How To Sing Like Bon Jovi - Pharyngeal Voice Explained
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- How To Sing Like Bon Jovi - Pharyngeal Voice Explained
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Professional singer/songwriter David DiMuzio gives a free vocal lesson teaching the basics of the pharyngeal sound which is a vocal effect that many rock singers such as Jon Bon Jovi ...etc. use to hit high notes with power, but without putting too much strain on the vocal chords.
This technique will teach you how to get a strong compression of the vocal chords so that you can feel them zipping up tightly without too much added extrinsic pressure.
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I did the first two vocal exercises and I finally got the high note in living on a prayer
Bro please tell me your vocal exercise 🥰🙏
Yes, that's true. But the reason he started singing more "like this", and using more of a nasal pharyngeal tone was because he completely blew his voice out trying to "chest" or "belt" everything before that. His voice sounded amazing, but it didn't last because the technique wasn't correct. ...Versus someone like Michael Bolton or Steven Tyler ...even though they have "rasp" they blend or "mix it" it well with head voice. That's why they still can sing the same notes 30 years later.
I just do this to annoy my roommates.
At last my Waluigi impressions will come in handy.
Tapnerd lol
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WAH
I don't think this is how Jon Bon Jovi sings when he was in his prime (80s-90s). But during the 00s he started singing like this since he damaged his vocal cord alot due to over-use of his vocal cords, performing too many live shows (imagine, 24/7 you're on tour), drinking and smoking. I just don't think this is Jon's technique during the 80s, try watching runaway.
He didn't lean on it as much as he does now for sure. He still used some of this kind of placement and compression though. He also used a lot of really bad technique for vocal effect (listen to the Keep The Faith album) which sounded really cool, but was also really tough on his chords. I've heard that was the album where his voice sorta "went" ...and nothing after that album sounds the same.
If he hurt his voice singing the way he started out, then I would not recommend trying to mimic the type of sound that caused him damage.
Is the "NG" sound considered "twang"?
Courièr Rob I think you are misinterpreting this technique. It is not used to compensate for a weak voice, it is used to get a specific sound. Bon Jovi used it all through his prime including on Runaway. Many rockers, especially in the 80's, used this sound. The nasal sound in this video was overemphasized for training purposes. It sounds much better when a rocker is belting out real rock tunes.
***** it actualy sounds like "NANG". from the word swiNG, take the NG. and thats it
David. I know this was posted a long time before we sat and talked about a lot of stuff you were not understanding right - but a few corrections for the viewers.
Pharyngeal is NOT a register but a vocal effect/tone - like falsetto. One can activate a pharyngeal sound throughout almost their entire range, so it cannot be a "register".
The pharynx is the resonator of the voice and it has 3 parts - laryngo(throat), oro(mouth) and naso(sinus). Depending on where you are singing in range one or two of these parts will be the dominant resonator. What I think is confusing you, is that we generally don't consciously activate a pharyngeal effect until our upper mix (past D natural / D4) so it can appear that a pharyngeal sound only happens in higher ranges.
Pharyngeal resonance is what gives our speaking voice clarity and edge. Jon Bon Jovi uses it to sing his higher parts from the 80's because he cannot belt them like he used to; so he thins it out with a squeeze of the pharynx.
LOL I literally have Kevin's e-book open right now on the section in Registers and Middle voice is listed there. Isn't that the same as Pharyngeal...
What he is speaking about is not an effect..its a vocal mode that emphasizes edging vowels.
It feels like you get the Bon Jovi sound from the 80s/90s by taking this and pushing the heck out of it with much higher notes and more belting.
David - thank you. This was the most useful singing tip I have come across in the past 15 years. I have always heard of chest, mix and head registers, but I could never grasp how to access anything other than chest or falsetto. The NG exercise helped me access both my mix and head registers, because I never understood before how to achieve nasal resonance. I am a little surprised that pharyngeal voice is not commonly explained, since it seems to be such a key concept.
Yes it is and it plays a much bigger role during a singing session than most people think.
Believe me Bon Jovi did not sing like this when he first started he must have been coached by somebody who knew a lot about singing techniques if you listen to his debuts you will find that his technique has changed in the late 80s.
Sambora has a better voice control than Bon Jovi but Bon Jovi's vocals are powerful because he started to use the pharyngeal method or technique which in fact helps him a great deal during his live shows.
But to sing well there are several other things a singer can work on and improve, like the breathing for instance.
Glad I could help you Steve. And for the record I've learned since making this video that is really only "one voice" so it's best not to break it up too much into calling it different registers. It's just the feeling that changes as the resonance rises from resonating in your chest to your head and the "in between" kind of area that some people call "mix", but really it's just a "mix" of where the sound is most resonating between your head and chest :)
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This is a good exercise/information ...but there are a lot of techniques that go into great singing, and a lot that must be practiced. I suggest watching my other videos as well, and also check out Daniel Formica's videos and Kevin Richard's ...both put out a lot of good information.
