The Foundations of Singing: Level 2

Find your chest voice through a simple sigh while relaxing the throat and letting the body fall; feel chest resonance and a subtle vibration in the chest area.

Open your mouth to unlock resonance in chest voice, lift the soft palate, relax the lips and jaw, and position the tongue to create space and easier, powerful tone.

Discover chest voice resonance by humming to feel vocal vibration, drop the jaw slowly, and use vowels to carry sound without pushing air.

Release a hum into single notes to transfer resonance to the ah vowel, then feel how resonance should feel when singing vowels.

Practice hums and release into a single note on 'ah' while sustaining resonance; explore jaw opening and tone placement—high or nasal—to bring the voice out of the throat with ease.

Practice a humming exercise on a half-tone scale, performing five repetitions with fluid motion to build lip resonance and mouth vibrations for later singing.

Practice humming on a half-tone scale with a demonstration, using voice-specific audio exercises. Stay relaxed, keep the throat neutral, and feel warm buzzing resonance as pitch moves.

Practice humming on a major scale introduction with breath support and a relaxed throat, keeping notes connected and avoiding gaps as you rise and fall.

Demonstrate humming on a major scale and show how to stay relaxed during the exercise. Follow along, then use the audio files to practice on your own.

Demonstrate the hum up and release down on a half-tone scale, with step-by-step guidance and two-part practice using gender-specific audio in your vocal range.

learn to connect notes on a major scale using a hum release technique, keeping the throat sensation identical across chest and head voice, and singing legato with steady resonance.

practice a smooth major scale hum release, starting low and opening up while avoiding staccato phrasing. join experts or use the audio files to guide this exercise and sustain resonance.

Discover the right chest-voice volume by humming without pushing or holding back, improve resonance by opening the jaw slightly, and balance support and posture for natural singing.

Explore decoupling in singing, separating mouth movement from the throat to avoid slurring words. By using the tongue and mouth, you gain a smoother, more fluid texture.

connect chest-voice notes smoothly by carrying the starting note across the entire phrase, avoiding pauses between words and not dropping to a relaxed pose and coming back up.

Master the hum release switch on a major scale by linking jaw openings and closings with a legato flow, while building breath support for smooth transitions and reliable singing technique.

The lecture demonstrates the hum and release switch exercise on a major scale, guiding breath control and cadence. It encourages using the audio files to practice thoroughly on your own.

Rotate the five Italian vowels on one note, morphing vowels while humming, keep the throat relaxed and let the tongue shape the vowels.

Demonstrates hum release and vowel rotation on a single note to guide your practice. Explore starting on a note, practice at home, and await the next video for continued training.

Practice legato exercises with a hum release vowel rotation across a major scale, moving up and down while keeping the throat relaxed and the same vowel to build pitch control.

The video demonstrates vowel rotation on a major scale with a release and backdown on the a vowel, highlighting relaxed top notes and resonant tones, with practice audio files.

Practice vocal slides from one to five using the major scale, sliding up and down without stepping. Perform the sequence three times and visualize a guiding image to smooth transitions.

The lecture demonstrates sliding notes up and down on ah eh oh, emphasizes resonance, breath support, and relaxed projection without throat pushing for effective warmups.

Practice sliding vowels ah, eh, oh without breaks, relax the throat, and morph and connect the vowels smoothly as you go up and back down for the next exercise.

Explore chest voice exercises by sliding from the root to the fifth and back without breaks, focusing on vowel resonance and stable placement as you ascend and descend.

Explore using different dynamics in chest voice by varying volume, staying connected, and mixing phrases to create contrast; learn how backing off or boosting volume shapes power.

Explore chest voice dynamic steps in a three-note exercise, increasing volume on each note while maintaining consistent vocal placement, diaphragm support, and a relaxed throat for a seamless transition.

Demonstrates dynamic singing through three notes, getting louder on the ascent and quieter on the descent, with a home audio exercise to practice.

Practice the down louder steps exercise to vary dynamics on each note, slide through pitches with consistent vowels, and maintain relaxed throat using the diaphragm to shape tone.

Perform the down louder steps exercise, mapping a three-note pattern where you go up and get quiet, and come down and get louder, with guidance from the provided audio files.

Play one tone sirens with consistent placement and throat, mouth, soft palate, and lips, varying only diaphragm pressure. Increase diaphragm pressure as you go louder, but avoid throat pushing.

Practice one-tone sirens by starting on the first note, sliding the sirens up and down while increasing and decreasing volume, then gradually move up and continue practicing.

Increase volume as you rise through the notes, then soften as you descend, gradually moving through all notes at the same speed. Use diaphragmatic breath and avoid throat strain.

Demonstrates loudest chest voice slides within the dynamics section, guiding you to slide up to peak then back down, with at-home practice using provided audio files.

Master the down louder slides exercise by sliding down to get louder and sliding up to get quieter, using diaphragmatic support and a gradual, throat-free approach.

