I believe another misconception is the idea that if you free yourself from shyness you will sing whatever you want. And though it is important to overcome this, singing is also a practice

At 3:40 you kinda sound like Freddy Mercury, it’s cool

My last vocal teacher was NOT good at explaining this concept to me. He got bogged down with how the body works to produce the sound rather than just tel me what to do.

This guy is amazing, my vocal coach thats what he is😉

I know this...but when I have a guitar strapped on, my body totally forgets

How are these videos free?! Man great channel! Thanks for everything!

the first tip is life changing

I cannot thank you enough Chris for the first tip in this video, it's been the most constructive and helpful piece of information that I've gotten on my journey of learning how to sing so far. It is a concept that I kept hearing over and over, but I did not know how to apply it and you explained it perfectly. You really are a wonderful teacher, thank you so much for your channel and keep making your videos!

When I started singing power metal, I was so disappointed when I learned how to use my mixed voice because it didn't sound like i felt like it should've. After maybe 1 year and a half of practicing in my mixed voice, I eventually figured out how to shape my mouth to create more resonance, and I started realizing my voice is crazy unique for power metal because I have a very pop sounding voice in the first place. Nowadays, I've recently unlocked the ability to use rasp and gruffness in my mixed voice because I started throat singing and gaining the muscle memory related to it, and that has taken my voice to another level. Having said all of this, I have gotten an overwhelming reception from guys in the industry saying that my voice is the most unique voice they've heard in power metal in a long time and a bunch of guys want to sing covers with me and feature me on their tracks etc. The amount of work I put into my voice has payed off in ways I never imagined.

I tried the first tip and I farted very loud.

I think you're like 99% right on point #1. Don't get me wrong, you're the coach lol. Granted, this was after I started to understand the fundamentals, but one thing that actually opened me up was when I started to sing Weezer songs and just happened to discover that I have a real similar tone to my own voice as Rivers. And something about imitating him just a little bit really opened my voice up and helped me break more into my mixed resonance without strain for the first time. Also, idk if there's much to dissect with Rivers' voice, but it would be fun to see you break down his vocals!

I assume the people that gave this a thumbs down had a stroke from learning so much and their face accidentally fell on the thumbs down.

I don't try to sound like any other individual singer, it's my actual aim to sound like every other singer ! If someone on the radio can sing in a way, my actual target is to be able to do so also. Not saying I don't have a more natural style, we all have a natural range, timbre, reverberation, etc., but one feels the necessity to expand as well as improve. The quest is to find out how to get there safely.

Issue number 3 goes even further when you consider marketing and genres in that singers are encouraged to imitate styles, celebrities, and cater to a specific niche completely disregarding one’s voice specifications and personality.

finally someone that knows what there talking about this helped me a TON

Holy moly, I should've started from here.. This little tip about energy going downwards is a gold!

Holy absolute what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You changed my voice in the 1st 4 minutes and you transformed my voice new subscriber is what you have now

Love this, thank you for the guidance 🙏

Superb vocal coach. Thanks for sharing! Outstanding vocal tone and range. Very inspiring man 🙏

you always come through with something new, it's awesome. i been struggling with this

It is true. Thanks for recommendations. Will be working on my own voice 8)

Terrific! Not just instruction but connection... 😎

Honestly this was really well done.

His onto something this is what I'm looking for 💯👈

Finally! Someone who speaks English. Just subscribed, good content 👍.

So happy to have come across your video here. Wow, I really need to learn how to sing. I have wanted to do it all my life but honestly don't know how! I try and try but it never comes out like I hear it. I am excited to have signed up for your free voice lesson and can hardly wait to get started! Thank you so much. I love your teaching style.

Your channel is really helpful. I’m trying to learn how to sing decently and improving my voice and I’ve been watching some of your videos after seeing the one about how to sing like Gerard Way and I’m really hoping that by learning from you and practicing I can get better.

Another great singing tips! Thanks!

Your videos have helped me so much!

Bravo Chris. Tra l'altro, le prime lezioni totalmente in inglese, assolutamente comprensibili. Grazie!

This is just what i need😃 ,thank you coach!🙏💪

Thank you for your lessons and that you spent time to make this video. You explain everything in very comprehensible way and it was pleasure to me to watch it!

4:24 great Homer Simpson impression ! 😂

Thank you very much for your videos.I'm from Czech and I don't speak English but I understand you everything 😃

Like number 1,000! Very helpful and enjoyable video, Chris! Thank you so much, man! :)

Incredibly good advice in the last mistake! Thank you....

that's why i feel strained out. Thanks, this help much.

Oh my God i learnt something i have bn strugling to know for years .

Of course the third point would be so relivent to me. I gotta stop trying to sound like someone else and learn to like my own voice. That's the hard part of that step though. Not cringing away from my own sound.

