August 29, 2025 • 43 mins
Huntrix’s Golden has taken the internet by storm as it is one of the toughest songs to sing out there. Struggling with it doesn’t make you a bad singer - lord knows I was struggling with it too!
To help you sing this song, I coached myself through it. Get some tips on how I added power, released strain and paced myself throughout the song.
This is all about belting sustainably - aka mixing—and remembering that the way a song is written can challenge anyone.
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(00:00):
Barnaby
yeah there it is
that's not Barnaby E it's B
B Barnaby E
it's more open Barnaby
yeah that's easy
I like that hahaha
isn't that so funny
(00:21):
like a lot of times the thing that we're like
oh my God that's the hardest part of the song
it's like hmm
actually that's easier because especially for me
I know like that middle part in my voice um
is a lot harder to use than once
we get higher than that
and a lot of singers are struggling with this as well
(00:41):
so here we're above that middle part
so that makes it easier uh
because up here
my chest voice is not trying to get grabby anymore
it's not even trying
right but with that
there it's still very much like
ooh hold on
(01:02):
we're trying to grab on here a little bit too much
my chest voice is engaging too much right but up here
Hey Vox Star and welcome to from singer to artist
I'm Lara Chapman award winning singer and songwriter
turned viral vocal coach and the host of this show
(01:23):
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(01:43):
Alrighty are you ready
let's get started
this song has been blowing up the internet
and of course because of that
because I don't live behind a rock
I have heard this song as well and oh my goodness
could there be a song that is harder to sing than this
I don't know because this is so freaking hard
and I'm of course talking about the song golden
(02:04):
and there are many singers
attempting to sing the song right now
and they're like how is this possible
and I would say that's a really good question
because from what I've heard
and I've only ever heard the chorus that's like
I'm going up
it's a really catchy song
(02:24):
I actually really like the song
I mean I've only heard the chorus
that's the only part I know
but we're gonna listen to the entire thing here today
um this is kind of like a quote unquote
vocal coach reacts video but not really uh
because I wanna take it further
I wanna look at some techniques
that we could maybe apply to
help us sing this song
to make it just a little bit easier
or maybe some adjustments that we can make to it
(02:44):
to make it easier
like changing the key or I don't know
I don't know the full song
so we gotta see how low it goes
but I would say let's just dig into the song and again
the goal with this
video here today is to not just be like wow
this is such an amazing song
because we all know it's an amazing song
it's more like okay
well how can we actually sing this song
how is it possible
(03:05):
and I do need to start by saying I can't sing the song
haha
so I'm gonna have to figure out how I can sing the song
and for me like trying to sing the song is uh
hopefully gonna
show you some things that you can also try to help you
sing this song
I do wanna start by saying
this is a song for very advanced singers
this stuff is hard AF so you know
(03:29):
if you're just starting out
still
watch this video to learn about some of these advanced
techniques
but also don't freak out if you can't sing the song
this is next level stuff
it's really difficult and it's very
very very very very difficult for me as well
um and this is not at all where my voice naturally sits
just a little disclaimer before I start making
a fool of myself oh my gosh
(03:50):
this is so vulnerable for me
but um this is not where my voice naturally sits at all
my voice naturally sits really low
as you can tell right now when I'm speaking
like I live down here
and this is where I feel comfortable okay
but this chorus is
and it sits up there the entire time and it's just like
oh my God
so this is the opposite of what comes naturally to me
(04:13):
so this is gonna be extra super duper
duper hard for me to sing
if Coach Emily on our team were to sing this
if you've ever heard her sing and you know
like she could absolutely kill this song
and oh my gosh I'm gonna have to
I'm gonna send Emily
a message and ask her to sing this chorus because
and send us a video of it
because I think she's gonna absolutely kill this
and if you wanna hear what that sounds like
(04:35):
she doesn't know anything about this yet
I hope she's gonna say yes uh
if she says yes
you'll see the result of this at the end of this video
okay but I'm sure she'll be up for it
cause girl lives up there
and can sing this stuff all day long
just curious to see what that sounds like and again
for me total opposite anyways
let's get into this video um
it's vocal coach reaction plus video
(04:58):
let's do it anyways let's get started Alrighty
oh new single new hundred oh my God
(05:33):
if I was the Queen that I meant to be I lived too long
okay so this um this verse down here
it's very speech like
it's not like LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
cause that'd be crazy to sing like that
down here it's more like I was alone
(05:54):
whatever the lyrics are something about a throne
I don't know I didn't know
I think it's also another one of those you
you hear a little bit of that vocal fry creeping in
that uh uh
I was alone
and that vocal fry just only can come through
when there's like a relaxed voice
you're not working hard at all it's really just uh
(06:18):
uh nice and easy
so when you're starting out with the song
because we know where it's going
really make sure you're pacing yourself
and that you're taking it easy here in the beginning
and that you're basically just speaking the words
that's how I would start out this song for sure
and down here this is easy for me
I just need to know the lyrics and yep easy
no problem we can sing this you can sing this too
(06:38):
anyone can sing this you got this
I was the queen that I meant to be I live too long
okay I was the queen that I'm meant to be
so there
we're already going up and already adding more energy
to the song and to the vocal delivery
so yes we are increasing energy
(06:59):
we are increasing power we are increasing volume
we're increasing everything essentially
still make it make sure that you're not going
I'm the queen that I'm meant to be
I already don't remember the lyrics
but I that's already too much
I I am the queen that I meant to be
or I was the queen that I meant to be
whatever the lyrics are right
(07:19):
but maybe like
let's say 50% don't exceed that yet because again
we know where it's going
we're only 35 seconds into the song
30 seconds into the song so really pace yourself
is this the K pop version of Hannah Montana
(07:42):
I live two lives I again
like I said I know nothing about this um
but this this line right there
just gave me Hannah Montana vibes anyways
let's back this up again
okay I live two lives da da da
(08:05):
I need to pull up some lyrics here or something
cause I don't know these lyrics but I've left
60% we're not I live two lives
you're never gonna make it through the entire song
if you do that already um
up here the tone is also quite different
it's much brighter
(08:26):
it sits more up here rather than I I down there
how we started out it's more like brighter
everything's brighter now I lift
lies it's too heavy right
let's shut the weight let's make it you know lighter
(08:47):
I live to
up here um
and this is to me
this is kind of like the Valley Girl voice right here
I was working on this with another student with Jenny
actually she was on our podcast um
she was a student a long time ago
but she was singing something on our podcast
and I told her to do the Valley Girl voice hi
how are you oh my God
it's so good to see you it's been such a long time
(09:11):
I know sorry that's an exaggeration um
but this right here I live to guys hello
how are you that Valley Girl voice
that's gonna help you get into that brighter
lighter still chest dominant mix
