Speaker 1: Pushkin. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah good.
Speaker 1: Let's double it. Make sure you support the whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Now wiggle around to keep your whole body loose and relaxed.
Speaker 1: I love that. That's my favorite. I knew you were
Speaker 1: going to say that, But what I want to know
Speaker 1: is is there a reason for it or does it
Speaker 1: just feel good when you sing it? It felt great,
Speaker 1: I think because it really helps me to place my
Speaker 1: boys in the right place. And then every time were
Speaker 1: changing the consonant, And the reason I have you keep
Speaker 1: changing the consonants when we're practicing is so that you
Speaker 1: get used to singing them easily in any range, right yeah,
Speaker 1: and you'll be able to pronounce them on higher notes,
Speaker 1: lower notes and sound good when you do it. So
Speaker 1: you don't tense up or tighten up, because some words
Speaker 1: are harder to enunciate when you're singing high. That's me
Speaker 1: with Rosalia, a Spanish singer, songwriter, and producer. She's a
Speaker 1: star in both the Latin and American music scenes. This
Speaker 1: is backstage passed with Eric Vitro and I'm Eric Vitro.
Speaker 1: I have to say I love my job because I
Speaker 1: get to coach some of the most talented and famous
Speaker 1: singers working today. On this show, I'll talk to them
Speaker 1: about their lives, their craft, and what it takes to
Speaker 1: really make it big in the business. So, now tell me,
Speaker 1: do you have a least favorite exercise, one that you
Speaker 1: don't like, one that I don't like, or do you
Speaker 1: just love all of them because they're also I love
Speaker 1: all of them? Naa, there's one that I think is
Speaker 1: very tricky for me that has like a big big jumps,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember the melo. I don't remember which
Speaker 1: one was. What one that you were like like, way, way, way,
Speaker 1: way way. Yes, those are hard. That's hard for me,
Speaker 1: I think, yes, because I got to place the boys
Speaker 1: in a high place. Since the beginning. I always forget that.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I always forgetting you like from
Speaker 1: the beginning, you're got to place it in the front,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, yeah, right, right right, So I
Speaker 1: think it's good that I practice it, but because it's
Speaker 1: hard for me, Yeah, that's one that I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's why I do that exercise, because you really do
Speaker 1: have to place it in a good placement. Yes, if
Speaker 1: you want to do a smooth transition going from low
Speaker 1: to high, and so it helps with your muscle memory
Speaker 1: of that, right, you know. Yeah. Rosalia has collaborated with
Speaker 1: artists such as Bad Bunny, Billie Eilis, Jay Belvin, and
Speaker 1: Travis Scott. You might know her songs ConA t K
Speaker 1: N Lamente or Piano n Tumira. Now she's a big star,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't always the case. Do you remember the
Speaker 1: first song you ever saying When you were a little girl,
Speaker 1: There was this song that I heard in the TV.
Speaker 1: I think it was called Akuarella. This was like Hello Smario,
Speaker 1: something like that, no no no no no no no
Speaker 1: no no, no no Nina something like that, I think was.
Speaker 1: I sang it for the first time because my dad
Speaker 1: he asked me to sing it in front of the family,
Speaker 1: and I was like so shy, I didn't want to,
Speaker 1: and he was like really like pushing, like come on,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, sing it, sing it, sing it.
