How to Sing ANY Song - My 3-Step Process

Introduction: 0:00
Most common Mistake when singing Songs 2:03
3 Things to look out for when singing songs 4:23
3 Step Process to sing any song 5:10
The Scientist by Coldplay 6:50
Stay With Me by Sam Smith 9:00
Make You Feel My Love by Adele 10:35

Let's face it: the whole point of doing vocal training is to be able to sing songs better. After all, no one will ask you to sing “Nae Nae Nae” to impress them. Everyone wants to sing songs!

However, most beginning singers will actually just sing the same songs over and over, without actually improving them. They think that just singing a song on repeat will improve it. However, the truth is that you want to break down songs in order to sing them as best as you possibly can. So rather than just doing vocal exercises, we need to actually learn how to break down songs.

Now the truth is that singing songs is actually harder than singing vocal exercises. Why is that? Well, when you're singing a vocal exercise, the whole point is to keep something constant. It could be the vowel, the consonant, or the dynamic. And usually the scale will change.

Vocal exercises are designed this way so that your voice is able to achieve a new skill that it wasn't able to do before. However when you're singing songs, you're dealing with changes in the vowel, the consonant, melody, and the volume or dynamic that you're singing at.

So before you go to sing your favorite song again and get stuck in the same old places, I want to teach you my three step process to gain total vocal control over a song. First, before you sing, it's important to look at the words, the melody and duration. This will help you know what to expect when you're singing songs. Kind of like a coach draws out the plays before his players get on the field. So if you can, look at the sheet music. And don't worry if you can't read sheet music. Sometimes it's just really helpful to see the shape of the notes in the way that you're supposed to sing them.

Here's my 3-step system to gain total control over any song. In the first step you're going to find a great vocal exercise for your voice. That may be a “Gee Gee Gee” or “Nae Nae Nae” on a particular scale. It's just important that you make sure that this exercise works really well for you. We call this a home base exercise.

In step two, you're going to sing the vocal exercise on the melody of the song. In other words you're going to replace the melody of the song with the vocal exercise. So instead of singing “oh won't you stay with me”, you might sing “Gee Gee Gee Geeeeee Gee Gee Gee Gee” on the melody.

In the final step you're going to go back and sing the lyrics, but you want to keep the same feeling as you got with the vocal exercises on the melody. If you do this correctly, you'll notice that the vocal exercise will help you sing the melody of the song better. Then, you can go back to sing the lyrics and still hit the notes in the same way as you did with the vocal exercise. These three steps while really simple are incredibly powerful in helping you sing any song better.

[anonymous]

Timestamps for you guys!

(2:03) 1 The most common mistake when singing songs
(3:00) Why songs are more difficult than vocal exercises
(4:23) 3 things to look after when singing
(5:10) 3 step process to sing any song

Application
(6:50) The Scientist by Coldplay
(8:55) Stay With Me by Sam Smith
(10:25) Make You Feel My Love by Adele

[jmd]

I don’t know how you don’t have more of followers! Your channel is so valuable and has helped me so much as a beginner

[sonicacoustics]

This content is really helpful not to overuse your voice just to sing. Pretty cool! :)

[officialspock]

How to Sing ANY Song - My 3-Step Process
5:14 - Step 1: Find a great vocal exercise
5:39 - Step 2: Sing the exercise on the melody
5:56 - Step 3: Sing the lyrics with the same feeling

6:50 - Coldplay - Scientists
7:23 - Find a great vocal exercise
7:45 - Sing the exercise on the melody of the song you want to sing
8:14 - Sing the lyrics with the same feeling as the exercise

9:00 - Stay with me - Sam Smith
9:26 - Find a great vocal exercise
9:51 - Sing the exercise on the melody of the song you want to sing
10:11 - Sing the lyrics with the same feeling as the exercise

10:35 - Make You Feel My Love - Adele
11:09 - Find a great vocal exercise
11:26 - Sing the exercise on the melody of the song you want to sing
11:50 - Sing the lyrics with the same feeling as the exercise

[ST]

I’m a retired piano teacher and strongly recommend taking a couple years of piano lessons to learn to sightread and learn rhythm patterns in music. 🎶 Also, transposing songs into keys that are suited for your vocal range is very important.

[juampialarcon]

Its funny bc I just practiced Stay with me with my vocal coach last week, really great info I use it all time to keep the mix in place.

[annamariakorosi]

Thank you for these very useful videos, You help us a lot!! It has been a hard thing for me to do these practises every day and I was so bored before I found your channel! But You're so motivated and professional coach I took a fancy for it!! That's it I was looking for, thank you 🙏😊

[madlyscukers]

Hey, can u make video how to do song recording and change u r voice, how to sing those lyrics, identify if u r not reading them, elements of songs should we check before singing or with it and how to go with background music, how to monitor progress about all these.This is would be great help for everyone who wanna learn music, and don't know how to learn it starts recording their songs again and again including me, pls, make video combining all these.u r s fans would be great full to u.

[miaramer]

That was great, very helpful. I’m going to go find myself some exercises. Thank you so much 😊

[jeniphermashabala]

This video deserves zillion views ... and the other one is ;teach yourself how to sing Ramsey vocal studio ;

[wail]

I am so happy because you use adele song it's great i am adele's fan

[kamotiemmanuel]

I really love your work and support thanks so much for putting all your time to train us

[Karlalrakarla]

This blew my mind but makes so much sense! Thank you

[dhananjayahadunpathirage]

Wow thank you master soo grateful lesson thanks a lot💪💪💪great job too sir..

[tiffanyrayfor]

I love all of your videos so much!!!thank you they've helped me SO MUCH!!!!

[KAYISHUNGEEtienne]

Mn u a clean and smart kabisa. Ninakupenda

[manu-singh]

Where do I start to practice, any video of yours you recommend

[melcol]

By the vocal exercise do you mean making your voice ready for the particular note you're going to be singing of the song??

[ilincailiescu]

Thank you Ramsey for this video! I am just starting with developing my singing voice and i felt like i need some help in order to be able to sing the whole song i chose. This helps me a lot and i already put into practice the information you offered in this video. Awesome lesson, funny, easy to understand and very helpful! 💓

[sharanya]

It was helpful!! and I'll practice more to do my best, thanks Matt!! Btw that denim jacket looks super dope!!