but it's not like super heavy OK
so anyways Valley Girl for that pre course
(09:43):
okay whoo
we're in the chorus baby let's go
but um
so far here the chorus nice and soft and and breathy
so let's have a listen here
(10:04):
okay so
and that's breathy right huh
um has a little bit of vocal fry I'm done
nice and easy uh but what you can hear is doubles
she's getting a full sound here on this song
(10:24):
because they are layering her vocals on the hide and
on both of those um
words cause they're more than one note uh
there they're doubling the vocals
so that it still gives you a full sound
you by yourself when you're not in the studio
can't get that full of a sound
(10:45):
if you are still in that soft breathy voice
it's just literally physically impossible to do that
so just know that
when you're singing this first chorus here
in that softer breathy voice
you're not gonna get a sound that's as full
even if you were just to single out these vocals
and just hear the acapella version of this
because there's more than one voice on like
(11:08):
it's the same person doubling it right
it's not like multiple voices
and they're just singing exactly the same phrase
more than once I don't know how many layers there are
that's
I would have to see the recording session to see that
but anyways you get the point
it's not gonna be as full as here
if you're going shining
cause then you have to go shining
(11:29):
but then it's not breathy anymore
not that that's wrong
it's just a different way of singing it but anyways
just keep that in mind shining ah
really use that breath here
you can hear the doubles a lot better
because there's also harmonies on the
but that's already happening on hiding and shining
(11:52):
you just can't hear it as well okay
hard was not breathy anymore
hard and hard and drop the R
cause otherwise it's gonna be impossible to sing also
it's not yet hard hard
(12:14):
it's like too much hard
and somewhere in that mixy valley girl kind of voice
there
this came so far
but she's doing more than that
I'm just being a chicken and backing out of it
(12:36):
far FA okay uh
I've again
I'm need I need to drop the R not far end more far end
um I added a second FA
FA just to get that breath flow going
cause I know personally
my vocal folds tend to squeeze a little bit
and I'm not letting enough air come through
so I like to add s's or f sounds like or or even huh
(13:00):
an H sound just get that breath flow going find find
find
is basically what it comes out as and not far end
just can't get that r in there
be would make it way too hard to sing
so for now I'll be
that note is so perfectly autotuned oh
(13:22):
and that's not a no shade
everybody uses autotune
there's a lot of autotune on this here as well
which there's no shame in that but man that no
it's just so perfectly straight
oh like it's just it's super perfect and um
(13:44):
it's almost a little too perfect believe
so she has like a straight tone on that first
and then she goes into a little bit of a vibrato
but it's not like a crazy kind of vibrato
it's a really subtle nice vibrato
very contemporary pop K pop vibrato right believe
(14:04):
and that's it um
but she's making that
I'm making that way headier than what she's doing it
but that's probably if I were to perform the song live
which by the way is never gonna happen
I'm not doing that to myself
um
I would probably sing it right here in the head
(14:25):
dominant mix
cause if I would try to make this more chesty
like she's doing it
no way my
my my voice is not gonna cooperate on that
I need a lot more training for that to happen
a lot more tension release
tension release tension release tension release
cause that's the biggest thing for me
um but anyways
(14:45):
that's like an adjustment that we can make
when we sing the song
we don't have to sing it exactly how they're doing it
uh just because that
that sound that they're making is more uh
chest dominant
doesn't mean that we also have to do that
we can adjust it to however feels best to us
I would probably lower the key of this song
(15:07):
but I don't know maybe it goes lower in
you know further down the song
um we'll see
if not I will probably lower the key of this
but yeah I would definitely make that whole um
I guess it's like another pre course
I don't know
I feel like this is like the second pre course
um
(15:27):
that whole section
I would make that more head dominant still mix voice
but a head dominant mix
rather than a chest dominant mix
so for now I'll be
okay so here
this to me is where I'm hearing for the first time
(15:49):
like
beautiful rawness and like imperfection in her vocals
and when I say imperfection
I mean that as a compliment
uh'cause like that believe was just so perfect
and I'm like okay
this is like not very attainable
but now that we're going up up here
(16:11):
if you listen to the tone of her voice it gets it
it you can hear a little bit of that
grit and grubbiness coming through
in the best way possible
right there go in go in right there
you can hear it one more time ah right it's not
we're going
ah right it's not
(16:33):
which is like way too straight
and like mixy and beautiful and perfect
it's more that hmm
my kind of chastier heavier greedier kind of belt
but it is super freaking high
I don't even know how high this is
let me see I I got my phone right here
(16:55):
I can just pull up my little keyboard going up
that's an E45 going up up UPS
and she's pretty much like
she's very chest dominant up here
and giving her that beautiful gritty sound
(17:15):
alright are we ready let's try this
we're going up
up up
I'm gonna try it on LA LA
we're going in
LA that hear that that sound coming through that is um
uh little bit of like
my vocal folds closing together too tightly
giving me almost like that fry kind of sound
(17:37):
I'm not doing it on purpose
and I don't want it up there
just really hard to get it out
and such a chest dominant sound up there
for me personally this is my voice
everybody else is like experiencing different issues
hahaha this is my issue
so I'm gonna try this on hahaha we're going hahaha
(17:59):
that makes it a little easier we're
SA SA OK that was nice
that's SA SA SA
so I just need to get my voice to stretch and open up
um and now I just need to do that on up
up up
but I'm probably gonna do more like a up
up
up like a turning those peas into bees um
(18:23):
to keep my airflow going cause if I go up up up
I stop my airflow and that's already my issue
like not having enough air come through
so if I do these peas up there
I'm literally just making my life so much harder
so if I turn those into a BA BA
(18:46):
BA BA and like into soft BS instead of BS
that's gonna make it easier to sing for me
we're going up
up up and I feel
feel a little flummy right now
probably because I haven't warmed up very much
just like five minutes real quick
like whoa and that was it
probably need a little bit more for this
but that's fine let's hear one more time
(19:12):
oh she's like really
really skilled singer um
she's um
she is making that
she has like little breaks between those UPS
which again makes it so hard to sing
but she's killing that she sounds so good again
I'm gonna modify that to more an up up
up cause I think that's gonna make it easier
(19:34):
let me try again
we're going up up up I don't like that
so maybe what I need to do is like
actually stylistically I don't like that
so maybe what I need to do is hold the
like hold the breath not hold the breath
like keep exhaling but stopping the sound so it's like
(19:56):
uh huh huh you know
uh huh huh so the breath keeps going
but the sound doesn't so that I still have that
but I'm not shutting off my breath
we're going up up up
I don't know let's keep going
(20:25):
gonna be gonna be golden
like already that like for her
where that sits in her voice
it sounds like it's so easy for her to sing
but it's gonna be gonna be golden
it's really high and again
I naturally have a low pitched voice like this may
this is not where I feel comfortable at all
gonna be gonna be golden what did I change
(20:49):
I created a little bit more space
in the back of my mouth back here
um and drop my larynx maybe a little bit