Speaker 1: And I did it, and then I remember that everybody
Speaker 1: in the family it's been a year that I didn't
Speaker 1: sew them that we didn't so I shot up. But
Speaker 1: then I sang it and they started crying. I was
Speaker 1: like nine years old or something like that, and I
Speaker 1: didn't understand what was going on in that moment. One
Speaker 1: and later I was like, okay, like I can communicate
Speaker 1: through music. Wow, So that's how it really started for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so, because I was like a little bit
Speaker 1: shy at the same time, I was like I was
Speaker 1: like having fun and laughing and screaming, like with a
Speaker 1: lot of energy. I was the type of kid. Oh
Speaker 1: that's a shot. I had no idea. I would have
Speaker 1: never guess that. It's not surprising. No, well, I was
Speaker 1: like that. I was like that, but when I felt like, oh,
Speaker 1: I was being observed. When I was too conscious about it,
Speaker 1: I didn't felt like doing it like singing. It used
Speaker 1: to be something more like I did for fun than
Speaker 1: something that I wanted them to see. I wasn't overthinking
Speaker 1: it when I was a kid. I was just doing
Speaker 1: it because I had fun with it. Right. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: so great. That's the best way, right, Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: so when you don't think about it and you're not
Speaker 1: in your head about it exactly. Yeah, I know that
Speaker 1: you say that. I think that you helped me to
Speaker 1: not overthink. At the same time, you helped me to
Speaker 1: see a lot of details, technical details I would never
Speaker 1: see by myself, because yeah, it's very hard to see
Speaker 1: unless somebody sees from the outside and tell you in
Speaker 1: points this and that. I think I could never do
Speaker 1: for myself. And it's so helpful when somebody's like, hey,
Speaker 1: did you realize this? Did you realize you can do
Speaker 1: like that? And these things. I feel like it's been
Speaker 1: very helpful since we started doing class. Oh good, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like that's my job as a
Speaker 1: teacher to really listen and then being able to say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, that might sound really good, but this might
Speaker 1: even sound better, or just to open your mind to
Speaker 1: trying new things. Possibilities, possibilities. It's all about possibilities, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I feel like the more that we open our
Speaker 1: mind to that, then all of a sudden, things that
Speaker 1: we never even thought we'd try we're doing. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: I feel like that when we work together that Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is your job, it's your career, it's important. But
Speaker 1: I always do feel like we're having a good time.
Speaker 1: We are having fun. Yeah, we're always laughing a lot.
Speaker 1: It's a joyous experience, and that's what's so great. I
Speaker 1: think If people lose that, they don't do as well,
Speaker 1: they don't sing as well, and their career doesn't do
Speaker 1: as well. There has to be a lightness. Yeah. When
Speaker 1: you take it to serious, don't you think that your
Speaker 1: body tends, Yeah, it's a disaster, usually much more than
Speaker 1: when you're just having fun with it, and then everything
Speaker 1: flows much more. I think that's one of the most
Speaker 1: important lessons anybody can learn, is not to overthink it
Speaker 1: and not to take it too seriously. Yeah, and nothing
Speaker 1: that you always remind me these things, and I think
Speaker 1: it's great to have somebody that reminds you to still
Speaker 1: have fun, even if it becomes your job, still have
Speaker 1: fun with it. Still remember why you started doing it.
Speaker 1: Is there a moment that you can remember where you
Speaker 1: knew this is what I'm gonna do. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be a music artist. I'm gonna sing. Yes. I remember
Speaker 1: I was at home with my sister and this woman
Speaker 1: that she used to take care of both of us,
Speaker 1: and I think I was around eight nine years old,
Speaker 1: and I remember Alaska was sounding. I think it was
Speaker 1: sounding on the radio. Alaska used to be like a
Speaker 1: very big singer in my country, and she still is
Speaker 1: an amazing, amazing artist that I admire a lot. And
Speaker 1: Alaska she was like singing something very playful and I
Speaker 1: loved it. Now I was like kind of singing it
Speaker 1: with her when she was like sounding on the radio.
Speaker 1: And then that woman called Maribel. Maribel said, oh, ima artista.
Speaker 1: She says only like, oh, she's feeling herself as an artist,
Speaker 1: like as a singer or something like that. And then
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: And since very young, like nine years old, wow, really young,
Speaker 1: when I really really really committed, I decided it. It
Speaker 1: was like a decision. I was like, I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna perform. And I started singing on stage when
Speaker 1: I was fourteen fifteen. At sixteen, I started like really working,
Speaker 1: like doing shows and things like that, like going to
Speaker 1: places to perform. Are there any artists, any singers when
Speaker 1: you were young that really inspired you, that made you go, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to do what they're doing. There was Camaronella Isla.
Speaker 1: It was a Flamenco singer, a gypsy singer from Spain
Speaker 1: that I loved. I was like, oh my god, his boys.
Speaker 1: He had a natural way to place his boys in
Speaker 1: a magical way, like really good and it was very
Speaker 1: intuitive the way he did it, and it really inspired me,
Speaker 1: like I wish one day I can sound like that.
Speaker 1: I later I realized, like, okay, my voice is completely
Speaker 1: different than or you are a girl to start, But
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, but I love this man so much.
