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Re: After 3 years with KTVA I feel Im a fairly capable and versatile singer. Good enough for YT covers?
One of the really cool things about this forum is that I have gotten to see a lot of people come here as total newbies, completely lost, and unsure of whether they will be able to "make it" through this learning-to-sing process. And I have seen so many, after initially having doubts in their own ability to learn, begin to blossom and grow into self-sufficient artists in their own right. They go from being lost and unsure to guiding others along the path, and those stories inspire me.
We're all on our own journeys here, just at different points along the way.
Chris, or "Wigs" as he is known here, is sharing his journey, and it's plain to see that he's enjoying it as much as I am. I like that.
Be inspired, everyone. It's worth it. It takes a little bit of focus and effort, but it's so worth it.
Thanks for being an important part of the forums, Chris!
Bob
We're all on our own journeys here, just at different points along the way.
Chris, or "Wigs" as he is known here, is sharing his journey, and it's plain to see that he's enjoying it as much as I am. I like that.
Be inspired, everyone. It's worth it. It takes a little bit of focus and effort, but it's so worth it.
Thanks for being an important part of the forums, Chris!
Bob
highmtn
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Re: How to get ACCESS to the KTVA How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else STUDENT AREAS of the FORUMS
STREAMING STUDENTS! You Need To REGISTER and get your FORUMS ACCESS UPGRADED! Send a Copy of your KTVA RECEIPT to [email protected] and request a student upgrade!
highmtn
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Re: Demo Area for the Bold - Critical Feedback for the more Experienced
My sincere thanks to Ken Tamplin for his video tutorials and demonstrations. He's been sharing precious information helping us all. God bless him and all the people helping to run KTVA.
Your feedback would be awesome. Please, do what you love and love what you do.
Andrey
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Re: Exercices everyday?
Hi Krystela!! I agree with a couple of the other posters here...once you are done with your warm ups..practice a song 
great singing is the end goal, so try and apply the physical sensations and techniques you work on in your exercises into singing a song that resonates with you. Once you are able to combine technique with dynamics and emotion, you will truly be a great singer!! Happy practicing!!
great singing is the end goal, so try and apply the physical sensations and techniques you work on in your exercises into singing a song that resonates with you. Once you are able to combine technique with dynamics and emotion, you will truly be a great singer!! Happy practicing!! 
SaraLoera
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Don't Let Others Define You!
I thought I would share a little on my story in hopes that it might help someone:
I started singing when I was very young. I had all the advantages for which I could ask. I was involved with great choirs all throughout my grade school, and highschool years. I also had a great love for rock n roll, particularly heavier stuff. I was fortunate to play guitar and sing in several bands in high school. I met with a lot of success and praise! And, like so many others, I would sing along with the radio.
At 19 I worked with a gentleman named Rick, doing carpentry work. He was older than I, and had a lot of experience in the world. Most notably, he had a 4 track recording studio in his home, which led me to believe that he was an expert on music. One day we were working in his shop and I was singing along with the radio. I believe the song was by RUSH, and I was really singing it with all my might. Rick turned to me and said, "Don't sing! You sound like a f$cking chick!" I was shocked! I really had not ever been criticised like that, and this was coming from someone that I thought was an expert.
Looking back, I realize that it was absurd to let him shut me up, but at the time his critique was profound. It actually caused be to take a completely different direction in my singing. I quit playing Rock and joined a Country band where I would sing the low classic country songs. I was very good at that, and things went very smoothly for me, except that I would never allow myself to sing Falsetto, or head voice, for fear that I would sound feminine.
This was both a blessing and a curse. It caused me to stretch my chest voice a great deal, but it also limited me from singing the music that I most loved. Years later and after recording myself many times, I realized how very wrong, Rick had been. I decided that I would work on making up the lost ground on my head voice. In researching how to develop a plan, I came across the concept of mixed voice, and realized that I had been appling much of this technique for a very long time. I just laughed when people would comment that I shouldn't be able to sing "that high" in full voice.
I decided that the most effective way for me to learn mixed voice mastery would be here at KTVA. So I am trudging through the lessons and learning as much as I can. So far I am quite inspired and looking forward to reaching my goals.
I hope that your take away from this is that no one is allowed to define you! Each of us struggle in different ways. Weather it is range, pitch, or timbre, we each have triumphs and shortcomings. Don't let someone shut you up! Find your voice and sing out!
I started singing when I was very young. I had all the advantages for which I could ask. I was involved with great choirs all throughout my grade school, and highschool years. I also had a great love for rock n roll, particularly heavier stuff. I was fortunate to play guitar and sing in several bands in high school. I met with a lot of success and praise! And, like so many others, I would sing along with the radio.
