Ask Video – Vocal Techniques 101: Singing with Tammy Scheffer (TUTORIAL)

By | November 5, 2025

 

Release Year: 2014
Producer: Ask Video
Producer’s Website: www.askvideo.com/course/singing-with-tammy-scheffer
Author: Eyal Amir
Duration: 01:13:00
Type of Material: Video Lesson
Language: English

  • 582.7 MB

Description: The best way to learn professional, advanced vocal techniques is to study them with a great vocalist. Don’t sit back and learn the art of singing with vocalist and musician Tammy Scheffer. Great singers are a remarkable combination of natural ability and a lot of hard work. Many singers often forget about hard work and rely entirely on their talent. In this course by the amazing Israeli jazz/pop singer Tammy Scheffer, you’ll learn how professional singers create sound, note shape, and build effective harmonization while developing their unique vocal styles. The best way to learn pro, cutting-edge vocal techniques is to study with a great singer. So, sit back and learn the art of singing in this 31-tutorial course by vocalist and recording artist Tammy Scheffer.
Great singers are a wonderful mix of natural ability and a lot of hard work. Up-and-coming singers often forget the hard work part and rely entirely upon their talent. In this course, by the amazing Israeli jazz/pop singer Tammy Scheffer, you learn how professional singers create sound, shape notes and construct effective harmonization in the process of developing their unique vocal styles.
Tammy starts at the very beginning with basic posture techniques and warm vocalups. You may be wondering why these tools are so important. Well, you’ll just have to watch and see how using these techniques will improve your sound while, at the same time, enhance your singing career! From there you learn Tammy’s extensive vocal drills. Here is where you get all kinds of tips on how to produce intervals, shape your tone, nail pitches and, of course, how to singing in perfect tune without AutoTune!
Next up are a series of tutorials that focus on the voice as an instrument. Here you learn all about jamming with the chords and creating harmony. This leads right into a wonderful section on complex vocal rhythms and improvisation.
The course comes to close with a performer’s look at microphone techniques and how to incorporate “looping” devices so that you can create and improvise a complete vocal orchestra all by yourself!
Content
01 Introduction (01:47)
02 A Singer’s Posture (02:53)
03 Breathing Correctly (04:30)
04 Warmups with Vowels: “Ma” (03:44)
05 Warmups with Vowels: “Mi” (03:40)
06 Warmups with Vowels: “Ma”, “Mi” (02:46)
07 Warmups with Vowels: “Ma”, “Mi”, “Mo” (01:49)
08 Practicing Larger Intervals (03:50)
09 Tone vs. Pitch (02:16)
10 How to Sing in Tune (02:13)
11 Intro to Wordless Vocals (01:27)
12 Jamming Around Chords (01:20)
13 Understanding Harmonic Context (02:32)
14 Singing Chords (01:22)
15 Singing Chord Inversions (01:23)
16 The 1-2-3-5 of the Chords (02:51)
17 Comfortable with Chords (01:10)
18 Dealing with Chromatic Notes (01:23)
19 Putting it All Together (00:58)
20 Why Singers Need to Learn Harmony (01:26)
21 Analayzing Tammy’s “Hakol Ihye Beseder” (03:17)
22 Tammy Performs “Hakol Ihye Beseder” (01:53)
23 Incorporating Complex Rhythms (02:52)
24 Improvising with Your Voice (02:46)
25 Basic Dynamic Mic Placement (01:57)
26 Mic Distance Techniques (01:08)
27 Advanced Mic Techniques (00:33)
28 Basic Vocal Looping (04:26)
29 Creative Vocal Looping (02:09)
30 Conclusion (00:44)
31 Tammy Sings: Morning Bound (05:36)

Sample files: none
Video format: MP4
Video: AVC, 1280×720, 16:9, 30.000 fps, ~1134 kbps
Audio: AAC, 44.1 kHz, 96.0 Kbps, 2 channels


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