Speaker 1: I loved his music. I loved this Flamenco traditional music
Speaker 1: from there, and I was I was like, really really
Speaker 1: really inspired by this music and by his boys. So
Speaker 1: I loved camaland la Isla. I loved Lola Flores. She
Speaker 1: was a big, big artist from Spain. Now with Lola,
Speaker 1: did you sing any of her songs or with his
Speaker 1: either one of them? Come on? When I studied it,
Speaker 1: like when I was in college, and did you sing
Speaker 1: some of his songs? Yes? Because it was he used
Speaker 1: to sing a lot of traditional Flamenco music and that's
Speaker 1: what I studied in knowledge. For sure, He's a great influence, Kenny,
Speaker 1: Can you sing a tiny bit of one of those songs? Mmmm?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about Lola. I can sing if you want
Speaker 1: something about Lola. She was like singing this how to vertra,
Speaker 1: how to verta simpa veratoja simprella, veritatoja, how tack the
Speaker 1: bernama and come around just to sing run sobria ru
Speaker 1: sobriairafelii sobodi ruboia to maky sierra cafeliceria. Wow. You know
Speaker 1: I can hear the influence both of them on your
Speaker 1: your voice, the Frisian melodies verything. Yeah, exactly. Well that
Speaker 1: was great training for you because you have the technique
Speaker 1: to be able to sing fast runs accurately. But also, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're very invested in the story, yes, and also it
Speaker 1: really inspired me to write my songs nowadays. Like if
Speaker 1: I haven't studied this music for so long, I don't
Speaker 1: think I could write the music that I write today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and with him, I feel like you probably got some
Speaker 1: of that strength that you sing with such a solid,
Speaker 1: strong sound, and with her that flow, that beautiful flow,
Speaker 1: with some of that vibrato. And I think that she
Speaker 1: had like a quick, fast vibrato, and I think that
Speaker 1: come out on had like more slower vibrato. Right, And
Speaker 1: they had different style for sure, for sure. Right. But
Speaker 1: that's why you're able to do both, because you listen
Speaker 1: to both and sang along, and that's why you're so
Speaker 1: adept at doing both the faster and the slower, because
Speaker 1: when I say to you, let's do it, you know,
Speaker 1: when we do those exercises with vibrato without vibrato, slow
Speaker 1: it down, you're always able to do it. Not everybody
Speaker 1: can do that. Do you think that it's not that
Speaker 1: people can do like fast by brato if that's what's
Speaker 1: not rough for them, or they can do just slow
Speaker 1: by brato, or they can practice both and everybody can
Speaker 1: do both. What do you think? Well, no, I don't
Speaker 1: think everybody can do both. I think that everyone has
Speaker 1: the potential, but they just have to work at it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get it very quickly, and some people it takes
Speaker 1: a little bit longer, but they have to really practice it.
Speaker 1: And then some people they just never get it. But
Speaker 1: you know, the way I look at it is some
Speaker 1: people I think maybe they're not supposed to, Maybe they're
Speaker 1: supposed to sing just how it is, because that's who
Speaker 1: they are and makes them who they are. We know
Speaker 1: their voice when we hear it, and so I always
Speaker 1: try to, you know, have everyone try everything like an adventure,
Speaker 1: mind the goal, see what's there, but also always keeping
Speaker 1: in mind what makes you special or what makes you unique,
Speaker 1: because that's important too. You want to sound like yourself,
Speaker 1: but when we do it, I don't worry about you
Speaker 1: not sounding like yourself because I know you're going to
Speaker 1: sound like yourself. It'll just speed with a faster story
Speaker 1: if I brought it, but it's still going to sound
Speaker 1: like Rosalia because your tone and everything else is so distinctive.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks, you know so, I just never want anyone
Speaker 1: to lose that, because I think that's so important, the
Speaker 1: personality in the voice, right, everything right, right, right right.
Speaker 1: When I was studying Flamenco, like this traditional style, there's
Speaker 1: so many stories that I never experienced in my life.
Speaker 1: I felt like it was very beautiful to be able
Speaker 1: to channel those stories on stage, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I really think that that's the challenge with this music.
