Living Hope (Bethel/Phil Wickham)

Check out these tips and techniques to help you sing powerfully without pushing and straining! Learn mix voice exercises to free up your high range, lyric pronunciation strategies to create maximum efficiency in your voice, and ways to create a dynamic journey throughout the song! I’ve demonstrated in both the key of Eb for guys and A for girls, but if you’re singing it in a different key, just apply these same principles!

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Amit H May 23, 2023

Hi,

I am new to this technique and have some doubts, hope you can help me we that.
I am familiar with the feel of the chest and head voices and aware of the break between them.
I am able to use the winy sound but trying to understand if I should lean on that voice while going up or just project the sound to that area.
While trying to lean on that It feels like I am pushing my chest voice but now with nasality and when not pushing and going to head voice with that projection I feel the same thin head voice just with more vibration/ping, but it still lacks power and support.
Hope you can help me to clarify that.

Thanks in advance.
Amit

Charmaine Brown May 27, 2023

Hi Amit! I understand what you’re asking — one thing that’s important to understand about building your mix voice is that it FIRST requires you to have a strong foundation of both head and chest voice. If your head voice is weaker than your chest voice, then adding pharyngeal to your higher range notes won’t result in a powerful mix — it will be as you describe, just a thin head voice with some extra “ping”/brightness. So first make sure you build your head and chest voice to be equally comfortable and strong (with head and chest exercises), and then, the process of building your mix is to do many, many different types of mix voice scale exercises that help to blend the three resonators together, so that it’s not just chest + pharyngeal in the lows, head + pharyngeal in the highs.

Ron Papes February 1, 2023

Thanks. Will help me immensely.

Charmaine Brown February 3, 2023

You’re welcome!

Liv2tell June 22, 2022

Where would I use my head voice if at all in Living Hope ? I sing in a low Ab to be able to hit the high notes

Charmaine Brown June 30, 2022

To sing this song in a contemporary style ideally we should be singing in a mix voice, which is a blend of head and chest voice (by engaging pharyngeal resonance). So you would definitely want head voice incorporated in your tone in the choruses!

Ksmusic May 12, 2021

Is it normal for your voice to get tired if u are doing these excersizes?

Charmaine Brown May 17, 2021

The more you are doing vocal workouts throughout the week (I suggest 3-5x per week), the stronger your voice will become, and so it won’t get fatigued when you are working through a song like this. Also, the more warmed up your voice is before you do these exercises, the better your voice will feel.

Kaitlyn May 11, 2021

Hi charmaine, do u have any sheets for pronunciations on this song?

Charmaine Brown May 17, 2021

I don’t for this one, sorry!

Living Hope (Bethel/Phil Wickham)

Living Hope by Brian Johnson, Phil Wickham

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