How To Sing - Brett Manning Live at GMA 2007

[KristopherAbelCsabai]

and c2 i thin

[KristopherAbelCsabai]

A6

[gordiam]

0:35 wtf are they doing ahhahaahah

[TDMJaguar]

@Arcellan owned....

[guitargirl526]

what if you're ears arent perfect or cant recognise notes making u sing bad?

[randallwaynemusic]

what i want to know,is why do i have a connected tone and no more break and can do the mum's and the nays and all that,but cannot sing in a heady tone powerfully and create a mix also?

[irblueflames69]

wow that was gnarly this guy really can control his voice and he knows what he's talking about I would love to have him as my private voice coach any day

[benobel]

This guy is f_ucking amazing.. Respect. ;)

[Markosoulman]

Brett, you're my idol!You're a great artis and a great person,too! There's a point I can't understand clearly. In the drawing in that video, you show how the perception of the notes goes from the mouth (low notes) to behind the head (high notes). But with the exercise of the "NG" sound it seems the perception goes from mouth, through the faringeal area and then in the nasal cavity. So if the first percepition is anticlockwise, the second are clockwise,according to the drawing. What's the right?

[BextheRocker555]

Brett Manning is Utterly AMAZINGGG!! I cannot Hardly wait to take private lessouns with him! =D

[MunchTheLard]

His voice range is amazing.

[Cromis]

Ok man, i cant really describe headvoice to you, it sort of feels like chest, but very high in your range. to GET into headvoice, make your voice VERY light and just slide up in your range. let your voice do what ever it wants to do. now see if you can connect on that very small sound. beware, your headvoice might sound very breathy like falsetto at first, but that's cus it's still weak. keep working on it and it'll get stronger with time. good luck man : )

[getbiggerboobs]

to anyone out there that has any knowledge in the subject.

I am attempting to work on my head voice but all this definition crap is really getting up my nose.

Bassically does head voice feel like falsetto but with proper support (meaning that you dont have a breathy sound)

or does it feel like somthing else alltogether, i mean ive been working on this register that i think is my head voice but at the moment i can only get up to a b under male high c and only using open vowels like A, thanks

[lixxycharm]

Brett is awesome. I wish I could afford a private lesson.

[hibyeeee2]

Can I learn all these singing methods by taking lessons from Seth Riggs or some other speech level singing teacher? Its not that I dont like Brett Manning its just that live in L.A. not Nashville.

[hibyeeee2]

Can I become a sopranist also known as male soprano using head voice and not falsetto?

[Zavedi234]

Probably, bu t I'm not professionnal, so I can't be sure...

[pinguizawesome]

his singing tips do work...u bastards probably havent even tried it XP

[angellusdark]

@pinguizawesome im trying to do this but is so hard to me =( T_T

[SKyESTaRR23]

Do people really pay money to learn from this clown ??? He has a decent Mickey Mouse voice ....THAT'S IT !!! I listened to his songs and it sounds like he will lose his voice in a couple of years with this singing approach

[cooljoebay]

Damn. Manning is nothing more than a vocalizing cult leader. He just suscessful SOLD a load of crap to an uninformed audience. What if they brought in someone like Vendera to properly demonstrate what the voice does? Manning would crawl into a hole. Notice that people didnt really react until he "wobbled" up the scale in the whistle register. Anyone can learn to make sounds that way. But not sing that way. He cant really sing at all. Show me some really solid demos of him singing. NONE.

[aminul1984]

cooljoebay: Jamie Vendera learnt the technique from Brett Manning's program. He even recommends the program.

Brett Manning cannot sing? Check out his stuff on myspace and you will see if he can sing or not.

Also, why not check out his Singing Success Online stuff, you can see him teaching other students and they sing without any studio magic.

[reening]

Trust me man, if you would take the time to actually look for some of his demos *coughmyspacecough*, you would know that the guy can sing.

Peace out.

[anthill21]

why is everythin upside down????

[Kelvin702]

Theres no such thing as a 13 octave human range, the highest is 6-8.

Anything more than that, dogs would hate your for singing that high lol.

