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Rita Castillo Voice
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Добавлен 23 апр 2019
Hello. Welcome to Rita Castillo Voice RUclips Channel! I am a singer and voice teacher/coach in Long Beach California.
I’ve created this channel to make tutorial videos that give you the same training I give my private students. I cover a variety of subjects of vocal technique, inner work, and also performance tips.
I have decades of experience singing in a variety of situations and I know what works, what doesn’t, and also what might cause harm down the road. I refer to it as “Singing for Real.”
When singers learn new techniques and improve their skillsets, they discover that they have so many more options to work with and start basing their style on their strengths. You have your own unique beautiful voice inside and may need to just be shown how to use the tools in your vocal tool box. You can then develop into the brilliant singer you never knew you were.
If you would like to work with me privately, connect with me through my website www.ritacastillovoice.com
I’ve created this channel to make tutorial videos that give you the same training I give my private students. I cover a variety of subjects of vocal technique, inner work, and also performance tips.
I have decades of experience singing in a variety of situations and I know what works, what doesn’t, and also what might cause harm down the road. I refer to it as “Singing for Real.”
When singers learn new techniques and improve their skillsets, they discover that they have so many more options to work with and start basing their style on their strengths. You have your own unique beautiful voice inside and may need to just be shown how to use the tools in your vocal tool box. You can then develop into the brilliant singer you never knew you were.
If you would like to work with me privately, connect with me through my website www.ritacastillovoice.com
No Time to Practice
No time to practice? We've all been there. Life gets busy and we just don't find the time to set aside for singing. Then we get down on ourselves for not being disciplined.
Life happens, so cut yourself some slack. In this video, I share some easy strategies to keep your voice limber and healthy all day long. We carry our voice with us wherever we go and just by being aware of how we use it in everyday life can make a difference in keeping it in shape. You can show love to your voice 24 hours a day!
Remember: Singing is fun!
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I am a singer and voice teacher/coach in Long Beach California.
I’ve cr...
Life happens, so cut yourself some slack. In this video, I share some easy strategies to keep your voice limber and healthy all day long. We carry our voice with us wherever we go and just by being aware of how we use it in everyday life can make a difference in keeping it in shape. You can show love to your voice 24 hours a day!
Remember: Singing is fun!
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I am a singer and voice teacher/coach in Long Beach California.
I’ve cr...
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Видео
Power Up Your Belt
Просмотров 9821 день назад
Power up your belt. Singers want to belt! It's exciting and powerful. If you are wanting to learn to belt in a sustainable way, this is a great video to get you started. In this video we are going to learn to understand the elements of belt for the contemporary singing voice. We will look at what belt is, what precautions to look out for and how to do it healthfully with 4 exercises and song ap...
Use Your Face To Brighten Your Tone
Просмотров 108Месяц назад
Use your face to brighten your tone. Slight changes in the face muscles can greatly affect the outcome of the resonance in your voice. If you are struggling with a muddy voice that is dull and lacks sizzle, it could just be a case of "face posture." In this video I show you how to use the position of your mouth, cheeks and even eyes to add brightness and clarity to your singing. Be sure to comm...
Classical vs Contemporary: Vocal Training Breakdown
Просмотров 1042 месяца назад
Classical vs Contemporary: Vocal Training Breakdown Confused about classical and contemporary vocal training? What are the differences? Which should you pursue in your vocal journey? Is it true that if you can sing classically you can sing anything? I answer these questions and more in this video. I also share some differences in the two type of techniques so you can come to your own conclusion...
Mastering Onsets like a Pro
Просмотров 2613 месяца назад
Mastering Onsets Like a Pro! Every sound you make with your voice, whether speaking or singing, is set up before it comes out. How we set it up can affect the sound that follows. In this video, I give an overview of onsets, which are the setups at the beginning of our phrases. I describe three ways we can set up our vocal folds that can affect different tone qualities. By utilizing different on...
Start Singing Live Now!
Просмотров 1914 месяца назад
Start Singing Live Now! If you have been working on your vocal technique diligently, but have never performed live, there is so much you have not learned yet. In this video I encourage you to start performing now. Yes, now, even before you become that "perfect" singer. (spoiler alert: there is no such thing as a perfect singer) Your singing will upgrade beyond what you can imagine. I hope this ...
