. As I said, it's completely free.
7. Warm up Video: Warming up is obviously very important before you do a show recording or any long period of singing. And I use a warm-up practice by singing coach that I respect called Seth Riggs. He taught the likes of Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince, and many more, a style of singing called speech level singing. Now speech level singing is the refusal of reaching for those high notes. And this is achieved by keeping the larynx down at a speech level position. This allows the vocal chords to adjust as the pictures go up or down without disconnecting. And this style of singing allows you to sing high, low, loud, or soft, while nothing feels any different in your throat. This is one of my three secrets techniques on how I sing those very high notes with ease and enable sustainability over long periods of singing. I'll explain more later in the course. And if you are interested to learn more, I would suggest sets book called singing for the stars, which will give you more of an insight. Or warm ups are in audio. But for the benefit of warm up 1, 2, I will show you exactly where to place your fingers. So place your fingertips on your cheeks so that you slightly push the skin up from around your lips. And then using an sound very slowly, bubble your lips like this. Okay, try again. That's it. Well done and again. Okay, Now it might take you some time to learn how to make that noise. It did take me some time right at the beginning, so please please take your time. Don't worry if you can't do it straight away. You can move on to the next warm ups and then come back to this one at anytime. During the exercise, try and keep your head and your chest voice connected. A connected tone has no break in the sound. So I'll give you an example. There is a warm-up in the course where you use the mom sound. And what I'd like to show you using that sound is a good connection and a bad connection. So first of all, I'm going to show you the bad connection, something that we don't want. So this is the back connection. Ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma. Now this is what we don't want. What we want is mama, mama, ma, ma, ma, ma mb. You can see it's connected, it's very smooth. So again, I'll show you what we don't want. Mama, mama. Mama, mama. And what we do once. Mama, mama, mama, mama. If you're having problems, as you reach the high notes, try bending over as you approach the top note. And if you are still having problems, maybe try one of the other exercises and come back once you have learned to maintain the connection. Also try not to increase your volume even when singing the high notes. Try not to worry about pitch at this time, it's more important for you to learn to keep that connection between your chest and your head voice. You can always come back to the pitch later. I would now like to show you snippets of exercises that I've done with students. Okay, So now we're gonna do some warps. All right, so the first one is a bit of a funny one. Okay. So you just need to push your face or flight. There's no you've got to get our fingers. Yeah. Just push slightly into your face and your cheeks, okay. Okay. Either side of your mouth. And I want you to make a noise. We do that with this Walmart and I'm gonna show you exactly how not to do it. Okay, so we're gonna go up the scale, so I'll show you now. So that's how not to do it, okay, so you don't want to make such a huge sound at the end as, as you're going up the high nice day, okay, So we want to just, just bring it back slightly. So when you're hitting that high note, you want to just keep it within your head. And that's normally how I how I explain it. So keep it within your head rather than really push it out. Hi, okay. So and you've got that connected sound and not do this. Okay, So you want, you want to sort of keep it slightly in rather than pushing the sound out. Okay? Okay. So, so now what we're going to do is I'm going to put the scales on account. We're going to go up the scales using the sound, okay? Okay. Okay. So I'll let you know when it is coming and was you were an alto. Now what I'll do is I'll show you first night. Okay. Good News data. Okay, Sir, Isaac, you that just pushing motion down the leg down the track it as highlights blue. Again, blue is precise highlights. It's the right size enzyme. Okay. So you could just sing as no mono is a la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. So those are the notes that you need to use. The la, la, la, la, la, la, la la technique. Copy that. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Then you come down again as a la, la, la. Say again, okay? Okay, so those are the nodes, okay? So what you need to do at home, you don't have to do it right now because you'll see it does take time. Yeah, but just practice doing it with the lady 3D. Booms out your vocal, cool. Okay, Okay, so before you seeing this next warm up now, gonna sound like a bit of a horse. Anybody silica walls of the way we're using it in a day. A day? In a day. Using it with me. Yeah. May name any name. Okay. Are you comfortable with the student and again, this week and again, we're going to be reading names, name. So what we don't want to do is name a name. They, they named Luka, we don't wanna do that. They said what we want to do. Okay. They, they, they, they want to keep that connection so we don't want to use that connection 79 a day. Maybe they know what we don't want to do. Name a name, a name. You can see we've lost the connection there. It doesn't have the distance, period. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So let's try. Just move it so we can go a bit further. So this is a slight difference, slight different variety of notes, Natural Sciences. And they, they, they they, they ever met this abrade that easy. Yeah. So we've got we've got the same notes at the top. Yeah. Okay. So let's try that. Maybe they smell. And savings committee come in whenever you name it. Today. My name is becoming name a name, any name and in the neighboring they may they may be naming and renaming a guy named the edge. I get that marinating name. This is I initiated the top amazing. Great name, name. Name is Dan, very well done. So if you have a little bit of trouble ever hitting that high note at the end, at the top. You just need to give yourself a little bit more of a push, okay? Okay, so name a name. They need and have to regenerate NAD to do that. But you can still make it that little bit of it. I love it. Yeah. Okay. So let's go up to your your higher register then. So if you start from Ms. Can you do that for me? May name autonomy. Yeah. They they made a major issue up and backwards in your head. And you feel that difference where you're just slightly pushing up a little bit. If you just imagine, a good thing that I do is I imagine that I'm singing backwards and up through my head spin up there. So it's just an imagination thing so far that you're pushing. We stay in the low notes have stronger. Yeah, of course, because you need work on your high and low. A matter of practice, keep trying to just push those nodes, but we say we don't want to push them too much there. So you're shouting them. Okay. I Eclair So we don't need I know. That's too much. That's going to put a lot of pressure on your vocal cords. Okay. Say name. Can you see the difference? So keeping it in slightly name. And you can even try and put a little cry on to your voice, to the enzyme, and that might help you. So if you try that again and put little paper quite like okay. So if you do that, say yes. No. Yes, yes. Is that feeling a little bit better? A little bit. And half the time after practicing. I mean, you need to practice this at least two or three times a week to be able to start getting some strength in those high notes. All right, but that's the correct way to warm up. I'll do a few more warm ups now. We'll do different sounds, so we'll do it, we'll do it. Mm, sound now. So it's the same exercise, same notes, but we're going to use a Mm sound. So mama, mama, mama, mama. Mama. Mama. Yes. So efficient at the time periods. Yeah, I think that's really good. So you do an R sound now. You know the nodes yet. So Let's see if you can do that on your own now, again, you can put that cry the top. If you ever having problems hitting those high notes, a great thing to do as well is to slightly bend over, okay? All right, so you might feel a bit silly, but okay, you bend over and, and it actually helps you slightly push that note. So let's try. Let's try just the normal way at the moment. And then we'll, if you're struggling, they will, will, will bend over the tough. Now got that. I'll try it again. So I know if he wants to try and do it bending over. Okay. Let go but better that she wanted to learn about the constricted bit better. And let's try the next one. The amount of enzyme. I believe that sound effect will run it. Yeah. And I guess it does help, but it does have sorry. Yeah. You try that. And when you're practicing at home, I'm going to confuse you even more so different notes now. Okay. So let's say I go on with this, so we're going to do it. He sound but we don't really want to pay the hub. So we want to just shy. Okay. The signal would make him the leading ADP to really be able to tell him down. Hey, you guys less slides available in the notes, but he's just going over a lot of notes in one go, which is good is when he could for a woman in a do now is we're going to do then. He sounds okay, so we're going to say nine a day to day as a male singer, right? Kind of beginning with the breathing. Very, very low. Acceptance the briefing. Crime, the total bombardment by bone. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No. No. Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau. Remember? I said, Okay. Very good. If you can try and keep your voice as much as possible because I can see here that your next so can you see any difference in my neck? Mom. Mom, mom. And another trait is when you'll you'll see it's a study. Drop your jewel. Ma ma, ma, ma ma, ma, ma allows the sound to come out easier. Okay. So we just do that again. Mau Mau, Mau, Mau, Mau, Mau, Mau Mau that. Now Obama demonstrate progress. Nor Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau Mau, Mau Mau. And now we're going to do with the sound. So different notes. And again, as you hit those high notes to your LEA to allow that sound to come out. Okay? Say OK. So you are losing the connection slightly at that point because we just want to keep it. Yes. Okay. So power in these warm ups, we just don't want to lose that connection. Oh, not. Okay.
8. Warm Up Exercise 1 : Okay, So this is warm up one and listen as I sing a part of the exercise. Now, I'm only going to go up the scale. But as you do them at home, you can come down the scale too. Okay. Here we go. Okay, remember to place your fingertips into your cheeks and let your legs bubble at a nice speed. Not too fast. If you're going too fast, you'll end up with too much pressure. So just try and keep it nice and loose. Thankfully, you'll hear the resonance in your head and the connection between your chest and your head voice. This is what you want.
9. Exercise 1 Practice: Now it's your turn starting with the base. And now those headers. Now the mestizos and altos. And now the sopranos. Hi.
10. Warm Up Exercise 2 : Warm up to listen as I think part of the exercise. Again, keep your lips babbling at a good speed. Notes you've lost and not too slow. And just relax into the high pitch narrows.
11. Exercise 2 Practice: Okay, Now it's your turn, starting with the base. And now the tennis. Now the metazoans and altos. And now the sopranos. Hi, hi.