Demonstrates the down louder slides technique, guiding you to slide up and back down. Practice this exercise with the provided audio files on your own, and keep practicing.

Learn how to sing with staccato technique by producing short notes while maintaining chest-voice placement, staying on one level, and avoiding drops in breath or tone.

Learn to sing staccato notes on a single pitch while maintaining resonance and vocal placement through controlled pauses, keeping the throat feel steady.

Demonstrates a staccato vowel rotation on a single note within chest voice, guiding you to monitor tone, avoid strain, and join in with the exercise while listening to audio files.

Explore staccato vowel rotation on a major scale to develop resonance and relaxed throat technique. Practice slowly, listen, and apply the exercise as pitch rises.

Demonstrates staccato vowel rotation on a major scale through guided vocal exercises, starting on a note, moving up and down, with audio examples and voice range guidance.

Practice a staccato root-return exercise on the major scale, starting from the root, returning to the first note after each ascent, keeping relaxed and in rhythm.

Demonstrate a staccato root return on the major scale, starting from a note and returning to the root, with a musical variation and tips to avoid large jumps.

Explore adding effects to the chest voice, including vocal fry and smooth adjustments, to enhance versatility, control high notes, and shape mood in songs.

Explore the vocal fry to tone exercise to transform vocal fry into a rounded chest-voice tone, improve breath control, and close the vocal cords for expressive singing.

Demonstrate the vocal fry to tone exercise, guiding you through notes up and down and repeating each note twice, with optional practice using the provided audio files.

Learn tone to vibrato using a short-burst approach, tempo control, and a quick body router, then practice a four-beat exercise—two notes without vibrato and two with vibrato.

Witness a demonstration of moving from a straight tone to vibrato on a single note, using a two-click technique and guided practice.

Explore tone-to-vibrato vowel rotation in this introduction, practicing one-note exercises across vowels with deliberate vibrato. Follow along with the demonstration and audio files for guided practice.

Explore tone to vibrato vowel rotation on a major scale within chest voice exercises, guided by provided audio files. Pace the long routine with deep breaths and pauses between phrases.

Participate in a song demonstration of Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge, showcasing expressive singing and vocal delivery of the track.

Breaks down Red Hot Chili Peppers' Under the Bridge line by line, teaching chest voice singing, breath support, vowel rotation, and legato–staccato phrasing for a connected, expressive performance.

Discover how to find your head voice by sliding from chest voice into head voice, then practice sustaining it with relaxed lips and lip bubbles to strengthen the tone.

Explore why developing your head voice is vital, and how a pure head voice enables styles like compressed voice and belt used by metal and rock singers.

Discover why falsetto is not a separate register but an effect. Explore how breath can be applied across head voice, chest voice, and mixed voice.

Learn the bob vocal cord closure exercise to compare closed and breathy tones, using chicken, pop, and breathy bop variations while singing the major scale three times.

Learn to smoothly connect your head voice with legato technique by decoupling the throat from the mouth and staying in head voice through the entire phrase.

Explore humming in half-tone intervals to build head voice and manage breath control; avoid breathiness, especially in headphones, by practicing chord closure and breath manipulation with guided audio demonstrations.

Hum a half-tone scale in your head voice, starting low and moving up and down. Sustain the vibration, keep the first and last notes identical, and breathe for fullness.

Practice humming on a major scale to achieve a clear lip tingle and non-breathy tone, then explore the first five notes with consistent scale intervals.

Explore humming on a major scale to strengthen head voice, using no half steps and ascending a whole octave to e, in a safe, enjoyable singing exercise.

Release into the ah vowel from a hum on a half-tone scale, establish resonance with lip tingling, and maintain a consistent jaw drop and mouth opening.

Practice the hump up release down on a half-step scale and tongue-twister sequences, then return to the 'ah' tone in head-register with guided audio exercises.

Practice head voice exercises to hum on a note, then release into the five Italian vowels and morph them seamlessly from one vowel to another, focusing on resonance and transitions.

Demonstrates a hum release vowel rotation on a single note, committing to the note before releasing into a rotation, then moving up and back down for vocal stamina and control.

Practice the head voice introduction by sliding from root to fifth and back. Maintain consistent resonance and placement above the jaw line, following the chest voice pattern.

Demonstrates an ah eh oh slide exercise with breaks, emphasizing relaxed throat, no pushing, and smooth, resonant head voice placement across ranges; practice slowly with provided audio for vocal control.

Practice in head voice with no breaks, focusing on vowel morphing, precise placement, and smooth up-and-down transitions to the fifth, while maintaining diaphragmatic support for a stable tone.

Lead through the complete exercise without breaks as part of the foundations of singing level 2. Replay the video with me or share files with your group to continue practicing.

Master staccato singing in head voice by keeping very short, choppy notes without dropping your placement; stay up in head voice, even as you move pitch, with headphones on.

