Everything you need to know about TWANG in Singing |
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Twang is one of those things that seems to fall in and out of favour among vocal pedagogues. Personally, I’ve always celebrated the benefits of Twang, instructing my students in the advantage of the clear, focused resonance that it provides.
There seems to be some confusion out there in CZcams land about Twang and the impact it has on the sound of the singing voice, across each of the vocal registers. Today, I’m going to clear away the confusion so that you can get the full benefit out of the clear, focused resonance known as twang.
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Hoch, M. (Ed.). (2018). So you want to sing ccm (contemporary commercial music): A guide for performers. Lanham, ML: Rowman and Littlefield.
NB: At the time of recording this video I was in the closing stages of the 'common cold' so you may hear some constriction in my singing.
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2019, starting off with a twang!
I'm glad you're going over this again. The best way I know to get Twang is to do spread vowels, wide vowels such as AH, EE or EH. Learning Vowel modifications in general, a couple of years ago change the whole game for me.
The twang exercise is really helpful. It is helping me recognize how much pressure I am generating and to back off. I think it is one of the biggest reasons why I am starting to slowly heal. I just wish it was easier to TRansfer to my speaking job.
Keep working at it, Michelle!
Thanks! I just wish it wouldn't take so long XD Hope you are having a wonderful holiday.
Yep, those examples on this video with differences of with and without twang affirms what i learned from Dr. Dan's video.
I'm a vocal teacher watching all your videos, thank you so much you are very clear when explaining. Lucila, from Argentina.
You're welcome Lucila Ogallar. Thanks for watching.
Dan, you couldn't be anymore clearer in your tutorial. I find Twang makes for a nice metallic brilliance in the tone. I use it often.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video VIDEOHEREBOB. Thanks for watching.
I commented on the other video, I think is is clearer to me as to how to deploy an useful twang without sounding nasal.
I LOVE TWANG!!! It's one of my favourite topics and it has been tremendously helpful in my own singing.
Happy New Year, Karyn.
Two incredible teachers right here 💚
The examples with and without are so very helpful, thank you!
You're welcome Mr Berryman. Thanks for watching.
Such a great video Dan.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video bikeham. Thanks for watching.
Last year (2019) my mate invited me to do a 21st birthday for his friend. “Living on a prayer” was on the set list, this video literally saved my life in the key change.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video traffickdsoul. Thanks for watching.
What you said about putting too much air pressure through the larynx is exactly what I think I'm doing wrong. This is a new technique for me and it sometimes feels like I'm pushing the sound from my throat. Great video!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Julia. Thanks for watching.
Hi, I noticed that when trying to get a harder fold closure (thinking I succeeded), I was just narrowing the opening in the very back of the mouth. What is that called in singing? I found on Google that the part is called the palatopharyngeal arch. My voice is clear with this wide open, but as I close it, my voice gets brighter, and a vocal fry quality starts to creep in. If I do it really hard, I get full-on distortion. I can't find any information on the topic anywhere, but maybe it's because I don't know what that part of the mouth/throat is called in singing terms. 😅 Also, great video!
You're on the right track with identifying the palatopharyngeal arch! In singing, this area is often referred to in the context of managing resonance and vowel modification. What you're experiencing when narrowing the opening is likely related to the manipulation of the soft palate and pharyngeal space, which can significantly affect your vocal tone and clarity.
When you narrow this space, you're essentially altering the shape of your vocal tract, which can lead to the changes in brightness and the introduction of vocal fry or distortion due, in part, to the back pressure on the vocal folds. This is sometimes used intentionally in styles like rock or metal to achieve a more gritty or edgy sound.
The full-on distortion you mentioned is a technique often used in certain singing styles, but it needs to be done carefully to avoid strain or damage to your vocal folds. It's great that you're experimenting, but make sure to listen to your body and consider working with a vocal coach to ensure you're using safe techniques.
Thanks for the compliment on the video, and keep exploring your voice! 😅
You just got a subscriber :) 👍
Welcome to Voice Essentials, Jesse!
