Hi Sam! Trying hard to understand this. Could you let me know if this is correct? The vowel one is currently singing (i.e depending on the word that is being sung) has an ideal "vocal-tract shape". Although we don't know for certain, right now it seems like these shapes are about the same for most people. With the right shape for a particular vowel it is easier to to sing comfortably through one's range. Finding that shape is really hard, coaches have relied on feel. This is an objective way of checking to see if one is using the right shape (by matching the "pitch" - which is really just how dark / bright the whisper is - not the pitch of the not being sung) using software to visually check. For you, finding the right shape for the Aa vowel has been difficult, historically, because you have tended to go with a darker "pitch"/shape. This helps you find the right "pitch"/shape/brightness for the Aa vowel. Have I got this correct? And this is different that choosing to change the vowel slightly (e.g. singing more on an E vowel even though the word is technically and A which people sometimes do?)

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Simon! Hope you're well. "The vowel one is currently singing (i.e depending on the word that is being sung) has an ideal "vocal-tract shape". Although we don't know for certain, right now it seems like these shapes are about the same for most people." Yes. Vowels exist because of the frequencies of formants 1 and 2. This video mostly talks about formant 2 tuning, which is more in the mouth than the throat. Ken Bozeman's handout calls it the "Probable pitch of F2 “overvowel." These pitches seem to work very well across voice types, but hasn't been thoroughly studied. "With the right shape for a particular vowel it is easier to to sing comfortably through one's range." Yes. Good vowel tuning creates efficient and beautiful singing. "Finding that shape is really hard, coaches have relied on feel. This is an objective way of checking to see if one is using the right shape (by matching the "pitch" - which is really just how dark / bright the whisper is - not the pitch of the not being sung) using software to visually check." Yes, we perceive darkness and lightness partially due to how strong frequencies are in lower or higher parts of the spectrum. F2 tuning (to me) tunes more of the brightness, while F1 tuning seems to be responsible for more darkness, but that's kind of unfounded. Using these pitches as a goal to tune F2 seems to result in easier vocalization for most. If it isn't a perfect tuning it's at least a similar jumping off point to find every practice session. I believe that results in more consistent and predictable practice sessions. "For you, finding the right shape for the Aa vowel has been difficult, historically, because you have tended to go with a darker "pitch"/shape. This helps you find the right "pitch"/shape/brightness for the Aa vowel." Yes. "And this is different that choosing to change the vowel slightly (e.g. singing more on an E vowel even though the word is technically and A which people sometimes do?)" Different exercise, but shooting at the same goal. I like the precision of this, but will forever be asking people to make their /e/ vowel more /i/ like, or an /a/ more /æ/ like.

@DenisMorissetteJFK

2 жыл бұрын

​@@SamJohnsonVoice OK. I had the impression after watching this video that vowel modification was no longer necessary as you had found the optimal vocal tract configuration for each vowel. Sam Johnson il y a 2 mois "And this is different that choosing to change the vowel slightly (e.g. singing more on an E vowel even though the word is technically and A which people sometimes do?)" Different exercise, but shooting at the same goal. I like the precision of this, but will forever be asking people to make their /e/ vowel more /i/ like, or an /a/ more /æ/ like.

Hey Sam. I know this pedagogical stuff is probably not as popular view-wise as your reaction vids, but I just wanted to let you know I really appreciate the time you take to share it. Thank you!

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joseph!!! Even though this might not perform as well as an Ariana Grande reaction it's still nuts to me that 1500 people have been interested in whispering a bit.

@kogai311

2 жыл бұрын

I 100% agree with this

Me: Whispering to improve singing My parents: Thinking that I'm summoning a demon

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Porque no los dos ?

@khen106

2 жыл бұрын

NO WAY! my favorite vocal coach noticed me. My life is full now

@HI-lq4vl

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamJohnsonVoice wait, what?!

If I was a famous singer I’d DEF have Sam Johnson tour with me haha KEEP IT UP!

Thank you for this! I sing bass in a women’s barbershop chorus and I finally understand what they mean when they say the bass line is responsible for setting up the overtone for everyone else. The visual representation made it click. I will be coming back to this often to practice tuning my vowels. I’m sharing this with our director matching vowel space is super important in barbershop. This seems like a very useful tool.

