April 28, 2025 • 33 mins
Practicing consistently can be a challenge… That’s why using vocal exercise tracks can be a game changer—if you use them the right way.
Let me walk you through how to make your warmups work better for your voice. We cover what to do when a track goes too high (or too low), how to adjust sounds if something doesn’t feel right, and when it’s totally okay to “break the rules” to get better results.
Whether you're new to exercise tracks or just want to stop wasting time with routines that don’t work, this episode is full of tips to help you practice smarter, not harder.
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it's getting a little breath here.
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Then I want it to.
So I know
because I'm a voice teacher
I have to know these things.
I know that
if I substitute the sound for a good
a G sound,
I get a little bit
more vocal fold closure.
So it should get a little bit
less breathy.
So instead of doing minimum amount,
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I'm going to do
g k go
go and see if I can still keep it light
without going quite so breathy.
Hey, VoxStar and welcome
to From Singer To Artist.
I'm Lara
Chapman, award winning
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singer and songwriter
turned viral vocal coach
and the host of this show.
At VoxTape Studios
we help singers from all over the world
level up their voices
by teaching them
the three fundamental skills
all singers need
technique, awareness and artistry.
Whether you're looking to go pro
or just develop your voice for fun.
My team and I are here to help.
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Check the link in the description
to book your first session, or grab
some of our other resources.
All righty.
Are you ready? Let's get started.
enough or anything like that.
Myself too.
I sucked at practicing my entire life,
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even though I.
All I ever wanted to be was a singer.
So why couldn't I get myself to practice?
Right.
It's the same thing
for a lot of people out there.
They want to.
But for some reason, they just can't.
Now, one way to make that easier
to make practicing easier
to show up consistently for yourself
and for your voice
easier is practicing along two tracks.
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I love practicing along two tracks,
because then
I don't have to sit in front of a piano
and play the scales myself,
and I don't have to figure out
what should I be practicing?
What should I be working on?
All I got to do is just press play.
But obviously there are a couple things
that we need to pay attention to
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when we are practicing with tracks.
So that's what
I wanted to talk about today with you,
so that if you are practicing
with tracks
that you can get
the most out of these tracks
I myself have created. Oh my gosh,
probably at this point
hundreds of exercise tracks and,
you know, a couple of tracks
to where there's,
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exercise after exercise after exercise.
So I don't have to like, go through
single exercises and pick
which one
I want to do next,
but rather like, hey, here's
a bunch of exercises
that work on high notes.
Here's a bunch of different exercises
that work on belting.
Here's a bunch of different exercises
that work on chest voice
or whatever it is, right?
So I created like longer tracks as well.
So again,
I don't have to spend so much brainpower,
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on, you know,
figuring out what I should be doing.
So today
I want to go through one of these tracks.
I picked our,
comprehensive warmup track,
and we're going to go
through this track together
so that I can point out
some things that you should be
paying attention
to when you are practicing with tracks.
The rule overall,
when it comes to practicing with tracks
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is to not just blindly follow the tracks.
We want to make adjustments
when we need to make adjustments,
and we want to just be feeling
into our body,
feeling into our voice and see, okay,
did that not come out the way we want to?
Yes. Or no?
If not, pause
the track
and try again
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before just continuing with it.
Also,
when we are practicing
with track with tracks, they are not.
I mean, sometimes they are,
but most of the time
they are not specifically made
for your voice.
Meaning the range of these tracks
might not be exactly right for you.
It might go too high or not high enough.
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It might go too low or not low enough.
So those are all things
that we want to keep in mind
when we are practicing with tracks.
So that where it's a little bit
more than just, you know,
pressing play and blindly following
that is going to be better than nothing.
Don't get me wrong.
But if we want to get
the most out of our exercises
and out of our tracks,
we do need to pay
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a little bit more attention to it.
So let me just give you an example.
By going through our comprehensive
audio track.
And and then you can see
what am I paying attention to
when I am following these tracks
so that you can,
you know, start doing
these things yourself
when you are practicing to tracks
that you find on YouTube,
or if you are a part of our community,
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you get access to these tracks.
You can also purchase our tracks,
just as is as well.
I'll include the links in the
in the description as well,
so you can check that out if you want to.
But without further ado,
let's just dig right in. Voice.
Okay, so I always demonstrate
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the exercise first
if you
if you get any of our exercise tracks
so that you know what the exercises
and then eventually
you start doing it on your own,
I do it with you twice,
and then you go on on your own
so that you can focus on your voice
and not my voice.
So here at this exercise,
okay.
This is the very first exercise.
This is a warm up.
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I know, don't push too hard.
And just, you know, explore your voice,
see how it's feeling.
So I'm just going to practice
on to the track and see what I'm feeling.
Hum.
Now, if you feel yourself like,
oh hold on.
Like I'm not quite
getting those notes right.
I don't really know this exercise.
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I don't know the scale.
This is a new scale for me.
Before you just start
like continuing with the exercise,
just listen to the first one that I'm,
And then pause the track.
Do this again and again.
Okay.
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I got the scale down. I can keep going.
