HOW TO SING BED OF NAILS

Sing like Jon Bon Jovi using Formant Activation (vowels below!)


Hey singer! Kegan from Foundation Vocal Method here - those 90's Bon Jovi records are kindof a guilty pleasure of mine.

There's some KILLER singing on albums like Keep the Faith and the Young Guns soundtrack, right?

But how exactly do we hit these sustained high notes?

There's really three systems we need to master to hit this mid to high range singing;

- Innervation
- Tonal reflex
- Formant activation

A great example of how our formants work/what to work towards with your vowels is the base vowel translation I've written out for you below;

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
AA w-AH-n-OE l-AY-EE-OE d-AA-wn-AY-n-OE b-AY-d-OE-v-r-OE-z-es

For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
f-OE d-OE-n-AA-d-AA-sl-EE-p-AH-n-OE-b-AY-d-OE-v-n-AY-lz

Do these vowels look familiar/are these the vowels that you're going for?

And secondly to this, are you modifying the front vowels like AY/EE/OE into EH and IH?

If you're not doing this, I'll go out on a limb and guess you're NOT hitting these high notes very well.

So where to from here?

I've put together a super special training program called the VIP Green Room which shows you ALL of this and more PLUS you get access to my Vowel Translator tool that does all of this vowel work for you!

Check out the details below.


Kegan DeBoheme
Founder - FOUNDATION VOCAL METHOD


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Incredibly useful material. Within only a couple of days, this course has demystified the whole process of singing up through the registers, and given me the tools to do it myself. If you're having issues with inconsistency in your "mix voice" (or problems accessing it at all) then this should help to iron them out. Best of all, the process is actually quite simple once you try it. No weird exercises/techniques, just the stuff that works.

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I am a 39 years old male from India. Before I took Kegan’s course, it was difficult for me to sing Bollywood songs as high as F4. My upper range in chest register when singing scales in the most open Aah vowel was limited to G#4 (just touching it quickly and coming down) and head voice was up to G#5, but there was a complete break between my chest and head voice. Kegan’s vocal techniques greatly helped me to be able to sustain notes as high as A#4 and also able to hit C5 in Bollywood songs that I never thought I would be able to sing so early on in my learning process with him!; when singing scales, I am now able to sing from F2 to A5 without any break!! Kegan has a lot of patience in teaching his students irrespective of their current level in singing. One great thing about him is that he doesn’t just teach vocal techniques but also teaches you how to effectively apply them in real songs just like how he himself does in his own songs, so that we can reach those high notes without straining our voice. He has a great understanding of vocal anatomy. My progress has been quite faster than I thought and I am getting better and better over time with practicing Kegan’s vocal techniques. Flashback: Since childhood, I always dreamed of being able to sing those high notes in Bollywood songs. I therefore started my singing training during my teenage years in Indian classical singing for 3 years. Unfortunately, I developed a vocal nodule during that time because of bad vocal technique. The nodule was cured by medicines and some speech therapy, however, I had stopped singing for long time until 24 years of age after which I started searching for good vocal teachers to learn western vocal techniques which has chest, head, and mix voice concepts which are somehow absent in the Indian classical singing which primarily just focuses on chest voice. I trained with 4 different teachers before Kegan (one of them in-studio and other three online) but couldn’t develop my voice, in fact I used to find my voice going hoarse from time to time and I used to fear developing nodules again. I consider myself so lucky that I found Kegan on Youtube. I listened to him singing real songs and I was just astonished by his range and quality of voice and that’s why I started learning his vocal techniques.

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