[zZKaZuRaZz]

...........I really dont get it. WHo cares if you can go 1000 octaves? Celine Dion cant whistle, but she make tonnes of money in comparison to many other people? It really doesnt matter, so as long as you're a good singer just keep doing what ya doing ^^

I'm still struggling with the connection lol

[MyPassionsss]

You're right...All you need is freedom in your voice and connection between the first two main registers (chest and head), nice tone, passion and EMOTIONS!:)

[FrozenMermaid666]

'Celine Dion cant whistle'

LOL! Everyone can whistle! Don't say she can't whistle just because she doesn't use it in her songs cuz you don't know what she can do or not! But she has one of the most amazing voices ever & she's obviously the best Pop singer ever! When she belts the high notes she sounds simply fantastic & she sends chills down my spine, unlike most of the singers who belted the same notes! Plus she has a perfect vibrato & control over her voice! :D

[zZKaZuRaZz]

YOu dont seem to get my point. I'm just saying, there is no need for a 1000 octaves if you can control 3-4 octaves well. Thats the whole point. If you look at the previous comments everyone is comparing their range which is really pointless.

I'm just using her as an example because she doesnt whistle in her songs. Maybe the word "Cant whistle" doesnt sound right. I'll change it to "doesnt whistle". Does that satisfy you? =_= hmph.

[FrozenMermaid666]

LOL, sorry! I know she only has 4 octaves but she's amazing, no matter what 'haters' might say!

And I got your point but I didn't like that you said 'Celine Dion cant whistle'! That's all! :D

[zZKaZuRaZz]

I've got every song in the list she produces :D

No I'm no hater, in fact I'm a fan of her lol. I'm just a realist....a 4 octave singer who controls them well is waaaaaay better then a 8 octave singer who cant control them. :)

Sorry if I offended those fan of Celine Dion unintentionally :D A little word misplace can cause such problems ;)

PS: Wanna be fwens? You sound like a cool person :P

[FrozenMermaid666]

'A little word misplace can cause such problems'

Yeah, LOL! But it's ok! I just wanted to make it clear!

[zZKaZuRaZz]

ANyhow you were right. Nobody cant whistle. Its just vocal training. BUt there I rather have 3 octave which i can control well compare to 8 octaves which dosnt sound right.

[FrozenMermaid666]

It's a fact that a belted F7 would sound much better & more powerful than a F7 sung in whistle register, but high notes do sound really, really awesome! The higher it goes the better it sounds! Check out Charles Kellogg (he used his throat, not whistle register), Georgia Brown, Adam Lopez, Nicola Sedda & Mariah Carey! Ellen Beach Yaw sang a D7 in head voice & Mado Robin sang a D7 in a live performance and a B6 (there's a vid on YouTube)! Yma Sumac sang a C6 in head voice! :)

[aquatiger1987]

I have a 9-10 octave range.

-Take a deep breath in with your mouth raising your diaphram

-You start by dropping your atom's apple to the bottom of your neck and doing low lion growls

-Circular, circular, circular.... - atom's apple, to chin, to mouth, to nose, to forehead, to top of head, to back of head, to bottom-back of head, to atom's apple, to chin, to mouth, to nose, to forehead, etc... continues circles, start low, low-high (clockwise), high-low (counter-clockwise)

I'm a tenor (male)

[b1ink182]

lets see you demonstrate that 8-10 octave range budy?

[aquatiger1987]

Maybe I'll put up a video if I want to one day. In the mean time stop listening to Blink-182 and start listening to Pavarotti. Blink-182 will get you know where with singing. The music is good but the singing is terrible.

[bun182]

woah woah woah, i agree and all but to an extent....Mark Hoppus (the less 10 year old sounding one)of blink 182 has a great voice. He can reach high chest voice with control- in recordings and live, search 'here's your letter' by blink. but yea, obviously nobody should expect them to compete with opera....they're pop punk/rock.

[b1ink182]

you came of subject anyway, ill listen to what i want. the most ive ever heard of is 6 octave range which brett has. i find it hard to believe that you have and 9-10 octave range ;)

[aquatiger1987]

Your absolutely right, it is a good assumption to make that I don't have a 9-10 octave range. Some day when I feel like it, I'll put up a video showing the 10-11 octave range I now have. Here's proof that Blink 182 is only good and not even close to great, "Reckless Life - Guns N' Roses"

[b1ink182]

haha, you do that budy ;). Guns N Roses may be technically "better" musicians and singers than blink but there better than blink. i personally dont like Guns N roses.

[ladyred7777777]

u really do have a 10-11 octave range

[Blackwargreymon]

I HAVE A 13 OCTAVE RANGE

from A-2 TO A11

Loosers...

[FrozenMermaid666]

LOL, there are only 9 octaves from A2 to A11 and A11 is beyond human hearing! :))

[FrozenMermaid666]

Oops! Sorry!

LOL? Only from A1? No way! You should be able to sing lower but F6 is pretty impressive for a man!