I’ve been singing since I was a child and always wanted to improve my technique in every possible way. In particular, my main goal was to improve control of my voice, which translates into breathing control and tension control while trying to reach for high notes or high volume. Thanks to your videos (and a lot of practice) I’m getting better! The thing that helped me the most was trying to visualize my voice coming from my entire body and not from my throat. This really helped me to avoid neck stretches and tensions. Moreover, I paired that “strategy” with your low belly pushing support and your tip of “getting your mouth out of the way”. Eventually, I’m going to work on my fry scream to really boost aggressiveness. In the meantime, thank you so much for your videos!

I learned how to sing in just 3 months. And started singing different genres. And it was good. But then one day i wanted to improve in singing more. I wanted to sing like a classical singer(that has a very clear pronounciation). In the process of practicing classical singing i forgot the right way of singing. I sang with my larynx up high wanting to reach high with clear tone not knowing that it is not the right way of singing. This stress me a lot. Because i know in myself that i know how to sing but then i forget the proper way of it. It makes me think that singing is mot for me. But then i saw this. After watching this i knew the mistakes i have done. And i think i need to get back to square one. But, it's fine, as long as i already know what is my mistakes. Thank you so much for this video!

Thank you 😊

Holy crap, you changed my life

Can't believe this is free! The first tip fixes everything so did the third tip!

Great video. At first I took issue with finding your voice before imitating others, but once I saw that you meant to be aware of feel before sound, I understood what you are saying. Working on the fundamentals to have proper support and thereby making it all feel good and not harmful is great. I just think we will always be learning other's songs and borrowing from their sound. I think we do this right away as well, it's just good to remind that it's ok to just work on our sound and our fundamentals :)

Your videos tutorials now are fulfiling my carantena stuck at home time 😃 at least I practise singing

“feel before sound” yeeeessss

Truth be told, you have Freddy’s tone/voice. 7:28 Oh wow! You go over the exact thing ive been dissecting, spending hours in retrospection, thinking hard about, for the last two months. I’ve heard you talk about imitating in previous videos, but I’ve never really heard you break it down quite like this. Much of your points/facts lined right up the logic I had been coming up with.

The best tip in this video: sing as if you're trying to push out a brick-hard poop.

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thank you, this is very helpful! greetings from Russia!

This video helped so much! Thank you so much!!!! I dont sound like a dying frog anymore 😂

what a great video👍

Great lesson Chris!

After only being in choir for 4-5 weeks I have realized that #3 is exactly my problem

Can you please make the tutorial for improving range in chest register

thanks for advertising this on facebook :) amazing video, subscribed

Hi Chris! I've heard lots of tips on how to warm up your voice, but are there any tips / cool down exercises for the end of singing sessions that'll help protect our voice? I've heard people talk about them but never seen any examples

I've just started doing some covers using an interface and software which I've uploaded on to my channel. Chris would appreciate a critique. Singing is without question the most difficult aspect. It's easy to strum chords on a guitar but the singing is so hard to nail. I hate my voice sometimes. It's not even just about singing in key, your voice also has to sound good and I don't feel that mine does. I'm also a huge fan of singer's like Staley, Cornell and Vedder and would love to be able to sing like them but just can't get anywhere near those high notes. Another thing I've noticed is that my voice starts getting croaky after about 15 mins of singing. Does my head in.

Hey Chris! Love your videos bother! What kind of equipment do you use to play instrumentals when you practice? What is that device called?

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For #2 I agree you need to find your sweet spots and comfortable notes. But to decide what key to sing in, you need to look at the melody. Some melodies go 1 low to high 5th or it could be the 5th or 3rd below. Each melody is different. When students tell me they sing best in the key of F, let's say, I ask them to sing the specific song to me first. Then again some melodies use a 6 note range and others have a most 2 octaves (rare)

I’m catching on! Can’t wait to get my guitar out and play with my range. Do people have a “key”? I had this choir director when I played my guitar 🎸 for church service and she made us transcribe every song to the key of F or F sharp or something so the band was playing in “her key”. She sang horribly regardless but nobody would say a thing to her and just went along because she was the choir “director”. But after watching some of your videos I’m getting the feeling that you should not only be able to sing in different keys, but be able to switch keys in the middle of a song because some songs do just that, don’t they?

I remember when I first started singing I wanted to sound like Lzzy Hale so I looked up on KZfaq how to make your voice sounds raspy, and I kept using that technique so that now I sometimes feel pain just singing cleanly

Your mic didn't do clipping on 3:40! How did you do that? Set low sensitivity of mic before recording and then used a compressor? Or your mic automatically changes sensitivity and there's no clipping, "overloads" in recorded samples? Or how?