12. Warm Up Exercise 3: Warm up three. Okay, so as Joe singing the high pitch notes, try and imagine that the note is going back into your head. Come down naming ways connects into your chest. Me.
13. Exercise 3 Practice: Now it's your turn, starting with the basis. And now the tenders. And now the Met says an alto, a, a, a, a, now The Sopranos, hi.
14. Warm Up Exercise 4: For lesson, as I sing, Paul VI exercise. Her name and name them. As you come down. Don't go any higher. Hey.
15. Exercise 4 Practice: Now it's your turn. Starting with the base is now mestizos and Altos. Now the sopranos.
16. Warm Up Exercise 5: Warm up. Five. Listen as I take you through part of the exercise. Well-known mama, mama, mama. Mama makes sure that you keep that lung sound. Mau Mau, Mau, Mau, Mau, Mau. Remember again as you're hitting those high notes, imagine them going back and makes your head really helps. So the higher you go, the more you push them back into your throat if you can. Hello mama. Mama.
17. Exercise 5 Practice: Now it's your turn starting with the base. And now those headers. Now the mestizos and altos. And now the sopranos. Hi.
18. Warm Up Exersise 6: Warm up six, listen as I take you through parts of this exercise, always make sure you connect to your chest at the bottom, like downs with speech level. And that's what we're trying to do. Keep this on a speech level. When heating most all I know. I tried to draw your jaw just to help with getting the right sound on this one.
19. Exercise 6 Practice: Now it's your turn, starting with the basis. And now the tenders. And now the Met says an alto, a, a, a, a, now The Sopranos, hi.
20. Warm Up Exercise 7: Woman seven, listen as I take you through the exercise. Mama, mama, mama, mama. Again, keep that Mm sound. And keep your larynx down. And try and put a little cry on TO voice to help you hit the high notes.
21. Exercise 7 Practice: Now it's your turn. Starting with the base is now mestizos and Altos. Now the sopranos.
22. Warm Up Exercise 8 : Exercise eight. Okay, so using the r sound, when you go to hit those high notes, just try and drop your jaw slightly. And this will really help to try and make a smooth as possible.
23. Exercise 8 Practice: Now it's your turn, starting with the basis. Now the mestizos and Altos. Now the products. Okay.
24. Warm Up Exercise 9: Listen as I take you through Exercise 9. Okay, trying their smoothly from your head to your chest voice. Forever. Remember again by sending the sound back after your head.
25. Exercise 9 Practice: Now which you will tend starting with the basis. Now Mesos and Altos. And now sopranos.
26. Warm Up Exercise 10: Exercise ten. Make it as smooth as you can now is I'm just sliding up and down and try and draw from the chain rule, I should get those final. That will really help.
27. Exercise 10 Practice: Now it's your turn, starting with the basis. Now the mestizos and Altos. Now the products. Okay.
28. Diction: So this part of the course is about addiction. Addiction is, I'm sure most of you know a pronounciation of your words. And it's really important when you're singing any song to have that diction. And if you don't have it, you may come across like a bit of a lazy singer. So it's really, really good to hold on to that. When you're singing. I'm going to now perform a song or part of a song by Whitney Houston called high love. And in the first part, I'm going to sing the song without any diction at all. And then I will sing it with diction. And hopefully you will be able to see a big difference between the two. Some people do go but over the top addiction, so please just make sure it's something in the middle. So here we go. So suppose that n is where you are. And try to see. So hopefully you could hear in that last clip that there wasn't really any pronounciation there. All the words were bit mumbled. Really, if someone was listening and I didn't know the lyrics, they wouldn't be able to hear what you were, you were singing. So it was more like the hidden state where we want more thing must be hidden in the skies above. So in this next part now I want to show you exactly how it should sound. There must be hidden. Without wasting sound. So bad. This whole space. We walked the line and try to see it. So hopefully you can Hey, that the words all so much more pronounced. So it's more thing. There must be hidden in the stars above. So all the words is so much more pronounced and it just makes it sound so much better so that he's diction. I'm quite an important thing to use. I would say, with any song that you've singing, always trying to remember as much as possible. And after a while it will become second nature like most things. But without it, you'll songs might sound quite boring because people can really understand what you're singing. All. You could come across quite board as well. So keep it up as much as possible and I promise it will help with any performance.
