TAKE A LESSON FROM THE EXPERT OF SNEAKY SQUEAKAGE, 12 YR OLD LUKE!

This week we talked about "headvoice" and "chestvoice" and the doors that mixing opens up when singing songs that cover a wide range of notes... This is a follow-up post, so if you haven't seen it already, check this post out:  BEING SNEAKY ABOUT THE SQUEAKY: DO WE REALLY NEED LABELS?

Introducing... Luke! This is the student whose lessons inspired the phrase, "Be Sneaky About the Squeaky" over a year ago! The first time he ever came to me, he was just a little boy (He grew like... 10 feet this year.) and used to have to be sneaky about the squeaky just to extend his range in general for his old favorite songs like "I Won't Grow Up," "There is a Santa Claus," and "Electricity." Now he's almost a teenager so we can't work on his little boy songs anymore... BUT he's also got a couple more years before he starts going for leading man roles! So now the squeaky that we have to be sneaky about is just accessing his old little kid voice (even though it doesn't come naturally to him anymore) so that he can reach some higher notes in his adult songs just like the rest of us! I mean, could there be a better of example of somebody who could be worrying about whether he's in headvoice or chestvoice? He's got it down to a science.

Listen and see if YOU can find all the different voices he's purposely choosing at any given moment. There are 4 of them! If you weren't listening for them, would you guess he's switching in and out of his little kid voice and his newer grownup voice?   It sounds pretty seamless to me! This song could potentially have been a Peter- Brady-does-Bruno-Mars but Luke was open to weaving in and out of a couple of different voices and does it like a BOSS!  So take a lesson from 12 yr old Luke.
Also, he gets major extra credit for the vibrato placement a la pop music and not musical theater... AND for all of the glottal onsets! Evidence that this guy only PRETENDS not to pay attention to what I'm saying :)