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Brett Manning Refugee
kylesmcallister
Volume 1 Posts: 1
Hello everyone, I just wanted to take a second to introduce myself. My name is Kyle. I'm 20 and been singing for four and years. The vast majority of my time working on my voice has been spent working with Brett Manning's version of SLS. Two summers ago I went up to Nashville and took a couple lessons from a pair of Brett Manning Associates in their Nashville studio. After that, I started taking bi-weekly Skype lessons with one of them. I took lesson from him for a little over a year with only minor improvement in my voice. I finally got frustrated enough with the progress to price ratio of the lessons to stop taking them in September.
After a few months of continuing with what my previous coach had to told to work on, I decided it was time for a change. I purchased Volume 1 of Ken Tamplin's program to give it a try. It's been a little tricky to transition so far because after over four years with SLS, I had become pretty thoroughly indoctrinated in it. I'm commited to giving Ken's method everything I've got and am working hard to learn everything I can about it and how it applies to my voice.
I've been a songwriter since I was 12. I produce and write tracks in a fairly wide range of music from straight up radio pop to blues to Postal Service electronic to old country to R&B. My goal for singing is to be able to demo my more commercial viable songs while keeping the more personal and "artsy" songs to release perform myself. Some of the current artists who inspire me the most vocally are Ryan Tedder, John Mayer, Zach Williams, Frank Ocean, and Allen Stone. I have a thick voice that currently goes from a G2 to an E5.
That's all I can think to include for now. Have a great day!
After a few months of continuing with what my previous coach had to told to work on, I decided it was time for a change. I purchased Volume 1 of Ken Tamplin's program to give it a try. It's been a little tricky to transition so far because after over four years with SLS, I had become pretty thoroughly indoctrinated in it. I'm commited to giving Ken's method everything I've got and am working hard to learn everything I can about it and how it applies to my voice.
I've been a songwriter since I was 12. I produce and write tracks in a fairly wide range of music from straight up radio pop to blues to Postal Service electronic to old country to R&B. My goal for singing is to be able to demo my more commercial viable songs while keeping the more personal and "artsy" songs to release perform myself. Some of the current artists who inspire me the most vocally are Ryan Tedder, John Mayer, Zach Williams, Frank Ocean, and Allen Stone. I have a thick voice that currently goes from a G2 to an E5.
That's all I can think to include for now. Have a great day!
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kylesmcallister,
It's great to have you here where you can grow your voice. It takes a while to unlearn all of the limitations that you've been indoctrinated with in your sls training. Many vocalists in KTVA spent time and money in other methods, including sls, only to find that they were not attaining the results they wanted.
The results come here, but they do require time and effort. That's because the results are real and you have to rebuild your musculature, your support. Your range and tone will transform as a result.
AS you have already seen, leaving all of that previous training at the door will be one of the most challenging things for you to remind yourself. I found myself glossing past some of the very basic building blocks when I first started, and I had to go back and rebuild my foundation.
You will be happy with your results from KTVA.
Glad you're here! Welcome!
Bob
littletaek highmtn,
I'm glad to hear of your interest in KTVA, and I can't agree more with all these people more! I did a bit of the Seth Riggs Singers Advantage program before coming to KTVA, and it was mainly just singing a song and taking down notes about your voice:0
But its awesome that you're here! I wish you the best of luck and would also love to hear your songs if you ever get the chance!
Remember that Ken says to leave everything at the door, which is tough, but once you can learn to focus on the technique, you will definitely see some awesome progress.
Good luck!
Brian
in Vol. 1 I didn't fully understand why we were doing the open throat-yawning thing or vowel mod etc..
in Vol. 2 and 3, i started to feel the resonance physically and now i'm beginning to understand that ken's advanced techniques should be build on the solid foundation we did in vol.1..
Yes, @littletaek,
We really need to take everything Ken shows us on faith that there is a reason, even if it seems silly or doesn't make sense. All the things he shows us about the AH vowel, about modifications, about the bright tone, the belly breath, posture, moving targets, etc.
He is showing us how to build a solid foundation. He knows where he is taking us.
It all comes together when we start to get it all right.
Bob
@kylesmcallister,
One question from your initial post.
I'm not familiar with the term Postal Service electronic music. Please bring me up to speed on that.
;^)
Bob
@kylesmcallister,
Oh, I just found Postal Service on YouTube. Sounds a lot like a group I was in back in 1979.
They sound good.
Bob