29. 5 Most Common Singing Mistakes : You'll find that a lot of people will start singing without doing any kind of warm up, which I certainly don't advise. Without warming up, you could possibly damage your vocal cords and you may get more vocal breaks when singing vocal brakes on when you go to hit a high no. And your voice literally breaks. This is normally because your voice is not warm enough to give you that power. Also, singing shouldn't hurt. So if you start to feel some discomfort, then please stop and re-evaluate what you're doing, or maybe even warm up for a bit longer. Unless a vocal coach has previously taught you how to breathe, then you might be doing it wrong. Some people that are learning to sing may sing until they're out of breath and then inhale. However, there is a knack to knowing when and where to breathe. So with a bit of practice, you will breathe in the right place without even thinking about it. Please have a listen to my breathing technique section for more information. And I just touched about your high root breathing. Yeah. All right. So so you take a deep breath? Yes. Stomach out like a laugh. I've said. You should be able to have enough breath to sing. All right. So you were taking a breath in between. Ssri doesn't pay. So if you sink without the music for the moment. So as I said, it's true and I go on then. Okay. Yeah. So China. So what I was teaching you earlier on about when to breathe. Yeah. That's what I mean. Yeah. So you don't necessarily need to breathe in between that that yet? Yes. Because then it affects the way the song sounds. Okay. All right. So but you can do it. So I think it was probably just a habit of thing. At that particular point. You may have heard the word vibrato, but may not know exactly what it means. Well, It's a fancy way of saying a shake and is made up of two slightly different pitches of a note that oscillate quickly. Something is don't use any and some often used too much by getting it just right, you'll give your voice warmth, a bigger sound and quality, and in turn makes your song or performance sounds so much more professional. You would use my bros on any note that you were holding for longer than a few seconds. So normally at the end of a phrase or show you what a note sounds like without vibrato. And I'll show you one width and you can see the difference. So this is without and this is with. As you can hear, the first note sounds very thin and plane. And then by adding vibrato, you can hear that the note sounds so much fuller and it gives such around a sound and easy way of bringing vibrato into your note. It's actually having someone shake you slightly while you sing the note. I know it sounds strange, but here is a snippet of one of my singing lessons. You'll see me doing this with one of my students. So one thing I want to now explain to you is about vibrato, OK. Now I can hear that you were singing a little bit about grotto on some notes, which is good. And so really it's just another word for shape. So it's a shake in the voice. So if I sing a note now without vibrato, which sounds like this. Okay? And now with it and see the difference. Yeah. So it just gives that note bit more body, take a bit more quality and affects your performance. You make sure performance sound a lot better. And if you didn't have it, okay, and it's very nice. It's a nice sound. So I'd like you to try and put some eyebrows I want to note now so if you can just sing aloud, whatever. Okay, and now try and put some more Bosworth again. Okay? Yes, So a good way to practice fiber also is I'm seeing two different notes. So you would say, if you try that. Okay. And we want to make that quicker. So after practicing for a wall, you make that quick ASU and you become, it comes from broadsided, right? So that's, that's a good way of practicing. Hey, are you making your person so yeah, you said? Yeah, of course. So you may be buttons your slightly so you see that? Yeah. You can even look into my throat and you can probably see it has a slightly amine, yeah, so high you're going to do. And actually if you come over here saying your note and I'm going to shake you, and hopefully I'm going to shake some vibrato into, all right? Okay. Okay. And Okay. Again, is the same Jiu Bu okay. Yeah. Yeah. So again, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Now, try and do that without reshaping music, I can do that. Okay. Yes. You had a nice sound again. Nutrients as well. At the end you getting it. Yeah. So try and do a bit more the beginning so that you could do you could do a little bit too much as well? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So it has to get in the middle. It's not easy, but you need to just practice that. Yeah. Okay. And then our triad now try not to move the jewel at all, right? All right. So you want to It needs to be subtle. It really doesn't resettle. Certainly, if you just think of your voice moving and yeah, the back of your throat moving rather than your jaw and try again. Okay. So what you doing differently at the end there, because you've got vibrator on the end. Really nice, vibrant. Why for last night goes on the Cloud. Yeah. So try, try and have a think about what you're doing, Riley in there again. And can you see yeah, I see that. And ask you the beginning. Yeah. So it's it's it's hard at, is in this practice. So it's harder to hold the vibrato for a long, prolonged period of time that it is just to put a little bit on the end. That's probably what your voice is automatically doing. Yeah. But if you take a deep breath, It's all about control as well. We can break which will come. Yeah. So try again. Yes. Covering continued. I come in early and then yeah. Exactly again. Yes. Snow. It sounds really nice. Yeah. So you need to practice that again. And as I say, another way to help you is by seeing tonight's practice doing it because I saw it. Yeah. That's good. That's nice. Yeah, yeah. That's an I sound. So it just gives them note that roundness. And it sounds bigger, doesn't it? It sounds a lot nicer. So yeah. So that's fine. Brought so you may have heard things in the past that sound quite nasally when singing. Or you yourself may have noticed that you're just not too happy with the sound of your voice. And this is normally do to not opening your throat correctly when singing. Okay, So this is the sound of a close voice. And this is how different