Practice staccato vowels in head voice on a single note, rotating through the five Italian vowels while staying up and not releasing the tone.

Demonstrates a staccato vowel rotation on one note, articulating five vowels, then move up chromatic and back down to build head-voice control, and practice with audio files.

Develop staccato head voice on a major scale. Assign each pitch to separate voices while preserving vowel placement and avoiding slumping, with diaphragm support.

Demonstrates a staccato vowel rotation on a major scale in head voice, guiding you to sing the first five notes with relaxed throat, no pushing, and controlled mouth closure.

This lecture introduces staccato on the major scale, contrasting it with legato, and teaches breath control, resonance, and placement for clean octave jumps.

Practice head voice staccato on a major scale, demonstrated slowly and at faster speeds to improve transitions and control, with progressive pacing from slow to quick.

Apply dynamics in head voice to a simple phrase, starting softly and increasing volume to shape perception and interest, and practice varying across head, chest, and belting for expressive singing.

Practice the Nemec three-note up-louder exercise, moving from a very quiet, intimate tone to the loudest, then back to a middle level, using steady breath and proper support.

Practice this head voice exercise called up louder steps, where you rise in steps to a major hit and get louder as you descend, starting quiet to build vocal control.

The down louder steps exercise demonstrates vocal dynamics by starting on the bottom note, getting quieter as you go up, and louder as you come down.

Perform the down louder steps exercise for head voice, starting quiet as you step up and getting louder as you come back down from the major chord.

Practice one-tone sirens in the head-voice exercise, starting quiet, rising to loud, then returning to quiet to master dynamic control across notes.

Demonstrate one-tone sirens by starting quietly, growing louder, then returning to quiet and changing tone to train head-voice control across dynamic levels. Practice this.

Practice sliding through notes with growing dynamics, starting quiet and getting louder as you ascend, then softer on the way down; ensure smooth, connected transitions in head voice.

The lecture demonstrates using slides to modulate dynamics, making phrases louder as you rise and softer as you descend; join in or use the audio files to practice.

Practice dynamic slides from the loudest low note to the softest high note, applying volume changes to each note and connecting transitions for smooth singing.

Practice down louder slides to build vocal dynamics, sliding up with quiet then louder and returning down, reinforcing the mix and voice development through focused exercises.

Explore adding effects to head voice, including vocal fry and vibrato, plus falsetto and breath management techniques, with practice on open versus connected chords.

Learn to move from vocal fry to tone and into head voice through a controlled chest-to-head transition exercise. Follow the demonstration video and practice slowly for stability and control.

Demonstrates the fry two tone exercise using headphones, guiding you to sing each note twice as you rise an octave and practice consistently.

Learners explore tone to vibrato in head voice through a head voice exercise with controlled volume and the same vibrato approach as chest voice, including tempo cues.

Practice tone to vibrato in head voice using a two-count sequence of straight notes, followed by two notes with vibrato, as part of the foundations of singing level 2.

Introduce tone to vibrato through a head voice vowel rotation exercise. Practice starting with a clean voice, then shifting resonance and vowel to achieve broader sound and vibrato readiness.

Learn tone to vibrato vowel rotation through a head-voice exercise across the major scale, practicing five vowels at five pitches with breath support, pauses, and deliberate pacing.

Learn to bridge chest and head voice with a stepwise approach, avoid breaks, practice separate chest and head exercises, then slide into head voice for a smooth transition.

Master the landing on notes by making soft, controlled transitions—set yourself up mentally before the note, avoid pushing up or dropping down, and apply this quickly in exercises and songs.

Discover how to use note paths to visualize vocal transitions between head voice and chest voice, following a notepad idea that maps the path up and down to smooth exercises.

Practice a two-note switch between chest and head voice, starting on a note and landing it. Set up for head voice, and maintain the same throat shape and diaphragm.

Learn to navigate transitions on a major scale by balancing chest and head voice, assigning switch points, and gradually increasing speed while keeping a consistent transition point.

Learn the root return transition by shifting between chest and head voice, selecting comfortable notes to switch, and practicing the major scale slowly with the demonstration video.

Explore a transition between head voice and chest voice through a route-free turn, sliding slowly and quickly to smooth registers and reduce vocal breaks.

Practice a major pentatonic scale across two octaves, alternating chest and head voice, and experiment with switch points and tempo in different keys.

Master transitions between chest voice and head voice with smooth slides, gradual practice, and note paths to land notes accurately and avoid vocal breaks.

Practice the square exercise: a vocal arc from chest voice to head voice across an octave, maintaining dynamic contrast, breath support, and a final return to chest voice.

Demonstrates three things together to achieve smooth transitions, gradual volume increases, and chest voice changes for higher dynamics, concluding with a complete exercise and encouragement to practice.

Celebrate completing the course and reflect on the personal connection you built, then stay active in the Facebook group and keep practicing singing to realize your goals for life.