I love repeatable and objective excercises

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite

One of the smartest things that I heard recently on the topic of VoiceTraining and Voice signs. Kenneth Bossman is definitely a pioneer and thank you for your explanation. Now I understand Kenneth Bosman ideas.

This has been changing the game for me the past 3 weeks

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

YESSSSS

I've seen YT videos on the topic,. There are notes in songs that created so much tension and did not sound solid. But when I sang them in the whisper mode, I was able to find the optimal vocal tract shape. Maybe it's the first thing students should learn.

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

I think introducing it early is great. I don't use it in a first lesson with people, but once they are practicing regularly and familiar with some of my other terminology it's worth a shot. A brand new singer might not have the awareness to make it worthwhile, or it might be worth using a sledgehammer type exercise rather than this chisel.

New. Favorite. Channel. I teach introductory linguistics but my area is not in the articulatory or acoustic realm. I’m also a former theater kid so I LOVE this content. Its so cool to learn more about speech production from this perspective. 😊

I just adore you! ❤️

Hi Sam, thank you very much for this video and the work you put in it! I really appreciate your work on KZread in general and love to watch your videos because I’m a fan of your way to teach and react. You really seem to know your stuff and you are always respectful when you react to and analyse someone singing. Now you showed me a tool to make vowel shaping measurable - and understandable (in a weird nerdy way of course)! If you used click baiting phrases you could have written something like „Your voice teacher doesn’t want you to know this secret magic technique“… And yes, like someone else already wrote, it sounds like summoning demons or speaking Parcel like Harry Potter. I‘m going to Ken‘s channel know - for Ken and the algorithm ;-)

New series nerding with Sam ?? :)) im here for it! ❤

This is so great, Sam. Thank you for a thorough explanation and for being willing to share how this has changed your singing. I just finished Ken's first book and am excited to read the second. I saw your itnerview with Ken, as well; what an awesome conversation. Thanks for all you do!

This is great! I've just been exploring formants and was looking for good demos on chiaroscuro whispers, and this is way more than I could've hoped for. Thanks Sam for this video!

Mind blown with this new concept. I'm definitely going to check out more of your videos. I'd love to learn more from your vast knowledge and abilities.

I NEED THIS!!!! THANK YOU!!!

10:00 and 10:50 for those wanting to rewatch just the example part to follow along as an exercise

Great tool, so insightful, thanks for sharing

I loved learning the theory around this... And I'll definitely give it a go. Thanks for your "dumbing down".. It made complete sense! 😊

Thank you so much, Sam! I haven't even tried this yet, but I'm already sure it's gonna be a huge help next time I go practise. Sharing this with all the people I've done vocals with rn. This really is groundbreaking for me, thank you once again for making this vid

Why I take classes with you - your knowledge, clear explanations and commitment...and profound respect for the voice! ❤️❤️

Thank you; this is a fine, lucid and practical exploration of the chiaroscuro whisper, and a great companion to KB's work.

I love how you talk about frequency and I know these things because of my signals and systems course. Singer, songwriter, computer science student here :)

This was incredible! 🤯 And the visualizations took it over the top. It really helped with understanding it better. More betterer, if you will. Thanks!

I've been on a quest to teach myself to sing without resorting to in-person lessons. Your videos have been so helpful already, but this technique seems especially so. Objective feedback and something I don't have to rely on a coach for? Yes please. Thank you so much Sam!

Thank You for another interesting upload. Gave me lots of food for thought! :)

I like a little bit of the react stuff but THIS is the shish I subscribed for! Cool stuff. c:

Nicely described, Sam 😊I enjoyed watching you play with Voce Vista as you discussed these concepts. Great voice ! Ken Bozeman has made significant contributions to vocal pedagogy!

Thank you!! The vocevista + your explanations are super super helpful

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Have you been noticing much of a difference with using the whisper?

@witchesscollective

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamJohnsonVoice yes! I’ve had to play around with it a lot but I feel like I’m not having to fight so hard to find a darker sound

Not what I was looking for but exactly what I needed. I watched the whole thing at the normal speed. Unheard of for me. Speaks volumes of your ability to relay this highly technical information to a basic level.

Wow this is gold. This music teacher/vocally trained person approves…and so would my vocal professors.

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

I hope more people find it helpful! It's been a game changer for me.

Loved this

Thanks for this!

Holy Crap! Just listening to this while I work, and was able to Ah through my entire range without hiccup! Thank you for sharing your learning with us.