it sounds when you let go and open up. Always try your best to keep that in mind, purity of singing. And again, until the time you'll be singing that way without even thinking about it. We've got sort of two different kinds of sounds, heart sounds and put them down. Now it can fill the stroke is, can be quite a certain noise. Can you hear the difference? Amounts? So yeah, I get money out. Exactly. So you're opening your throat and to get an a you can, you don't have to use that will be time annoyed done because of the voyage. You'd think about that over the time when you wouldn't at all. All right, so quickly, use at some point you use set note that you see what I'm talking about, blood. Sandy, typically you get a different sound. We're just trying to get that different sound rather. But could you pick when you get a difference? Much, much better. You would have sold that this one would be standard, but that's not always the case. One of the things that I learned when I was very young with quite a refund lyrics of the song that you're going to sing. Oh, performed. And really what count, what that song is about? Is it a sad song? Is it a happy song? And then get into that mood before you start singing. If it's a fun, upbeat song, then you would want to sound like you're having fun obviously. But if it's a sad ballad, you want to sound emotional as you sing. And likewise, if the lyric sound angry, they may be sing with some conviction. This way you put meaning and feeling into every song you sing, which makes a huge difference on your performance. I'm going to sing you part of a song now. And the lyrics tell the story that it's a really sad song. The girls sing and is obviously still in love or has feelings for someone from a previous relationship. And she's just found out that he is seeing someone new. So this song is an adult song. Hopefully you would have heard this one. And it's called someone like you. I'm going to perform part of the song without any feeling or passionate all. And then I'll perform the song again with passion and feeling that you settle down and you found an NGO. Happy now. Okay, So as far as I'm concerned, it hasn't really got much feeling, much passion, much energy at all. So now I'm going to perform the same part of the song with the passion and feeling that you said. You found a hairpin. So can you see the difference, big difference there between putting that feeling in that passion and not having any at all. So it's definitely something to always think about before you perform a song. And this next song is the opposite. So she wants to shout out about how much she loves this guy even more than her rag doll when she was a little girl. How her love is so strong that it says deepest rivers and as high as mountains, gonna sing, they swam with some conviction. This is referred to eat Mountain high. So first of all, I'm going to sing the song again without any feeling, without any passion. When now was a head array, do the owner. Now while love you, just the way. I love that brag. But only now my node is. Okay. Now I'm going to sing it with some conviction and some passion and feeling. When now one zone Little Doe, the orient. Now while I love you just the way. But that's okay. So hopefully you can see the difference before you seeing any song. Yeah, we always want to have a think about what, what the song is about once you know the story of the song, whether it's a sad song or a happy song. And you get into that feeling, you get into that moment. And so really with any song, that's what exactly what you want to do, okay? Right? So the song that you're going to be seeing in today's chains? Yeah. And do you know the story behind the songs? You know what song is about? Beautiful. I mean, he's even, ever thought about and it's not something that most thing is think about. Yeah, but I was always taught from a young age by my dad to always think about the song. Always go through the lyrics. Or is this about how, how am I going to portray the song? Is it a sad song, so I'm feeling sad and it comes across? Or is it? So long and I'm, and I'm singing and are very upbeat, very happy. It's, it's a positive, fun song. Yeah. So that is a great thing to take on board with any song that you saying. So before you see, it's just think, what is a story, what is it? What is it about? Because when you are actually performing it to somebody or to a live audience, Yeah. That feeding and that passion. Yeah, we'll come across. They can connect with that course. So if you've got someone's just singing there and I'm in chains, it sounds quite boring. But if you've actually got that feeling, that passion, you're that person for a migraine? Feeling it? Yeah. Okay. All right. So this song to me, the story behind the song is that maybe the singer, she's in a bit of a bad relationship. Yeah. Okay. But she still loves her partner yet, but she just can't get out. So she's basically saying I'm in chains, I'm locked up. Yeah, I can't get out of this relationship. But I want to in a certain way, I still love him, but this is a bad relationship for me and I'm caught up. That that's what the song is about. Yeah, right. So you want to portray that, you want to put that across to your audience when you're saving it. So right at the beginning, they may leave freely as if then made from coal, coal, steam. So you want that feeling to it, you see? Yeah. So if if I start singing, they make me feel as if they're made from coal, coal, steel. There's no feeling or passion. There are k different. I see. So yeah. Yeah. So your arms are warm. They made me feel so bad. You're feeling it as is then made from coal? Coal steam. Okay. Yeah, yeah, I guess. So. Have a thing beforehand. And even before you start singing, have a look, have a look at the lyrics and think, okay, yeah, I need to, I need to feel that way. That's how I need to fill before I start singing because that is going to bring, bring it across. And also don't, don't be scared just to go for those notes, alright, because you have got that power to hit those notes, but I think you're just holding it back a little bit, so just really go for it. It's bunch of Claude Steele. A little cleaner. Hello. So maybe you can see where a chat afterwards in no ways to be creative around maybe. But then the sound through the genuine flows from men and stick to say the sounds and scans of the pinky finger wagging.
