I was literally thinking "sleep is the biggest impact" before you mentioned it. I notice how on the weekened I am more relaxed and rested and my voice is often in good shape, I also have more time to calmly warm up and enjoy singing throughout the day rather than try to blast it in a practice session where I am impatient.
Well, I’m definitely trying to make a living like anyone else ! I’d be lying if I said otherwise but I also just can’t help but have a really keen attention to detail in how i offer information. That’s part of why I enjoy coaching. Plus I’ve been through the journey with my voice in a big way and I know the obstacles, psychologically, culturally, physically and why they are tricky to overcome. I’m always really pleased to read these positive comments on my teaching . Huge Thanks!
Thanks ! I will keep them coming as best I can. I juggle a lot of different music jobs but this is the most fun and exciting part of what I currently do I must say. It’s been great filling the diary with new worldwide online students! Love it
Your video's are clear, concise and your methodology of teaching removed so much of the confusion that some other channels had left me with. It's like now - I finally understand what they were all TRYING to say - but their information always left me with a big weakness in my singing while I focused on such specific aspects of my sound (tension, lack of intensity, silly amounts of nasality, squeezing like mad etc). I have been way too good at pulling my chest up to notes higher than my bridge and managing an excess of tension to squeeze out these notes with distortion etc, to realise now that that's WHY I don't like my singing. Past couple days I applied your methodology as best I could and got amazing results today. Effortless range but power and resonation with it, sooooo much less tension and so much more freedom. Better and more intimate singing when I want to (always SUCKED at that), more or less air in the tone when I want to, more or less nasality (but I still have a lot of that when I go for high notes beyond C5). Anyway, I can't thank you enough for your videos man. It feels like you don't hold any information back from us and genuinely just want us to discover what you did to become better singers. Cheers!
Even my scream sounds brighter and more intense if I sort of apply the same 'free' feeling to it and ditch the silly amount of force I was using before. Fuck yeah dude!
This is awesome. If I had written the most ideal response I’d like to receive on my new RUclips channel, it probably wouldn’t have been as good as this. It really does make my day, honestly, coz I just really hope it makes sense to people. Yeah, I am so keen to see people improve and take on these things and try to understand it all. There are so many pieces to the puzzle. It’s very confusing, sometimes contradictory, and plain weird to get our heads round this stuff at times. The absolute best of luck with your singing; this summer I’ll be able to put a lot more content up and some other courses and things I’ve been wanting to create. I hope it continues to help… all the best
@@singingmatterscalder Thanks so much man! Another sick practice today. So happy with my range now. I hit a D#5 today and it sounded 'pretty', not like a squeezed out siren, nor did it have to be weak. I can slip up into old school rock-like wails really easily from there and it'll take some practice to master, but it feels so good. Yeah, I think everyone's journey is going to be completely different, you seem to have in mind two majorly different approaches to singing, for those who sing too soft, and for those who sing to hard, and I was always both of these at the same time! If I wanted power I was pushing and squeezing too much. If I wanted to be intimate I would flip far too easily into an unsupported falsetto I couldn't get back from, and no amount of crying, lowering/raising the larynx, or diaphragmatic control was helping me solve it but your approach in just a few vids has really guided me into the 'middle ground' I've been searching for, where it all seems to come together. Legend! I hope your channel gets the support it deserves in the near future. I'm sure it will! I will recommend you to any friend interesting in learning to sing. Cheers.
Absolutely spot on as alway dude, I love listening to your intuitive thinking 🤘🏼 you can only explain so much (which you do brilliantly) but it all comes down to being instinctive and intuitive yourself to find and feel it and creating new paths to smoothen your registers and blend them. I still find myself tightening up now and again, but the improvements I’ve made are second to none. Keep the videos coming man, this channel will be so so popular by the end of the 2024. RUclips needs your organic approach for vocal coaching 👍🏼
Very clear and easy to understand, much appreciated. I personally start to lose cord adduction as I pass through the break, so it’s a struggle to compress the sound into something credible.
I do have a question. What is at the top of mix voice? I can get there, but don't know how to do whatever is next. Is it just stretching further? But that kind of feels like the same mistake that stretching chest way out feels like.
Here is a way to think about it. It’s all mixed voice. Every single part of your range is a mix and blend of the muscles and the resonance every single note is its own register., everything is on a long grey scale gradually going from one thing to the other. That’s just a way to think about it each note a slightly different stretch and balance of the muscles and a slightly different resonance but as you go up to the notes it moves into a slightly different space goes up into the head holding onto the chest, a tiny amount, that all you are doing is slightly squeaking to pull the cords together so it doesn’t go breathy and falsetto. So in the very top register, you only need to apply a bit of squeak that’s enough. I hope that helps in someway
@@nevermindthebull0cks you’d be amazed how light he’s actually doing some of those top notes. Just holding the cords together enough but it’s a tiny sound . So controlled . You’d have to send me a clip or jump on for a free consultation so I can see what you’re doing .
I was literally thinking "sleep is the biggest impact" before you mentioned it. I notice how on the weekened I am more relaxed and rested and my voice is often in good shape, I also have more time to calmly warm up and enjoy singing throughout the day rather than try to blast it in a practice session where I am impatient.
I wish I felt more rested at the weekend! Yeah it makes everything much harder work and then strain creeps in .
Also very very relatable. I feel like you're actually teaching us as opposed to teasing us with knowledge for us to buy something.
Well, I’m definitely trying to make a living like anyone else ! I’d be lying if I said otherwise but I also just can’t help but have a really keen attention to detail in how i offer information. That’s part of why I enjoy coaching. Plus I’ve been through the journey with my voice in a big way and I know the obstacles, psychologically, culturally, physically and why they are tricky to overcome.
