Just a simple 5-note scale is a good place to start. Don’t let much air out as you sing it, and don’t try to push the sound out too hard. At the same time, if you push too hard and don’t keep your sound light enough, your runs may get clunky and slow. You’ll need to develop solid breath control in order to keep your runs from becoming muddy-sounding. Vocal agility can be a difficult balancing act. Ouch! Not-So-Instant Gratification Work Your Vocal Agility! Then go back, adding a few notes to the beginning at a time and eventually speeding up. For example, the long run starting at 2.18 sounds daunting, to say the least, when you listen to it and try to imitate it, but taken piece by piece, it isn’t so bad.
Vocal agility is something your voice can gradually improve at, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make some progress on runs just by taking them apart. Open “make” up to “mack.” Because the second line has more “ooh” sounds, which have a tendency to sound heady, try opening “sure” and “you’re” up to “shuh” and “yuh.” Take out or greatly soften the “l” in “alright” so that the word is more like “awraht.” Too many consonants will cause throat constriction and cut off some of the resonance.
Because “A” (as in cat) tends to make for the easiest belt, try modifying most of the vowels in the first line toward the “A.” The line should sound something like, “Can a la bah yuh sahd.” The second line is a little more difficult. The first line of the chorus is particularly easy for vowel modification. If you’re a female singer, you’ll probably want to transition on a later note than if you’re a male singer. Take apart the run on “you” at 1.28 and experiment with different notes to move to head voice on. To figure out where to make the switch, it’s best to not mimic Sam Smith exactly. Luckily, the “OOH” vowel is not a particularly difficult one to transition to head voice in. Instant Gratification Register Transition Sam Smith uses his characteristically difficult runs throughout the song, providing a challenge for even advanced vocalists. To pull this one off, you need to have a nice strong belt that’s also flexible and easy to pull back on when necessary. It may sound easy, but it requires a lot of control. Listen to the run in “next to you” on 1.28. It Requires Seamless Register Transitions Presented by: Abarnan Thank you for giving me all your attention and listening attentively, hope you enjoyed my presentation :) Sincerely, Abarnan.
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