Now, this is obviously
not a difficult scale,
but with some other scales
they might get a little bit more tricky.
And if they're new to you,
you might have to do it
2 to 3, maybe 4 or 5 times before
you're like, okay, I got it now
and you can move on with it, okay.
So give yourself the time
to familiarize yourself
with the scale before moving on.
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Okay, so I'm already going down here
with this track, and I'm like, Actually,
because I already warmed up my voice.
I got a couple more notes,
so I'm going to keep going up on my own.
Whoo!
Whoo hoo!
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Do one more.
Whoo!
And then I turn back around
and follow the track again.
You know, as I'm. As I'm going back down.
You don't have to perfectly follow
the scale, you know, as
you would with a piano
or anything like that.
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As you heard,
I didn't have any anchor points.
I just went a little bit higher
and a little bit higher
and a little bit higher.
Now, I've been hearing scales
for years at this point,
so I have a pretty good idea
for what a half step
looks, sounds, and feels like.
But again, this is not an exact science.
You don't have to perfectly
go up by a half step
if it's a little bit more
or a little bit less, that's okay.
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You know, just go up higher
if you want to go higher.
If not, let's turn back around.
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There.
That's the end of that one.
I was just going to pause it right
there and be like, hold
on, I need to do that one again.
Because we're landing for me,
at least for my range,
we're landing a little bit
more in a chest ear
heavier sound down here.
So I need to adjust from that more mixy
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sound to get into that more Now
maybe I want to go a couple
more like a couple more rounds lower.
Just to see what it feels like.
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Now that's already really low.
That one down there,
I didn't feel that great anymore
or like it was just a little wonky.
It felt fine,
but it was just a little wonky.
But that's okay at the super low.
And so here with this
one I
went a little bit higher
and I went a little bit lower
just to explore.
If it went too high for you,
then you would let the track
keep going on its own.
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And then when it turns back around,
you just come back in
whenever it feels good for you.
I'm sure there's another higher exercise
where I can show you
what that would look like,
but let's keep going
with the next exercise.
Next up, we have lip trills.
If you're struggling with lip trills,
you can try holding your cheeks
with your fingers.
Or you can substitute
for any other Soviet
sound, like the puffer fish.
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Ooh. Rolling r's
or singing through a straw.
So I love that here in this track
I'm giving you different options to try.
So if you don't like lip chills birth,
or you just can't get them,
which a lot of people out
there are struggling
with these lip trills.
So there's really no shame
if this is not your favorite thing or
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you just can't get it,
that's totally fine.
Like I said,
you can try holding your cheeks
burn like this.
That makes it a little bit easier
for most people,
but you can also do other exercises.
Ooh.
So as you're going through this, maybe,
you know, you've
you've been practicing
with this track for a while.
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You did the lip trail all the time.
You want to switch it up to
to something else.
It's really up to you.
You don't have to do exactly
that sound that I am using in this track,
or that whoever your whoever struck
your following is using.
You can be playful with it
and adjusted to
whatever feels right to you,
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Girl.
There
were.
I want to make this a little bit
more challenging for myself.
So I'm going to do the Rolling R's.
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I'm holding my nose
because I feel a lot of vibrations
and it gets a little tick like tickly.
And so I'm like, oh, it feels itchy.
So I'm holding down my nose
so that it doesn't
feel so itchy and tingly
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Okay, so up here, this is
starting to get
a little bit more difficult,
you know, on this sound for me.
So I'm like, okay, hold on.
That didn't feel as easy
or as effortless as it could.
Let me try that again first.
One more time.
There you go.
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That felt much better.
So I would stay here and repeat
until it feels good
and then keep going with the
I want to do that one again.
Right.
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I like the second time.
I didn't like the first one.
Let me try it on.
Maybe the raspberry.
That was a lot better already.
One more time.
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Maybe liberal.
Hate that.
Nope.
Let me try the pufferfish.
Ooh.
Okay. There you go.
I like the puffer fish
the most for up here.
So again, like, paused the track.
I tried a couple different things
where it feels the best.
I'm going to keep going
with the puffer fish.
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So that last one, that last high one,
I was like, oh okay.
We're getting
towards the end of my range here.
I, I wouldn't want to keep going.
So I would have,
you know let the track go on its own.
But it turned it's turning around now.
So I'm like, okay cool,
I can keep going with it then.
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Okay, great.
Next, we're going to practice
our vowels on me.
May mah more. Moo.
Make sure you keep everything light
and in your mix voice.
And don't forget to create enough space
inside your mouth.
okay. Awesome.
So here,
because this is a warm up track,
I'm specifically saying keep it light
if I know, hey, I'm already white,
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quite warm,
and I just want to get after it.
And I am working on a chest dominant mix,
I will go in
and instead of keep this minimal,
oh, keeping it light,
I would go a little more. Leave him.
Oh, some
adjusting it, but
I'm making it a conscious choice.
So again, I'm
not blindly following the track here
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and just following the instructions.
I'm like, no, actually,
I want to take this exercise
and work on something a little different.