I’m always really pleased to read these positive comments on my teaching . Huge Thanks!
thank you so much for your videos man! really great stuff. Hope to see more!
you think you could do a breakdown on Dallas Green's voice from City and Colour?
Massive thanks and I will definitely keep them coming as much as possible !
Great video and ‘actual’ demonstrations on sounds and direction
Thanks 🙏
2:00 in the morning and I've just discovered this channel. Ill get some rest and check this out in detain in the morning (pronounced afternoon).
please keep these great videos coming, u have great knowledge that are rare to find anywhere else!
Thanks ! I will keep them coming as best I can. I juggle a lot of different music jobs but this is the most fun and exciting part of what I currently do I must say. It’s been great filling the diary with new worldwide online students! Love it
Yes! First one here! Keep them coming man please I appreciate your teachings. They make so much better sense than others.
Thanks! That means a lot , really , a lot !
Your video's are clear, concise and your methodology of teaching removed so much of the confusion that some other channels had left me with. It's like now - I finally understand what they were all TRYING to say - but their information always left me with a big weakness in my singing while I focused on such specific aspects of my sound (tension, lack of intensity, silly amounts of nasality, squeezing like mad etc).
I have been way too good at pulling my chest up to notes higher than my bridge and managing an excess of tension to squeeze out these notes with distortion etc, to realise now that that's WHY I don't like my singing. Past couple days I applied your methodology as best I could and got amazing results today. Effortless range but power and resonation with it, sooooo much less tension and so much more freedom. Better and more intimate singing when I want to (always SUCKED at that), more or less air in the tone when I want to, more or less nasality (but I still have a lot of that when I go for high notes beyond C5).
Anyway, I can't thank you enough for your videos man. It feels like you don't hold any information back from us and genuinely just want us to discover what you did to become better singers.
Cheers!
Even my scream sounds brighter and more intense if I sort of apply the same 'free' feeling to it and ditch the silly amount of force I was using before. Fuck yeah dude!
This is awesome. If I had written the most ideal response I’d like to receive on my new RUclips channel, it probably wouldn’t have been as good as this. It really does make my day, honestly, coz I just really hope it makes sense to people.
Yeah, I am so keen to see people improve and take on these things and try to understand it all. There are so many pieces to the puzzle. It’s very confusing, sometimes contradictory, and plain weird to get our heads round this stuff at times.
The absolute best of luck with your singing; this summer I’ll be able to put a lot more content up and some other courses and things I’ve been wanting to create.
I hope it continues to help… all the best
@@singingmatterscalder Thanks so much man! Another sick practice today. So happy with my range now. I hit a D#5 today and it sounded 'pretty', not like a squeezed out siren, nor did it have to be weak. I can slip up into old school rock-like wails really easily from there and it'll take some practice to master, but it feels so good.
Yeah, I think everyone's journey is going to be completely different, you seem to have in mind two majorly different approaches to singing, for those who sing too soft, and for those who sing to hard, and I was always both of these at the same time! If I wanted power I was pushing and squeezing too much. If I wanted to be intimate I would flip far too easily into an unsupported falsetto I couldn't get back from, and no amount of crying, lowering/raising the larynx, or diaphragmatic control was helping me solve it but your approach in just a few vids has really guided me into the 'middle ground' I've been searching for, where it all seems to come together.
Legend! I hope your channel gets the support it deserves in the near future. I'm sure it will! I will recommend you to any friend interesting in learning to sing. Cheers.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! There aren’t many teachers out there that make it as clear as you do. Keep it up!
I’m over the moon that people keep saying this kind of thing and I hope it helps . Cheers
Absolutely spot on as alway dude, I love listening to your intuitive thinking 🤘🏼 you can only explain so much (which you do brilliantly) but it all comes down to being instinctive and intuitive yourself to find and feel it and creating new paths to smoothen your registers and blend them. I still find myself tightening up now and again, but the improvements I’ve made are second to none. Keep the videos coming man, this channel will be so so popular by the end of the 2024. RUclips needs your organic approach for vocal coaching 👍🏼
Thanks Sam! Really appreciate that. ! ❤
Very clear and easy to understand, much appreciated. I personally start to lose cord adduction as I pass through the break, so it’s a struggle to compress the sound into something credible.
The 360 around the lumber breath support. Top tip of the year. Love to get a lesson with you!
Let me know, lessons online available via my site in the description. Glad that helped !
Thought this video was about why you cant sing during your lunch break - yet .... "but with this new tech...."
The voice is a moving target
That was Line Hilton’s quote !
Nice.
Thanks.
Again excellent- thx thx❤
I do have a question.
What is at the top of mix voice? I can get there, but don't know how to do whatever is next.
Is it just stretching further? But that kind of feels like the same mistake that stretching chest way out feels like.
Here is a way to think about it. It’s all mixed voice. Every single part of your range is a mix and blend of the muscles and the resonance every single note is its own register., everything is on a long grey scale gradually going from one thing to the other. That’s just a way to think about it each note a slightly different stretch and balance of the muscles and a slightly different resonance but as you go up to the notes it moves into a slightly different space goes up into the head holding onto the chest, a tiny amount, that all you are doing is slightly squeaking to pull the cords together so it doesn’t go breathy and falsetto. So in the very top register, you only need to apply a bit of squeak that’s enough. I hope that helps in someway
@@singingmatterscalder Ahh, I don't have any squeak. I learned from mimicking Chris Cornell, went the shrill route:)
@@nevermindthebull0cks you’d be amazed how light he’s actually doing some of those top notes. Just holding the cords together enough but it’s a tiny sound . So controlled . You’d have to send me a clip or jump on for a free consultation so I can see what you’re doing .
@@singingmatterscalder Probably pushing, as usual.... I tried the small quiet ng to get that closure, have to work on that way up there.