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Frank Duarte

Why are people still teaching twang? It has already been proven to be a constrictive tension and not what you want in your singing voice. This is opera! channel proved it, General Radames, and more. What gives volume and brilliance is chest voice participation TA muscles, and an OPEN throat NOT twang. Twang is a constriction, literally, it is a closing of the throat, it dramatically shrinks the voice. It may create noise in the tone, a pseudo brilliance, but if you want brilliant harmonics in the sound of your whole range you must keep chest voice participation coordinating it with the CT muscles through the whole range. An open throat, free air flow, and clear vowles. But you want an open throat, that maximizes resonance and volume of the voice in tandem with the chest voice. Twang may help you to a small degree at first, but it will lead to many voice problems and it begets many other defects that slowly slowly get wose over time unless something is changed. Listen to real old school chairoscuro singers speak, and then listen to twang and compression people speak. The former has a huge clear resonant and FREE speaking voice, the latter a small held voice with very little body to the voice, it is very thin sounding, like only the edge of the vocal cords are vibrating and they are also squeezed together. The chiaroscuro singers voices like Tettrazini, Mario DelMonaco, Titto Ruffo, Jerry Hadley, and many others. Whether male or female they have huge presence in their voice even when speaking and much much more while singing. That is not natural per se, it is because of their technique, how their instrument is making the sound. And this is not limited only to opera, good singing is good singing. In opera everything is taken to the max, but even in folk music or whatever else, proper vocal production is proer vocal productioin. Squeezing and constriction is not the way. I know, I used to do and teach this twang and compression thing for years, until I found the This is opera! channel and other like channels. There are many people out there lying and misrepresenting the information on that channel and other like channels, so do be very careful, there are many imposters, liars, and deceivers misrepresenting the informatioin I am summerizing here..

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I disagree with this video. Classical technique can cross over easily to popular styles. You just need to understand how to modify it. Modified Belcanto is what all the greatest Contemporary voices used.

Great insight. Thank you Rita ❤

I enjoyed that.

Thank you! ❤

Great job, thanks!

Is twang the same as using “mixed” voice ?

I would be in the mature category, know nothing about pitch or singing on key. I'm working on teaching myself to sing, just for fun. I have no desire to do it professionally. Still, all my life I thought I couldn't sing, and then one day, and I couldn't tell you why, I did a search on if an older person could learn to sing. I saw encouraging results, so thought I'd give it a try. 😃

I wonder whether things like range have a genetic component, just in terms of physiology. But music is proper training and committment and dedication and perserverance and practice. I agree with you - in some ways, in my experience, "talent" can hinder someone's progression after a certain point, because they've found it "easy" to make good gains initially with little effort, and then when they hit that wall (which they always will), they find they haven't developed the necessary work ethic to carry them through. At that point they either sink or swim. I did it with piano as a kid. I was "talented" - I grew up with a dad who played piano, a mum who sang, and music always playing. I had a naturally good ear and a very good memory for music - hear it once and remember it forever kind of thing. It took my piano teacher until I hit third grade to realise I was remembering the songs she played for me at the end of each lesson and learning them by ear, and not reading the music to learn them each week. At that point life got a lot more difficult because I had avoided learning how to read music, at least in a way that allowed me to play reasonably fluently. In any event, now I am a teacher myself (not music - I'm a mathematics professor) I still believe there's such a thing as being naturally gifted, but it means nothing, and can actually be a hindrance to progression, without appropriate guidance and training. That certainly doesn't mean one size fits all training either - having a gifted student actually puts more responsibility on the teacher to work out the best ways to guide that person - standard methods probably won't apply to some things.

I have always loved singing. I did it all the time. I had/have pretty much no vocal talent. My family made sure I really knew. I couldn't sing but that was ok I liked doing it. I've always believed anyone could sing but never really earnestly tried to improve. I think I was afraid of failing. I was ok for me to sing poorly I wasn't a singing but if I learned to sing and was still bad, that was scary. Well fast foward I was unemployed. I had been wanting to learn how to sing for something like 15 years enough is enough I was getting a voice teacher when I got a job, and I did. I sucked! Kept going to lessons! Sucked some more! Now i'm Beyoncé. I'm kidding. I'm still a new singer. I don't suck tho! I often make mistakes but I can sing. Over the months learning to sing has gotten easier. The amount of progress that would take me 3 months can now often be done in a week. Also when I do have those days where I feel I suck, im ok with it I can suck, I'm going to keep practicing. Back to talent. I had very little on singing well. The tone of my voice doesn't sound similar to many voices I have heard. I have a decently large range, which I think is common in my family. I have a high IQ, perhaps this has helped me with learning. These things could all be considered "talents" for me they weren't able to come out until I had some foundation of skill. Writing that out i'm like duh! In the arts we seem to think we need to be good at things before we learn them. Imagine if we did this with other things. "Alright jimmy you can't to engineering school because you can't build a bridge" I think how we think about talent is more important then talent itself.