So I'm going to adjust it
and modify it to this other thing.
Awesome. Go ahead and do that.
I don't want to do that in this case.
Maybe Mamamoo.
Call me mama momo.
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So what I'm feeling here
is it's getting a little breath here.
Then I want it to.
So I know
because I'm a voice teacher
I have to know these things.
I know that
if I substitute the sound for a good
a G sound,
I get a little bit
more vocal fold closure.
So it should get a little bit
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less breathy.
So instead of doing minimum amount,
I'm going to do
g k go go and see if I can still keep it
light without going quite so breathy.
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So I switch back to me.
My mama more to see.
Can I still keep it a little bit
more connected,
a little bit less breathy,
even though I'm not doing those G's?
Yes, sounds like I can.
So I'm going to keep going with me.
Mama, mama.
Unless I feel like, oh, hold
on, I'm getting too breathy again.
I will switch back to gig.
I got Google
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that one right there.
Key giggle Goku
me mama mama.
Oh, thank.
Oh, that feels better.
Now let's explore our head.
Voice on. We are.
We make sure
you're controlling your volume.
And you're not getting louder as we go.
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Higher in pitch.
We are.
Oui oui oui oui oui oui oui
oui oui oui oui oui oui oui.
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Now let's say this is getting
too high for me and I can't keep going.
I'm just going to let the track, play
and wait
until it's time for me to come back in.
So just to demonstrate this,
that's what this would look like here.
Actually, before
I would just cut out and be like,
oh, it's getting too high,
I would continue here
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we are,
we are, we are,
we are, we are, we are, we are we not?
Great. Try again.
Louie Louie Louie Louie Louie.
Like I will keep repeating it
until I'm like,
it's just
it's just not coming out today.
And then I let the track keep playing
before I just give up
after the first try.
All right?
So try at least bare minimum of 3 to 5
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times up to seven times.
Just in that same spot.
Louie Louie Louie
Louie Louie, Louie, before you give up.
Okay.
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Sometimes I need to mention this.
Sometimes with these tracks
you go up by a half step
and coming back down by full step,
meaning you're making jumps back down
twice as big as going back up.
So if I'm like, okay,
I skipped three rounds going up,
that might only be one
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and a half rounds coming down.
So the for you
that would be two rounds, right?
Rather than three rounds
coming back down.
So you can't just like count the rounds.
Sometimes you also have to
just like here.
Oh okay.
Where does it start? Feeling good.
Or you can just start and you're like,
oh, that's still too high.
And you stop.
So feel it up to high.
You will feel too.
I feel it will we?
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We are, we are we, we're good. Right.
So you can try and get it.
And if you're like, oh nope, nope.
Not yet, not yet.
Just wait until you get it.
Like until it's in your range.
No problem.
Now it is time to unlock the power
in your voice.
With the air belting exercise.
But remember, we are just warming up.
So no need to be loud.
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Hey,
Hey,
Okay.
This is
a really difficult exercise for me,
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because when I open up to that all,
I want to push a little too hard.
So what I could do to sub,
like, substitute
the all sound to something else
is maybe just.
Hey, so I'm not pushing too hard
while still, you know, not going e
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but hey or e
to to put my voice a little bit
more on rails and not, starting to push
but again, you kind of have to know
your voice a little to be able to,
like, make decisions like this.
What what makes sense for me.
So I'm just going to flip flop
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back and forth
between all and E like, and E
and and just have
I just play around with it
and see what feels best.
did you hear how I, like,
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kind of lost that power up there?
Hey, hey, that little crack right there.
Hey, hey hey, hey,
hey,
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if I'm, I'm like, okay, hold on.
I'm. I'm cracking on this note there.
So what can I do to,
you know, maybe
get a little bit more power
into that note without yelling, right?
So I'm like, okay,
increase the volume just a little bit.
Hey, hey,
for me, I would like, make it breathy
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so that my vocal folds
are not pinching together too much.
But again, you kind of
have to know your voice here
to know what kind of changes
to these exercises do you want to make
so that it comes out right for you?
I'm just going to stick to that.
Hey, that I feel like
is serving me the most right now.
Today where my voice is at.
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So I'm going to keep going on that
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there.
Go! That last one was an arranger.
I'm like, okay, I'm feeling comfortable.
Go switching back to that, sound, but.
All right, let's go ahead.
Well done.
Now let's balance it all out again
with this mixed voice
exercise on Isai to sing.
I try to sing.
I tried to sing. up here,
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if it's like difficult
to get those notes out on these lyrics,
I could just drop the the consonants
like the words and just focus on.
Okay, what vowel am I going for here?
I sigh,
okay, it's probably going all sound.
Oh, and just do that
instead of I'm sorry to sing.
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It's really,
you know, you can play around with it.
Maybe the exercise
is actually making it easier
to hit the note up there.
Maybe it's making it harder for you.
Again, you can just focus on the vowel
or you can do the words.
It's really up to you.
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of course you don't have to
make any of these changes, right.
I'm just trying to show you
what are all these different things
that you could be changing,
to, you know, make it right
for your specific voice.