gonna be gonna be golden golden
that's the hardest note for me
it's not even the gonna be gonna be
that is easier for me than golden
(21:10):
there is harder
that's where the fry comes in and the phlegm
gonna be gonna be golden so so so
so so so so so so
so again I'm doing this
so to help me get that breath flow going
gonna be gonna be golden oh
(21:33):
that helped a lot okay
so must have been my neck was engaging
so what I did was I just shook my head
like side to side not super fast
just kind of like looking side to side
to see if I can release some of this tension here
gonna be gonna be golden hey
hey hey uh uh
(21:54):
gonna be gonna be golden
yeah just releasing that tension in general alright
let's go
ah
who is singing this song why do you hate
all of us that don't have a voice like you
(22:16):
haha OK one more time that
and I know it's getting higher later
and I'm already like girl
how OK um that
I'm I'm adjusting my lips here a little bit
my mouth shape for that
(22:37):
that higher note up there
I don't love that I have to do that
but where I'm at right now
it's making it easier to sing that note
I would love to not rely on that
ha ha ha
ah ah ah
ha
it's higher ah
(22:57):
hold on am I dropping
oh yeah actually I like that a lot
apple bite basically what that means is you're lifting
you're showing your upper teeth
but you're not just going wide
you're also still dropping your jaw too
cause when you bite into an apple
you kind of had to open your mouth wide right
(23:19):
oh also I OK
so
Coach Emily and Coach Bree from our team both told me
like hey
don't be afraid to engage your lower ABS a little bit
on these high notes and I
for the longest time didn't
because I was such a chronic AB squeezer
that everything would just get really
really really tight up there
(23:40):
and so I just kind of like
stopped using my ABS altogether
and they both recently in the last couple months
um when we were doing like a podcast episode
they both told me like hey
use your lower ABS
so I'm really focusing uh on engaging my lower ABS
not my top ABS
cause the top ABS are gonna give me that squeeze
(24:02):
and the lower ABS are gonna give me the support
that I'm looking for so oh
hahaha oh my God
that made it so much easier to just like whoa
like pull I'm pulling in my lower my lower ABS
like you can't see it um here in this in this angle
but maybe here from the side
(24:23):
you can't right down there
um where right where you know um yeah
where your ABS end essentially on your bladder
this is where my bladder is
I'm pushing basically
those bottom ABS that are right over my bladder
and pulling those in
makes it a lot easier and then it goes
(24:45):
that
it's an octave jump and that's gonna be so hard
and I bet you when she was recording this
because I'm just telling this to myself
that
because this is gonna make me feel better about myself
that they did not go
that they didn't record it like this
but rather did that in separate takes just uh
(25:07):
because that makes it a lot easier to sing
I'm just gonna tell myself that that's what they did
I don't know for a fact that that's what they did
I just choose to believe this
thank you very much okay
ah yes okay
it feels fine and it it doesn't sound bad
what I don't love is that
like I'm like scoop scooping up to that note
(25:28):
overshooting that top note in the sense of like
I'm forcing it too much let me listen here
okay
how the heck is she doing this in a such a strong chest
(25:53):
um sounding chest dominant sound cause I can go
no voices all day long that's that's pretty easy
but that's not what she's doing
I mean I can attempt it but like
I'm literally just gonna make a fool of myself here
so anyways I mean I already did up until this point
so what what's a little bit more
um okay
(26:17):
no I
I'm I'm so scared of that note
what is that note
I need to move my piano here
it's that stupid G5
that is so bad the good news is it doesn't hurt
it doesn't feel bad at all
(26:38):
it's just my voice is like
how the heck do you want me to stretch up this high
and still say so chest dominant um
and when I say chest dominant
it's not necessarily about like
belting these notes up here
that's not what this is um
unless you consider a belt and a mix
that depends on your definition
but it's a
(26:58):
you wanna get that strong powerful sound right
and we are so so so high up here
I'm like how how do you get this kind of sound
it's incredible
I absolutely am aware that this sounds
(27:19):
completely terrible OK
you don't need to tell me that in the comments
I know hahaha I'm not the Lulu um
if I had to sing the song tomorrow
I would not up up I would just like not do it
do it up up up with our voices
I would just do it that way
if I couldn't change the key and all of that
(27:39):
I would just not up opt up if I had to do it
but to practice this what can I do
it's again
it's just my vocal fold squeezing together too tightly
that's what's what's giving me this uh
kind of sound there so to practice this
(28:02):
what am I gonna do I'm gonna um
do this on that SA SA SA SA SA SA
SA SA that kind of sound to
because that s gets that breath flow going right
SA SA SA SA SA
SA SA hear how like I not that that sounds good again
I know but hear how
that's much closer to where we wanna be than when
(28:24):
I'm not doing SA SA
when I'm doing up up up
that's much harder
so practicing this on that SA SA SA SA SA SA
SA SA will eventually
hopefully maybe help me get up to these um
to these high notes
and once I can do that more easily on that SA SA sound
I can then try and bring the lyrics back in
(28:49):
my ego is bruised no
it's not at all I know
I knew from the beginning that I can't sing this song
so who am I kidding it's just no surprise
but I would love to be able to sing this right
wouldn't that be great okay
so so so
(29:10):
okay I know sounds awful
and I'm sorry you're listening to this
but also I'm getting closer
so I'll take that win let's keep going
(29:30):
okay so that born to be bona be
so Bon appetit
so bona be she's not like singing born to be
like just forget about all those RS
bona be but also here
this is easier for me to sing now
than the stuff that we just worked on before
(29:51):
um this is way
way way
way way mixier
and not chest dominant at all up here anymore
so it's like that
that's a lot easier um
I wanna hear that b one more time
cause that b sounds brighter than what I'm doing
(30:16):
Barnaby
yeah there it is
that's not Barnaby E it's B
B Barnaby E
it's more open Barnaby
yeah that's easy
I like that hahaha
isn't that so funny
(30:37):
like a lot of times the thing that we're like
oh my God that's the hardest part of the song
it's like hmm
actually that's easier because especially for me
I know like that middle part in my voice um
is a lot harder to use than once
we get higher than that
and a lot of singers are struggling with this as well
(30:57):
so here we're above that middle part
so that makes it easier uh
because up here
my chest voice is not trying to get grabby anymore
it's not even trying
right but with that
there it's still very much like
ooh hold on
(31:18):
we're trying to grab on here a little bit too much
my chest voice is engaging too much right but up here
it's not even trying anymore
so that's make that makes it easier for me to sing um
but again that b is my b and not b
even though you could sing b b
(31:39):
but it doesn't sound that good
the BAE sounds a lot better
sounds a lot more powerful and like
quote unquote impressive I'm done shot now
I'm okay hold on
(32:02):
okay
so that's kind of like what we heard before in the song
already
shining okay it's not shining
you know that um
dip song there shy shining
I I
you gotta really not do that e sound shining
yeah and make it more shining and not shining
(32:23):
that makes it a lot easier and then
hey no LA
hey there it is okay so the
(32:44):
the hardest part about this phrase here BA BA BA BA
those three phrases essentially
I know those stunning is the shining for me
the shining part there is the hardest
luckily that word starts on the shh shining
so that is gonna make it a lot easier to eventually
(33:06):
with a lot of practice get that note um