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Lots of good info here. However, knowing what the root and 5th of a key is, say D is the 5th of key G, or F is the 5th of key Bb will not in anyway let you know if a song will "fit" your voice. Even as you demonstrated by singing two Bs and octove apart in this video, which would both be the 5th in the key of E, the lower B may be easy for most guys, while the higher B may be impossible to reach currently. Simply a key in no way will determine how high or low the notes of the melody are, or their frequency of occurrence. Any key can have any range. Also, the root and 5th are just a few of the notes used. Commonly a major or minor pentatonic will likely be most the notes in a given key, but again, they could all be in 2, possibly 3 different octaves in most cases.

Plzzz make video on rifs n runs bro plzz🙏💝🤗

"Poop muscles" hahaha

Feel sound don't make sound happen this is something I need to work on

Hello brother how are you?

It's quite frustrating that so much of singing control is literally out of reach for me since my muscle control mostly stops at my chest. Below the chest, I have little-to-no control. It makes singing properly far more difficult. (Still gonna freakin' try, though! Lol)

Look your channel. Lot's of good info. Here is a suggestion however. I feel you started out right by saying a singer needs to know their own voice. You then started some ideas of being a certain key. You were saying that a singer should know their sweet spot ect, and highest notes etc. However, I'd like to point out that knowing what "key" you may like on certain songs you've come across is of little use to knowing your voice will "fit" in that Key any other time. And also, you did the root and 5th in G, then went to E and did root and 5th I believe, then went to B and called the the root one, even though you didn't say you went to B. The B note you sang you called one which is really the 5th in E, which you last mentioned. Anyway, then you sang an octave higher - another B which would be a 1 again in B, or a 5 if you were still in E. At any rate, despite being the wrong numbers , no biggie there, it is a misconception that knowing what the root and 5th of a key are will assure that you can comfortably sing that song, as the melody could be anywhere for different songs in the same key. Sorry, so long, but knowing a particular songs higher and lowest notes will be instructive - knowing the key will not. Now, if the song you heard is liked but too high, knowing how to pick and play a lower key would be helpful. IMHO. - with a music degree.

Hey Chris, do you do personal classes? thank you very much

I loved your advice on #3... until I actually shat myself! I'm sending you a bill for one pair of boxer briefs, Chris. Lol~

The fact is some of your favorite singers don't sing technically as well as you'd think too. Anyone know what Chris's degree is if he has one?

Hey Chris, what do you think about Chester's vocals? i watched his concert 1994 when he was with Grey Daze. He sang there pretty good. He was about 17. How could he sing like this? I mean with distortion and mixed voice and everything. Was that drug effect that could make him feel free?

So you're telling me "Sing from your ass son!"

you really sound like Joel o'keeffe when going high 😎👍🏻

OMG!! Poop muscles! I love that! 😂😂

Must be why I sound better on the toilet,............Love ALL of your vids,...best on net and ive learned from everyone on youtube,......................................And this point was huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Chris, I have been enjoying your videos after many years of vocal frustration I look for any tip I can get! I have a criticism however with regards to how we are hearing you. One of the biggest gripes I have is that I can’t find someone who can demonstrate in a room with me what the likes of Vince Gill / Rascal flatts etc are doing with volume and all sorts really. I feel that hearing over a condenser mic is too much like trying to figure out what is happening on a record. Have you ever thought of setting up with two boundary mics on the wall and recording it stereo. They are the closest thing to human ears. I personally need to hear the full dynamics and I don’t ever get that from this kind of set up. I think it can be the most misleading thing with singing tutorials. I would have PM’d this is I could btw so if I can email you I will remove this happily.

Plz accept to be my vocal coach when i make it i promise i will come back to thank you ...u have changed my singing voice by ur techniques

So that's how Jim Morrison did it all the power came from his leather pants and huge belt buckle xD

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*am guilty of all of these but smiling innocently so chris wont notice me*

Yo I got a question .. regarding diction .. sometimes it comes out like wtf is that... any tips ?!

Are you telling me that if I shit my pants, I’m doing it right? Jk great vid

2:04 Battle of the neck? If its a battle then I'm not losing Jk

I think Steven Tyler precisely tried to sound like Steven Tyler, it worked pretty well for him, just sayin....

so many epiphanies in your vids! (:

Great.. i Shit my pants

Me sitting on the toilet, mum comes in

You left out hydration, that's major major important, I bet you didn't know that creatine monohydrate allso brings moisture into the vocal cords, or did you?? I bet you know that exercising for 20 minutes before singing makes voice more flexible, or do you?? I'm 50 yrs old, I know secrets most don't know, yet I am despised cuz I'm not famous, let's talk sometime if you want more secrets to unlock the voice

Stop screaming at me 😭

Poop muscles! So that’s where the saying he sounds shit hot comes from.

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you need to do reaction vids to get subs, then go back to these :)

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