Twang! Your Super Power
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Twang: Your Super power to effortless power. Twang is one of the most important skills you need in your vocal toolbox for powerful singing. It's that bright, forward and powerful quality you get by narrowing the vocal tract, particularly the aeryepiglottic sphincter. It's that bright and ringing sound you need for powerful singing. It gives you the volume and tone you want with less effort. I s...
Controlling Your Soft Palate
Просмотров 1525 месяцев назад
Controlling Your Soft Palate. Nasality gets a bad rap, especially for those who struggle with it consistently. However maintaining a constant high soft palate is not necessarily the rule either. In this video I explain nasal resonance and nasality and the difference. I show you how to position your soft palate that is most appropriate depending on the genre and particular song you are singing. ...
Love Your Vocal Workouts
Просмотров 495 месяцев назад
Love your vocal workouts. Do you love practicing your vocal exercises such as scales, technique work, and conditioning? To improve our singing it sometimes involves doing exercises that might be annoying or boring. We often skip them and get right to singing. But if we know a particular technique exercise has been presented to us, and we know it will benefit us, deep inside, we know we should d...
Jaw Tension
Просмотров 816 месяцев назад
Jaw Tension. Excessive jaw tension can sabotage your singing and you may not even know you have it. In this video I show you three ways jaw tension can sabotage our singing: The position of the jaw, the way we move our jaw and tight jaw muscles. I am a singer and voice teacher/coach in Long Beach California. I’ve created this channel to make tutorial videos that give you the same training I giv...
How is Your Vocal Technique?
Просмотров 1418 месяцев назад
How is your vocal technique? Is it working for you? Is your singing getting better and better and are you reaching your vocal goals? Maybe you are thinking to yourself that you aren't really sure what vocal technique is and you wonder if the exercises you are doing are actually helping you achieve the voice of your dreams. In this video, I explain what vocal technique is and give you eight ques...
Are Voice Lessons Dangerous for Children?
Просмотров 818 месяцев назад
Are Voice Lessons Dangerous for Children? Years ago I heard that children should not take voice lessons because their voices aren't developed yet and could cause damage. I have heard it many times since. Guess what? It is a myth. If a child wants to sing, getting them with a voice teacher who understands how to work with young voices has numerous benefits. In this video, I share how this myth m...
Stage Fright
Просмотров 759 месяцев назад
Stage fright. Every performer has experienced some degree of stage fright at one time or another. Usually we get a little nervous and then calm down as we start singing. We love to sing, but for some, singing in front of others is quite frightening. For those moments when it seems like it's going to take over, what do we do? In this video I give several strategies to calm the nervous system dow...
Finding Your Forward Resonance
Просмотров 46410 месяцев назад
Finding your Forward resonance. In this video I show you how to get that forward buzzy focused tone that is the foundation for much of your microphone singing. There isn't one "correct" resonance for popular contemporary styles, but getting a clear focused sound is a necessary skill to have in your vocal toolbox. If your voice feels "stuck" in the back of your throat, this video will help! I am...
Sustaining Long Notes
Просмотров 11911 месяцев назад
Sustaining Long Notes. Sometimes we need to hold a note for a few measures or sing a very long phrase on one breath. This can seem a little intimidating and maybe we stay away from songs with long held out notes, or we just cut them off too soon. There are a few reasons we might run out of air while singing a long sustained note. 1. Breath. (Getting enough and managing it) 2. Not enough vocal c...
My #1 Exercise to Strengthen Your Voice
Просмотров 421Год назад
My #1 Exercise to Strengthen Your Voice
How to Sing Softly Without Breathiness
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.Год назад
How to Sing Softly Without Breathiness
How the weather affects your singing voice.
Просмотров 76Год назад
How the weather affects your singing voice.
How to Move Forward and Achieve Your Vocal Goals
Просмотров 115Год назад
How to Move Forward and Achieve Your Vocal Goals
Wow one the better videos ive watched on twang. Thank you!!
Fab Rita as always!🎉
Thank you so much John!
Very nice lesson... What i like is the examples you provide, it gives greater insight to whats really happening.
Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful.
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.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I try not to teach myths, but I'm still learning all the time myself.
@ritacastillovoice Thanks for the reply...and of course it's Awe-some your still learning every day to prevent less and fewer myths from being pushed out there.