Thank you so much for your clear examples with and without twang!
Glad it was helpful!
First video of 2019, here we go
Ah so that’s why people couldn’t hear me when I speak without twang (which is how I normally speak) I just needed to add twang which I could do since the start of life but never used it in my voice
just started practice Jan 1st 2019 on my singing voice. I'm starting with the basics and will build from there.
Although I have never had lessons before and for some reason decided to give it a try at age 34, I hope I can
accomplish what I've set out to do. So far I have seen many of your video's and practice what I've learned so
far, so hopefully my ears are good enough to pick up on tune, pitch, and harmony well enough with no one to
here to hear me and help correct my voice in the right direction. So here is to never giving up and a new start
to something I've never tried before. (Edit) Any Advice for someone very new at this would be greatly
appreciated as I live in the middle of no where and probably wont be able to get actual lessons for quite some time
I wish you all the best for the coming year and your vocal development, Passion4 Music.
@@DrDanRobinson Thanks a lot, and I have also started your 7 day free trial learning lessons and have noticed a difference already. Hopefully in the next few months I'll be able to acquire some equipment. Do you have any suggestions on what I should look into investing in, that is affordable yet effective for voice recording. Also in the next month or so I'll be getting a better computer and hope to get your cd's to practice with so between now and then any thing I can learn would be great. All advice is welcomed so please feel free to share. Knowledge is always been my greatest asset so when I speak of advice that falls in all category's such as technique, hardware, and software to further my goals of accomplishments. (In home studio is what I was thinking of investing in, any suggestions or advice.)
Dr Dan, I believe a good portion of your audience would benefit a lot if you put the examples first in the video and then move on to the theory. I might be wrong, but I believe this would definitely hook your viewers way better.
I've watched many of your "competitors" and your technical knowledge is the best, by far ;)
Cheers,
Hello, Fabio. Thank you for your considered feedback. As an educator, I am keen for people to understand the 'why' before they engage in the 'do.' I understand that this may mean I don't collect as many subs...I'll leave the drive for more subs to my 'competitors.'
In vocal twang, is actual phonation occurring at the aryepiglottic sphincter (AES)? I appreciate your explanation on how twang is created by narrowing the AES. I’d originally assumed that twang resulted from a type of “turbulence“ in the airflow from doing this. However, I’ve since come to believe that the AES can be oscillating open and closed ...thus producing its own type of “Fry” (different from glottal fry). This can then be blended with normal phonation from the vocal folds below. To my ear, this little bit of “fry” or twang seems to be a component of a rich bright speaking voice such as Stephen Colbert’s on the “The Late Show“. I also seem to be able to isolate this “aryepiglottic fry” and produce a sound similar to the introduction of “Iron Man“ by Black Sabbath. I’d love to hear your thoughts on whether you think this is accurate and worthwhile ...or misguided! ... or somewhere in between. 😊 Thanks!
A really great explanation, thank you
I'm glad you enjoyed the video humanidrome. Thanks for watching.
Happy New Year Dr Dan!
Thanks very much for this, love your vids on twang, and the examples you give here (with and without twang) are excellent 😊👍👍👍👍👍
P.s. haha..now as for Tang(!), I quite liked as a kid, but can go happily with*out* nowadays😉
Happy New Year, Linda! Hope you've had a wonderful Christmas!
Thank you Dan! 😊
And yes, we had a lovely Christmas Day, full of happy people and food, a bit too much food...
So clear! Thanks!
You're welcome Åslög Dahl. Thanks for watching.
Great thanks. twang its most important topic for me. I hope to make my head voice (falsetto) more powerful with twang
You're welcome torrentinocom. Thanks for watching.
What is the felt difference between teang and simply having full cord closure as compared to having breathy tone? In your singing examples in the video it could also just be that you changed from not full cord closure (breathy tone) to full cord closure (clear tone). Thanks for your help, I love your channel :).