But you don't have to change anything
if you don't want to change anything.
If the
if the track is perfect for you
for today,
where your voice is at right now.
Awesome.
But these are just some things
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that you can't change if you want to.
If it feels right to you.
I think there's All right.
Well done.
To finish up our warmup,
let's do the pop song
exercise, Watermelon Sugar.
You can find this exercise
in the Green Room library
under Pop Song Exercises level one.
And
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you will.
Watermelon sugar.
Up up up up up up up high
I just wanna taste it.
Tasting.
Now, if you don't know the exercise,
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I especially like
with these pop song exercises,
you probably can't just sing along
to the track, right?
You're like, okay, hold on.
I gotta, like,
learn this exercise first, so,
you know, go through it
section by section.
So.
Okay.
One more time.
Great.
The next part is ooh.
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Put it together.
Oh okay.
Great.
I got the first part down then.
Yay. All.
Oh I enjoy
you're just learning the exercise
by going through it
like section by section
and putting those
little sections together
until they're like okay
I got the exercise.
And then you can
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keep going with the track.
You.
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did not love that.
Me too.
That feels better
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and so forth.
Right.
Like,
we're pretty much
at the end of this track here.
But you can you can pause and try again.
Like, hold on that wasn't quite right.
Try again, try again,
try again until you get it right
and then keep going.
Pause. Try and try and try again.
And if it's like, nope,
still not coming out,
just let the track do its thing
and come back in when it feels get good.
You can start making some changes
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like modify
the vowels,
drop the lyrics completely, change.
The the like the exercise is like,
not the scale
because you're following the scale.
But if you're like, hey,
you know, the scale is,
what I were like, mama, mama
mama mama, mama, for example. Right.
Da da da da da da da da da da da.
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That's the scale.
And I am demonstrating it.
Or the track on the track.
It's demonstrating it on a live show.
Per.
Awesome.
I don't want to work on a live show.
I want to do something
completely different.
Me. Mama mama mama mama.
Oh, great.
Or, Neigh
neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh
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neigh neigh like oh whatever.
Like you don't have to do
exactly the exercise
that is shown in the track.
Obviously I would recommend
following the track
the way it is at first
before you start making
any modifications to it.
But then as you get to know
your own voice better,
you can start making these modifications
based on what you feel like
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works best for you.
If you have no idea what's best for you.
That's why Voice teachers exists.
We can tell you
so for us, if you wanted to get,
you know, help from us,
you can either do a vocal evaluation
where you send us a clip
and we'll give you feedback on that
and be like, hey,
try this, try that, try this exercise.
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And, you know, pay attention
to this part of the voice. And so forth.
Or we can set up a one on one lesson
as well, where we can workshop
these different things together
and see what works best for you.
Where do we have to make modifications
to certain exercises?
Where can we keep them exactly the way
we want them to be?
The more you know about your voice,
the more aware you are of your own voice,
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what it is
you're doing well,
what are some of the challenges
that you're experiencing?
And the more
you understand
how everything in your voice is connected
and how certain things affect
your voice, like for example,
the example that I gave was I wanted to
turn the mama mama
more into Giggle Google
because I felt
I was getting a little breathy
and I was like, no,
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I want to get a little bit more vocal,
full closure,
and I know the good sound
gets me more vocal full closure. Right?
So the more things like that, you know,
the more you can get out of these tracks.
Obviously that's
not where we start out with.
And it's really
this is high level stuff, right?
Like changing like me.
My mama moved to giggle, for example.
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Like, not many people know this.
This is a voice teacher's
job to know that kind of stuff.
Which is
why working with a voice teacher helps
you just make so much more progress,
so much more quickly,
because we know exactly what's
going to solve your problem.
But you can just be playful with it
and see what,
what makes changes to your singing
and what makes absolutely
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no difference at all.
You know, based on
all these different exercises
that you've, that you've heard out there,
I recommend getting started with
just following the track
before you start
making any modifications.
Of course not, including
if the track gets too high or too low.
You don't want to push
your voice into ranges
that doesn't feel good
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for your voice, right?
If it gets too high,
wait until the track comes back down.
If it gets too low,
wait until it comes back up.
It's the same thing there.
Like only do what feels good.
This is
the most important part
when we're practicing together
with tracks.
Now, when you are,
you know, in a car while like driving
and you're
practicing these exercises
or you are doing the dishes
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or preparing dinner,
you know,
we probably don't pay as much attention
to what it is we're doing,
but that's still better
than not doing anything right.
So here I'm like,
actively like sitting down
and really paying attention
and stopping and,
you know, trying out other things.
But sometimes you just let the track play
and you do what, what's what's okay,
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do what works for you, right?
Do whatever works for you.
Don't over complicate it,
but be mindful
of how you're using these tracks.
You're going to get
so much more out of these tracks
when you're doing what we trusted today,
than when you're
just blindly following them.
Okay,
so I'll include all the links
to, you know, our tracks,
an evaluation, a lesson
if you want to do any of these things.
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I'll include those links here
so that you have easy access to them.