Thanks for your advice!

This video is great and was super informative. I appreciate the time and specificity you took in the explanations. And also, your eyebrows are stunning :')

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Thank youuuuu!!

I'm totally nerdy obviously. This makes a lot of sense. Find the vocal tract shape and make your sound based on that to overcome the break in your voice, in a way. Love it. Thanks Sam. You rock.

great! tks sam!

this is some nerdy shit that I'm living for

very interesting, thanks. It also got me thinking that knowing other languages, with different vowel can help it out. your C- "a" sound for my Portuguese-speaking ears is clear the difference between a "ã" and "á" like the dark ("ea" of earth or "un" of understand) and the bright "a" of arch.

OMG... This is incredible :-) Always struggled to understand how to high (and opening the mouth) and still maintaining the resonance fixed.

Interesting 🤓 Have to play around with this

Oh jeeeeeez this is both really cool and makes me think maybe playing with this messed up my vocal technique. So, when I was a kid just getting into singing in choirs, I had to spend ~30 minutes every morning on a nebulizer for asthma. Which was boring--I wasn't allowed to read because I always ended up tilting the device which made it not work as well. I discovered that you could change the pitches of the airflow of the machine, just like you do here with whispering, by changing the shape of your mouth, and I used it to sort of play or practice melodies while I sat there breathing the meds. I couldn't actually sing or whisper because the point was breathing IN lol but since the machine supplied the air flow I could amuse myself and even practice my choir parts. But I also would "set" my throat to each pitch while doing this like I was singing and I never detached my larynx and my tongue; I was thinking mostly about singing the pitches accurately as I played this game. I got vocal nodes at 18yo and discovered that I vastly over-activate the surrounding musculature in my throat while speaking and singing (as well as using too much fry in speech). Was never really able to figure out how to stop doing that and my stamina when singing has just gotten shorter and shorter as I age. Having watched this video, I am now thinking that perhaps the hundreds and hundreds of hours I put into clenching my darn throat (probably extra hard in order to get the physical feedback sensations of forming pitches without closing my vocal folds) as I made pitches through my nebulizer machine is part of the reason why I do the weird throat squeezy thing I do when I sing. 🤯 Super interesting; thanks so much for sharing. Perhaps as I think this exercise over I will be able to develop a way to finally make some progress on my issue. Great stuff Sam!

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing observation. I hope this helps you find a less strained setup.

I don't hear the whispers as specific pitches (yet) but your demonstration helps tremendously. It's pretty awesome to know that there is an objective measure of optimal vocal tract shape for vowels that singers can experiment with. Thanks for sharing this tool!

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

A few weeks ago Ken showed me how he tunes F1 and for the life of me I couldn't hear the pitch. This stuff is hard and weird sometimes.

This is so good tysm

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Please tell your friends

@hudlepie953

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamJohnsonVoice will do

For the first ever, thanks to that video and another one you made before, I'm able to get rid of the nuisance that the back of the tongue has been forever created! It has been a heavy load for nothing for so long.

I don't think I've ever been this quick on a video. I always appreciate your advice, Sam. I'd not heard of this whispering thing before. Very interesting.

@thomasclark962

2 жыл бұрын

Just got back from work and I'm interested in going out to get some food for our house and then we can get together soon as we can

@thomasclark962

2 жыл бұрын

Let, me know when you're ready for me and I'll be there in a few minutes

@thomasclark962

2 жыл бұрын

, support you and then you can get it done today

@NoukSilver

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasclark962 Wait, wut?

Just got back from my doctor a I need this, thank.

@VocalAttitude

2 жыл бұрын

I mean I know I was there for it but I just wanna chill and watch you be a geek about it cause that's great and nice.

There are no special pitches in music, and while assigning vowels standard pitches may be beneficial to communicate and learn stuff, it's not good when it defines vowels in real singing. I see those reference vowels just as a crude landmap. It seems part of why this exercise is useful is learning to better identify and maintain vowels. However, I think that it misses most of its potential. The ability of creating resonance with an overtone for any pitch is what makes this so powerful. It makes a huge difference for the intensity of an overtones, whether a formant is nailing it or a semitone off. As a result, the overtones boosted by the 2nd formant shine nicely in the voice, giving it those clear mids and forming their own melodies, harmonies above the sung melody to play with! Even just learning to discern those resonances in the voice is rewarding for the ear. When this exercise helps, it could also be because through working on hitting notes with a formant, singers learn to intuitively improve the tuning of their 2nd formant to the whatever overtone is best suited for the specific pitch and vowel. It's just the opposite of a rigid set of vowel frequencies. Even if they are unaware of it, all good singers do this, and when I discovered it, I noticed that I had been already intuitively writing lyrics partly accordingly. For example, I would not use an open vowel, where the 1st formant boosts the 3rd overtone, which forms an octave and a fifth with the pitch sung, in a harmonic context where a fifth would not fit. Without realizing why my ears said it didn't fit there!