Twang will have complete vocal fold adduction. It is recognised as Twang when there is a boost to the frequency between 2.8 -3.2kHz
I learnt to use twang a lot doing bluegrass, but now I'm using my falsetto and singing in other genres, I really want to add twang to my falsetto. I can do it a bit, but I really want more bite.
Eres genial gracias!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Jeison Leon. Thanks for watching.
Great Video
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Dreaming Indian In Russia. Thanks for watching.
I have an audition tomorrow for Fiddler on the Roof (I'm auditioning for Chava.) I can handle most of "Matchmaker" in my mixed voice, but I have a C5 that's being a bit hard for me. I usually can get twang on that note, but I was sick only 9 days ago and I'm extremely scared my voice isn't ready for this audition. Any advice?
Trust that your voice will recover if you allow it to rest. Perhaps the following video will prove helpful - czcams.com/video/4KP-PIt005o/video.html
I feel like I can do almost every possible types of sounds with my voice (I mean twang, breathy, loud/soft, trembling/straight, head voice, and so on), so I'm able to sing different styles of music, but that is exactly my problem! I have no idea which voice to use, I mean, I love them all and I love too many styles of music, I can't decide on a way to sing and therefore I can't find my voice. That is really frustrating. I wish I could find more information on that subject.
BrianiacN5, allow the narrative of the song to direct how your apply your vocal effects.
dr Dan, can you please talk about how vocal strain limits your vocal stamina? Another youtuber, who's usually very thorough , mentioned it briefly without elaborating. I'd appreciate it if you can give me an answer to this question, please. Thanks in advance!
Rosannasfriend, the following video may prove helpful - czcams.com/video/8I0rYkHSls4/video.html
Hi Dr Dan! I have always struggled with this, but in my mind, ha-ha. Some people say that at least an amount of twang is NECESSARY in order to have healhty technique throughout the registers (I don't mean the 'distinct' or 'character' twang, but only an amount in order to produce an unhindered sound. Is that true? Thanks (:
You're welcome Gabriel Fausto Chaves. Thanks for watching.
I have some problems with twang. It always appear within my bridge area (F#4 to B4). I can sing comfortably with it. It sounds really piercing (like Mitch grassi from pentatonix) the problem is that I cannot take it above C5. How can I use it in the 5th octave?? I’m a boy :)
Is there a reason you need it above C5...? Try backing off the air pressure as you ascend towards the transition and the upper extremes of your voice.
Dr Dan's Voice Essentials actually, I want to take it higher because I found that it’s an easy sound to make. But whenever I go above C5 I move on to a pure head voice. That’s why I don’t know why it only occurs within my passagio area and not above that
Hello Dr. Dan,
Namaskaaram!
I wish you could read this and respond to this for I'm in very severe need of this.
How to turn the 'twang' off?
I'll be waiting, for how long, I don't know!
KAUSHAL KISHORE, the following video may prove helpful - czcams.com/video/ydN-wMw287g/video.html
So is twang the same thing as singing through the mask? Not a nasal sound, but using the resonance of your sinus cavities to help project your voice?
Joseph Aleman, the following video about singing in the mask may prove helpful - czcams.com/video/lTEVyAmN_M4/video.html
I love Dr Dan's Videos. But that one is confusing me even more. Twang is - as Dr Dan explains in others videos - NOT nasality. It's produced in the Larynx and therefore allows leading the tone in the mouth. But as for as I got this, the "ng" exercise is doing a completely different thing: Closing the mouth (wich Twang does not) and leading the tone in the nose (not Twang). Habe I gotten something wrong here? Can someone help me out on this?
The nasalised NG activates and exercises the aryepiglottic sphincter. This in turn helps the non-nasalised use of Twang. Twang can be both nasalised and non-nasal.