30. Microphone technique : Now it's not always talked about very much, but microphone technique is very important whether you're performing live or recorded within a studio environment. So let's show you here with a handheld microphone that you will probably be using if you were singing live. So when you're singing very softly or quietly, you need to make sure that the microphone is very close to your mouth so that everything can be picked up. And if you're then going to get louder, you move it away slightly from your mouth. And then if you're going to get even louder still or sing a really high note, for example, you need to pull it right back to stop any distortion. Now they're all very subtle movements, but very important if you want to keep a balance in your sound. If you're singing in a studio or performing live where your microphone is on a stand like this one, then you need to physically move your head closer when you're singing quieter, and then further away when you're singing louder. So depending on the notes that you're singing will be dependent on how close and how far away you are. So like breathing, this is another thing that after practicing for a while, will then become second nature to you and you won't even need to think about it anymore.
31. Nerves : Whether you are a beginner or a professional singer, we all have nerves at some time or another when performing. And the even after 20 years of performing, I sometimes still get nervous. If I'm going for an important audition, I still may feel slightly apprehensive before going to the room. Or if I'm performing a new song, I may still feel slightly nervous, but it's all very normal. But it's all about how you control these feelings. And what I would like to teach you in this section are tips on how to reduce these nerves. The first one I want to share with you is actually quite a funny one. And it will really put you at ease straight away. So whether I'm in a theater full of people or I'm in an audition room with just a few people. I imagine that they are all naked and sitting on the toilet. I know it's crazy. But to me it just confirms in my head that they are all normal people like you or me, who are either coming along to listen to some great entertainment one night or looking for a singer for a certain job. Another tip is to do some deep breathing before going on stage or into an audition room. I would suggest doing around about three to five minutes of breathing exercises just before. And this will just calm your body right down. So I'll give you an example now of a breath to do before you go on stage. So I want you to breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. But when you're breathing out, I want you to take a long time and breathe all of the air that you have out of your mouth. So again, and that's a really, really good breath just to come right down before you do go on stage or in that audition room. And while I'm doing these, I sometimes close my eyes and imagine that I am somewhere beautiful. Maybe a beach in the Caribbean or going for a lovely walk with beautiful flowers around you. And whatever it may be, this will immediately take your mind away from where you are at that moment and help calm your whole body. Now last but no means least, you need to believe in yourself. It's so natural to have thoughts like, well maybe my performance won't go very well. What if I don't hit that high note? What if I forget my words? All these things go through people's heads sometimes and they're all very, very common that most performers have a problem with. And I have certainly had all these thoughts myself over the years, but I've now learned to believe in myself. So I'm passing on this information from pure experience. So before you go on stage or into an audition room, you need to believe and really truly believe that you can do a good job. You will do a good job and remind yourself of your worth to stand tall and believe that even if you don't hit that high note, just the way you wanted it or you forgot some words that you are still good enough. And this happens to everybody. And by thinking in this way, it takes the pressure off and you tend to relax more, which will again help with your nerves. Just a quick funny story for you. I remember when I was ten years old and I was performing my first big performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London with my school. I was the only one doing a solo performance and I felt sick to my stomach before going on because of my nerves. And I really wasn't sure if I could sing as I felt that bad. But as soon as I got myself together and I came out to perform, I could actually see my dad in the audience. And he continually pulled funny faces at me until I eventually come down. So I think it's a fine balance of understanding that yes, This may be an important performance or auditioned for you and you really want to do a good job, of course you do. But it's certainly not a reason to force your body into a stressed and anxious state, which doesn't do you any favors overall. So I would suggest that you always have something funny up your sleeve to think about, for instance, a joke or something funny that happened to you recently. And if you start to feel yourself becoming little bit worried, a little bit anxious or nervous, they should always take the edge off. Another great method is to make a little album on your phone, including your maybe your favorite funniest photos and videos that really make you feel happy and laugh out loud. And this literally changes your state and can help shift your nervous Stuart's to more controlled, rational, and ready thinking. So just to wrap this section up, please try not to feel scared or intimidated by your audience. What you think is scary and what is truly scary are completely different. For instance, if someone is scared of spiders, It's not the spiders that a scary. It's the way that they think about the spider that makes it scary. And it's the same with being scared on stage or going to an audition. It's how you think about the audience or those few in an audition room that makes all the difference. They are just normal people like you and I, and really not scary at all. And a helpful thing to remember is that so many of the things we all worry about in life sometimes just don't happen. It's also so often the case that after the event, we were so nervous about, we realized that either there wasn't anything to be nervous about. It wasn't as bad as we thought, or the complete opposite. And we actually really enjoy the experience after all.