I wanna try this again
hey
ah why do I default to that b and a b b
like a butterfly
(33:30):
yeah I don't know I I default to the B and not the B
but anyways that's better anyways
let's keep going
I didn't know that happens twice oh my goodness oh
(33:53):
it's kind of crazy how she goes
from up there to down here back to speech levels
incredible
this probably feels like a nice break for her also
if you are singing this chorus
and then you can't go back down here
it's a pretty good indicator
that you probably just blew out your voice
and that you need to adjust
some things to how you're singing
(34:15):
these high notes
cause you're working too hard to get them uh
too chesty too heavy too grabby too much tension uh
if you can't then sing down here again
so if your voice feels like
really weird after you were singing this kind of stuff
and you're like
oh my gosh it's like really difficult to go down here
now that's a very good indicator
that you just did too much
so yes what I did sounded like absolute poop
(34:37):
but I can still be down here and feel just fine uh
because I'm trying to get those notes with
with not without all the tension
that's very hard and I'm trying my best but anyways
and finally live like the girl they all see
(35:05):
I'll be okay now we're in my territory
why can't we just sing it down here
that is that's so nice
I wanna be ah
(35:27):
let's just sing it down here cause that is a lot easier
um but that's really low
um na na na na
(35:49):
I'll be there it is yeah
b is less of a jump than I thought it was
so I just went too high I'll be so down here
now this is probably the reason why
you can't really change the key of the song
cause if you did
I don't really know how much lower I could go
then I'll be like comfortably and still sound good
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and I have a low voice so
this girl be crazy for singing that low and that high
and sounding so good everywhere
cool whatever it's fine
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uh I believe I believe
believe or not believe uh huh
believe it's more believe more open
I hate my life right now
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I am I'm just I would just have to sing it like this
honestly that's how I would do it
cause there's no way I can go
and up up up
I I and I can't
I can't transition into like a stronger up up
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up because that's that would make it sound like
so obvious that I make that switch so uh
there's no no
no need no no no reason to try cause this is insane
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음
it's so good
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oh I can do this gonna be gonna be golden
gonna be gonna be I can do that part
yeah I mean that is that is freaking insane
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I wish I had long legs like that so cool
I mean this is this is amazing
you know singing this in a studio
and singing something like this live is
is probably
is probably gonna be a little bit different
cause there's like no breaks
it just keeps going um
but I mean I'm not saying that she can't do this live
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she definitely can I I mean I don't know that for sure
but I assume she can cause it sounds incredible um
but this is this is some next level stuff and again
like I don't pretend like I can sing this
but also I do wanna say that if you are like me
and you can't sing this song
that doesn't mean you're a bad singer that you're
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that you should probably never sing again
um not everybody has this kind of voice
where they can just pull
something like this out of their butt
and sound amazing
I don't and that doesn't make me a bad singer
I can sing other stuff really well
and that's
I think is what a lot of singers underestimate
because we are always
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so focused on the things that we can't do yet
that that's all we ever really work on
and then eventually
we start feeling like we're really bad singers
even though that's not the case at all
there's plenty of other stuff that you can do
really well
this just happens to be one of those things that you
that you're working on right now
and that's okay so song choice is so so important
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you would never catch me perform this song live
absolutely not but I would sing Lady Gaga live or um
maybe like unbreak my heart
Tony Braxton
cause that goes into the freaking basement down there
and I feel comfortable down there
and that's impressive too
just in a different way so you know
just knowing your strengths
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your natural voice is gonna be so important
but or and with that in mind
that doesn't mean you can't learn how to sing
this kind of stuff
you definitely can like when I first started to sing
I could not sing a like at that
right there I couldn't sing that in any kind of voice
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I didn't know head voice existed
so I would have no way of ever getting up to that note
ever when I first started out
and then through the years of training
I Learned how to sing that note like
right in a pretty head voice and now I can
you know do that more in a in a belty kind of way um
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and with a little bit of practice
I could probably like do it consistently and you know
like figure that out
figure figure all that out but then
that stuff up there to sing it in such a chesty quality
um ugh
that is gonna take maybe a couple more years practice
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and I'm a terrible practitioner
don't tell anyone anyways
um
long story short
doesn't make you a bad singer
if you can't sing the song
cause that would mean I'm a bad singer
and I don't believe that
this is just one of those things that I can't do yet
but let's see if we can practice that
and also
let's see if Emily said yes to singing the song for us
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if she did here's her chorus
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she's great um
and again this is Emily has a very like ah
hi how are you
like she lives up here in her speaking voice
obviously
she doesn't sound annoying like what I just did
so very different way for her
to sing the song than for me
very different scenarios but anyways
I hope this helped uh
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please be kind in the comments
I'm fully aware that this wasn't great
but I tried my best okay
uh I hope this helped you
figure out some things that you can try as well
to sing the song um
and good luck is all I can say good luck
you got this um
anyways if you have any questions
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let me know in the comments
happy to share whatever I should can share
I don't really know how to end this video
because usually I would say like
you know if you want to learn how to do this stuff
click the link below and I'll teach you
and here I am totally can't do this
but I can still help you with other things
if you wanna book a session
I'm happy to help you out and also if you
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you if you wanna learn to sing the song
I'll just send you to a lesson with Emily
she can teach you how to do this stuff
cause she can do it too but anyways
I'll see you in the next episode again
be kind be nice
bye
Barnaby
yeah there it is
that's not Barnaby E it's B
B Barnaby E
it's more open Barnaby
yeah that's easy
I like that hahaha
isn't that so funny
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like a lot of times the thing that we're like
oh my God that's the hardest part of the song
it's like hmm
actually that's easier because especially for me
I know like that middle part in my voice um
is a lot harder to use than once
we get higher than that
and a lot of singers are struggling with this as well
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so here we're above that middle part
