So true. If you sing get the course - follow Ken. Now that clubs are booking again after Covid we are finally back to doing shows. We run three 60 min sets, with dynamic stuff - from The Who’s Real Me, to Stevie Wonder and everything in between. We had a show last night - I am 53 and I belted my ass off but you wouldn’t know it if you talked to me right now. That stamina and lack of being hoarse is completely because of Ken and his training. The man is the real deal.
You give such excellent information, Ken. Awhile back, I told you I suffered through listening to several other vocal coaches and that they couldn't begin to compare to you. Just a couple weeks back now, it came through my feed about another vocal coach reacting to Dimash. I watched it only for the sake of comparison. She never spoke anything about what Dimash was doing or anything technical. She never spoke of how he's pushing air or has great control of his voice. I kid you not....the entire video was this woman supposed vocal coach saying, "Wow....oh my gosh...that's wonderful...etc." Not one single explanatory thing and then you put out videos such as this. You just shine! :)
Precious tips once again! In a live set i’d add the following tip: use the microphone to prevent you from oversinging. When you cant hear yourself well, theres a natural urge to sing louder so you’d hear it better. But the truth is: you wont, AND you’ll kill the rest of your performance by going hoarse. Thats when you have to calm down, trust what you studied. If the sound engineer cant help you hear yourself better, get the mic closer to your mouth and see if it helps.
I learned a long time ago as a artist / painter to not care what anyone thinks about my art. Some will love it and some won’t. So either way I’m to keep going
Over the years I’ve made most of these mistakes. Biggest one for me was using something for a cold that I’d never used before that was supposed to help me sing. Didn’t help and just compounded the anxiety more. My confidence wasn’t high back then, it more of “I hope I can hit that note” rather than knowing I can. KTVA is a huge reason why I’ve grown as much as I have as a singer.
Watching your videos this is what made my voice more consistent. My favorite song to sing are on the top of my range G5-A5 ( heavy metal, rock), but more times I struggling with mid- high notes (near or right after the bridge between chest and mixed voice), if I am in good shape I can relax enough to make the transitions mostly smooth. Haven't watch your videos in a while, but happy back to the channel :)
Ken...thanks for the great tips. I have one to share. I'm sure most of us practice at home while sitting on our butts. While sitting on my butt, my breath management, compression, and forward placement seem to be all in sync. Then I went to my first Karaoke event where there is no sitting but standing. Wow...all of a sudden I forgot how to breathe, how to compress air, my forward placement was lost and I panic. LESSON LEARN. Now I practice at home STANDING, so all those singing muscles are strengthened in the same position that is performed outside the home.
One of the most surprising and amusing things I read about prep was from the one and only, Ronnie James Dio. He used to need something to settle his nerves before he performed, so he'd smoke a joint 15 minutes before he was due to start lol.
Absolute Gold to go along with my practice space at home I also have several practice spaces in beautiful scenic places around town so your lesson truly resonates . Thank you Coach !
I have found nothing is more of a helpful reality check than singing in a carpeted room, or an acoustically dead room, no mic. It helps me immeasurably.
At home in a room with an amplifier, guitar, reverb, the voice sounds rich, clear and beautiful. But in an open space in a park with lots of trees and bushes, the impression of one's own singing changes radically. And if you only play acoustic guitar outside, you start to feel like the worst singer under the sun. The voice sounds weak. And also kind of dry. Like a cracked egg. It's an incredible difference. Which takes away the confidence of even a very good singer. Coincidentally, I tried it yesterday. It sounded terrible...😂
OMG KEN! Here in WV, we've had RAIN everyday for 3 weeks straight, hummaditty up to 95% EVERY DAY. THANK GAWD , my lil VOX mini 3 amp has a KILLER COMP/ EXPANDER built in for practice out at the forest shelter.Use a Crown 311A which really SAVES me from takin in too much "SOUPY" air.. I still do my scale warm ups from the early tut's, which is A MUST, especially livin in this RAIN forest environment. Although the air is HEAVY, I feel like it keeps the vocal cords hydrated, b/c I NEVER get hoarse, like I do in the fall?..After 2-3 hrs workin on my tunes for the day, Ill kill the vocal amp and I feel like Im being CHOKED when tryin to BELT. Great video ! Environment is EVERYTHING!
