A lot of times songs with a lot of range are a lot harder to sing than songs that are only in a high range. And you're going to think, "What? That doesn't sound right.
" >> [music] >> Hey everybody, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing. The secret to getting high vocal range or to be able to sing high. You know, this was so elusive and evaded me for so long when I was growing up.
I remember around the age of 19 when I really started taking my voice seriously. Excuse me, I joined my very first professional band Joshua and I was just a second guitar player and a backup vocalist. I wasn't the lead vocalist of the band at all.
In fact, the vocalist was Rob Rock. He's all over social media, you can look him up. An amazing guy, amazing singer.
And the band was notorious for having really high range singers. They went through quite a few singers while I was in the band and the leader Joshua, God rest his soul, just passed away here recently. Wanted really high range singers like Mickey Thomas and Brad Delp and and you know, all these again just high range singers, Steve Perry.
And that wasn't me. I just couldn't even come close to that. I can now, but back then I couldn't.
Now, the secret to high range singing. So, I just got so frustrated, I just resigned myself to I'm just not that kind of singer. That's not me.
Now, I'm not saying everyone with is, you know, no matter what your voice type is can, you know, if you're a real [clears throat] low baritone or a or or a bass singer that you're going to be able to sing in the stratosphere. That's not what I'm suggesting. But, I'm telling you I am a baritone high baritone and I'm able to sing well into the soprano range and I've done it for years.
I'm 62 now. I love the sound of my voice. I've never sung better.
I'm grateful that I I have this toolbox of all these things that have helped me keep good vocal health and have sustained me for all of these years. In fact, if you're interested, you can find my singing course right here at kenmtamplinvocalacademy. com where I also have a free singing form.
Just sign up, kick the tires a little bit, see if it's right for you, or bip on over to my YouTube channel. I've got tons and tons of free tutorials for singing. Just try it a little bit.
See if it works out for you. I have a a lot of uh vocal demonstrations there. You can see how we sing, see if you'd like it.
Anyway, back to the soap. Um when I started to realize and really listen to high-range singers, I realized that it wasn't about force. It was not about forcing a sound or forcing my way up or growing my chest voice to a point where all of a sudden I I attained this superhuman athletic ability to sing, you know, high notes.
Now, when I listen to guys like Chris Cornell, you know, he's a bad egg, man. He just was able to just man, just ramp it up and pull that chest all the way up and sing. And I could do that, too, to a large extent.
Is it really sustainable over time? It's tough. You have to have a lot of core strength to be able to do that and really understand how to relax the voice, good vowel modifications and everything that comes with open throat technique.
But so but what I learned was is that once you get past a certain point in your chest voice where you have the register break, which is actually called secondo passaggio or the second passageway, where you go where you have that little yodel, once you pass that, you can incorporate and take your head voice or this reinforced falsetto that's not hooty and fluty, you actually develop this part of your voice to match the tonal qualities of your chest voice, and then you simply connect this passaggio seamlessly. So, instead of going I CAN GO >> [screaming] >> RIGHT? I CAN GO IN AND OUT OF THIS passaggio at a percentage of a chest voice and a mixed voice head voice, excuse me, into a mixed voice mixed voice and be able to sing with percentages of belting a chest and then handing it off to my head voice and then re-engaging that back down all the way down.
So, I learned it. So, when I sing in a higher register. Now, the other thing too is not bringing up too much girth or too much mass in the sound from my chest voice.
I've got to thin it out and make it smaller as I go up. So, I'm not just heaving up my vowel sounds and forcing the sound up to the top and just, you know, thinking that I'm going to be like Hercules and just muscle my way through it. That's how most people sing, right?
Is they just try to muscle their way up through the sound. It's not how you do it. You finesse your way through the sound, which is a lot of spinning plates.
It's very delicate. It's a very It's a tightrope act, you know, you're walking on a tightrope and you just got to be really careful to not get out of balance in this. But once you figure this out, and I cover this again in my singing course, kennytemplevoclacademy.
com, check out the 30-day singer course. Try it. I think there's all kinds of things on there where we have sales and promotions.
You can try it for free for like 14 days or sometimes 30 days depending on what sale we have going on. And just see if it's right for you. Try it.
See, you're going to go 30 days later go, "Wow, I may not have high range yet, but I could see the the road map to get there on how Kent is going to take me to get there. " And you're going to see that with all my students and how they were able to get there as well. So, that's the best way.
Now, the other thing I want to add to this before I go is that a lot of times songs with a lot of range are a lot harder to sing than songs that are only in a high range. And you're going to think, "What? That doesn't sound right.
" No, it really is. Because if you warm up your voice to have what I call little boy voice or Michael Jackson voice, kind of, you know, Mickey Mouse voice. "Hey, how you doing?
You doing good? " So, when you warm up your voice to this kind of higher timbre of sound, all of a sudden it's actually easier to stay in that altitude of singing when you sing a higher range song than it is to sing from a lower range up to a higher range back to a lower range and you get that larynx moving up and down and you're just trying to figure out how not to have all that weight that meaning volume or mass in the bottom of your throat or bottom of your sound and not drag that weight up to the top to try to get through the passaggio without feeling like you're muscling too much sound up there and then you know it's literally like pulling a muscle as you're trying to get up you're YANKING THIS STUFF >> [screaming] >> YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO LIKE THAT WITH YOU KNOW INSTEAD OF KIND OF GETTING THROUGH IT REAL FAST FULLY okay uh hopefully this was helpful again uh don't forget uh check out my all the tutorials I have on YouTube they're free uh just check those things out see if they work for you and until next time peace out.