Your really helpful and show some great techniques! I'd love to take a lesson with you sometime!

Wow you're camera quality is incredible

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you're being serious, I am so insecure about my camera work haha. I've been working on it for a long time, glad it's paying off.

@bethelliot7140

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamJohnsonVoice Yes it truly is! 👍🤗

kinda related, i think that's gonna help me for throat singing. i mean, for normal singing also, definitely, but that just explained in a very visual way what throat singing is, and kinda how to control pitch while doing it

This is how you tune the pitch of harsh vocals. Instead of the white noise of the whisper, it's the rattle of the vestibular folds, but you're still changing the overtones that are most amplified. Unrelated to the overall info you gave, but technically not all of the overtones are powers of 2* initial frequency. There are fifths and thirds and eventually some sevenths in the overtone series, but that's not a relevant detail to the information here. Overall this was really cool, and I'm excited to try it out. Thanks Sam, miss you!

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, all multiples of the initial frequency. 220, 440, 660, 880, etc. Thanks for the correction! Some people do this exact exercise with a low fry. These vowel shapes seem to work really well for a fry scream in my voice. Haven't played with them with a false cord scream, but my guess would be success. You gotta be the scientist for that.

Looking forward to watching this soon! (Please react to carrie underwood singing how great thou art live 🙏🏾 )

Loooove this!! I'm a singing science geek so this is so intriguing. Took part in an overtone singing seminar with Anna Maria Hefele (if you don't know her, check her out. Amazing!) and this seems adjacent.

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

That's really cool! Let me know if this helps with overtone singing.

good video

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Thank u

This is really hard to understand but i think it works!

@SamJohnsonVoice

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely weird, thanks for giving it a try! Hope it makes more sense with time and other context.

"please leave comments below about your issues with this" for me cackling. Dunno why that was so funny this morning but thanks for the laugh 😂

@potatokat7

2 жыл бұрын

And then his face that accompanied the statement make me laugh too!

I saw "Chiaroscuro" & thought you were gonna do a cover of the Paula Cole song.

this is really amazing stuff. Having just tried this for a few minutes I already get the impression that it actually will make singing a lot easier. Have to try this more by any means, especially with songs. One question: if you say it’s quite independent from voice type, do you mean it’s the same frequencies for male and female voices, too?

Ok I have a theme for discussion I'd like your input in, if you're familiar at all: The physiological mechanism of "the singer's formant" and "twang" seems to be the same when comparing classical sopranos who sing with the singer's formant (slight epilaryngeal narrowing with the help of the root of the tongue 'pushing' the epiglottis) plus a slightly elevated larynx position. However, in male opera singers, who clearly sing with a slightly dropped larynx position (as opposed to sopranos singing with a slightly elevated/fairly neutral one), that mechanism isn't possible. So what is their physiological mechanism that allows the same frequency range amplification without the need for a higher larynx, but only slight epilaryngeal narrowing?

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure 100%. From conferences I've attended and the admittedly narrow amount of scientific literature I've read I'm not sure people know entirely or care. The singers formant cluster is generally thought of as the 3rd 4th and 5th formants boosting a range of frequencies close enough that there's some overlap between them. I've only heard of people consciously adjusting the 1st and 2nd formant, with the SFC boost occurring usually in highly trained singers and infrequently in amateurs. The only exercise I know of to consciously influence the third formant is using a retroflex /r/, which lowers the third formant frequency center enough that it heavily interacts with the second formant, creating a sort of super formant. That was part of a presentation by Chadley Ballantyne at the ivtom conference in 2019. I've heard twang referred to most frequently as an aryepiglottic narrowing. That definitely creates a boost of frequencies in a similar range as SFC, but I don't believe it's required for SFC. I would disagree that classical sopranos are trained to use twang, in my experience most actively avoid that strategy. While there are many teachers who absolutely encourage the use of tongue root tension or retraction I haven't seen it backed up in respected pedagogy literature. Classical sops are also discouraged from laryngeal lift, at least until they get above a Bb5. Above there many will need to elevate their larynx and widen the lips to raise the F1 value. I've heard just as many trained sops sing with an artificially lowered larynx as woofy baritones. My preference isn't for anyone to sing with an artificially lowered larynx, but a fairly neutral, flexible setup. If you have any literature conclusively pointing to the necessity of twang in SFC existence I'd love to see it. I currently don't see overlap, and think the existence of SFC across enough population proves it's not one specific strategy to create it.

