Living Hope (Bethel/Phil Wickham)

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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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Living Hope

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  1. Bpond
    Bpond on October 7, 2019 at 4:53 pm

    Hey Charmaine,
    Thanks so much for this video, it’s amazing! Quick question, How do you recommend I practice the low verses as that is more the place I am struggling, would it be with a Buh Buh then repeat? And what resonator am I using through the verse when it goes up “then Through the darkness” does it change?
    Thanks!!

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    • Charmaine Brown
      Charmaine Brown on October 8, 2019 at 1:31 pm

      Hey! Yes, for the verses, use whatever exercise tends to help you get into a more chest-dominant mix (BUH or YEAH for most people). Do the melody line on the exercise, then back to back with the lyric, repeating for each lyric!

      For the prechorus section (“then through the darkness…”), that’s where you want to make sure you’re not pushing up chest voice, and not just singing in a pure head voice, so a more pharyngeal-driven mix is helpful as the melody moves up. I would use the same exercise (BUH or YEAH) for that section, but focus on less of a deep, chest-voice-heavy sound, and more of a bright sound. Hopefully that makes sense!

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  2. LizJoyWarf
    LizJoyWarf on April 19, 2019 at 11:04 am

    Do you happen to have the phonetic lyric spelling you show as a document to practice off of?

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    • Charmaine
      Charmaine on April 24, 2019 at 9:10 am

      Hey Liz! Here’s what I taught in the video, copied from my notes! Make sure to check out the “Art of Singing Vowels/Consonants” lessons in “Master Your Voice” if you haven’t been through those already, that will give you strategies to do this kind of thing with any song you want! 🙂

      HEH – LEH – LUUH – YUUH
      PREHS THUUH WUUHNUUH SIH MIH FRIH
      HEH – LEH – LUUH – YUUH
      DITH HEHS LUH STIHTS GREEP AW MIH
      YUUH EH(V) BROKIH NIHVRIH CHEHN
      THIH SEHL VEH SHUUH NEEN YUUH NEHM
      JIH SUUHS CHRUHST MAH LEEVIHNG HOH(P)

      YOH BIHRIHD BUHDIH BIHGIH(N) TUUH BRIH(TH)
      OW DUUHV THUUH SUHLIHNCE THUUH ROH RIHN LUH YUUHN
      DIH CLIH(D) THUUH GREHVE HEHS NOH CLEH MUHN MIH
      JIH SUUHS YOH ZEES THUUH VEEC TOH RIH

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