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.
That's a very good idea! There is a lot to say about singing like a pro. Thanks for the suggestion.
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!
Thank you! So glad it was helpful!
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?
Great question! I should have addressed that in the video. My definition of support is engaging the anchoring muscles such as the neck, pecs, lats, and lower back. Abs engaged but not tight. The more intense belting type singing the more engagement. For this quiet singing, we aren't completely relaxed like a dish rag, but the support is very light almost relaxed. Too much engagement can cause the wrong kind of tension in my opinion. As far as breath goes, (which I separate from the word, support) it 's a very low pressure breath. Just enough to finish a phrase. Too much breath pressure and the voice gets strained and tight or breaks into breathiness. Does that answer your question?
Beautiful! I'm gonna practice this straight away
Awesome!
aha!! Im on it!! BTW I love the intro on your videos!!
Great! Thank you!
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 !!!!
Thank you for your very kind words! That means a lot to me!
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.
I'm glad this was useful! With all the processing in that song, it's really hard to hear what he is really doing. I hear falsetto on the bridge and the compression and auto-tune etc...in the production squeezes out the breathiness that I think he is really using. Nothing wrong with that. But I could be wrong. It's just how I'm hearing it.
Brilliant !!! Thank you sooo much !..
Thank you for commenting! I'm glad you liked it.
Thank you !. It was useful ! 🌷
that’s a topic that has been on my mind for a while now. Thank you. I immediately subscribed.
I'm glad you found it helpful! Thank you for subscribing!
Beautiful Rita. Thank you 🙏
Great video and advice, Rita!!
I am only recently watching this, but I wanted to thank you for not using "head" and "chest" with your students.
tx for reminding me to watch this one! yes "mixed voice" as a term I never heard of either until RUclips :)
I know, right?
nice job thanks❤
Hi Rita. Just found your channel. I love to sing, but I am not a singer. What interests me is to see if vocal training can enhance my voice for public speaking. I have noticed that my pitch goes up when I'm nervous. Other times I speak better, but I wonder if there are any exercises to do before a speaking engagment? To also project better. If I sing better, that would be a bonus. I play some instruments, but I am very shy when singing in public and mostly don't.
I'm so glad you found the channel! Yes! Vocal training can certainly help the voice for public speaking. I work with a lot of speakers such as teachers. There are definitely some very helpful exercises you can do before a speaking engagement and also exercises to do regularly to condition your voice so it is strong all the time. If you would like personal help, connect with me at my website: ritacastillovoice.com. Or you can email me at ritacastillovoice@gmail.com.
Great video nobody talked about it the way you did. Learning about false cuord because of tension. Tenk you.
Great explanation & teaching style❤
Thank you so much!
What else would you suggest to stop the false vocal chords from taking over, Or what would you suggest for someone with muscle tension dysphonia… I was a singer…
I would have to know a little more about you to address the muscle tension dysphonia. I hope you are getting help for that. For the false folds, do you notice patterns in your singing or speaking where they like to take over? Is it in moments of stress or belted high notes? First having that awareness is helpful. False folds like to take over when your brain perceives danger. I really like practicing a silent relaxed breath and then sing a line from that relaxed space. Another thing you can do is think a very sad sob when singing a song. Try singing "Happy Birthday," as if you were mourning something. Feel the expansion in your throat. Get to know that feeling and apply it to songs where the constriction tries to take over. If you experience constrictions while speaking, perhaps it is when you are tired or stressed. For me, when my body is too relaxed and I'm slumping, I tend to speak with a little constriction. If I straighten up and engage my back and pec muscles a bit it releases those pesky false folds. Keep working at it. It's worth it!
Hola Rita castillo
Thanks, such clarity, not aspiring to become a singer but I tried the vocal exercises and wow!!!
Such great info!
finally! i watched the whole video through, and worked with you .. very helpful. It had me thinking and experimenting. Thank you Rita 😊
Thank you Janet! I'm soooo glad it was helpful!
As a beginner, I can verify that watching a video is difficult- great advice to record yourself and look for person to person interaction 👍
Will have to try this exercise out… I appreciate the video tips!
“Dynamic range”- interesting! I learned something new… thanks!
This lesson was helpful! Thanks!