According to David L Burge adults can learn Perfect Pitch; myself being able to get at least 5 of the notes in one octave, by Perfect Pitch: in Melodic Dictations part of Functional Ear Training app (which is supposed to be a Relative Pitch trainer). But the secret behind it is childishly simple and I have started retraining with Absolute Pitch app after few year's hiatus, where I have got up to all the notes in one octave [including black keys]; in about a week. But few years ago on previous tablet, I had learnt octaves 3, 4 & 5 and most of octave 1: however if changing from default piano or speaker then I will be completely lost - there being different levels of Perfect Pitch with the one you mentioned (where pitch is named first, prior to singing): being deemed the most difficult. As a child and prior to learning to speak, I could somehow sing along to the lyrics of records played by my parents - mainly in Double Harmonic where it is common for songs to span over into neighbouring octaves. However I did Not learn to actually play music until well into adulthood, despite being one out of only seven students in my entire year who picked music in high school.

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Really interesting. Thank you I met one guy on a course with perfect pitch.. was fascinating I have good the good pitch memory you describe.. usually, but not always! Knowing where to start a song that I sing regularly I feel that has something to do with the feel of pitches in my voice

Love this!

Thank you for this great video. You remind me of the woman who played Phoebe's mom on Friends😊

Awesome

Thanks Rita this really allowed me to control my voice Better!

Wow one the better videos ive watched on twang. Thank you!!

Fab Rita as always!🎉

Very nice lesson... What i like is the examples you provide, it gives greater insight to whats really happening.

Great explanation and examples of twang. Very helpful, Thank you.

Super helpful!!

Very nice! Do you speaking Spanish? Because I don't understand everything

Contemporary does not put near enough importance on breath support. It builds puny voices with no gravitas. You have males bridging way earlier than necessary in their range because they've been fed the lie that "belting" (or what contemporary singing calls belting) is unhealthy.

Thanks for the myth busting, even if you might make some, but I have yet to hear any from you that I can tell.

A very interesting video. Thank you. Could you make a video on singing like a pro? Many people do not listen much to melody or lyrics, seems that only want to hear a tv-like performance.

thx

I like the very simple tone-deafness test. I noticed that when singing with an instrument I'm getting less precise in pitch.

This is a very useful video, thank you! You transformed my high notes singing! ♥

I have been watching your videos when the algorithm suggests them, I still have to watch the rest of this one. But wanted to thank you so far from doing the first demonstration of a glottal stop. I have been trying to learn to sing from the kindness of other people's voices, directions from loved ones, and teachers, but not once ever in person was the glottal stop mentioned. I only heard maybe an example of a glottal stop or what I think of as "glottal tapping," depending on how much "breath" I think I can hear vs. no breath. Will watch the rest later. I just thought it was time I started commenting as well.

very helpful

Thank you Rita now I get it

Very useful for us novices!

I love your teachings, would love to know what good practice routines look like.

When I remove my hands while doing vowels I no longer feel a buzz?

Very nice

Great video, Rita! Just found you and subbed to your channel!

This is really helpful. One of biggest problem is over singing with tension in my midi range. I’m hoping these exercises balance that out. Glad you did this video because this is hardly ever addressed. Question: should we still be engaging support for light singing?

Beautiful! I'm gonna practice this straight away

aha!! Im on it!! BTW I love the intro on your videos!!

video starts around 3:35 😢

Rita, thank you for sharing your knoweledges. Your videos are really very usefull !.. I trully wish success for your channell, it definitely deserves it !!!!

This is useful for me. I sound terrible trying to sing the bridge in Weeknd - The Hills. I can hit all the high notes without tension, I can even do them full-bodied and loud, but I can't do them softly like the Weeknd does it.

Brilliant !!! Thank you sooo much !..

Thank you !. It was useful ! 🌷

that’s a topic that has been on my mind for a while now. Thank you. I immediately subscribed.

Beautiful Rita. Thank you 🙏