Speaker 1: Aside of the technical, Flamenco is super technical, is very complicated,
Speaker 1: but in a beautiful way. The melodies are like complex,
Speaker 1: like the rhythms, there's a lot of different things. But
Speaker 1: then for me, like the most beautiful thing about it
Speaker 1: is the expression, the stories and everything behind it. I'm very,
Speaker 1: very very grateful that I could spend these years of
Speaker 1: just studying for so long, at least ten years studying
Speaker 1: this music. Don't move a muscle. I'll be right back
Speaker 1: with backstage pass and my guest Rosalia. I'm Eric Vitro,
Speaker 1: and I'm back with my guests Rosalia. You know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me you talk about doing these things so young,
Speaker 1: because I think that people who do become great and
Speaker 1: have longevity are the people that, well, they were first
Speaker 1: of all, lucky enough to know something they really wanted
Speaker 1: to do when they were really young. That's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a total blessing. But then to also have that work
Speaker 1: ethic to really keep working towards it. Yes, And but
Speaker 1: I feel like I was one of those lucky people
Speaker 1: who knew when I was very young what I wanted
Speaker 1: to do. Because what I'm doing now is what I've
Speaker 1: done my whole life, you know, which is amazing, and
Speaker 1: you still do with so much passion. And I think
Speaker 1: that's amazing. Well, I think when you really work at
Speaker 1: getting better at something, if you feel like you are
Speaker 1: continually getting better, I think it just makes it even
Speaker 1: more exciting. So that's why I say I'm enjoying teaching
Speaker 1: more now than I ever did. And I said that
Speaker 1: last year, and I said that the year before. But
Speaker 1: it's true I enjoy it more now because I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm better at it now and that's exciting. And
Speaker 1: then I think, well, maybe I could give them better
Speaker 1: or maybe I could do even more. Yeah, hell yeah,
Speaker 1: of course music keeps evolving, so that makes it interesting
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, it's not the same, yes, And I
Speaker 1: think that for example, for me, my family was very supportive,
Speaker 1: but nobody around was a musician, nobody was connected to
Speaker 1: the industry, and it was really hard to like figure
Speaker 1: out how to become a musician for me. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't like it wasn't as I was telling you before,
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I had like a great voice
Speaker 1: or something like that. There's kids that they will naturally
Speaker 1: they seem amazing, they have these big voices since they're kids,
Speaker 1: and me it wasn't like that. So I really had
Speaker 1: to like spend this time this years years, years and
Speaker 1: years and have a lot of patient and a lot
Speaker 1: of like being humble, you know, like, really, Okay, failing
Speaker 1: this doesn't sound right yet, Okay, if I'm going to
Speaker 1: keep trying, I'm gonna keep doing it till it sounds right.
Speaker 1: And I think that sometimes it's more about that being persistent,
Speaker 1: being consistent too, like being there, like committed than anything else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right. I'm so glad you're saying
Speaker 1: that because I think for people listening, they can apply
Speaker 1: it to anything they're doing. I think sometimes you can
Speaker 1: kind of forget how hard it was to get here,
Speaker 1: at least for me, I could forget for a second
Speaker 1: how hard I had to work, how important it was
Speaker 1: for me to get to this point where I can
Speaker 1: work and do the work that I love the most.
Speaker 1: So I always feel like being grateful and feeling happy,
Speaker 1: feeling joyful about it. That's important for me. I think
Speaker 1: that's the best mindset for me. I totally agree with that,
Speaker 1: And I really got to know Rosalie quite well during
Speaker 1: that first period because for months we would do lessons
Speaker 1: five to six days a week. Yeah, almost every day.
Speaker 1: We did a lot of lessons, and I was so
Speaker 1: impressed with your work ethic. I wanted to ask you,
Speaker 1: is that just naturally who you are? Like you're just
Speaker 1: someone who throws themselves one hundred percent in I think so, yes,
Speaker 1: yes completely, Because I'm a perfectionist, so I always liked
Speaker 1: try to push myself to learn as much as possible
Speaker 1: and to try to get the best result in my work,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. It was like a lot of
Speaker 1: new things that you were teaching me, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is all very new, even if I was studying
Speaker 1: for so long a voice lessons and everything. With you,
Speaker 1: it was like, there's so many new things and I
Speaker 1: really want to learn these and understand it. I try
Speaker 1: to really, really really push. I commit. I think no
Speaker 1: matter what you choose, what you do, you gotta commit.