But other than that, that's it for today.
I hope this was helpful.
This stuff is very, very, very important.
So I hope you made it to the end.
But anyways, thanks for listening
and for watching
and I'll see you in the next one.
it's getting a little breath here.
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Then I want it to.
So I know
because I'm a voice teacher
I have to know these things.
I know that
if I substitute the sound for a good
a G sound,
I get a little bit
more vocal fold closure.
So it should get a little bit
less breathy.
So instead of doing minimum amount,
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I'm going to do
g k go
go and see if I can still keep it light
without going quite so breathy.
Hey, VoxStar and welcome
to From Singer To Artist.
I'm Lara
Chapman, award winning
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singer and songwriter
turned viral vocal coach
and the host of this show.
At VoxTape Studios
we help singers from all over the world
level up their voices
by teaching them
the three fundamental skills
all singers need
technique, awareness and artistry.
Whether you're looking to go pro
or just develop your voice for fun.
My team and I are here to help.
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Check the link in the description
to book your first session, or grab
some of our other resources.
All righty.
Are you ready? Let's get started.
enough or anything like that.
Myself too.
I sucked at practicing my entire life,
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even though I.
All I ever wanted to be was a singer.
So why couldn't I get myself to practice?
Right.
It's the same thing
for a lot of people out there.
They want to.
But for some reason, they just can't.
Now, one way to make that easier
to make practicing easier
to show up consistently for yourself
and for your voice
easier is practicing along two tracks.
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I love practicing along two tracks,
because then
I don't have to sit in front of a piano
and play the scales myself,
and I don't have to figure out
what should I be practicing?
What should I be working on?
All I got to do is just press play.
But obviously there are a couple things
that we need to pay attention to
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when we are practicing with tracks.
So that's what
I wanted to talk about today with you,
so that if you are practicing
with tracks
that you can get
the most out of these tracks
I myself have created. Oh my gosh,
probably at this point
hundreds of exercise tracks and,
you know, a couple of tracks
to where there's,
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exercise after exercise after exercise.
So I don't have to like, go through
single exercises and pick
which one
I want to do next,
but rather like, hey, here's
a bunch of exercises
that work on high notes.
Here's a bunch of different exercises
that work on belting.
Here's a bunch of different exercises
that work on chest voice
or whatever it is, right?
So I created like longer tracks as well.
So again,
I don't have to spend so much brainpower,
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on, you know,
figuring out what I should be doing.
So today
I want to go through one of these tracks.
I picked our,
comprehensive warmup track,
and we're going to go
through this track together
so that I can point out
some things that you should be
paying attention
to when you are practicing with tracks.
The rule overall,
when it comes to practicing with tracks
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is to not just blindly follow the tracks.
We want to make adjustments
when we need to make adjustments,
and we want to just be feeling
into our body,
feeling into our voice and see, okay,
did that not come out the way we want to?
Yes. Or no?
If not, pause
the track
and try again
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before just continuing with it.
Also,
when we are practicing
with track with tracks, they are not.
I mean, sometimes they are,
but most of the time
they are not specifically made
for your voice.
Meaning the range of these tracks
might not be exactly right for you.
It might go too high or not high enough.
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It might go too low or not low enough.
So those are all things
that we want to keep in mind
when we are practicing with tracks.
So that where it's a little bit
more than just, you know,
pressing play and blindly following
that is going to be better than nothing.
Don't get me wrong.
But if we want to get
the most out of our exercises
and out of our tracks,
we do need to pay
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a little bit more attention to it.
So let me just give you an example.
By going through our comprehensive
audio track.
And and then you can see
what am I paying attention to
when I am following these tracks
so that you can,
you know, start doing
these things yourself
when you are practicing to tracks
that you find on YouTube,
or if you are a part of our community,
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you get access to these tracks.
You can also purchase our tracks,
just as is as well.
I'll include the links in the
in the description as well,
so you can check that out if you want to.
But without further ado,
let's just dig right in. Voice.
Okay, so I always demonstrate
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the exercise first
if you
if you get any of our exercise tracks
so that you know what the exercises
and then eventually
you start doing it on your own,
I do it with you twice,
and then you go on on your own
so that you can focus on your voice
and not my voice.
So here at this exercise,
okay.
This is the very first exercise.
This is a warm up.
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I know, don't push too hard.
And just, you know, explore your voice,
see how it's feeling.
So I'm just going to practice
on to the track and see what I'm feeling.
Hum.
Now, if you feel yourself like,
oh hold on.
Like I'm not quite
getting those notes right.
I don't really know this exercise.
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I don't know the scale.
This is a new scale for me.
Before you just start
like continuing with the exercise,
just listen to the first one that I'm,
And then pause the track.
Do this again and again.
Okay.
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I got the scale down. I can keep going.
Now, this is obviously
not a difficult scale,
but with some other scales
they might get a little bit more tricky.
And if they're new to you,
you might have to do it
2 to 3, maybe 4 or 5 times before
you're like, okay, I got it now
and you can move on with it, okay.