32. 3 secrets to hitting high notes : Okay, So here are my three top secrets for hitting high notes, okay? Number one, speech level singing. And not many people have heard of speech level singing. But if you practice enough using the warm ups I've given you, this is a great learning tool to help you hit those high notes effortlessly without any strain. A lot of people think that you have to strain and even slightly shout when trying to push out a high note. But just by keeping the larynx down, you will learn how to release that beautiful high note on just a speech level. Please have a look at my speech level seeing section for more information. Number two, this next tip is something that I have found myself doing over the years, which has really, really helped and it really works. So when I go to hit that high note, rather than thinking called blind me that's high. Instead, I sing the note and I focus my attention on going downwards, IE, towards the floor. So I'd like to show you now exactly what I mean. So if I'm singing a note, rather than thinking really high, I think downwards and I go, uh, my tension is being drawn downwards. I know it's a really strange one, but it really works. So as you hitting that high note, really, really try hard just to focus your attention on two, going down towards the floor rather than Oh my God, I've got to hit this. I know it's so high. I can't get up there. It really, really helps. It's just an imagination thing, but it really does help. Number 3, the final secret is the most powerful one. And it's confidence and mindset. Maybe not what you were expecting, but it's so, so important. You may be thinking, well, how can I be confident if I'm not sure I can actually hit that note? Well, I'm here to tell you that it works the other way round. So you have to have that confidence to hit that note in the first place. So you need to have the mindset that yes, I can hit it. It might be a bit wobbly to start with, but if you simply believe that you can do it, it makes such a difference. Remember that each note doesn't have to be perfect. It's an expression of u, which is always going to be a good thing. I want you to understand that there is no difference between you and your favorite famous singer. So many people that I have previously taught have had the mindset that they're idle, had something special that they would never have. And thinking in this way is self-limiting and can directly affect your ability to hit those high notes. Once you have the correct mindset of I can do this. I can hit that high note. And all that's left then is to keep on practicing and be patient with your results. And just a final tip of practicing for 15 minutes a day would be much more beneficial than 12 hour sessions a week. Good luck.
33. 5 Singing Tips : Number 1, tell a story. When you're singing. Use your voice to develop the ups and downs in the song. No one really wants to hear a song from start to finish. Like this. Add last man, the common law. Man, lonely days are over. And life is good. So say by putting in some color and failing, sound more like base, add. My days are over. Phase goes. So say you're sort of pushing it, you're pushing in the knee, bringing it back again and you're pulling it back and pushing it again. So it just gives the song that overall cutter, the overall failing. And you hopefully you can see that it really does sound quite different and hopefully better. It's not. You're going on a journey with the song. So please think about giving you a song's color. Number 2, controlling your voice. When you have perfected your breathing, you will find it easier to control your voice. Hold longer notes, include crescendos using vocal rhythm runs like things like that, where you've got enough breath to do those vocal riffs and runs. Or you could do something like this which shows a slightly different level of control. You then Could, we must spring South Asian. Number 3. Make the song your own. Don't ever be scared about changing a song slightly to make the song more of your own. This will make you stand out and that she sound quite unique. So I'll give you an example of changing a song slightly to make it your own. So I'm going to sing a chorus of my old by Mariah. And first of all, I'm going to sing it as Mariah sang it. And then I'm going to slightly change it. And hopefully you can see what I mean by making this on your own. I gave my to just do a risk map to 0 memory. So now I give my all. Okay, so that's just how she sings it. So by changing it, I could do this. Give me just one wave. Risk to feed. You'll cause I can go on living. So can you, hey, there. It's the same song. However, I've used slightly different notes at different points and to make it sound a bit different and a bit more interesting. So you don't need to do this with every song, but it's nice to check in a few every now and again, and most people when you're singing them will say, Oh, what does she done there? That's actually quite a nice sound. I like the way she's changed the song there. Then it also gives you a color as a singer. So number 4, concentrate on singing the note before the highest note. So another question that I get asked a lot is how do you sing those high notes? How, how you just sounds, it just sounds so easy. And, and in my previous sections I have explained how personally I use my mind and tricks throughout my career that actually helped me hit those notes. And another idea is actually trying to concentrate not necessarily on the highest note that you want to sing. If you're singing a song and you're going through and you're, Oh my God, that is just so so difficult. I'm really scared. I'm I'm I just said if I'm gonna be able to hit that, that is all mental, that's all going on in your head. So what you need to do is you need to actually maybe concentrate on the note before the highest note that you're going to sing. And so, so if you're singing, singing like a scale like and the highest note is you want to concentrate on. So. And think of that as the highest note that you're going