good exercises, thanks! I think the last exercise you mentioned also engages the diaphragm and then I feel like my upper register just kind of blossoms out of the middle voice :)
Kind of. It's a good start. Just make sure you're tongue isn't too far back. Feel the bottom of yout jaw beneath the tongue. If it feels hard and pressed, you want to avoid this. Your teacher wants you to lift your soft palette which is a part of the back of the roof of your mouth that you can control. Yawns help learn to control it.
Thanks for this video. Any thoughts on how to onset much higher in falsetto? For example, onsetting around a high C but with a light mechanism and free-flowing breath? I’ve read often about “sigh-colored” vowels and the idea of sighing as a way to access higher notes with ease. But I almost always feel as if I must intentionally engage my chords when I’m up high, and of course that intentional engagement never works well. So perhaps another way to ask my question in line with your video is, how do you just breath and sing up high? It seems as if the mechanism up high is different (TA v. CT, I suppose, not that such nomenclature is especially useful for me). Sighing seems like a reasonable approach, but it always feels as if I’m over adducting when I’m high. I can’t seem to fully crack my voice into falsetto. Thoughts? Thanks again.
Hey there! Thanks for this, this is a really good question. I’m gonna make a video on this one as well. The “sigh” or “siren” thing can be really good, but I think we also have to talk about preparing the breath. I’ll try and talk about this in the next week or so. Thanks for the question!
Very helpful. I overthink every sound I make and it’s ruining my progress. Especially lip trills! I’m worried my mouth is dry or my breath isn’t big enough. I know I know how to do this, but I can’t. Do other singers get off track, so to speak, by anxiety? Does it get better?
The sound that you think is basic and natural is actually manufactured and burdensome. You can hear a loose vibrato in all of those "off-the-cuff" aaaaahs that you sing. A loose vibrato is a technical issue. You are making that vibrato happen. Your balance is off, and you're steering the voice with muscles that would prefer to be left out of the equation. A more relaxed but still bright and declamatory tone would have a much, much tighter vibrato, which would even be hard to detect in a simple one-off note like that. Unfortunately, learning that technique seems to be very, very hard for singers nowadays. It was the default before WWII.
so simple and good! thank you! I was wondering if you could make a video on low notes... I feel like my voice goes pretty low but I have been feeling like I add tensions or the tongue gets in the way, I have managed to release most of this but would love some good technique advice from you, to help, also, building more resonance on that part of the range. Thanks in advance, would love more videos of you two singing!
Hey there!! Thanks for asking! You got it👍🏻. I’ve got one coming up on prepping high notes, but I will do something on the bottom of the voice soon. Thanks for watching! Glad it helped!
זזGreat info....The. jazz is distracting!!
I imagine a butterfly's wings coming together for the vocal cord closure
good exercises, thanks! I think the last exercise you mentioned also engages the diaphragm and then I feel like my upper register just kind of blossoms out of the middle voice :)
I love your channel. you two just rock!... er... Aria... er.... you know what I mean
Thank you very much.
Am I supposed to sing like I'm yawning? I've been told to shape my mouth like I'm yawning or making surprised face??? 🤣
Kind of. It's a good start. Just make sure you're tongue isn't too far back. Feel the bottom of yout jaw beneath the tongue. If it feels hard and pressed, you want to avoid this. Your teacher wants you to lift your soft palette which is a part of the back of the roof of your mouth that you can control. Yawns help learn to control it.
@@JoseLuis-xh2il Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.
Thanks for this video. Any thoughts on how to onset much higher in falsetto? For example, onsetting around a high C but with a light mechanism and free-flowing breath? I’ve read often about “sigh-colored” vowels and the idea of sighing as a way to access higher notes with ease. But I almost always feel as if I must intentionally engage my chords when I’m up high, and of course that intentional engagement never works well. So perhaps another way to ask my question in line with your video is, how do you just breath and sing up high? It seems as if the mechanism up high is different (TA v. CT, I suppose, not that such nomenclature is especially useful for me). Sighing seems like a reasonable approach, but it always feels as if I’m over adducting when I’m high. I can’t seem to fully crack my voice into falsetto. Thoughts? Thanks again.
Hey there! Thanks for this, this is a really good question. I’m gonna make a video on this one as well. The “sigh” or “siren” thing can be really good, but I think we also have to talk about preparing the breath. I’ll try and talk about this in the next week or so. Thanks for the question!
@@normanreinhardt387 Thank you, Norman. I look forward to it.
Really looking forward for this. I have the exact same struggle like you.
Very helpful. I overthink every sound I make and it’s ruining my progress. Especially lip trills! I’m worried my mouth is dry or my breath isn’t big enough. I know I know how to do this, but I can’t. Do other singers get off track, so to speak, by anxiety? Does it get better?
The sound that you think is basic and natural is actually manufactured and burdensome. You can hear a loose vibrato in all of those "off-the-cuff" aaaaahs that you sing. A loose vibrato is a technical issue. You are making that vibrato happen. Your balance is off, and you're steering the voice with muscles that would prefer to be left out of the equation. A more relaxed but still bright and declamatory tone would have a much, much tighter vibrato, which would even be hard to detect in a simple one-off note like that. Unfortunately, learning that technique seems to be very, very hard for singers nowadays. It was the default before WWII.
Straight and simple and DOABLE! Thank you for this! :)
What about above the passaggio? Do us tenors need to adduct the chords on an A4 and higher?
Thank you 👌
You sounds like a baryton , no tenor drills?
so simple and good! thank you! I was wondering if you could make a video on low notes... I feel like my voice goes pretty low but I have been feeling like I add tensions or the tongue gets in the way, I have managed to release most of this but would love some good technique advice from you, to help, also, building more resonance on that part of the range. Thanks in advance, would love more videos of you two singing!
Hey there!! Thanks for asking! You got it👍🏻. I’ve got one coming up on prepping high notes, but I will do something on the bottom of the voice soon. Thanks for watching! Glad it helped!
@@normanreinhardt387 thank you! Love to both of you!