You're insight on all of this is beyond impressive, Sir Ken! You're yielding up so much valuable intel here man! Your content is ever-banging, my friend! Rock on, peace out, & hope your evening is awesomely blessed!🤘💜🌍
Fantastic video Mr Ken Tamplin, you are amazing. Thank you ever so much. You Are A Blessing. "Be Who You Are, Do What You Do, Know What You Know". "Go With What You Know, Go With Your Training, Go With Your Regimen, Go With Your Routine". Do this and consist success will find your way; you will find success consistently. "You Know What Your Game Is". Start afresh, Start anew. The sun shines every day. Please allow me to quote: "Breathe" as both Simon Cowell and Brad Pitt say. With love
The physical environment can have a staggering effect on your voice. Practicing in a dry, cool, air conditioned environment, then showing up at the county fair in August when the air temp is 90 and the air is filled with dust and pollen can make you feel like you just swallowed a tablespoon of sand. I drink ROOM TEMPERATURE bottled water, lemon tea, or lemon water and nothing with carbonation. Tea has caffeine, so if you are already amped up for the show, that might over-amp you... I usually warm up singing a few songs without high notes and then sing scales with different vowel sounds in the vehicle while I am driving to the location. If you sing outside, don't forget your windscreen foam for your microphone....
Thank you mr.ken,the moment I watched the diaphragmatic support the way I sing changed. Although I've not been watching your video in a while but now I'm back .
Seth Riggs teaches early bridging, claiming that if you stretch your chest voice higher you will only damage your voice and develop nodules from essentially shouting too much in chest. On the other hand, Ken Tamplin says that you should bridge as late as you can and stretch and thin out your chest voice in order to keep that part of the voice strong. Ken claims you will atrophy your voice if you don’t keep training your upper chest voice and instead rely on early bridging. He says, “Whatever you don’t use, you lose” and that you will lose your ability to stretch chest, which will eventually effect your ability to mix. Ken claims this is the reason why Artists like Axel Rose and Geddy lee lost their voice later on. Who is right? Why are these techniques complete polar opposites? Who do I listen to? I love ken tamplin and I love Seth Riggs!!!
I had some issues at first when I started singing into a mic / PA. I’d sang for my first 4 years with a accustom guitar unplugged. Than the first time I got an electric guitar and PA it was like starting all over again.
How do you warm up your voice 30 mins before a gig if you have to arrive there early to set up the equipment/do soundcheck, and there's no dressing room at the gig to warm up in?
Warm up very slowly and gently on the drive to the gig. You do what you can when and where you can. Don't warm up in the morning if you're planning on singing in the evening.
I can’t tell If I have vocal nodules?! I’m 17 but trained hard everyday for the past year? I’ve watched your nodule video and have been doing the glutathione treatment but nothing has worked :( is there anyway something could work
I have problem applying correct sound extraction to actual songs - seems OK as I practice exercises and stuff with breathing, but as soon as I try any song - its again all coming from the throat with this tension and donkey voice breaking. How to fix this?
learn to sing correctly and your Fach, to the extent that that is a relevant concept, will make itself known to you. It will also change and expand in scope as you progress - and vis a vis your timbre, that too will ripen and become more evident as you go. Don't worry - just work!
Hi Ken, I've recently singed with a band and found myself screaming a lot and not singing like I do at home in a more quiet place. Anything I can do to avoid this?