Yes, you can blend this technique into your singing for any style. The "Pharyngeal" cavity is the most important space for growing the power/range of chest voice.
I cannot get enough of this video. I'm a huge Bonjovi fan. I'm watching this over and over. Lol!
so how did it go 6 years later
This guy makes it look easy almost like anyone can do it.
Most of the notes you used there were below an E4 - could you demonstrate this using some higher notes? Also, what anatomically is going on during the pharyngeal voice to make it distinct from chest or head voice? What I heard was a nasalised twang with a spread tongue and a high larynx - firmly in a chest register.
OH MY GOSH thank you so much! I'm starting to lose my high notes as I progress further into my teens, but with this technique I can now sing songs from my favorite bands like Bon Jovi, Queen, U2, Guns N' Roses, etc.
It’s not supposed to be a nasal sound in your nose. It’s supposed to resonate in the nasal sinus cavities above it. When done correctly that is a true mask placement position, but not pharyngeal voice. Voce faringea or voix mixte is a mixed sound with mask placement which allows your head register to sound more like your chest register while keeping a true head voice connection, and keeping things easy. You are talking more about mask placement. You can hear Bon Jovi do that a lot, and also access his pharyngeal register up top.
Yeah, Filipinos have "ng" sound, that's why we have so many great singers :)
+Elias Brondia We have also in Finland I write some of them : Tunge, kongi,
kingi, vahingollinen. Oh, just few I can remember. Not so many...
English has many.
STFU
@@kipponi We Mizo(live in North eastern part of India, look a lot like Philipinos) have a lot of 'ng' word..like ngatinge, tunge, ngei, ngawih, ngiau, ngai...etc..more unique than English..cos English use Ng only at the end of the word eg. Sing, king etc. We have NG as our alphabet which comes after G. The two-letter albhabet sounds 'eng'
@@mapuiachenkual4752 We have too NG middle of the words pretty much. So I can spell easily Philippine words ha ha.
So Finnish word tunge means English push. And kengät means shoes. Ä is letter unique to our language.
Sorry mate, thats not how it works
this is going to help a lot as ive just joined a bon jovi tribute aaahhhhhhh lol.
very helpful buddy, i do find that his voice has changed over the years .
Good luck! Yes, it has!
@@DavidDiMuzioLessons hey thanks buddy, its an honour.
Just got cast in a play where my character is in a Bon Jovi cover band. This was extremely helpful.
Great video! Helped me! I did laugh part way through as well😂
very helpful! I am recording "wanted, Dead or Alive' and was using my jaw to get the higher timbre but now this will help me to push certain parts, without strain. i,e, "it's all the saaaame"
:)
Sir, I want to cover "it's my life" with original scale of Bon Jovi but my voice cracks at "live forever" and "did it". I am practicing the song with original track's scale everyday. I will keep practicing till my death. Will I be able to sing those high notes on original Bon Jovi's scale some day???
Yes, you just need to work on your head resonance voice.
1:42 "Hey...wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?"
Guyssssss
No its at 2:25
Dumb and Dumber
Finally a singing tuition video where the guy actually makes some noise!
The Cantonese I or Me is started with the NG sound . Yeh
He started singing like this after Crush, the latter years though. He use to be more raspy.. A true rocker
"Yes, that's true. But the reason he started singing more "like this", and using more of a nasal pharyngeal tone was because he completely blew his voice out trying to "chest" or "belt" everything before that. His voice sounded amazing, but it didn't last because the technique wasn't correct. ..."
So there is any chance for Jon to get back his "old" voice ?
We can only recover the voice to the extent our technique was before damage. Take this advice from a speech pathologist and voice teacher.
After tooth brush or after eating spicy food you get the raspy voice
I love it man. This is so amasing and very useful! Thank you
Thank you for the lesson. Is there someplace I can purchase the piano recording to sing along with or did you just make your own recording? Thank you for your time.
I've got a question for you that I've never had a good answer to which would allow me to do this.
How do you get a rasp and sing with power, example of this Jimi Jameson from Survivor. Unbelievable range/power but with a real rock raspy edge... Is it something one can develop or is it something you either have or you don't. Some people have said that it's just luck of the draw... Is this true.
