Singing Guide: Kane Brown & John Legend

Singing Guide: Kane Brown & John Legend

Vocal technique, exercises, tips and relevant resources

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Learning to Sing like Kane Brown and John Legend

Kane Brown and John Legend have both made a name for themselves as excellent singers with unique vocal techniques.

Kane Brown is known for his use of a mixed voice registry, which allows him to use a combination of breathiness and power to create a rich, unique sound. He also uses his robust vibrato to enhance his style, as evident in his famous songs, such as "Heaven" and "Lose It."

On the other hand, John Legend has a masterful control of his voice. His signature sound is a result of a genuine mix between his four-octave range, his vibrato, and the way he weaves in and out of falsetto notes with ease. He puts a lot of emphasis on phrasing and emotion, making his singing style instantly recognizable and genuinely captivating.

If you want to learn to sing like Kane Brown and John Legend, there are strategies and tips you can follow:

  1. Define your voice range with Singing Carrots' Vocal Range Test to know your comfortable vocal register range.
  2. Use articles like How to analyze your voice and Voice Types to gain more knowledge of your voice and explore voice types beyond the common, four traditional classifications.
  3. Work on your breathing and posture to ensure you have control over your voice. Singing Carrots' Breathing basics will give you proper guidance.
  4. Practice proper warm-up to prepare your voice to sing and to minimize your chances of injuring your vocal muscles. Singing Carrots' Farinelli Breathing and 3-minute Warm-up can help.
  5. Develop open-mouth techniques to improve your clarity and be on pitch. Singing Carrots' Open mouth & throat, Articulation, and Why do we sing out of pitch? will be very useful.
  6. Work on mixing your voice registry by following Kan Brown's style. Singing Carrots' Voice registers & vocal breaks and Chest Voice Explained will be an excellent place to start.
  7. Learn to control your singing intensity & clarity as John Legend does with his technical discipline, Singing Carrots' Vocal Pitch Monitor and Pitch Accuracy Test can help you nail it.
  8. Try to internalize the emotions of your song and express them through your singing. Singing Carrots' Singing with intuition, skills, emotion, and thinking will provide tips.
  9. Finally, use Singing Carrots' Song search to find songs that fit your voice range, genre, and difficulty, or Song-book to create your performance set.

By following these tips as you learn to sing like Kane Brown and John Legend, you'll be able to develop your voice and approach singing in a new way. Singing Carrots provides everything you need to get started, from educational singing games like Pitch Training to an in-depth Singing Course and much more.

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