Isaac Lundgren – Vocal Selections 01

Singing Tips, Online Vocal Lessons – You Have Many Different Singing Voices Lurking Inside – How To Locate And Use Them All

“Learn how to sing correctly so you can screw it all up when you sing songs.” When I say that to my students they tend to think I’ve lost some marbles. “Why should I waste time and money studying with a brilliant, handsome and amazingly talented teacher (I kind of added that last part myself), if I’m going to go against what you teach me when I sing songs?”

Actually, that’s a good question. Let’s examine my answer:

The human voice has the amazing ability to actually change its quality. It can sound nasal, like an old time country singer or blues singer. It can sound breathy like a soft ballad singer. It can sound husky and “throaty”, like Bullwinkle or Sylvester Stallone. It can sound brassy and irritating. It can sound “croony” like Bing Crosby or Michael Buble doing soft intimate ballads. It can sound like a flute when Barbara Streisand or Mariah Carey sing in their beautiful and haunting high range.

It can sound full, rich and even “operatic”.

Name another instrument that can actually change its natural quality as dramatically and as drastically. Well, the guitar can do it, but only with the help of effects pedals. The trumpet can change its quality somewhat if the player is very skilled or they use a mute. The piano is pretty much stuck with one sound quality, although great players can use that one quality to evoke many moods.

But the voice can actually change its quality when the singer wants to make it happen. However, that singer needs to practice and develop the different sounds in order to use them to their best advantage. Too many potentially great singers are unable to achieve their potential because they sing with only one or two of the many possible qualities. They mistakenly believe that because their sound is nasal or breathy, they are limited to sining only certain kinds of songs.

The full, rich and powerful voice is the most difficult to develop, and yet it defines the great pop, rock, country or gospel singer. Do they use that powerful quality all of the time? No. Most of their vocal quality throughout a song may be soft, or nasal or breathy, etc. But when the song calls for power and excitement that quality is in there, ready to be used.

Start by developing the best, richest and brightest voice you can get. You might have to work with a teacher to achieve this. Then, singing with the other qualities is easy. The goal is to develop and perfect as many different qualities as you can. Then you have an arsenal of possibilities to call on for different songs.

Guitar players have a selection of “effects pedals” to alter their sound from clean to distorted, from pure to reverb or delayed sound. Your “pedals” are inside your creative mind. Learn to use them and you will be a much better singer.

About the Author

Al Koehn has spent over 30 years working with top professionals in all aspects of their careers; voice development, performance, recording, producing and managing. His powerful new FREE ebook called “SINGING IS SERIOUSLY SIMPLE: Important Tips, Tools and Techniques for All Singers” is now available for downloading. Access the Ebook FREE here
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Where can I buy Vocal Selections from Sweeney Todd with piano accompaniment for under $100.00?

I don’t want the ones with only five songs, I want the complete score for under 100 dollars.

Easy two points.

Try eBay.