so that makes it easier uh
because up here
my chest voice is not trying to get grabby anymore
it's not even trying
right but with that
there it's still very much like
ooh hold on
(01:02):
we're trying to grab on here a little bit too much
my chest voice is engaging too much right but up here
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Alrighty are you ready
let's get started
this song has been blowing up the internet
and of course because of that
because I don't live behind a rock
I have heard this song as well and oh my goodness
could there be a song that is harder to sing than this
I don't know because this is so freaking hard
and I'm of course talking about the song golden
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and there are many singers
attempting to sing the song right now
and they're like how is this possible
and I would say that's a really good question
because from what I've heard
and I've only ever heard the chorus that's like
I'm going up
it's a really catchy song
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I actually really like the song
I mean I've only heard the chorus
that's the only part I know
but we're gonna listen to the entire thing here today
um this is kind of like a quote unquote
vocal coach reacts video but not really uh
because I wanna take it further
I wanna look at some techniques
that we could maybe apply to
help us sing this song
to make it just a little bit easier
or maybe some adjustments that we can make to it
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to make it easier
like changing the key or I don't know
I don't know the full song
so we gotta see how low it goes
but I would say let's just dig into the song and again
the goal with this
video here today is to not just be like wow
this is such an amazing song
because we all know it's an amazing song
it's more like okay
well how can we actually sing this song
how is it possible
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and I do need to start by saying I can't sing the song
haha
so I'm gonna have to figure out how I can sing the song
and for me like trying to sing the song is uh
hopefully gonna
show you some things that you can also try to help you
sing this song
I do wanna start by saying
this is a song for very advanced singers
this stuff is hard AF so you know
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if you're just starting out
still
watch this video to learn about some of these advanced
techniques
but also don't freak out if you can't sing the song
this is next level stuff
it's really difficult and it's very
very very very very difficult for me as well
um and this is not at all where my voice naturally sits
just a little disclaimer before I start making
a fool of myself oh my gosh
(03:50):
this is so vulnerable for me
but um this is not where my voice naturally sits at all
my voice naturally sits really low
as you can tell right now when I'm speaking
like I live down here
and this is where I feel comfortable okay
but this chorus is
and it sits up there the entire time and it's just like
oh my God
so this is the opposite of what comes naturally to me
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so this is gonna be extra super duper
duper hard for me to sing
if Coach Emily on our team were to sing this
if you've ever heard her sing and you know
like she could absolutely kill this song
and oh my gosh I'm gonna have to
I'm gonna send Emily
a message and ask her to sing this chorus because
and send us a video of it
because I think she's gonna absolutely kill this
and if you wanna hear what that sounds like
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she doesn't know anything about this yet
I hope she's gonna say yes uh
if she says yes
you'll see the result of this at the end of this video
okay but I'm sure she'll be up for it
cause girl lives up there
and can sing this stuff all day long
just curious to see what that sounds like and again
for me total opposite anyways
let's get into this video um
it's vocal coach reaction plus video
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let's do it anyways let's get started Alrighty
oh new single new hundred oh my God
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if I was the Queen that I meant to be I lived too long
okay so this um this verse down here
it's very speech like
it's not like LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
cause that'd be crazy to sing like that
down here it's more like I was alone
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whatever the lyrics are something about a throne
I don't know I didn't know
I think it's also another one of those you
you hear a little bit of that vocal fry creeping in
that uh uh
I was alone
and that vocal fry just only can come through
when there's like a relaxed voice
you're not working hard at all it's really just uh
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uh nice and easy
so when you're starting out with the song
because we know where it's going
really make sure you're pacing yourself
and that you're taking it easy here in the beginning
and that you're basically just speaking the words
that's how I would start out this song for sure
and down here this is easy for me
I just need to know the lyrics and yep easy
no problem we can sing this you can sing this too
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anyone can sing this you got this
I was the queen that I meant to be I live too long
okay I was the queen that I'm meant to be
so there
we're already going up and already adding more energy
to the song and to the vocal delivery
so yes we are increasing energy
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we are increasing power we are increasing volume
we're increasing everything essentially
still make it make sure that you're not going
I'm the queen that I'm meant to be
I already don't remember the lyrics
but I that's already too much
I I am the queen that I meant to be
or I was the queen that I meant to be
whatever the lyrics are right
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but maybe like
let's say 50% don't exceed that yet because again
we know where it's going
we're only 35 seconds into the song
30 seconds into the song so really pace yourself
is this the K pop version of Hannah Montana
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I live two lives I again
like I said I know nothing about this um
but this this line right there
just gave me Hannah Montana vibes anyways
let's back this up again
okay I live two lives da da da
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I need to pull up some lyrics here or something
cause I don't know these lyrics but I've left
60% we're not I live two lives
you're never gonna make it through the entire song
if you do that already um
up here the tone is also quite different
it's much brighter
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it sits more up here rather than I I down there
how we started out it's more like brighter
everything's brighter now I lift
lies it's too heavy right
let's shut the weight let's make it you know lighter
(08:47):
I live to
up here um
and this is to me
this is kind of like the Valley Girl voice right here
I was working on this with another student with Jenny
actually she was on our podcast um
she was a student a long time ago
but she was singing something on our podcast
and I told her to do the Valley Girl voice hi
how are you oh my God
it's so good to see you it's been such a long time
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I know sorry that's an exaggeration um
but this right here I live to guys hello
how are you that Valley Girl voice
that's gonna help you get into that brighter
lighter still chest dominant mix
but it's not like super heavy OK
so anyways Valley Girl for that pre course
(09:43):
okay whoo
we're in the chorus baby let's go
but um
so far here the chorus nice and soft and and breathy
so let's have a listen here
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okay so
and that's breathy right huh
um has a little bit of vocal fry I'm done
nice and easy uh but what you can hear is doubles