So give yourself the time
to familiarize yourself
with the scale before moving on.
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Okay, so I'm already going down here
with this track, and I'm like, Actually,
because I already warmed up my voice.
I got a couple more notes,
so I'm going to keep going up on my own.
Whoo!
Whoo hoo!
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Do one more.
Whoo!
And then I turn back around
and follow the track again.
You know, as I'm. As I'm going back down.
You don't have to perfectly follow
the scale, you know, as
you would with a piano
or anything like that.
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As you heard,
I didn't have any anchor points.
I just went a little bit higher
and a little bit higher
and a little bit higher.
Now, I've been hearing scales
for years at this point,
so I have a pretty good idea
for what a half step
looks, sounds, and feels like.
But again, this is not an exact science.
You don't have to perfectly
go up by a half step
if it's a little bit more
or a little bit less, that's okay.
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You know, just go up higher
if you want to go higher.
If not, let's turn back around.
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There.
That's the end of that one.
I was just going to pause it right
there and be like, hold
on, I need to do that one again.
Because we're landing for me,
at least for my range,
we're landing a little bit
more in a chest ear
heavier sound down here.
So I need to adjust from that more mixy
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sound to get into that more Now
maybe I want to go a couple
more like a couple more rounds lower.
Just to see what it feels like.
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Now that's already really low.
That one down there,
I didn't feel that great anymore
or like it was just a little wonky.
It felt fine,
but it was just a little wonky.
But that's okay at the super low.
And so here with this
one I
went a little bit higher
and I went a little bit lower
just to explore.
If it went too high for you,
then you would let the track
keep going on its own.
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And then when it turns back around,
you just come back in
whenever it feels good for you.
I'm sure there's another higher exercise
where I can show you
what that would look like,
but let's keep going
with the next exercise.
Next up, we have lip trills.
If you're struggling with lip trills,
you can try holding your cheeks
with your fingers.
Or you can substitute
for any other Soviet
sound, like the puffer fish.
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Ooh. Rolling r's
or singing through a straw.
So I love that here in this track
I'm giving you different options to try.
So if you don't like lip chills birth,
or you just can't get them,
which a lot of people out
there are struggling
with these lip trills.
So there's really no shame
if this is not your favorite thing or
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you just can't get it,
that's totally fine.
Like I said,
you can try holding your cheeks
burn like this.
That makes it a little bit easier
for most people,
but you can also do other exercises.
Ooh.
So as you're going through this, maybe,
you know, you've
you've been practicing
with this track for a while.
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You did the lip trail all the time.
You want to switch it up to
to something else.
It's really up to you.
You don't have to do exactly
that sound that I am using in this track,
or that whoever your whoever struck
your following is using.
You can be playful with it
and adjusted to
whatever feels right to you,
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Girl.
There
were.
I want to make this a little bit
more challenging for myself.
So I'm going to do the Rolling R's.
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I'm holding my nose
because I feel a lot of vibrations
and it gets a little tick like tickly.
And so I'm like, oh, it feels itchy.
So I'm holding down my nose
so that it doesn't
feel so itchy and tingly
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Okay, so up here, this is
starting to get
a little bit more difficult,
you know, on this sound for me.
So I'm like, okay, hold on.
That didn't feel as easy
or as effortless as it could.
Let me try that again first.
One more time.
There you go.
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That felt much better.
So I would stay here and repeat
until it feels good
and then keep going with the
I want to do that one again.
Right.
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I like the second time.
I didn't like the first one.
Let me try it on.
Maybe the raspberry.
That was a lot better already.
One more time.
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Maybe liberal.
Hate that.
Nope.
Let me try the pufferfish.
Ooh.
Okay. There you go.
I like the puffer fish
the most for up here.
So again, like, paused the track.
I tried a couple different things
where it feels the best.
I'm going to keep going
with the puffer fish.
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So that last one, that last high one,
I was like, oh okay.
We're getting
towards the end of my range here.
I, I wouldn't want to keep going.
So I would have,
you know let the track go on its own.
But it turned it's turning around now.
So I'm like, okay cool,
I can keep going with it then.
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Okay, great.
Next, we're going to practice
our vowels on me.
May mah more. Moo.
Make sure you keep everything light
and in your mix voice.
And don't forget to create enough space
inside your mouth.
okay. Awesome.
So here,
because this is a warm up track,
I'm specifically saying keep it light
if I know, hey, I'm already white,
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quite warm,
and I just want to get after it.
And I am working on a chest dominant mix,
I will go in
and instead of keep this minimal,
oh, keeping it light,
I would go a little more. Leave him.
Oh, some
adjusting it, but
I'm making it a conscious choice.
So again, I'm
not blindly following the track here
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and just following the instructions.
I'm like, no, actually,
I want to take this exercise
and work on something a little different.
So I'm going to adjust it
and modify it to this other thing.
Awesome. Go ahead and do that.
I don't want to do that in this case.
Maybe Mamamoo.
Call me mama momo.
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So what I'm feeling here
is it's getting a little breath here.
Then I want it to.
So I know
because I'm a voice teacher
I have to know these things.