@bellamysong2537

7 ай бұрын

To add to Sam's answer, a soprano's F⁰ is already elevating her formants much higher than a male singer. A soprano does not need to use the SF in the upper range because F1 and especially F2 are already potentially in that range of frequencies. A sop is already getting a boost without having to manipulate anything purely from how high the F⁰ is.

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19:13 Hi Sam thanks for doing this video and I hope you get a chance to respond to this comment cuz I’m just confused by the idea of why/how these particular pitches were used to tune your F2? I get the idea (in theory 😅) of vowels essentially being the culmination of a series of frequencies/formants (see?) and that if you change them enough in a specific way that at a certain point you will no longer be hearing an ‘eh’ you’ll be hearing an ‘ah’ vowel and this is part of my understanding of vowel modifications insofar as we have to make certain frequencies stand out in a different way to maintain the integrity of the vowel (eg, reshaping the vocal tract in an ‘aw’ At the start of our passagio to maintain the aural perception of ‘ah’ etc) but I am still confuzled by how the specific pitches were determined to use for each vowels F2. You mention i think how you can tune your ‘ah’ to an e if you want a brighter sound or a d for a darker sound and then you continue on to say that it’s a process of a lot of trial and error in finding the right pitch to tune your F2 and so I’m just kinda scratching my head about that - if you can use an e or a d to tune your ‘ah’ vowels F2 it seems pretty arbitrary as to how the pitches are picked. I get the idea that one is a little brighter and one darker but even tho we call it the same vowel, isn’t there fundamental (lol get it?) difference between the two as vowels if you’re tuning them to different pitches? Just cuz we call both of them ‘ah’ We are not singing the same vowel in a very strict sense right? Sorry I digressed my from my original question - how do we (or you or Ken) know what is the right pitch to tune your F2? What does it mean to be the right pitch to tune to if it is the difference between a brighter or darker sound or more of a comfortable way for each individual to sing? I like the objectivity you’re suggesting here but I also would like to know why/how you picked that specific object (in this case the pitch to tune your F2) when it can also be a matter of preference or comfortability etc.? Sorry for the long winded comment thanks for the video and I appreciate what you’re doing for singers around the world!

@chrismartinez144

10 күн бұрын

Hi I’m not Sam Johnson (and I’m not a voice teacher… heh), but I think the main takeaway here is supposed to be - vowels have F2 frequencies - if you slightly adjust the F2 frequency of a vowel, the vowel will slightly change. This might make it easier for you to sing the vowel (in your high range) I’m not certain why some F2 frequencies make it easier to sing (although I have theories, maybe I’ll say them in another comment) Yeah you can definitely use different F2 frequencies from the ones mentioned in this video. Obviously these ones must be pretty good since Sam (and Ken Bozeman) likes them. Maybe a different frequency works better for specifically you though. So, yeah it might be a good idea to experiment with different frequencies *even tho we call it the same vowel, isn’t there fundamental (lol get it?) difference between the two as vowels if you’re tuning them to different pitches? Just cuz we call both of them ‘ah’ We are not singing the same vowel in a very strict sense right?* Sure they’re different vowels in a sense Yeah Sam is changing his “ah” vowel considerably. He said it is normally at a C6. Sam likes E6. That’s a difference of 2 whole steps (a major third). That’s a significant difference Although, it's worth pointing out: I guess the average person’s natural “ah” vowel is more like a C#6, not a C6 (according to table 1 here ccrma.stanford.edu/~kglee/m220c/formant.html and figure 2.4 here corpus.eduhk.hk/english_pronunciation/index.php/2-2-formants-of-vowels/ ). So, the difference would be less significant for the average person Does that make sense

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“If you stuck around to watch all of this you are probably pretty nerdy” I feel so called out, Sam.