Getting used to monitors and hearing your voice over the band takes a lot of time and trial and error. Also if you play an instrument it adds a whole other layer of issues. Like a guitar or bass being anchored around your neck. That's a whole new ballgame. Huge issue is the strap sits right on one of the sternocleidomastoid muscle.s They are the largest muscles in the neck and they run from the clavicle to right behind the ears and I believe they are connected to the tongue root so this muscle group is highly related to tongue tension. Which can significantly cut the upper range and both factors bad monitoring and not hearing yourself right along with the neck muscle tension can be a perfect storm for disaster. Not to mention the instrument also presses into your diaphragm(unless you've got it strapped way up high like they did in the 1960's😆 Takes a lot of time patience and experimentation. Definitely a lot of body awareness. I still haven't got it down yet myself but there's been a lot of improvements Keep at it& don't give up.
Anxiety before going on stage is real. My throat feels dry no matter how much water I drink before. It's getting better but I can't seem to be completely at ease in a live setting. 🥲
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So true. If you sing get the course - follow Ken. Now that clubs are booking again after Covid we are finally back to doing shows. We run three 60 min sets, with dynamic stuff - from The Who’s Real Me, to Stevie Wonder and everything in between. We had a show last night - I am 53 and I belted my ass off but you wouldn’t know it if you talked to me right now. That stamina and lack of being hoarse is completely because of Ken and his training. The man is the real deal.
I'm glad the course is working out for you, Rob!
Exactly Rob.... Hard on the training ground, easy on the battlefield.
You give such excellent information, Ken. Awhile back, I told you I suffered through listening to several other vocal coaches and that they couldn't begin to compare to you. Just a couple weeks back now, it came through my feed about another vocal coach reacting to Dimash. I watched it only for the sake of comparison. She never spoke anything about what Dimash was doing or anything technical. She never spoke of how he's pushing air or has great control of his voice. I kid you not....the entire video was this woman supposed vocal coach saying, "Wow....oh my gosh...that's wonderful...etc." Not one single explanatory thing and then you put out videos such as this. You just shine! :)
You really have a talent for expressing vocal ideas in a simple and non-intimidating way. Natural teacher!
Precious tips once again! In a live set i’d add the following tip: use the microphone to prevent you from oversinging. When you cant hear yourself well, theres a natural urge to sing louder so you’d hear it better. But the truth is: you wont, AND you’ll kill the rest of your performance by going hoarse. Thats when you have to calm down, trust what you studied. If the sound engineer cant help you hear yourself better, get the mic closer to your mouth and see if it helps.
I learned a long time ago as a artist / painter to not care what anyone thinks about my art. Some will love it and some won’t. So either way I’m to keep going
I really appreciate your tips, since i saw your videos for the first time, I don’t watch no one else, thanks.
Over the years I’ve made most of these mistakes. Biggest one for me was using something for a cold that I’d never used before that was supposed to help me sing. Didn’t help and just compounded the anxiety more. My confidence wasn’t high back then, it more of “I hope I can hit that note” rather than knowing I can. KTVA is a huge reason why I’ve grown as much as I have as a singer.
Great to hear that!
Watching your videos this is what made my voice more consistent. My favorite song to sing are on the top of my range G5-A5 ( heavy metal, rock), but more times I struggling with mid- high notes (near or right after the bridge between chest and mixed voice), if I am in good shape I can relax enough to make the transitions mostly smooth. Haven't watch your videos in a while, but happy back to the channel :)
Always have amazing videos with incredible information. Thank-you for always sharing with us Mr.Tamplin
My pleasure!
Ken...thanks for the great tips. I have one to share. I'm sure most of us practice at home while sitting on our butts. While sitting on my butt, my breath management, compression, and forward placement seem to be all in sync. Then I went to my first Karaoke event where there is no sitting but standing. Wow...all of a sudden I forgot how to breathe, how to compress air, my forward placement was lost and I panic. LESSON LEARN. Now I practice at home STANDING, so all those singing muscles are strengthened in the same position that is performed outside the home.
One of the most surprising and amusing things I read about prep was from the one and only, Ronnie James Dio. He used to need something to settle his nerves before he performed, so he'd smoke a joint 15 minutes before he was due to start lol.
Great video. This is why I do so much karaoke. I can experiment all I want. Watch the crowd. Watch myself.