At 19 I worked with a gentleman named Rick, doing carpentry work. He was older than I, and had a lot of experience in the world. Most notably, he had a 4 track recording studio in his home, which led me to believe that he was an expert on music. One day we were working in his shop and I was singing along with the radio. I believe the song was by RUSH, and I was really singing it with all my might. Rick turned to me and said, "Don't sing! You sound like a f$cking chick!" I was shocked! I really had not ever been criticised like that, and this was coming from someone that I thought was an expert.
Looking back, I realize that it was absurd to let him shut me up, but at the time his critique was profound. It actually caused be to take a completely different direction in my singing. I quit playing Rock and joined a Country band where I would sing the low classic country songs. I was very good at that, and things went very smoothly for me, except that I would never allow myself to sing Falsetto, or head voice, for fear that I would sound feminine.
This was both a blessing and a curse. It caused me to stretch my chest voice a great deal, but it also limited me from singing the music that I most loved. Years later and after recording myself many times, I realized how very wrong, Rick had been. I decided that I would work on making up the lost ground on my head voice. In researching how to develop a plan, I came across the concept of mixed voice, and realized that I had been appling much of this technique for a very long time. I just laughed when people would comment that I shouldn't be able to sing "that high" in full voice.
I decided that the most effective way for me to learn mixed voice mastery would be here at KTVA. So I am trudging through the lessons and learning as much as I can. So far I am quite inspired and looking forward to reaching my goals.
I hope that your take away from this is that no one is allowed to define you! Each of us struggle in different ways. Weather it is range, pitch, or timbre, we each have triumphs and shortcomings. Don't let someone shut you up! Find your voice and sing out!
bikerdaddy
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Re: Question about the recording room in Ken's YouTube channel
Ken likes live rooms. Rooms with a little bit of natural reverb. The room he's using now has a high ceiling and has wood flooring and ceiling, and no sound treatment on the walls. There is a small carpet on the floor, but the room is mostly reflective wood.
The room is actually bigger than it looks in the videos. I was surprised at how big it actually is when I saw it in person for the first time.
There are a lot of people who spend a lot of money making their recording rooms very dead, acoustically speaking. Ken likes a very LIVE sounding room.
One of the reasons people want to record in a dead sounding room is because they want to edit and slice and dice the vocals, recording maybe one word or note or syllable at a time. You don't have to do that if you can sing well enough to get full takes without splicing together a Frankenstein of overdubs. A dead room makes it easier to hide edits. Then you smear the cuts over with artificial reverb. Room resonance may make it more difficult to chop up bits and pieces of audio to collage them into a composited verse or chorus.
There is a lot of misinformation about how buying expensive acoustical treatments is what you need to get great recordings. Ken has a few, but not many, pieces of acoustical tiles in his control room, but only a few Persian carpet throw rugs in his vocal studio. If you are close enough to the mic, you get very little room sound in the mic, compared to the level of the vocal. It sounds so natural, you don't notice it.
If you do have acoustical issues, like standing waves or objectionable resonances, you may need to do a lot of treatment, or start over with a room that is better suited for recording.
Ken's studio in Hawaii (which was covered with lava about 3 years ago) had hard floors, ceilings, and walls, all wood. The room was very, very LIVE. His mixing room was like that, as well. He made hundreds of awesome recordings and mixes in that studio.
The room is actually bigger than it looks in the videos. I was surprised at how big it actually is when I saw it in person for the first time.
There are a lot of people who spend a lot of money making their recording rooms very dead, acoustically speaking. Ken likes a very LIVE sounding room.
One of the reasons people want to record in a dead sounding room is because they want to edit and slice and dice the vocals, recording maybe one word or note or syllable at a time. You don't have to do that if you can sing well enough to get full takes without splicing together a Frankenstein of overdubs. A dead room makes it easier to hide edits. Then you smear the cuts over with artificial reverb. Room resonance may make it more difficult to chop up bits and pieces of audio to collage them into a composited verse or chorus.
There is a lot of misinformation about how buying expensive acoustical treatments is what you need to get great recordings. Ken has a few, but not many, pieces of acoustical tiles in his control room, but only a few Persian carpet throw rugs in his vocal studio. If you are close enough to the mic, you get very little room sound in the mic, compared to the level of the vocal. It sounds so natural, you don't notice it.
If you do have acoustical issues, like standing waves or objectionable resonances, you may need to do a lot of treatment, or start over with a room that is better suited for recording.
Ken's studio in Hawaii (which was covered with lava about 3 years ago) had hard floors, ceilings, and walls, all wood. The room was very, very LIVE. His mixing room was like that, as well. He made hundreds of awesome recordings and mixes in that studio.
highmtn
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