And of course it's not comfortable to sing in the 1st & 2nd octaves!

[FrozenMermaid666]

Ok then, upload the video! :D

[teoguardian]

sorry but i don't think you can go one octave lower than that...lower yes,but one octave impossible man...

[RocktheStageNYC]

oh dear, where do I begin?

This is what you get when uneducated "singers" try to analyze a professional teacher. You get kids who haven't the slightest idea of what they're talking about.

A1 is the lowest A on the piano. There are only a few notes below that left to the human voice and a couple of those are extremely rare to hear anyone do - like an F1. I can do a G1 in vocal fry.

Human vocal SINGING range is at best 5 octaves. Above that and you go into flagiolet or whistle tone.

[RocktheStageNYC]

"FrozenMermaid666" - Don't argue with "Blackwargreymon" - he's a 21 yr old from Chile who is as ignorant about the voice as one can be.

anyone who is 21yrs old and claims to have a 13 OCTAVE range - without a shred of proof- is clearly just a YouTube comments troll.

[RocktheStageNYC]

prove it. Post a video of you hitting a full G6 "easily". Every cellphone has frigging video on it,- record yourself doing it and prove us all to be the uneducated idiots you say we are. I dare you.

At least I can back up what I say. Can you?

and its spelled "physiology".

Its time to go grow up now.

[Blackwargreymon]

aaahh... so immature. Read my message.

Bye

[RocktheStageNYC]

I'm a 39yr old professional singer and vocal coach with students and you are a 21 yr old liar.

Now who's the immature one again?

Maybe when you grow up you'll realize what an ass you really were at this age.

[reening]

Ignorance is a dangerous thing my friend. Walk the road you have chosen cautiously.

[RocktheStageNYC]

"when I feel like it" - in other words never.

[FrozenMermaid666]

Yes, it's not impossible! It's all about the vocal technique, resonance, practice, etc. If he says he has, maybe he really has! Charles Kellogg had the widest vocal range ever (12 1/2 octaves); Georgia Brown has 8 octaves (G2-G10) & Nicola Sedda has 8 1/2 octaves (E1-A9) & Adam Lopez hit C8 and he has a 6 octaves vocal range! It's a fact but it's only your problem if you want to believe it or not! Anyway, do some research before posting a comment! :D

[aquatiger1987]

also it's 9-10 not 8-10

[flaze3]

I really don't believe you have a ten-octave range. you'd be a Guinness world record winner if you did. Let's see proof!

[bombeirao]

The Brazilian woman, Georgia Brown has 9 octave range and she is on guinnes...

[FrozenMermaid666]

'Georgia Brown has 9 octave range'

ROFLMAOOOOOOO! She has an 8 octaves vocal range (G2-G10)!

[FrozenMermaid666]

Not really! There are other people who can go higher and/or lower & they're not 'Guinness world record winners'! LOL! Get your facts straight! :))

[flaze3]

I said give me proof... not discuss the plausibility of it.

[pattyjoseffer]

Brett - I just bought your videos and just started technique CD1. I am having trouble with being able to tell if I am comfortable going up the scales to the top. I can do it without straining, only to find my voice is hoarse and i keep having to clear my throat? i also notice my adam's apple raises (i'm female). is it supposed to raise at least a little bit? i CAN'T keep it down! any tips would be WONDERFUL!! Will it be addressed in the CDs?? Thanks and Love!!

[aquatiger1987]

Practice Maria Callas, sing more emotionally than technically

[98nfsmw98]

woah, that was high........

[rockinoneslife]

WOW !!!! I THINK YOU SOOOO BEAT MARIAH !!!!

MAN !!!!! YOUR AWSOME !

p.s. sorry for so many exclamation marks !! LOL thats just how awsome you are.

[Got2BeDowne69]

i know someone who sings in full chest voice all the time belting out high notes and that's the asia's songbird Ms.Regine Velasquez! just type "regine high notes"

[chammo360]

When is sing at mixed voice, how the hell do i get to a head voice without there sounding like an obvious shift?? I want it to sound smooth from chest voice all the way to head voice, but how?? :(

[guitarobsessed85]

start high and drop down progressively until you figure out the middle part. It will generally sound airy until you close the chords making a more powerful sound

[SingingSuccess]

obviously you haven't seen our other videos on here where we give free vocal tips. Ironically if you listen to the top3 vocal exercises video.. it's some of the best stuff you can get.