I know that
if I substitute the sound for a good
a G sound,
I get a little bit
more vocal fold closure.
So it should get a little bit
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less breathy.
So instead of doing minimum amount,
I'm going to do
g k go go and see if I can still keep it
light without going quite so breathy.
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So I switch back to me.
My mama more to see.
Can I still keep it a little bit
more connected,
a little bit less breathy,
even though I'm not doing those G's?
Yes, sounds like I can.
So I'm going to keep going with me.
Mama, mama.
Unless I feel like, oh, hold
on, I'm getting too breathy again.
I will switch back to gig.
I got Google
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that one right there.
Key giggle Goku
me mama mama.
Oh, thank.
Oh, that feels better.
Now let's explore our head.
Voice on. We are.
We make sure
you're controlling your volume.
And you're not getting louder as we go.
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Higher in pitch.
We are.
Oui oui oui oui oui oui oui
oui oui oui oui oui oui oui.
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Now let's say this is getting
too high for me and I can't keep going.
I'm just going to let the track, play
and wait
until it's time for me to come back in.
So just to demonstrate this,
that's what this would look like here.
Actually, before
I would just cut out and be like,
oh, it's getting too high,
I would continue here
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we are,
we are, we are,
we are, we are, we are, we are we not?
Great. Try again.
Louie Louie Louie Louie Louie.
Like I will keep repeating it
until I'm like,
it's just
it's just not coming out today.
And then I let the track keep playing
before I just give up
after the first try.
All right?
So try at least bare minimum of 3 to 5
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times up to seven times.
Just in that same spot.
Louie Louie Louie
Louie Louie, Louie, before you give up.
Okay.
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Sometimes I need to mention this.
Sometimes with these tracks
you go up by a half step
and coming back down by full step,
meaning you're making jumps back down
twice as big as going back up.
So if I'm like, okay,
I skipped three rounds going up,
that might only be one
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and a half rounds coming down.
So the for you
that would be two rounds, right?
Rather than three rounds
coming back down.
So you can't just like count the rounds.
Sometimes you also have to
just like here.
Oh okay.
Where does it start? Feeling good.
Or you can just start and you're like,
oh, that's still too high.
And you stop.
So feel it up to high.
You will feel too.
I feel it will we?
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We are, we are we, we're good. Right.
So you can try and get it.
And if you're like, oh nope, nope.
Not yet, not yet.
Just wait until you get it.
Like until it's in your range.
No problem.
Now it is time to unlock the power
in your voice.
With the air belting exercise.
But remember, we are just warming up.
So no need to be loud.
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Hey,
Hey,
Okay.
This is
a really difficult exercise for me,
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because when I open up to that all,
I want to push a little too hard.
So what I could do to sub,
like, substitute
the all sound to something else
is maybe just.
Hey, so I'm not pushing too hard
while still, you know, not going e
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but hey or e
to to put my voice a little bit
more on rails and not, starting to push
but again, you kind of have to know
your voice a little to be able to,
like, make decisions like this.
What what makes sense for me.
So I'm just going to flip flop
(21:59):
back and forth
between all and E like, and E
and and just have
I just play around with it
and see what feels best.
did you hear how I, like,
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kind of lost that power up there?
Hey, hey, that little crack right there.
Hey, hey hey, hey,
hey,
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if I'm, I'm like, okay, hold on.
I'm. I'm cracking on this note there.
So what can I do to,
you know, maybe
get a little bit more power
into that note without yelling, right?
So I'm like, okay,
increase the volume just a little bit.
Hey, hey,
for me, I would like, make it breathy
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so that my vocal folds
are not pinching together too much.
But again, you kind of
have to know your voice here
to know what kind of changes
to these exercises do you want to make
so that it comes out right for you?
I'm just going to stick to that.
Hey, that I feel like
is serving me the most right now.
Today where my voice is at.
(23:22):
So I'm going to keep going on that
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there.
Go! That last one was an arranger.
I'm like, okay, I'm feeling comfortable.
Go switching back to that, sound, but.
All right, let's go ahead.
Well done.
Now let's balance it all out again
with this mixed voice
exercise on Isai to sing.
I try to sing.
I tried to sing. up here,
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if it's like difficult
to get those notes out on these lyrics,
I could just drop the the consonants
like the words and just focus on.
Okay, what vowel am I going for here?
I sigh,
okay, it's probably going all sound.
Oh, and just do that
instead of I'm sorry to sing.
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It's really,
you know, you can play around with it.
Maybe the exercise
is actually making it easier
to hit the note up there.
Maybe it's making it harder for you.
Again, you can just focus on the vowel
or you can do the words.
It's really up to you.
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of course you don't have to
make any of these changes, right.
I'm just trying to show you
what are all these different things
that you could be changing,
to, you know, make it right
for your specific voice.
But you don't have to change anything
if you don't want to change anything.
If the
if the track is perfect for you
for today,
where your voice is at right now.
Awesome.
But these are just some things
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that you can't change if you want to.
If it feels right to you.
I think there's All right.
