Blood Sweat and Tears are an American jazz-rock band that originated in the late 1960s and became famous for their fusion of rock, blues, pop music, horn arrangements, and jazz improvisation. Their music incorporates a wide range of styles, including swing, Latin music, psychedelic rock, and folk music.

If you want to learn to sing like Blood Sweat and Tears, the key is to balance the raw power of rock and blues with the sophisticated melody and instrumental arrangements of jazz music.

Here are some practical tips, exercises and Singing Carrots resources to help you achieve it:

Warm-ups

• Warmup your voice with some stretching exercises first thing in the morning.
• Then start by humming to relax your vocal cords, and raise your voice to the upper range of your vocal register gradually.
• Sing scales and arpeggios up and down to work on the flexibility and strength of your mix voice.

Breath Support

• To control your breathing muscles better, try this Farinelli's breathing exercise.
• Practice breath support exercises like singing on vowels, holding long notes, and slowly releasing them.

Voice Registers

• BS&T's vocal style often features wide vocal range and dynamic changes between the chest voice, mixed voice, and head voice. Singing Comfort Zone exercise can help you get your chest and mixed voice stronger.
• Use Voice Break and Mixed Voice exercises to gain control over voice registers, transitions, and vocal breaks.

Articulation

• BS&T songs feature a lot of articulation, and this is especially important in higher range notes. The Finger bite exercise can help improve your articulation and decrease tension in your jaw, neck, and tongue.

Emotion Control

• Try to convey the emotional quality of the lyrics in your performance. Relaxing breath exercises such as The 4-7-8 breathing technique can help with this.

Songs

• Check out songs like "Hi-De-Ho," "God Bless the Child," and "And When I Die" to get a feel for the band's style and influences.

Singing Carrots resources

• Use vocal range test and pitch accuracy test to improve your vocal skills.
• Use Vocal Pitch Monitor to track your pitch accuracy and intonation.
• Use Pitch Training to improve your note recognition and ear training.
• Find songs matching your vocal range, difficulty, and genre preference in the song search section.
• Discover vocal ranges of over 5000 famous singers.
• Enroll in Singing Carrots' educational singing course to learn at your own pace.

By following these tips, exercises, and using Singing Carrots resources, you will be well on your way to singing like Blood Sweat and Tears in no time.