Hello! My name is Tim Gilberg and I am from nextlevelguitar.com and I am going to bring a little series of how to sing our vocal lessons. I have been taking private instruction for the past year and a half and I pay $60 for a 45 minute session every single week and it's great and I recommend if you can afford it to find a local teacher, I am going to try to take the best of what I have learned and put it into these small instructional videos and hopefully you can get something from this. I recommend, if possible to get a vocal instructor in your town or city or wherever you live and it's great because they can analyze and work on many, many things.
The thing is your voice is an instrument and when I first started, I thought some people just have the gift that they were born with, where they could be -- this could be sports or gymnastics or vocal. So but a lot of people can work, if you have, if you take the tools and the lessons you can improve and today what we are going to do is I am going to give you the simple warm up exercise, this is used by all the top teachers and it's very straight forward.
The second thing I am going to do is I am going to supply a link for an MP3 scale. It's a piano scale that we had. It's a piano scale, I had someone enter and there is a male and a female range. It's an average range. Voices have varying ranges low, medium, high. We will get into all the terms later. But it's for the average male and the average female voice range and it's the piano scale going up and down.
So you can practice this first exercise like today and what it is, it's called the lip roll and it's to warm up your vocal chords. When I first started doing these exercises I felt ridiculous. I can only do it in a locked room with no one around or in the car and even in front of my daughter I couldn't do it and it's a progression. Don't feel stupid if you do this and don't feel bad if you just do it in a bathroom or wherever. It's a progression at least for me.
Some people can just get rid out and do it. I have to ease in the thing. So it's called the Lip Roll and what you will do is you will do that along to the scale that I supply and the couple reasons why, when I first started, I asked, well, why? Why can't I just do the scales without on my own and without the piano backing and she stated and it make sense, it is also ear training.
Because you are constantly hearing the correct notes, the correct pitches over and over and over and I wound recommend this -- one thing I really, I am a big, one thing I would really recommend and I found that works for me is don't try to practice for an hour or two when you are starting out for anything. Be it sports, be it guitar, be it vocal lessons, do it five minutes. Do it five minutes and get in the habit. Do it in five minutes because what happens is you will find, Oh! So that was ten minutes. You don't think of it like Oh! I have to practice an hour today. I have to practice --
At nextlevelguitar we have had great success with this training method and it's just do in a little chunk and it's such a small bite that you can do it everyday. You can find five minutes. You are sitting at those traffic lights for five minutes. You can pop, take this MP3 put it on a CD, put in your car and do it. It's actually kind of relaxing. You get your own zone. You don't stress all the people coming around. Well, once again, it's called the lip roll and this is a great vocal warm up.
There is a lot and lot of stuff I am going to go through over the next couple weeks for vocal training but we are going to take it piece by piece, step by step and the first most important thing to do is warm up your vocal chords and this is a great exercise because it limits the air coming through. When you just start to sing, people sometimes don't blow enough air, sometimes people blow too much. I had a problem with blowing too much air and that causes vocal chords stress and I get tired really quickly and so forth.
But once again, do this with me. No pressure, just no pressure at all. And that's the key to sing, it's not straining, not gripping, not -- it's key to have all this relaxed, your throughout muscles and this is a great exercise to do it. So some people have, well recommend you put your fingers like where you have dimples, you might have dimples, you might not. But if you don't, we are kind of where your dimples would be and kind of push there and that helps people get the blowing.
So, this is the first lesson. We are going to get into a lot more later, but what we are going to do is we are going to supply this; there is a female and a male link. I am going to put a link to a page and you can go there and download this and it's free and we are going to have a weekly or biweekly newsletter. We are going to supply extra tips and it's going to be vocal related. So you want to sign up for that on the page that I am going to give you and then you get more things right to your mailbox.
Okay, hope you have enjoyed that. We have a lot more to come and it's called the Lip Roll and it's a great exercise to get started. Rock on.
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