Absolute Gold to go along with my practice space at home I also have several practice spaces in beautiful scenic places around town so your lesson truly resonates . Thank you Coach !
Wonderful!
Awesome information Ken very informative thanks for sharing Ken you the man
I have found nothing is more of a helpful reality check than singing in a carpeted room, or an acoustically dead room, no mic. It helps me immeasurably.
At home in a room with an amplifier, guitar, reverb, the voice sounds rich, clear and beautiful. But in an open space in a park with lots of trees and bushes, the impression of one's own singing changes radically. And if you only play acoustic guitar outside, you start to feel like the worst singer under the sun. The voice sounds weak. And also kind of dry. Like a cracked egg. It's an incredible difference. Which takes away the confidence of even a very good singer. Coincidentally, I tried it yesterday.
It sounded terrible...😂
Really interesting! Great information! Thank’s a lot!!
OMG KEN! Here in WV, we've had RAIN everyday for 3 weeks straight, hummaditty up to 95% EVERY DAY. THANK GAWD , my lil VOX mini 3 amp has a KILLER COMP/ EXPANDER built in for practice out at the forest shelter.Use a Crown 311A which really SAVES me from takin in too much "SOUPY" air.. I still do my scale warm ups from the early tut's, which is A MUST, especially livin in this RAIN forest environment. Although the air is HEAVY, I feel like it keeps the vocal cords hydrated, b/c I NEVER get hoarse, like I do in the fall?..After 2-3 hrs workin on my tunes for the day, Ill kill the vocal amp and I feel like Im being CHOKED when tryin to BELT. Great video ! Environment is EVERYTHING!
Hey Ken! Very informative vid as always. Have a rockin' weekend. 🔈🔉🔊😎
In the Shower I'm Steve perry , Out in an open room I'm pee wee Herman.... LOL But hell I try ! Joel
Awesome! Keep at it!
Great advice and tips!
You're insight on all of this is beyond impressive, Sir Ken! You're yielding up so much valuable intel here man! Your content is ever-banging, my friend! Rock on, peace out, & hope your evening is awesomely blessed!🤘💜🌍
Fantastic video Mr Ken Tamplin, you are amazing. Thank you ever so much. You Are A Blessing.
"Be Who You Are, Do What You Do, Know What You Know".
"Go With What You Know, Go With Your Training, Go With Your Regimen, Go With Your Routine". Do this and consist success will find your way; you will find success consistently.
"You Know What Your Game Is".
Start afresh, Start anew. The sun shines every day.
Please allow me to quote: "Breathe" as both Simon Cowell and Brad Pitt say. With love
You are very welcome.
Thank you - Ken, I love Ur lessons.
Glad you like them!
Thanks Ken. Your still the best
The physical environment can have a staggering effect on your voice. Practicing in a dry, cool, air conditioned environment, then showing up at the county fair in August when the air temp is 90 and the air is filled with dust and pollen can make you feel like you just swallowed a tablespoon of sand. I drink ROOM TEMPERATURE bottled water, lemon tea, or lemon water and nothing with carbonation. Tea has caffeine, so if you are already amped up for the show, that might over-amp you... I usually warm up singing a few songs without high notes and then sing scales with different vowel sounds in the vehicle while I am driving to the location. If you sing outside, don't forget your windscreen foam for your microphone....
This is so Interesting.
Thank you mr.ken,the moment I watched the diaphragmatic support the way I sing changed. Although I've not been watching your video in a while but now I'm back .
Seth Riggs teaches early bridging, claiming that if you stretch your chest voice higher you will only damage your voice and develop nodules from essentially shouting too much in chest. On the other hand, Ken Tamplin says that you should bridge as late as you can and stretch and thin out your chest voice in order to keep that part of the voice strong. Ken claims you will atrophy your voice if you don’t keep training your upper chest voice and instead rely on early bridging. He says, “Whatever you don’t use, you lose” and that you will lose your ability to stretch chest, which will eventually effect your ability to mix. Ken claims this is the reason why Artists like Axel Rose and Geddy lee lost their voice later on. Who is right? Why are these techniques complete polar opposites? Who do I listen to? I love ken tamplin and I love Seth Riggs!!!
