New singer here!
BrandonL
Member Posts: 4
Hi everyone. I've been listening to Ken Tamplin for years. I have some health issues though and it stopped me from learning to sing until recently. I can practice on occasion now.
My diaphragm sits lower than the average person. It makes it painful to sing but I still want to sing because I enjoy it that much.
I noticed that Ken's voice recovery video tutorial helps me sing since I can't do diaphragmatic breathing like the average person. Holding a lot of air helps a lot. I know it's probably not the best way but it works for me.
I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on how I could start learning to sing as a beginner with some structure on Ken's YouTube channel?
Right now I feel kind of stumped, I'm bouncing from one video to the next on Ken's channel. Not to say that they're not beneficial videos but without structure, I'm not really sure how well I can improve efficiently.
Maybe even meet somebody to share progress with and be corrected by?
Feedback would be greatly appreciated.
My diaphragm sits lower than the average person. It makes it painful to sing but I still want to sing because I enjoy it that much.
I noticed that Ken's voice recovery video tutorial helps me sing since I can't do diaphragmatic breathing like the average person. Holding a lot of air helps a lot. I know it's probably not the best way but it works for me.
I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on how I could start learning to sing as a beginner with some structure on Ken's YouTube channel?
Right now I feel kind of stumped, I'm bouncing from one video to the next on Ken's channel. Not to say that they're not beneficial videos but without structure, I'm not really sure how well I can improve efficiently.
Maybe even meet somebody to share progress with and be corrected by?
Feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Comments
I've been doing the course for about 6 months. What I'm discovering is that there is a HUGE amount of information about singing that I didn't know about. The course is comprehensive, and you work through things progressively. I think the free online videos are more about appetisers, to help you see the quality of the instruction. But I think it would be really difficult to develop your voice properly in a piecemeal way.
I hope you can sort your medical problems soon, and we can welcome you onto the course proper! In my experience so far, it's been amazing!
Since you're a doctor! Which nerve do you think?
I feel my abdomen and diaphragm anatomically lower and was diagnosed with a low riding diaphragm. To be honest with you it's extremely painful. I have to lean forward and hold my abdomen when I'm singing. My abdomen underneath my xiphoid seems to spasm inward when I sing.
I had an injury to my abdomen which lowered my diaphragm made me start losing consciousness, it lowered my blood pressure and put me into heart failure, cause slipping rib syndrome, torn abdomen, median accurate ligament syndrome, and suspected visceroptosis. etc.. I have to sleep vertically or else I don't get enough sleep to get out of bed.
It turns out I have ehlers-danlos syndrome. But we're struggling to find a radiologist and surgeon locally that can fully find the injury for surgical intervention. So I'm saving up for Mayo Clinic since nobody can do the dynamic ultrasound radiology that we're requesting. And no surgeon can or wants to try to help locally with ehlers danlos.
If you're interested, I would love for you to follow my videos on YouTube: Brandon's Health Journey. It would be great to have a doctor listening in on my situation.
Back to singing! It sounds like preferably I'd need to join the course eventually to get some benefits out of the videos. By the sounds of people reccomending I join the course, it sounds like the YouTube videos might be more like expensive bread crumbs. Really great information but a lot of small tips here and there and not structures a full slice. But it has helped me a lot. Just learning the triad practice changed everything for me. It helped me learn my first song.
It may be worth seeing if you can speak to a physical therapist about singing exercises, tensing your abdomen etc. They'll be able to examine you and ensure you're good to go!
As for the YouTube videos, I work on the principle that 'a worker is worth his wages.' There's no reason why Ken should share all his wisdom and expertise for free, particularly as he's spent $1m on his own voice! But the videos give you a taster, so you can really see the quality of the content.
Hope you can find suitable medical expertise soon!