I never could get that rasp no matter how hard I tried, but then I started smoking and it came by itself
try compressing ur chords, don't let air "flow out" like when u sing normal, squeeze those muscles a little :) ever heard of throat singing ? that's basically rasp, but less volume and alot deeper, u wanna aim 4 something a little higher than that though... I found out I had a rasp like James Hetfield, can't remember how I found out, but I've been making weird noises 4 a long time, that certainly helped alot ;) do some throat singing and just add volume... be patient though, takes a long time 2 extend ur range !!! DON'T LOSE HOPE :)
fortunately for you and every other singer who wants to sing that way it's not a matter of luck. you CAN learn it. i kind of lead an a cappela metal band and stef from van canto actually shows it off quit good at his "a cappella metal workshop". then i just tried to do it like he did, quiet simple. after some time you will just feel wether or not you are doing it "right", just play around a bit and be a bit open minded about new ideas like just humming a sound and just try to shape it in some directions. if you add the vocal distortion and just listten to the sound and try to shape it slowly you will be amazed how fast you can accomplish to actually harmonically sing with 2 notes with one voice, so one note with your vocal chords and one with the false ones. if you really want to learn it the right way and the guided one or just don't get it by experimenting i can really recommend melissa cross' dvd "the zen of sceaming". she teaches it step by step. it's a little bit slower but she teaches you the basics really good so that you don't hurt yourself. if you have any questions left, just pm me ;)
English has an ng sound. It happens a lot at the end of words. Ring, sing... hell, the thing he's talking about has two - siNGiNG
+ɽɛᴛʀoғʟɛχ It has but not "independently" as in it always goes after "i" right? In Filipino, however, "ng" is independent. It is in the Filipino alphabet itself (ng) and is also a word translated to English as "of". In addition, words begin with that letter: ngipin (teeth), ngayon (today), etc.
Ric Hofner It doesn't have to come after i - words like "angle" and "swung" are valid English words. But in English, it can't come at the beginning of the word. I do know that a lot of Asian languages and I think some African languages have it at the beginning of words.
In English you use it for sound, basically to complete the sound of the word, in filo, it's a natural sound. Plus this guy is trying to explain the sound, not the way it finishes in your English words. Dumbfuck.
To me 'nee' 2:00 sounds really weird cs it means no in my languege
Dude, you do sound like him gone Gospel! Great stuff.
We called that MAGIC E VOWEL TECHNIQUE...the last part.........I use that in belting to add more power.....You cannot do that exercises unless you teach them to enter lower soprano.........I'm willing to help......
Very great explain. It sonds really like Bon Jovis voice! :D Thumbs up!
With this NG sound, my soft palate is touching the back of my tongue. Is this correct, or do I need to lift the soft palate a little? If I do not, there will be no resonance in the mouth cavity, but there will be along the oro and nasopharynx.
RU in jail?
Not anymore...
Damn that is funny. Navy....Jail. What´s the difference?
hahahaha
I can’t stop laughing
OMG!!! LOL. I can’t believe someone else noticed that sterile bed. Made my day bro.
This looks like my room on the oil rig i work on!
+Andrew Bedford plot twist! it is your room
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NO ONE CAN SING LIKE BON JOVI
He’s a mediocre singer. Sambora was 10 times the singer Jon Bon Jovi was.
Thats the kind of voice i want to have... Thanks dave
Your video is very interesting. Thanks for posting it. Who have you studied with?
1:44 Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber "Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?..."
I sound like Fran Drescher from The Nanny 😭. All I need is a New York accent lol
Never heard of this before, awesome!
Interesting.. "NG" Sounds Filipino has a lot of that sounds So that Many filipinos can sing easily #🇵🇭Philippines..
any tips for a male singer on how to reach the first notes in Rihanna's Stay -'All Along' the first 2 words I think they are high E and high G.Thanks
I thought the nasal and pharyngeal resonators are two separate ones?
This can to be too How To Sing Like Serj Tankian
I think that was Jon Bon Jovi starting 2004 when Jon's voice power really got lost
and it's pharyngeal (FA-RIN-JEAL) from the phraynx (fa-rinks).
nice! thanks for sharing!
Well the “ngs” and the “ahhhar” sounds are common in Singapore
So would this be an appropriate technique to explore in order to extend falsetto range to around a G#5 to Bb5?
I wish I could...
Cool thanks something new
This was so interesting. Thanks man
You're welcome 😁
thank you!
Can u teach me how to sing out my head voice? I've been finding 'him' a long time
it is like the mix voice???
I think Mike Patton uses the more harsh like sound.
Great bro.
Did you say there is no -ng [ŋ] in English? How do you pronounce "sing"?
Yes, but it's a different NG to like the Tagalog sounding NG sound.
Do you live in a hostel?
I wanna sing Bed of Roses, can this help me?
Welcome to Jurassic park
That is not an ng sounds. to get the NG sound say the word sing. it is the ng of the word si'ng'.
Please sing the Schubert "Ave Maria."
Grasp a chicken around the neck and squeeze variously while pressing its body to bring out the air.
Record and submit to RUclips Thanks.