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

I say it out of love

🤯

"The biggest with this and the guitar is that we have a brain" I don't know but I find that very funny 😂

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Hard to tell us apart other than the brain

I don’t know if you’ve ever reacted to them but you should react to little mix. React to secret love song live on little mix the search 2020

Just wondering, the notes on the piano are the evened out ones to make it chromatic. If you can slide from an O to and E when singing and you can here the formant shift (like polyphonic singing) , could you whisper to those notes, cause they are similar to the notes you played. Sorry that didn’t really make sense

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm I'm not sure I understand completely. I do like sliding between the pitches for /a/ and /i/, D/E6 to B6 oh a whisper to feel all the tongue positions I might use.

Hey Sam, thanks for making this video about the Chiaroscuro Whisper Technique. I had a couple questions re this technique. First, the pitches that one is supposed to match on the spectogram, why these pitches? Are these proven to create the most "optimal" vocal tract shape? Also, it sounds like the whisper is matching the pitch an octave or two lower but the "over-pitch" is lining up to the target note on the spectogram. Would that be accurate? My second question is has to do with the vowel sounds. It's not clear to me exactly what vowel sounds to make/practice. I can't make out the vowels from the attached PDF (looks like Greek to me). And why these vowel sounds? Do they comprise all the main vowel sounds that a typical English speaker would make? A quick little vowel chart in the descriptino, e.g: ('AY' as in 'chaos') would be helpful! Thanks :)

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Btw the singer's formant is higher than 2,5kHz it's around 3,0-4,5kHz and I don't think you can consider it the singer's formant if it's not comparable in amplitude to the base note

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

The singer's formant cluster for operatic singers was firstly introduced by Bartholomew (1934). It consists of an additional peak of frequencies between 2500 and 4000Hz, centred at about 3200Hz (Sundberg 2001)

@MariosPOS

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamJohnsonVoice But to be considered "the singer's formant" shouldn't the amplitude in that frequency range be relatively prominent?

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of a question of amplitude or bandwidth, yeah? A 1500 hz range is pretty massive, but because SFC is not one single formant it's possible to see activity over a much larger range than just one formant. Addressing your comment on amplitude compared to the fundamental frequency - the spectral slope would prevent those high frequencies from getting near the amplitude of F1. Again, I'm not super well studied in SFC because I don't think it's a worthwhile goal to pursue, rather a phenomenon that happens in many after training other aspects of the voice.

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/55573082/s0892-1997_2801_2900019-420180118-29823-ha15jc-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1649087098&Signature=bZQhqQbPoOzSpNQIsSOy3RJTptEWWQNhvohP9CwheyuzAK6pP4eI7eBmCouO2jarJAeTWgZuWaT3zeXdpHmq6S6M-Fdh~SKWgih4cZWD3AaPVguveHcSWVtZ4OuYuO4vjyEfM5d1R9FZmcw5wwN6QP9~yRhUKaoNml-PxySIq8hDAW5haMYZwdxHURn2Kg~tc2FnXbRqfPt6Q7GDGfaZSM56P6ycOY14~DKWAnIsFtCTDwatTqcs~yCYPwSLKbRfTQN4mGkWnpRtYqppCbdqCMORoUoNzGJMo4TlTjN2sPXGKoxj-W90iGKHnqZMon7DXmj0f7s-YekFZGjq2Qg87Q__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA This article by Sundberg, Level and Center Frequency of the Singer's Formant, probably addresses your question more fully. I will start picking through it.

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Also fair to note that it is a 20 year old paper

Hey Sam can you pls check out Paolo Nutini performs "No Other Way" live at the Leon Loft 👍

hey sam, Thanks so much for this but i have a problem with these vowels. They definitely improve my sound, especially on the A and O vowels (brighter and more on pitch); But i find that i build a lot of tension when using these shapes (due to the higher than normal tongue). I get alot of tension in the throat and my larynx is quite high up, compared to singing vowels as they naturally come to me. Is there anything to counter that tension? Thank you!

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

If this tool makes you feel tense and bad I'd probably just shelve it for now. Any more specific advice I'd need to hear you.

How did you manage to hide the Saw puppet in your voice on the spectrogram?

