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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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!

Hi Charmaine. I was curious, how do I stay in a pharingal place when going higher in you range?

Charmaine Brown May 17, 2021

Hey Kaitlyn! It takes lots of practice and diligence with specific vocal exercises designed to train our mix voice to go up higher in our range—which is what I teach in my “Discover Your Voice” and “Master Your Voice” lessons (especially “Master Your Voice”—but I don’t recommend doing those lessons until after “Discover Your Voice”!).

Bpond October 7, 2019

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!!

Charmaine Brown October 8, 2019

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!

Living Hope (Bethel/Phil Wickham)

Living Hope by Brian Johnson, Phil Wickham

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