Did MJ use pharyngeal?
that's called falsetto
Yes, Michael Jackson used pharyngeal. In order to have any connection or chest component to the voice, it would need a pharyngeal component.
aaron griffin Incorrect. Falsetto has no connective ability and has an audible hiss of "air." From an aesthetic perspective, it has a coordination of a whisper.
Gregory Sankowich Well to be completely fair, it's pretty bold to say a singer only used one technique to sing. Back when I commented this a good six months ago I was referring to a specific part of his voice. Obviously he doesn't always use falsetto but to say he never used falsetto is pretty dumb. There are certain moments when he sang that he had to be using pharyngeal but a lot of the super high stuff like "hee-hee" for example was falsetto. I'm aware he wasn't always in falsetto but to say he never used falsetto? Doubtful.
I think the NG sound is the COW in the cowboy :) ... 1:42 is annoying, funny and strange all at the same time. Lmao.
excellent vid
I call it South Parking haha
Could you get a Matt Bellamy tone with this technique?
Lol no
@@petersoar2886 bit late aren't you?
Cruise ship!
Looks like you're on a cruise ship..crew cabin....home for many of us for years.
This would work perfectly for "How to sing like Rob Halford" too seeing as he relied/relies heavily on pharyngeal singing.
Which ship were you on?
That's why Bon Jovi sounds like he was holding his nose shut.
this is so funny
yea
Took me to the end of the video to decide whether or not this was a joke!
Do i have to smoke ?
the NG sound is like the english words sung and sang... it seems to me...
mana mana .. tup ti tu ti ti
So the only way to get a raspy voice when it doesn't come naturally is to smoke... Damn that's me out then. Used to smoke but I have an obsessive personality. I wouldn't be able to stop if I started again...not really worth it for me.
don't forget about guns and roses.
is very noise, i. mithg are bad with the time, send greetingns since Mexico,I single pop music, with his excecise i will can't sigle rock music
Scary o-o
i got punch with my 😊roomate
I'm sat here listening to a man gurgling mouthwash
You forgot two registers (vocal fry and whistle register), but, to be fair, one of them is virtually unusable, and the other is only useful for extremely high phrasing.
***** Vocal fry is...weird. By itself, it's not a viable register, but if you mix it with low chest tones, suddenly, another octave appears at the bottom of your voice (mostly if you're a guy, and generally a baritone or a bass). Is it a register? Physically, yes. Musically, sort of.
Pharyngeal and fry are actually the same thing. fry doesn't only mean the really low, you can go all the way up with it too. most people just don't know how, and don't know the proper definition. look up vocal fry exercises and you'll see they produce the same kinds of tones you hear here.
Ethan A. Hold your horse, singing low is an extremely cool thing to do, specially if you are doing vocal harmonies like the Pentatonix guys, for me its a realy interesting thing for someone to be able to sing very high and also sing low and sound good, it shows how complete a singer can be, still not everyone might need it
Toni Blackbird I'm not saying that you can't use vocal fry, but it's best used when it's mixed with your low chest voice (which is what Avi from Pentatonix does, I'll have you know). And people who can use their entire voice and make it sound good give me jealousy cramps.
Yeah, I absolutely agree with you, not realy jelous, but actually moivates me to what I can learn to do if I practice eneugh. People overlook vocal fry, but I think it is a Realy cool part of the voice as very little people use it.
Why so i sound like a mosquito ?
I don't think man, but good try!
Do you live in a dorm?
My guess is he is on a cruise ship in that video.
Am I the only one Filipino here?
In short, be barney :)
This is why country singers are the best!!!
Ngehhhhhh ngehhhhh ngehhhhh try to sing like bon jovi
I don't think that's pharyngeal. It's sounds nasal.
oh shit... jon sings through the nose purely to give the impression of hitting the high notes?
i would rather they play the whole song lower so that we can hear his natural voice - surely it would sound more like him than what we get?
i understand that he is older now... don't expect it to be the same...
Bryan Plimer No, that is not what he was saying. It just creates a distinctive sound that some rockers prefer.
Kiern What a weird thing to do... after you have sold 60 million records with your old voice...
Bryan Plimer He didn't change his voice. It is something he has always done, though not always throughout the whole song, depending on the sound he is going for. Like many singers he uses other tones as well. Accomplished singers can switch between registers effortlessly. It's important to note that, in this video, he is exaggerating the nasal sound because it is a training video. When singers actually use it is doesn't sound that nasally. As he points out in the video, many hard rock/heavy metal singers use this sound, for effect. It creates an edgier sound. It is very common, and not specific to Bon Jovi.
hahaha this is hilarious
1:44 only makes me want to milk this guy more .__.
Hmm.. Nope dosent sound like bon jovi to me
Sorry
I'm hearing it? rsrsrsrs