Well done.
To finish up our warmup,
let's do the pop song
exercise, Watermelon Sugar.
You can find this exercise
in the Green Room library
under Pop Song Exercises level one.
And
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you will.
Watermelon sugar.
Up up up up up up up high
I just wanna taste it.
Tasting.
Now, if you don't know the exercise,
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I especially like
with these pop song exercises,
you probably can't just sing along
to the track, right?
You're like, okay, hold on.
I gotta, like,
learn this exercise first, so,
you know, go through it
section by section.
So.
Okay.
One more time.
Great.
The next part is ooh.
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Put it together.
Oh okay.
Great.
I got the first part down then.
Yay. All.
Oh I enjoy
you're just learning the exercise
by going through it
like section by section
and putting those
little sections together
until they're like okay
I got the exercise.
And then you can
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keep going with the track.
You.
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did not love that.
Me too.
That feels better
(28:20):
and so forth.
Right.
Like,
we're pretty much
at the end of this track here.
But you can you can pause and try again.
Like, hold on that wasn't quite right.
Try again, try again,
try again until you get it right
and then keep going.
Pause. Try and try and try again.
And if it's like, nope,
still not coming out,
just let the track do its thing
and come back in when it feels get good.
You can start making some changes
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like modify
the vowels,
drop the lyrics completely, change.
The the like the exercise is like,
not the scale
because you're following the scale.
But if you're like, hey,
you know, the scale is,
what I were like, mama, mama
mama mama, mama, for example. Right.
Da da da da da da da da da da da.
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That's the scale.
And I am demonstrating it.
Or the track on the track.
It's demonstrating it on a live show.
Per.
Awesome.
I don't want to work on a live show.
I want to do something
completely different.
Me. Mama mama mama mama.
Oh, great.
Or, Neigh
neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh
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neigh neigh like oh whatever.
Like you don't have to do
exactly the exercise
that is shown in the track.
Obviously I would recommend
following the track
the way it is at first
before you start making
any modifications to it.
But then as you get to know
your own voice better,
you can start making these modifications
based on what you feel like
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works best for you.
If you have no idea what's best for you.
That's why Voice teachers exists.
We can tell you
so for us, if you wanted to get,
you know, help from us,
you can either do a vocal evaluation
where you send us a clip
and we'll give you feedback on that
and be like, hey,
try this, try that, try this exercise.
(30:02):
And, you know, pay attention
to this part of the voice. And so forth.
Or we can set up a one on one lesson
as well, where we can workshop
these different things together
and see what works best for you.
Where do we have to make modifications
to certain exercises?
Where can we keep them exactly the way
we want them to be?
The more you know about your voice,
the more aware you are of your own voice,
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what it is
you're doing well,
what are some of the challenges
that you're experiencing?
And the more
you understand
how everything in your voice is connected
and how certain things affect
your voice, like for example,
the example that I gave was I wanted to
turn the mama mama
more into Giggle Google
because I felt
I was getting a little breathy
and I was like, no,
(30:44):
I want to get a little bit more vocal,
full closure,
and I know the good sound
gets me more vocal full closure. Right?
So the more things like that, you know,
the more you can get out of these tracks.
Obviously that's
not where we start out with.
And it's really
this is high level stuff, right?
Like changing like me.
My mama moved to giggle, for example.
(31:05):
Like, not many people know this.
This is a voice teacher's
job to know that kind of stuff.
Which is
why working with a voice teacher helps
you just make so much more progress,
so much more quickly,
because we know exactly what's
going to solve your problem.
But you can just be playful with it
and see what,
what makes changes to your singing
and what makes absolutely
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no difference at all.
You know, based on
all these different exercises
that you've, that you've heard out there,
I recommend getting started with
just following the track
before you start
making any modifications.
Of course not, including
if the track gets too high or too low.
You don't want to push
your voice into ranges
that doesn't feel good
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for your voice, right?
If it gets too high,
wait until the track comes back down.
If it gets too low,
wait until it comes back up.
It's the same thing there.
Like only do what feels good.
This is
the most important part
when we're practicing together
with tracks.
Now, when you are,
you know, in a car while like driving
and you're
practicing these exercises
or you are doing the dishes
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or preparing dinner,
you know,
we probably don't pay as much attention
to what it is we're doing,
but that's still better
than not doing anything right.
So here I'm like,
actively like sitting down
and really paying attention
and stopping and,
you know, trying out other things.
But sometimes you just let the track play
and you do what, what's what's okay,
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do what works for you, right?
Do whatever works for you.
Don't over complicate it,
but be mindful
of how you're using these tracks.
You're going to get
so much more out of these tracks
when you're doing what we trusted today,
than when you're
just blindly following them.
Okay,
so I'll include all the links
to, you know, our tracks,
an evaluation, a lesson
if you want to do any of these things.
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I'll include those links here
so that you have easy access to them.
But other than that, that's it for today.
I hope this was helpful.
This stuff is very, very, very important.
So I hope you made it to the end.
But anyways, thanks for listening
and for watching
and I'll see you in the next one.
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