she's getting a full sound here on this song
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because they are layering her vocals on the hide and
on both of those um
words cause they're more than one note uh
there they're doubling the vocals
so that it still gives you a full sound
you by yourself when you're not in the studio
can't get that full of a sound
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if you are still in that soft breathy voice
it's just literally physically impossible to do that
so just know that
when you're singing this first chorus here
in that softer breathy voice
you're not gonna get a sound that's as full
even if you were just to single out these vocals
and just hear the acapella version of this
because there's more than one voice on like
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it's the same person doubling it right
it's not like multiple voices
and they're just singing exactly the same phrase
more than once I don't know how many layers there are
that's
I would have to see the recording session to see that
but anyways you get the point
it's not gonna be as full as here
if you're going shining
cause then you have to go shining
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but then it's not breathy anymore
not that that's wrong
it's just a different way of singing it but anyways
just keep that in mind shining ah
really use that breath here
you can hear the doubles a lot better
because there's also harmonies on the
but that's already happening on hiding and shining
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you just can't hear it as well okay
hard was not breathy anymore
hard and hard and drop the R
cause otherwise it's gonna be impossible to sing also
it's not yet hard hard
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it's like too much hard
and somewhere in that mixy valley girl kind of voice
there
this came so far
but she's doing more than that
I'm just being a chicken and backing out of it
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far FA okay uh
I've again
I'm need I need to drop the R not far end more far end
um I added a second FA
FA just to get that breath flow going
cause I know personally
my vocal folds tend to squeeze a little bit
and I'm not letting enough air come through
so I like to add s's or f sounds like or or even huh
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an H sound just get that breath flow going find find
find
is basically what it comes out as and not far end
just can't get that r in there
be would make it way too hard to sing
so for now I'll be
that note is so perfectly autotuned oh
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and that's not a no shade
everybody uses autotune
there's a lot of autotune on this here as well
which there's no shame in that but man that no
it's just so perfectly straight
oh like it's just it's super perfect and um
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it's almost a little too perfect believe
so she has like a straight tone on that first
and then she goes into a little bit of a vibrato
but it's not like a crazy kind of vibrato
it's a really subtle nice vibrato
very contemporary pop K pop vibrato right believe
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and that's it um
but she's making that
I'm making that way headier than what she's doing it
but that's probably if I were to perform the song live
which by the way is never gonna happen
I'm not doing that to myself
um
I would probably sing it right here in the head
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dominant mix
cause if I would try to make this more chesty
like she's doing it
no way my
my my voice is not gonna cooperate on that
I need a lot more training for that to happen
a lot more tension release
tension release tension release tension release
cause that's the biggest thing for me
um but anyways
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that's like an adjustment that we can make
when we sing the song
we don't have to sing it exactly how they're doing it
uh just because that
that sound that they're making is more uh
chest dominant
doesn't mean that we also have to do that
we can adjust it to however feels best to us
I would probably lower the key of this song
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but I don't know maybe it goes lower in
you know further down the song
um we'll see
if not I will probably lower the key of this
but yeah I would definitely make that whole um
I guess it's like another pre course
I don't know
I feel like this is like the second pre course
um
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that whole section
I would make that more head dominant still mix voice
but a head dominant mix
rather than a chest dominant mix
so for now I'll be
okay so here
this to me is where I'm hearing for the first time
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like
beautiful rawness and like imperfection in her vocals
and when I say imperfection
I mean that as a compliment
uh'cause like that believe was just so perfect
and I'm like okay
this is like not very attainable
but now that we're going up up here
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if you listen to the tone of her voice it gets it
it you can hear a little bit of that
grit and grubbiness coming through
in the best way possible
right there go in go in right there
you can hear it one more time ah right it's not
we're going
ah right it's not
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which is like way too straight
and like mixy and beautiful and perfect
it's more that hmm
my kind of chastier heavier greedier kind of belt
but it is super freaking high
I don't even know how high this is
let me see I I got my phone right here
(16:55):
I can just pull up my little keyboard going up
that's an E45 going up up UPS
and she's pretty much like
she's very chest dominant up here
and giving her that beautiful gritty sound
(17:15):
alright are we ready let's try this
we're going up
up up
I'm gonna try it on LA LA
we're going in
LA that hear that that sound coming through that is um
uh little bit of like
my vocal folds closing together too tightly
giving me almost like that fry kind of sound
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I'm not doing it on purpose
and I don't want it up there
just really hard to get it out
and such a chest dominant sound up there
for me personally this is my voice
everybody else is like experiencing different issues
hahaha this is my issue
so I'm gonna try this on hahaha we're going hahaha
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that makes it a little easier we're
SA SA OK that was nice
that's SA SA SA
so I just need to get my voice to stretch and open up
um and now I just need to do that on up
up up
but I'm probably gonna do more like a up
up
up like a turning those peas into bees um
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to keep my airflow going cause if I go up up up
I stop my airflow and that's already my issue
like not having enough air come through
so if I do these peas up there
I'm literally just making my life so much harder
so if I turn those into a BA BA
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BA BA and like into soft BS instead of BS
that's gonna make it easier to sing for me
we're going up
up up and I feel
feel a little flummy right now
probably because I haven't warmed up very much
just like five minutes real quick
like whoa and that was it
probably need a little bit more for this
but that's fine let's hear one more time
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oh she's like really
really skilled singer um
she's um
she is making that
she has like little breaks between those UPS
which again makes it so hard to sing
but she's killing that she sounds so good again
I'm gonna modify that to more an up up
up cause I think that's gonna make it easier
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let me try again
we're going up up up I don't like that
so maybe what I need to do is like
actually stylistically I don't like that
so maybe what I need to do is hold the
like hold the breath not hold the breath
