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Alright, welcome to Webinar #4 everyone of Build Your Best Voice! Well done guys. So
we're going to start with teaching points in workout #4, which is tracks 40-53. After
we've done that, again I'm going to show you how to apply some exercises to make your
songs better and we're going to have the Q & A where you can ask me anything! Let's
get right into it.
The next exercise in this workout is quite an extensive one. We are going to be singing
two things. We're going to be singing
Exercise: Bit bit bit
When you say bit...bit...bit... what you should notice is that your jaw has to be quite relaxed.
It's opening up and down and it's basically helping to loosen your jaw, tongue and teeth.
Everything just sort of being a little bit letting go. From there what we are going to
do is try to employ that same feeling into an Ahh sound.
This particular exercise, what it does, is that it develops again a very strong head
voice and also the vocal register transition, because what we are going to do is we are
going to be descending on a major scale. We're not going to be missing any notes. Really
forces you to transition over all of your registers specially through the vocal break
area. Ready and bit bit bit
Wonderful! Now we're going to do the same notes but now on an Ahh, and you're going
to think about the bit as you sing Ahh. It goes like this (Kerri doing Ahh exercise).
Alright, so what I'm going to do to help you think about bit bit bit when you're singing
Ahh is I'm going to play (on piano) bit bit bit. So that you can be thinking about bit.
We are going to do it again but this time we're not going to stop in between. We are
just going to go bit bit bit and then Ahh. Let's go.
Now breath and Ahh
It's all about finding the right place in the Ahh which is the place that we want to
be is where the bit is. So the more you practice that, the more it's going to become easier
to transition.
Last workout, I also introduced to you the idea that we needed to really develop agility
and flexibility in our voice with the i e a exercise so it's very quick in 5 notes.
We are going to take that a little further today and we're going to do it on all vowels.
So we are not going to leave anything out, it's going to be
i e a o u and stick an m in front of each of the vowels just to make sure that we're
buzzing it and we're placing it forward. And we're going to sing
mi me ma mo mu
It's about transitioning over your registers really easily and just having that flexibility
and agility to run through anything. This is going to help you in singing vocal runs,
if you love RnB and music of like Cristina Aguillera, Beyonce and all those singers that
do a lot of vocal runs. Alright, so thatÃs what that does for you.
What I'm going to do today is introduce to you a concept called Twang. This is what twang
is, essentially it's about this nasty sound that you make. I want you to put on your most
ugly, annoying sound and pretend that you're about 5 years old in the school yard and together
with me (Kerri doing Nei-Nei). It's pretty annoying right? (smile) So once you got that
concept, then you got what the concept of twang is.
Now what I teach in terms of vocal training is that I asked people to employ what I call
baby twang. So baby twang is still quite annoying but it's not so harsh, because we never want
to be harsh with our voice, right? When we employ what's called baby twang, what we
do is we take that annoying school yard sound that if I was to do on a Nei Nei really really
distinct twang, like really forward twang, it would be like this (Kerri doing it); very
very harsh. Instead I want you to make it into baby twang. So I want you to pretend
again like you're about 3 years old (Kerri doing Nei Nei exercise).
Have fun, get grounded, take flight and sing! Thank you so much guys!
You guys are awesome you're telling me that you're going to miss me. I love it! Good bye and have an amazing rest of the day.