Try it for a year and see what happens to your chest voice.
I had some issues at first when I started singing into a mic / PA. I’d sang for my first 4 years with a accustom guitar unplugged. Than the first time I got an electric guitar and PA it was like starting all over again.
Thank u Ken, u make perfect sense
Thank you for posting. It was very helpful and contained nuggets of info that I had never thought about.
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it!
"Still learning after all these year's" - Ken never fails to come up with the goods.!
Love your vids
Thanks, Tyler! Appreciate you!
How do you warm up your voice 30 mins before a gig if you have to arrive there early to set up the equipment/do soundcheck, and there's no dressing room at the gig to warm up in?
Warm up very slowly and gently on the drive to the gig. You do what you can when and where you can. Don't warm up in the morning if you're planning on singing in the evening.
Thank you
Thanks again Ken!
Lol...I do the dog thing with guitar and trying to sing...if he don't sing...It sucks...even my parrot gives feedback...Peace Out!
Pets are smart! Cats can be very judgmental, though. 🐈 ⚖️ 🔨 💀
Puede poner subtítulos en español !
I can’t tell If I have vocal nodules?! I’m 17 but trained hard everyday for the past year? I’ve watched your nodule video and have been doing the glutathione treatment but nothing has worked :( is there anyway something could work
I have problem applying correct sound extraction to actual songs - seems OK as I practice exercises and stuff with breathing, but as soon as I try any song - its again all coming from the throat with this tension and donkey voice breaking. How to fix this?
How do I determine what my vocal FACH is? What my timbre is?
learn to sing correctly and your Fach, to the extent that that is a relevant concept, will make itself known to you. It will also change and expand in scope as you progress - and vis a vis your timbre, that too will ripen and become more evident as you go. Don't worry - just work!
@@jancreighton Also don't overdo it or your voice will be fach-ed....sorry.
Thank you. Where is that „plan” in the course?
The best place to discuss singing related issues is on the forum. Please join the discussion, enrollment is free.
forum.kentamplinvocalacademy.com/
I guess that means that bong hits are contra-indicated?
Hi Ken, I've recently singed with a band and found myself screaming a lot and not singing like I do at home in a more quiet place. Anything I can do to avoid this?
Getting used to monitors and hearing your voice over the band takes a lot of time and trial and error. Also if you play an instrument it adds a whole other layer of issues. Like a guitar or bass being anchored around your neck. That's a whole new ballgame. Huge issue is the strap sits right on one of the sternocleidomastoid muscle.s They are the largest muscles in the neck and they run from the clavicle to right behind the ears and I believe they are connected to the tongue root so this muscle group is highly related to tongue tension. Which can significantly cut the upper range and both factors bad monitoring and not hearing yourself right along with the neck muscle tension can be a perfect storm for disaster. Not to mention the instrument also presses into your diaphragm(unless you've got it strapped way up high like they did in the 1960's😆 Takes a lot of time patience and experimentation. Definitely a lot of body awareness. I still haven't got it down yet myself but there's been a lot of improvements Keep at it& don't give up.
Idk if I have the capacity to tell myself and accept that being at 80% is ok 🤣
100% best voice all the time is a unicorn!
Hello sir
Do you teach one on one online?
Yes. kentamplinvocalacademy.com/
Some of the easiest songs to sing are from George straight.
Should these youngsters be watching HEE-HAW?
Probably better than most things they're viewing...
Anxiety before going on stage is real. My throat feels dry no matter how much water I drink before. It's getting better but I can't seem to be completely at ease in a live setting. 🥲
You'll get there! Keep at it, Gabriela!
@@kentamplin Thanks, Ken! You helped me a lot in my journey. Been a fan for a few years now!
@@GabiBrooks Awesome! Glad you're here! Rock on, G!
Awesome video