like keep exhaling but stopping the sound so it's like
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uh huh huh you know
uh huh huh so the breath keeps going
but the sound doesn't so that I still have that
but I'm not shutting off my breath
we're going up up up
I don't know let's keep going
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gonna be gonna be golden
like already that like for her
where that sits in her voice
it sounds like it's so easy for her to sing
but it's gonna be gonna be golden
it's really high and again
I naturally have a low pitched voice like this may
this is not where I feel comfortable at all
gonna be gonna be golden what did I change
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I created a little bit more space
in the back of my mouth back here
um and drop my larynx maybe a little bit
gonna be gonna be golden golden
that's the hardest note for me
it's not even the gonna be gonna be
that is easier for me than golden
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there is harder
that's where the fry comes in and the phlegm
gonna be gonna be golden so so so
so so so so so so
so again I'm doing this
so to help me get that breath flow going
gonna be gonna be golden oh
(21:33):
that helped a lot okay
so must have been my neck was engaging
so what I did was I just shook my head
like side to side not super fast
just kind of like looking side to side
to see if I can release some of this tension here
gonna be gonna be golden hey
hey hey uh uh
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gonna be gonna be golden
yeah just releasing that tension in general alright
let's go
ah
who is singing this song why do you hate
all of us that don't have a voice like you
(22:16):
haha OK one more time that
and I know it's getting higher later
and I'm already like girl
how OK um that
I'm I'm adjusting my lips here a little bit
my mouth shape for that
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that higher note up there
I don't love that I have to do that
but where I'm at right now
it's making it easier to sing that note
I would love to not rely on that
ha ha ha
ah ah ah
ha
it's higher ah
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hold on am I dropping
oh yeah actually I like that a lot
apple bite basically what that means is you're lifting
you're showing your upper teeth
but you're not just going wide
you're also still dropping your jaw too
cause when you bite into an apple
you kind of had to open your mouth wide right
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oh also I OK
so
Coach Emily and Coach Bree from our team both told me
like hey
don't be afraid to engage your lower ABS a little bit
on these high notes and I
for the longest time didn't
because I was such a chronic AB squeezer
that everything would just get really
really really tight up there
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and so I just kind of like
stopped using my ABS altogether
and they both recently in the last couple months
um when we were doing like a podcast episode
they both told me like hey
use your lower ABS
so I'm really focusing uh on engaging my lower ABS
not my top ABS
cause the top ABS are gonna give me that squeeze
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and the lower ABS are gonna give me the support
that I'm looking for so oh
hahaha oh my God
that made it so much easier to just like whoa
like pull I'm pulling in my lower my lower ABS
like you can't see it um here in this in this angle
but maybe here from the side
(24:23):
you can't right down there
um where right where you know um yeah
where your ABS end essentially on your bladder
this is where my bladder is
I'm pushing basically
those bottom ABS that are right over my bladder
and pulling those in
makes it a lot easier and then it goes
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that
it's an octave jump and that's gonna be so hard
and I bet you when she was recording this
because I'm just telling this to myself
that
because this is gonna make me feel better about myself
that they did not go
that they didn't record it like this
but rather did that in separate takes just uh
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because that makes it a lot easier to sing
I'm just gonna tell myself that that's what they did
I don't know for a fact that that's what they did
I just choose to believe this
thank you very much okay
ah yes okay
it feels fine and it it doesn't sound bad
what I don't love is that
like I'm like scoop scooping up to that note
(25:28):
overshooting that top note in the sense of like
I'm forcing it too much let me listen here
okay
how the heck is she doing this in a such a strong chest
(25:53):
um sounding chest dominant sound cause I can go
no voices all day long that's that's pretty easy
but that's not what she's doing
I mean I can attempt it but like
I'm literally just gonna make a fool of myself here
so anyways I mean I already did up until this point
so what what's a little bit more
um okay
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no I
I'm I'm so scared of that note
what is that note
I need to move my piano here
it's that stupid G5
that is so bad the good news is it doesn't hurt
it doesn't feel bad at all
(26:38):
it's just my voice is like
how the heck do you want me to stretch up this high
and still say so chest dominant um
and when I say chest dominant
it's not necessarily about like
belting these notes up here
that's not what this is um
unless you consider a belt and a mix
that depends on your definition
but it's a
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you wanna get that strong powerful sound right
and we are so so so high up here
I'm like how how do you get this kind of sound
it's incredible
I absolutely am aware that this sounds
(27:19):
completely terrible OK
you don't need to tell me that in the comments
I know hahaha I'm not the Lulu um
if I had to sing the song tomorrow
I would not up up I would just like not do it
do it up up up with our voices
I would just do it that way
if I couldn't change the key and all of that
(27:39):
I would just not up opt up if I had to do it
but to practice this what can I do
it's again
it's just my vocal fold squeezing together too tightly
that's what's what's giving me this uh
kind of sound there so to practice this
(28:02):
what am I gonna do I'm gonna um
do this on that SA SA SA SA SA SA
SA SA that kind of sound to
because that s gets that breath flow going right
SA SA SA SA SA
SA SA hear how like I not that that sounds good again
I know but hear how
that's much closer to where we wanna be than when
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I'm not doing SA SA
when I'm doing up up up
that's much harder
so practicing this on that SA SA SA SA SA SA
SA SA will eventually
hopefully maybe help me get up to these um
to these high notes
and once I can do that more easily on that SA SA sound
I can then try and bring the lyrics back in
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my ego is bruised no
it's not at all I know
I knew from the beginning that I can't sing this song
so who am I kidding it's just no surprise
but I would love to be able to sing this right
wouldn't that be great okay
so so so
(29:10):
okay I know sounds awful
and I'm sorry you're listening to this
but also I'm getting closer
so I'll take that win let's keep going
(29:30):
okay so that born to be bona be
so Bon appetit
so bona be she's not like singing born to be
like just forget about all those RS
bona be but also here
this is easier for me to sing now
than the stuff that we just worked on before
(29:51):
um this is way
way way
way way mixier
and not chest dominant at all up here anymore
so it's like that
that's a lot easier um
I wanna hear that b one more time
cause that b sounds brighter than what I'm doing
(30:16):
Barnaby
yeah there it is
that's not Barnaby E it's B
B Barnaby E
it's more open Barnaby
yeah that's easy
I like that hahaha
isn't that so funny
(30:37):
like a lot of times the thing that we're like
oh my God that's the hardest part of the song
it's like hmm
actually that's easier because especially for me
I know like that middle part in my voice um
