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Hi Phil! Yes, I did! Thank you so much, I hope all is well! The fire for music is still there and I hope will keep burning for a lifetime

@NahomeKidane-z9j It's not effective at all. Your lower back has literally nothing to do with breathing. The better option is more within the abdominal region. Your diaphragm pushes out your abdominal organs to breathe. Your abdominal muscles do breathe control. Focusing on your core in the better option. The serratus inferior posterior, the only lower mid back muscle which assists in breathing, lifts up the false ribs slightly to increase thoracic space, but in comparison to the diaphragm, it is so miniscule that focusing on it would deeply impede your breathing by direction your focus away from the better option. Any muscle lower than that is not used in breathing as they are not attached to any site on the ribcage.

This is interesting, but why did some of the greatest opera singers apply this techniqeu and even prescribe it? People like lili lehmann, caruso, tetrazinni, even pavrotti i think... @@MichaelAzarMusic

I couldn't tell you, if you have a video of them explaining it, maybe I could tell you, but anatomically, the lower back is far removed from your actual breathing

Luciano Pavrotti talks about it here ruclips.net/video/DYrnunDW0Jg/видео.htmlsi=h2bXSEAcTePQ_Bk4@@MichaelAzarMusic

​@@MichaelAzarMusicalso, ive learned (from Micheal Trimble) that bringing the diaphgram out produces a more nasally sound. if you pull in the abdomen, like caruso or lehmann prescribes, it goes up into your true mask rather than through your nose. This method should only be done when singing though

@CarlAStevens I think there's room for flexibility in interpretation of ison for sure, as there is with basically all interpretations within Byzantine Chant. I guess I could give a historic practice argument for breathing with the melody. If one is to believe that the ison developed either from or alongside the organum of western gregorian chant, then ison is almost a separate line of music rather than just a drone, even if it is how it is treated. That is why ison typically is imitating the words of the chanter. As a result of the historic practice and matching the phrasing and diction of the chanter, I would say ison would breathe with the chanter. However, it's not black and white, there are different schools of thought and interpretation, so if you find that ison sounds best (especially in a drier space) when it is held out, then do what sounds best.

@ The fact that you responded, and so thoroughly and quickly is noteworthy. Thank you. Of interest to me is how “what I like” actually has any place in the discourse. In a way though, that is a side point. I suppose I am influenced by my feelings when I hear monastic chanters and Gregorian Chant and the precision with which they produce sound. It’s possible I want Byzantine chant to behave as they do.

Yup, I will when I am at my computer

Check the description, learnbyzantinechant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Polychronion-of-Metropolitan-Saba-Phrygian-1.pdf

try to match your ison to the phrasing of the music you are singing along to. You may find having direction in your ison, even if it is just one note, will give it better support and energy and allow you to sing ison for longer. One of the problems in singing that prevents singers from utilizing their breath efficiently is matching their breath to the phrasing the want. If that does not help, oftentimes, using less air is the better option. Air speed is not volume, but support, so if you can "restrict" your air (of course, without tension), to have a faster air stream with a smaller volume of air moving. Your sound will still sound supported. There are a ton of factors that go into sound production, but the TL;DR of this is try to use less air to create the same sound. Hope this helps

no, C is like Ni

I plan to make more videos this coming winter break regarding more singing technique habits to avoid. Especially given the vast misinformation that can be damaging to the voice.

He is the best, no doubt about it!

I too would like to hear this!

8 with enharmonic and diatonic variants

Thanks Nahome! Same set up as last few videos, but I'm adjusting around with lighting

Greysen!! I hope this helps haha

@williamdai8796 Thanks William, I appreciate the kind words!

I believe I probably intended to put a gorgon there and I missed it... Good catch!

​@@MichaelAzarMusicThanks so much! I was racking my brains there 😂

@milesfowler5020 Yes, I remember rushing to get this series out, my other series were lectures from a class I did and the material was not mine so I had to delete them all and swap them with my own. I guess this mistake went under the radar haha

Hey Stan, I think I'll make a video on this and give my thoughts on a good regime

@@MichaelAzarMusic Nice idea! God bless you!