Hey Sam, It isn’t about the video so recently whenever I try to sing in a lighter mix I get a little air in it and I would like to fix that any suggestions

21:15

Wait so how do we determine the vowel and pitch relation? As in if i were to sing around my second passagio( in my case being B4, C5 and above) How do i know what pitches i should tune my vowels to? For example if i wanted to sing an Aa (law) vowel on C5 What pitch should i tune it too? Is it an octave above? As in c6? Thank you for this video btw. H

@chrismartinez144

10 күн бұрын

Sam suggests tuning the "aw" vowel to a B5 See 20:00

Sam Johnson *bark*

does anyone know what software he's using in this?

10:01

Hi Sam, I watched the whole video and found it very helpful. On the one hand, it sounds totally logical and I can follow it in trying it on myself. However, I can't figure out how to sing an AH vowel, for example, when the correct tuning for the desired pitch is actually more of an EE vowel (raised tongue position). In other words: How can I even sing words realistically if the pitch-related vowel tuning completely alienates the original vowel? I (as a beginner) simply cannot sing an AH in high register if the tongue position turns my AH into an AE or EE. Do you have any tips for me or is there another video that relates to this problem? Somehow it must work, because obviously professional singers don't sound like complete idiots who can't pronounce words correctly :D

Why not just use a note in your middle range and then play around with different vowels to see which overtones pop up where?

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

That's another useful tool for many. I like the whisper because it puts broad spectrum noise through the resonator, and whatever the formant is tuned to is what stays audible. I also like how it takes away a lot of the mental pressure of singing and lets many focus on things they might not be aware of in the more complicated act of singing.

@MariosPOS

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamJohnsonVoice Do you do give online singing lessons ?

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

www.vocalease.net

30:40, it's a G, which is an A tuned to a C... 😭

Uploading something that you keep saying isn't really tested and you heard it from some guy.. on April 1st. I mean it would be really elaborate for April fools but the thought does keep crossing my mind har de har har

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Haha bad timing for sure. It's been tested in my studio and has been very successful, and Ken is one of the leading pedagogues right now. I hope someone does a real study with it someday, but for me if something works it works.

@Ryan-kf7of

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamJohnsonVoice I mean even just messing around with the video it helped me understand more about tongue placement and how opening the mouth affects sound. I'm also a total nerd so I did stay till the end. Definitely something I'm going to be sharing with my teacher. I'm still working on basic mouth shapes and opening my mouth (turns out that was important to singing who knew) but in a way this helped me understand that more. I didn't mean for it to come across as casting doubt or anything just the humorous side of it. Been following you for a while I trust your judgement and understand your reasoning. The objective element makes it even more interesting

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Your intent came through! I hope it keeps helping you. I find myself doing a full sequence whispering BAGEBAG between phrases and things keep feeling easier. I'm sure it's going to take a while for my brain to accept the new position of /a/ as correct, the sound of it is still so surprising haha.

@Melleankoly

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamJohnsonVoice i'm curious, is this also changing your spoken /a/, or only your sung ones?

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's given me more awareness of my spoken /a/, but my spoken /a/ hasn't been as 'bad' as my sung one. I think it's really helped my sung /a/ because as soon as I start asking for 'quality' I tend to retract the tongue, as much as I consciously know spoken vowels are usually a decent starting point. Finding the tongue position by pitch lets me use more of the yawn and other traditional backspace strategies without compromising my tongue position. My main spoken problems are I default to a too low pitch and over-press.

Just a joke: What if Jeff Scott Sotto was blue eyes boy.

Hi, I don’t get the point. When you move pitches your tongue will move.

@SamJohnsonVoice

Жыл бұрын

Sung pitches? Not necessarily. The trick is to maintain the position required to tune your whisper to the "likely best f2 tuning" while switching over to whatever sung note you're trying to do. If your tongue moves when you start to sing that's something worth practicing imo. This is also very specific, I have another video "voice teachers don't want you to know this trick" or something that accomplishes a similar goal in a less precise manner. Thanks for the comment!

Copias a Bozeman ? Hablas de lo mismo. Manuel García y también Oubatka y Richard Miller también Michel Grillo-Hart.

Anyone else have not a clue what he just said, but watched it anyway because even incomprehensible Sam is worth watching? Love you dude. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video: m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z6ZnpJmyqpmwZps.html

April fools joke ??????

@SamJohnsonVoice

2 жыл бұрын

honestly no lol