is a lot harder to use than once
we get higher than that
and a lot of singers are struggling with this as well
(30:57):
so here we're above that middle part
so that makes it easier uh
because up here
my chest voice is not trying to get grabby anymore
it's not even trying
right but with that
there it's still very much like
ooh hold on
(31:18):
we're trying to grab on here a little bit too much
my chest voice is engaging too much right but up here
it's not even trying anymore
so that's make that makes it easier for me to sing um
but again that b is my b and not b
even though you could sing b b
(31:39):
but it doesn't sound that good
the BAE sounds a lot better
sounds a lot more powerful and like
quote unquote impressive I'm done shot now
I'm okay hold on
(32:02):
okay
so that's kind of like what we heard before in the song
already
shining okay it's not shining
you know that um
dip song there shy shining
I I
you gotta really not do that e sound shining
yeah and make it more shining and not shining
(32:23):
that makes it a lot easier and then
hey no LA
hey there it is okay so the
(32:44):
the hardest part about this phrase here BA BA BA BA
those three phrases essentially
I know those stunning is the shining for me
the shining part there is the hardest
luckily that word starts on the shh shining
so that is gonna make it a lot easier to eventually
(33:06):
with a lot of practice get that note um
I wanna try this again
hey
ah why do I default to that b and a b b
like a butterfly
(33:30):
yeah I don't know I I default to the B and not the B
but anyways that's better anyways
let's keep going
I didn't know that happens twice oh my goodness oh
(33:53):
it's kind of crazy how she goes
from up there to down here back to speech levels
incredible
this probably feels like a nice break for her also
if you are singing this chorus
and then you can't go back down here
it's a pretty good indicator
that you probably just blew out your voice
and that you need to adjust
some things to how you're singing
(34:15):
these high notes
cause you're working too hard to get them uh
too chesty too heavy too grabby too much tension uh
if you can't then sing down here again
so if your voice feels like
really weird after you were singing this kind of stuff
and you're like
oh my gosh it's like really difficult to go down here
now that's a very good indicator
that you just did too much
so yes what I did sounded like absolute poop
(34:37):
but I can still be down here and feel just fine uh
because I'm trying to get those notes with
with not without all the tension
that's very hard and I'm trying my best but anyways
and finally live like the girl they all see
(35:05):
I'll be okay now we're in my territory
why can't we just sing it down here
that is that's so nice
I wanna be ah
(35:27):
let's just sing it down here cause that is a lot easier
um but that's really low
um na na na na
(35:49):
I'll be there it is yeah
b is less of a jump than I thought it was
so I just went too high I'll be so down here
now this is probably the reason why
you can't really change the key of the song
cause if you did
I don't really know how much lower I could go
then I'll be like comfortably and still sound good
(36:10):
and I have a low voice so
this girl be crazy for singing that low and that high
and sounding so good everywhere
cool whatever it's fine
(36:32):
uh I believe I believe
believe or not believe uh huh
believe it's more believe more open
I hate my life right now
(36:56):
I am I'm just I would just have to sing it like this
honestly that's how I would do it
cause there's no way I can go
and up up up
I I and I can't
I can't transition into like a stronger up up
(37:20):
up because that's that would make it sound like
so obvious that I make that switch so uh
there's no no
no need no no no reason to try cause this is insane
(37:42):
음
it's so good
(38:05):
oh I can do this gonna be gonna be golden
gonna be gonna be I can do that part
yeah I mean that is that is freaking insane
(38:31):
I wish I had long legs like that so cool
I mean this is this is amazing
you know singing this in a studio
and singing something like this live is
is probably
is probably gonna be a little bit different
cause there's like no breaks
it just keeps going um
but I mean I'm not saying that she can't do this live
(38:52):
she definitely can I I mean I don't know that for sure
but I assume she can cause it sounds incredible um
but this is this is some next level stuff and again
like I don't pretend like I can sing this
but also I do wanna say that if you are like me
and you can't sing this song
that doesn't mean you're a bad singer that you're
(39:14):
that you should probably never sing again
um not everybody has this kind of voice
where they can just pull
something like this out of their butt
and sound amazing
I don't and that doesn't make me a bad singer
I can sing other stuff really well
and that's
I think is what a lot of singers underestimate
because we are always
(39:35):
so focused on the things that we can't do yet
that that's all we ever really work on
and then eventually
we start feeling like we're really bad singers
even though that's not the case at all
there's plenty of other stuff that you can do
really well
this just happens to be one of those things that you
that you're working on right now
and that's okay so song choice is so so important
(40:00):
you would never catch me perform this song live
absolutely not but I would sing Lady Gaga live or um
maybe like unbreak my heart
Tony Braxton
cause that goes into the freaking basement down there
and I feel comfortable down there
and that's impressive too
just in a different way so you know
just knowing your strengths
(40:21):
your natural voice is gonna be so important
but or and with that in mind
that doesn't mean you can't learn how to sing
this kind of stuff
you definitely can like when I first started to sing
I could not sing a like at that
right there I couldn't sing that in any kind of voice
(40:43):
I didn't know head voice existed
so I would have no way of ever getting up to that note
ever when I first started out
and then through the years of training
I Learned how to sing that note like
right in a pretty head voice and now I can
you know do that more in a in a belty kind of way um
(41:04):
and with a little bit of practice
I could probably like do it consistently and you know
like figure that out
figure figure all that out but then
that stuff up there to sing it in such a chesty quality
um ugh
that is gonna take maybe a couple more years practice
(41:26):
and I'm a terrible practitioner
don't tell anyone anyways
um
long story short
doesn't make you a bad singer
if you can't sing the song
cause that would mean I'm a bad singer
and I don't believe that
this is just one of those things that I can't do yet
but let's see if we can practice that
and also
let's see if Emily said yes to singing the song for us
(41:49):
if she did here's her chorus
(42:39):
she's great um
and again this is Emily has a very like ah
hi how are you
like she lives up here in her speaking voice
obviously
she doesn't sound annoying like what I just did
so very different way for her
to sing the song than for me
very different scenarios but anyways
I hope this helped uh
(43:00):
please be kind in the comments
I'm fully aware that this wasn't great
but I tried my best okay
uh I hope this helped you
figure out some things that you can try as well
to sing the song um
and good luck is all I can say good luck
you got this um
anyways if you have any questions
(43:20):
let me know in the comments
happy to share whatever I should can share
I don't really know how to end this video
because usually I would say like
you know if you want to learn how to do this stuff
click the link below and I'll teach you
and here I am totally can't do this
but I can still help you with other things
if you wanna book a session
I'm happy to help you out and also if you
(43:42):
you if you wanna learn to sing the song
I'll just send you to a lesson with Emily
she can teach you how to do this stuff
cause she can do it too but anyways
I'll see you in the next episode again
be kind be nice
bye
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