Speaker 1: At least that's how I approach it. Rosalia has told
Speaker 1: me that her discipline to her career was influenced by
Speaker 1: her mom, and that doesn't surprise me at all. I've
Speaker 1: been observing people for years and I've seen the artists
Speaker 1: who have great work ethics quite often learn them from
Speaker 1: the people who raised them. She's a very strong woman
Speaker 1: with a lot of her work ethic is amazing, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: She's such a hard working person, and I think that
Speaker 1: she always had great advices. She always advised me, and
Speaker 1: she always have a perspective about things that I'm always like, okay,
Speaker 1: let me see what my mom thinks. Always always, and
Speaker 1: I think that nowadays, like it's very important for me,
Speaker 1: my family the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas. It was
Speaker 1: two years ago and my grandpa just passed, like he
Speaker 1: just died, like the day before. I had to perform,
Speaker 1: and I was very far from home, and I remember
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like singing, but still I sang and
Speaker 1: I did it, and that was I think one of
Speaker 1: the hardest performances I had to do. My mind wasn't
Speaker 1: there and my heart wasn't there, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: But the other moments, I'm always very happy, very very excited,
Speaker 1: very grateful to be able to perform. And he would
Speaker 1: have wanted you to, I'm sure, I hope so. I
Speaker 1: was thinking about him when I was singing. Wow, for sure. No,
Speaker 1: I bet he felt that wherever he is. I think
Speaker 1: that because parents, grandparents, anybody who leaves us, they want
Speaker 1: you to keep going and shine and do your best.
Speaker 1: They don't want you to stop your life. I feel
Speaker 1: like he protects me somehow. Oh yeah, he protects me. Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 1: But that now, that performance in Vegas, did you feel
Speaker 1: good about that you were able to do it and
Speaker 1: do a good job? I think so, yes, because it
Speaker 1: was it was really hard, and I think at some
Speaker 1: point m I had to sing it. Maybe that sadness
Speaker 1: I could kind of channel it by singing, right. I
Speaker 1: think I really feel very excited to perform. Most of
Speaker 1: the times. I think my heart always goes faster, like
Speaker 1: my heart always races, always, always, and I feel like
Speaker 1: that's because I care. I'd have to say my favorite
Speaker 1: time seeing Rosalia perform was that the twenty twenty Grammys.
Speaker 1: No matter how proud I am when I watched Rosalia
Speaker 1: perform or make her music, I have to say, I'm
Speaker 1: always excited to start our vocal lessons again. I've been
Speaker 1: missing me now that we're not doing it so much
Speaker 1: because I'm in the studio trying to finish this record.
Speaker 1: I think it's almost there, so I had to focus
Speaker 1: on production. But eddic, I'm coming back. Oh good. What
Speaker 1: is it about doing that? Is it just that it's
Speaker 1: so created that you love it? Or is it because
Speaker 1: you feel like I know what I want better than
Speaker 1: anyone else can create for me? What is it that
Speaker 1: because I know you get so immersed in it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I feel like for me it's so important how my
Speaker 1: music sound, how the songs sound, and it's so personal
Speaker 1: too that I feel like there's no way that I
Speaker 1: can just let somebody else do it. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I feel like my album just what
Speaker 1: it's gonna last when I'm not here anymore. This is
Speaker 1: what it's going to be here. I really care about songs,
Speaker 1: every song to try to make it the best way possible.
Speaker 1: I wish maybe I didn't care as much, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, I know that caring so much makes
Speaker 1: a difference. I think in the way things sound, and
Speaker 1: that's just who I am, Like I cannot change it.
Speaker 1: It really represents you, represents your point of view, and
Speaker 1: you can really be like proud of it. I really
Speaker 1: try to do it the best I can. I really
Speaker 1: try to practice as much as I can. I care
Speaker 1: for the details on everything, not just when I'm singing.
Speaker 1: I see that in everything, in the light, the stage design,
Speaker 1: the clothes that I'm wearing, the colors, the nails I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean the nails, of course, everything, everything, everything, And
Speaker 1: I enjoy do anything like that, and I think that
Speaker 1: that's like a work ethic. And I feel like if
Speaker 1: one day I don't care like that as much as
Speaker 1: like that, I don't think that the result would be
Speaker 1: as good. So I don't feel it's a bad thing
Speaker 1: to be perfectionist. That makes sense. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I feel very grateful that you help me to be like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can be a perfectionist while you are practicing, but
Speaker 1: once you go on stage, forget it. Forget it and
Speaker 1: just perform, because that's how I used to do it
Speaker 1: when I was younger, when I was a kid, when
Speaker 1: I was a teenager. But then sometimes you can kind
Speaker 1: of forget it for a second when you get caught
Speaker 1: up on technical things. And it's great that somebody reminds
Speaker 1: you speaking of technical things. After the break, we'll get
Speaker 1: to the vocal tips of the week, influenced by Rosalia
Speaker 1: herself right after this. Here they are my vocal tips
Speaker 1: of the week. First, I've had really good results having
Speaker 1: my students always do at least one forward placement exercise
Speaker 1: lesson one where I actually encourage them to allow themselves
Speaker 1: to sound nasal. Now, I always say to them, don't panic,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to turn you into a nasal sounding singer.