[SingingSuccess]

and it's free

[ThickieWonder]

To Arcellan, this "guy" needs to make a living just like everybody else.Where do you work at,Mcdonalds perhaps?I bet you wouldnt sit there for 8 hours flipping burgers for free.Thats how the economy works, I bet your computer wasnt free either.Stop peddling your negativity and grow up.

[FrozenMermaid666]

True! :D

[jeffgrossi09]

dude brett man you getting that high is insane haha

i'll try and do that and then iafter awhile i just go silent.

meh, ill keep working on it.

[farenzol1971]

yeahhhh.... now I know that... if you don't have money, sorry but i won't help ya....it's nothing new... ;-)

[dooplaa]

how on earth does he do that low chest voice?! it sounds like Kagyrra :S

[Fernoe]

he's mixing vocal fry with his chest voice, which I think is similar to kargyraa (sp)

Most sub-bass singers who sing in quartets use vocal fry and chest to hit ridiculously low notes, but can still sing tenor

[farenzol1971]

brett pleaseeeeeeee record some exercise to find own vibrato 'cause I've been lookin' for it and cannot find... ;-( I'll be thankful... take care

[SingingSuccess]

We've got an update on vibrato coming out on our Singing Success Online . com site next week. We will try to get an excerpt on that lesson out here on youtube soon. Thanks!

[avpruler]

@farenzol1971 it comes with practice from what i know. I used to not have any, but the longer i sang and my voice kinda developed it just started happening.

[rhye999]

one more for the vibrato idea, I used Mastering Vibrato without lot of result

[LovennaHanLovesU]

hm that's weird... i got the masterig vibrato too and it totally worked on me! i was happy (=

[BlueLacrymosa]

I bought the Mastering Vibrato cd's as well and it didn't do anything for me. I'm sad that it didn't work but I will keep on trying to release my natural vibrato.

[autumnwytch]

i thought there'd be a money back if you don't master it or sth?

[91BROWNIE91]

yep

[brittonvs]

brett please do a video on vibratto, im a tenor and i have touble getting a natrual vibratto. can you show us some tricks?? i might buy some your dvd's??

[paintballer1184]

that dood is crazy with what he does, hes an awesome vocal teacher.

[GhostRunnerOnThird]

word.

[robertjames65]

No breaks. Wow! Few cats in the world can do such vocalizing.

[GhostRunnerOnThird]

Getting no breaks in your bridges is not rocket science. Not with Brett's technique. Master it and you can sing ANYTHING

[dizzycritic]

amazing =)

[jtothegangstag]

Does having a deep voice make it more difficult to sing in the higher range?

[SingingSuccess]

Having a HEAVY voice does. But how heavy you sing is a choice. Some guys sing BIG but do they have too? Hold a gun to their head and tell them to sing softer and I bet they can do it. If a bass or baritone finds his connected pianissimo he can go way past high C and even find a whistle coordination.

[jtothegangstag]

Thanks a bunch.

So does this SingingSuccess 12 disc thing you buy really help improve your vocals?

Cause it really has my attention.

And will smoking damage your vocals?

[FrozenMermaid666]

Yeah, man! DON'T smoke if you want to have a good voice! :D

[tributevocalist]

hey, it's Joe Lyon, yeah, I have a deeper voice and I'm still trying to grow out of singing in chest voice all the time at college, so I'm trying to train myself to sing quieter. When I do it, it works :)

[GhostRunnerOnThird]

I think jesse covered that question pretty well. I naturally thought that because my speaking voice was deep I would be limited to a short range. However, I can go well past a high c and I recently have found a connected whistle coordination.

BUT, the world does not necessarily need singers who can sing higher. I personally think the world needs singers who can sing better.

[RocktheStageNYC]

Last paragraph is true 100%.

[Heidiscope]

Wow-he makes it look so easy-but for an alto singer ahhhhhh. .. comes straight to mind. .haha

[neljis]

Please don't call him Dude, 'cause he's one of the best vocal teachers in the world!!

[GhostRunnerOnThird]

Brett wouldn't mind. If anything hes also one of the most personable vocal coaches out there. The whole staff is very chill and down to earth. But yes, Brett IS one of the BEST vocal teachers in the world.

[SingingSuccess]

Thanks for the respect but we are just a cool bunch of guys doing our thing in nashville so no worries :)

[komodo982]

wow this Dude is great

[SingingSuccess]

thanks man. Brett's a good friend of mine and he really does know the voice!

[Zero2026]

Great video, thanks!

[GhostRunnerOnThird]

thats what I'm talking about. Thank god for the genius as we come to known him..Brett Manning.