@@DrDanRobinson Thanks a lot. I find it really hard to distinguishing Twang from nasality, a high larynx, overcompressed vocal chords... Feeling the difference and being able to targeted head for specific aspects of the sound would be a video(series) I would LOOOOVE to enjoy ;-)
This is off topic from this video but, I’m extremely new at actually trying to learn proper singing. I’ve watched a good bit of videos. I can not for the life of me hold any kind of full tone past a D4 without going full falsetto. I’m guessing this is due to an underdevelopment or lack of coordination in the required muscles? I listen to mostly symphonic metal and rock and pretty much have to sing down an octave. I’ve been working on breathing exercises and open throat techniques and vowel placement for about 2 weeks now but I can’t seem to get past that D4.
Alex Beck, the following video about mix voice may prove helpful - czcams.com/video/Kpyu_CbVRLg/video.html
I can relate! D4 is my highest reliable chest note. Anything above that I need to switch to falsetto or I risk cracking in that higher range.
Yeah, you shouldn't be taking chest up that high. You're probably using a lot of air which is how you're able to take it there - but it's better to start lightening off... a lot of air going through the vocal folds dries them out - and when you are taking a heavy sound up with a lot of air - not only are they drying out but they are also smacking together... which could lead to injury. I had the same issue which I am still correcting. I was able to force my chest voice up to an F/F#4 but that is an unhealthy range for such a heavy sound. To get the power behind those lighter, higher notes... the twang will really help.
Thanks so much dr. Dan, it seems like I've been doing something wrong with twang, I've been putting the front of my tung to my hard palate to create the ng sound not too sure if I'm doing it right. please help me talk about how the tung should sit.
The rear of the tongue should lift the soft palate when forming an /NG/.
why is there just not a break when he was going through his whole range. Hello hi I would love a video just to get rid of breaks
michael papayianis, the following video may prove helpful - czcams.com/video/-RpMHBurqAs/video.html
seems like without the twang the voice would go more breathy
Can anyone clarify when he says “Twang” is that another way of saying slight NASAL sound to cut above the mix
Hello Dr.Dan I have been practicing your cd exercises. I have some Questions: in twang there should be a little nasal emission too although there there will be more mouth resonance? Also the back of my tongue wants to come up like in the “ng” position for vowels , this isn’t right but idk how to carry the twang in the vowels without doing this. Also what do you mean about less air pressure, I thought higher notes needed more breath support and more air? Does your soft palate rise in twang and your nasopharynx open up? Thank you so much for your support.
Nayeli Rodriguez, the following video may prove helpful - czcams.com/video/y1R7lccJGfY/video.html
Hello! I started trying those exercises, and increasing my twang and suddenly my voice felt so weird and totally unstable. I think its nornal, when i change technique i usually have some problem first, than my vocal cords start a new kind of vibration and adapt... so it usually bring my voice to a super good change.
But in the meantime its soooo frustrating :(
Hi, Ricky Sword. You may find my online singing course helpful - drdan.co/onlinesinginglessons. Feel free to check it out sometime. The first module is free to preview!
Great video! I have a twang question. I can hear and understand the perceived increase in volume when listening to yours or anyone's twang. However, when I employ twang I don't perceive any increased volume to my own ears. Is it something that my audience perceives but I don't experience it in my own ear? Thank you
Yes, the increase in volume is often perceived more so by the listening audience.
@@DrDanRobinson Thank you Dr. Dan. You are extremely helpful and this helps so much. Happy New Year!
Is twang equivalent to the Singer's formant?
Some suggest twang and singer's formant is the same...while others suggest they are different.
Ohhh.. First video, 2019!!!
So, is twang a good thing or not?
It's a GOOD THING, Karen!
Is it like applying a vocal fry?
Leland Ginger-Crescent no x
No. Leland Ginger-Crescent, the following video about vocal fry may prove helpful - czcams.com/video/KnmVa-T2P-Q/video.html
Como cantar rock?
Twang sounds nasal. I like that it requires less effort & gives my throat a break.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video R. Ramirez. Thanks for watching.
The proof is in the singing, please demo yourself singing a difficult pop pr acoustic song
Silver Chrome, I take it that you are a Ken Tamplin fan...so if you need proof, watch this LIVE concert - czcams.com/video/P8WMTv6tV0Q/video.html