Speaker 1: It's just one of the many exercises that will help
Speaker 1: you warm up your voice in a healthy way and
Speaker 1: also help you to increase your range. Basically, What I
Speaker 1: want you to do is to focus the sound and
Speaker 1: the vibrations of your voice in the front part of
Speaker 1: your face, which is referred to as the mask. That
Speaker 1: area is starting right around your forehead all the way
Speaker 1: down to about the bottom of your nose. You heard Rosalia,
Speaker 1: it's her favorite exercise. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah. Now it's your turn to try. Bases.
Speaker 1: Baritones and tenors. Start on the sea below middle sea
Speaker 1: like this. Repeat that pattern, transposing it in other words,
Speaker 1: changing keys down by half steps ntil you reach your
Speaker 1: lowest note, and then going right back up until you
Speaker 1: reach your highest note. Sopranos and elto's, you start on
Speaker 1: an A below middle C like this. Again, repeat that pattern,
Speaker 1: transposing it down, changing keys by half steps until you
Speaker 1: reach your lowest note, and then going right back up,
Speaker 1: changing keys by half steps until you reach your highest note.
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. Try not to move your
Speaker 1: jaw when you're pronouncing that na na na, Just move
Speaker 1: your tongue. By practicing, moving your tongue without moving your
Speaker 1: jaw will not only free up your voice, but it
Speaker 1: will make it so much easier for you to pronounce
Speaker 1: lyrics on high notes. When you're doing songs. Another exercise
Speaker 1: I always try to fit in every lesson is one
Speaker 1: that will prep you to sing your runs and rifts better,
Speaker 1: one that will make your vocal cords more flexible and limber,
Speaker 1: and also really help you to level up your skills
Speaker 1: with better agility. Try starting out with half steps like this.
Speaker 1: If it feels hard for you to stand pitch on
Speaker 1: this exercise because it is tricky, start really slow, trying
Speaker 1: to sing every note cleanly, and then gradually build up speed.
Speaker 1: A really great way to teach you to sing these
Speaker 1: half steps would be to play them on the piano
Speaker 1: as you sing them. Even if you don't know how
Speaker 1: to play the piano, anyone could play half steps because
Speaker 1: it's just one note after another. You might not have
Speaker 1: a piano or a keyboard at home, but you can
Speaker 1: always download a piano keyboard app onto your phone or tablet.
Speaker 1: A good middle range for sopranos and altos would be
Speaker 1: to start here on a middle C. For you bases,
Speaker 1: baritones and tenors start here one act of lower than
Speaker 1: middle c as always experiment and see how high and
Speaker 1: how low you can go, but of course without straining.
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Speaker 1: listen to podcasts. I was out recently. I had to
Speaker 1: go pick up something, and I went into the store
Speaker 1: to pick it up, and your song with Bad Bunny
Speaker 1: was playing. This girl who was I was waiting to
Speaker 1: help me, was doing something for someone else, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I looked over and she was singing along,
Speaker 1: and I saw her lips going with it, and she
Speaker 1: was kind of smiling, and I thought, Wow, I'm seeing
Speaker 1: the joy that an artist's music brings to people. She
Speaker 1: was probably enjoying her day so much more getting to
Speaker 1: hear your songs. It was making her day go by
Speaker 1: faster than when she came over to help me. She
Speaker 1: was all smiles, really friendly, and I thought, Wow, it's
Speaker 1: really beautiful to see that, not just in a life setting.
Speaker 1: It's on the recording, it's in the videos, it's where
Speaker 1: ever anyone's listening. Yeah, how powerful is that? Right? For me,
Speaker 1: what makes my day is listening music. And I feel
Speaker 1: so happy when you tell me that, because then that
Speaker 1: happens the same thing that happens to me that I
Speaker 1: listened so much music, it can happen to other people
Speaker 1: with the music I do, and I feel so grateful,
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