to hit. Still hit that extra high note. But because you're not worrying about it so much, you're maybe thinking, right, well that's the highest node I've got to sing the tree, just sing that note after it and try not to worry about it. It really is mentally, really a psychological. And it's all about having the confidence to be able to hit it and think, yes, I can do it and it doesn't have to be perfect. It really doesn't care, it doesn't have to be perfect straight away you're practicing your learning. So just to recap. And the highest note is you want to concentrate on so, and think of that as the highest note that you're going to hate. Try that because it's a site that does help me sometimes as well. There is a way of singing, cooled speech level singing. And you may have heard of it, but maybe not. It's a way of singing that will allow you to hit all notes, including those really high notes with ease. And at a speech level, this will help with your control and your overall vocal health as you don't need to push and strain your vocal chords. To do this, you need to learn how to sing while keeping your larynx slow. Your larynx is this part here where your vocal boxes, when you're hitting those high notes, you want to just concentrate and in your mind, just try and keep this part as low as possible. So I'm going to show you now how to lower the larynx. As you sing, your larynx will automatically go up and down. But what you want to try and do is control it. And by learning to sing with a low larynx will help you hit those high notes with ease. First thing you want to do is sing with a kind of dopey sound. So a bit of a bot, This is the way you need to do it. So just and you can actually feel that your larynxes is low at this point. So you want to start using this sound when you're exercising. So obviously when you are singing properly, you don't want to be sounding like this. So only when you're rehearsing you exercising, you need to keep your tongue down. And you want to feel the resonance so the vibration going through your nose. So again, I'll show you so it's up. And you can feel that vibration actually going through your nose. So that's where you want to get to really while you're practicing your scales. So you also want to make sure that you connect from your head voice into your chest voice without any breaks. So I'm now going to show you by singing some scales with the sound. So try to imagine that when you're doing it, you're pushing the larynx down as you sing. So even though I'm hitting that higher note as I'm going up and actually thinking in my head, it's low. It's, it's, it's low and you need to push it backwards. So and he found that she feeling my larynx there, it's not moving. So ah, ah, so just keep that real dopey sound again. And just keep practicing that over and over again. If you can feel your learning slightly start to rise up, you know that you're not doing it correctly. You need to make sure that this larynx is low. And by the larynx being low like that. And you can learn them to sing really high notes with a low larynx. And you're actually doing it with ease. And you'll not causing any problem to your vocal chords at all. So it's a really, really good way of learning to sing. I keep practicing this as part of your warm up as you will eventually learn how to sing on a speech level. That if you want to, you can always sing using speech level singing, always singing with a low larynx. And depending on what I'm seeing, sometimes I might change it slightly. So if I'm singing a song and I want to have that really open sound, then I'll just adjust my voice accordingly. Then I might want to actually have a point in the song where I want to sing with, with less of an open throat. Because if I sing with an open throw all the way through the song, I'm going to run out stained. So it's knowing and learning when to use that speech level singing and when not to use it. If at times I can feel my voice is a bit tired, then I'll sing at the speech level. But if you can learn how to sing all those notes, including all the high ones at his speech level, then this will be a great grounding for you. From the day. You can then learn how to hit those high notes with more of an open throat if you so wish. Please now go on to the next section, which will give you more of an insight on how to sing on a speech level.
34. Recording Yourself : A very important bit of advice and something that I have maintained and kept up during my career is recording myself and then listening back, especially if I'm learning a new song. Sometimes as I'm singing, I maybe to enter the song and not notice bad habits. So by doing this, I can listen to exactly how I sound and pick out any problems. Maybe I don't like the way I single particular note or my picture slightly off at some point. And then I then make a mental note and record again with these things in mind and keep recording if you have to. You can also check if you are using the right amount of vibrato diction and if you're breathing in the right place as well as other things, now you don't need to have a home recording studio. You can simply record yourself on your phone and then have a listen back.
35. Thank you message: I just wanted to say a big, big thank you for purchasing this course. I really hope all the content as being helpful and has brought you further along you're singing journey. In this last section, I've included three of my favorite studio recordings which demonstrate how I bring all of the techniques together that I have shown you throughout the course. I will also continue to add any further updates free of charge. Lastly, I would be so grateful if you could take 30 seconds to leave a quick review for me. Reviews can of course show other potential students how the course could help them. And I would also love to hear your feedback. All there is for me to say now is practice, practice, practice, and always be confident. Take care.
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Emily Reed, Beginner to Professional Singing Course
