Hey man you’re amazing. I’m also learning to sing with a cvt coach after 5 years of self study and it’s all coming along. But I think that watching your videos definitely helped me develop my ears for the different modes. Quality content man. Thanks for working extremely hard and tirelessly for your videos. You deserve way more than some of the other youtubers out there.
Thanks its like I had a free cvt masterclass ^_^ My singing has never been better. Just for 1 day of practice I finally found the center of Edge, Overdrive and the elusive Curbing! Those high notes G4 - B4/C5 becomes so much simplier and easier to access especially for me as a low baritone. I have the 2012 book and sound library and cvt free app. Still I cannot gain control over the modes without watching this video. I finally get it now, so clear. Thanks you very much and may God bless you.
It always blows my mind how you can use different sounds of words as a base, such as "YOH" and then replace the word but keep the same shape and feel of it, in this case replacing it with the "EYE" sound of LIFE. So so clever. I think we both learned a great deal from this instructor. 👍🏻 You're a brilliant singing teacher, Greg - brilliant because you're always questioning and learning about the voice and your own voice, and putting this into practice. A great teacher never has all the answers, but is constantly seeking them. Thanks for the video. 👍🏻
great instructor! A lot of his points about legato and relaxed consonants were very insightful, because they are core precepts of opera, which is part of his background, but he shows just how much they also apply to pop and rock too. Thanks for sharing!
I sang that A so easy following your lead. I trusted I would based on your explanations, but also it’s still such a surprise. I’ve never sung one so fully!
The concept that he mentioned at 9:39 is such a relief to me about my own experience and my assessment in relation to the singers I've known in my life so far. Job well done for both of you with regards to shedding some truths and dispelling myths about vocal pedagogy and the instrument inside us, which is our vocal cord. New subscriber here! 🤗
I started singing for hobby 25 years ago and my first teachers really did not teach me any technique. 15 years ago I came across a vocal coach of speech level singing and that was the first time I had a bit clearer idea about the technique. Thanks to videos on youtube in the last five years I learnt more, so it is true that in the last 20 years the vocal technique has improved so much. I wish I had these informations 25 years ago.
@@SingingRevealed It answered a lot but for me the main thing was how to practically approach the lines of a song and modify the vowels for different modes
Nice to see this collaboration, and to be able to say wow! Nice surprise! Wow interesting and possibly helpful information and they are such generous people!
Thank you so much! I'm from Denmark and I've had some great CVT teachers. I still don't get the "mix voice", so frustrating. I hope I will understand it someday, but the vowels is definitely so important. Even the teacher says that you'll never "get it" if you dont change "gear" which is the four boxes (my cvt teacher says). Love this method and proud of Denmark. :D
@@StudioWestLessons Yes, you're so right about that. It's wierd that so many of us get obsessed with "mixed voice". So yes, I just want to sing without breaks in the voice all the time. I think I have a chest voice and headvoice and no in between, but I'm sure i'll get there with a lot of practice. Thank you, this is properly the best explanation i've seen so far. Thank you
Hi, great videos, really appreciate it but one thing you need to improve on (maybe you already do as this was an older video) is volume compression in the video editor. It's ok to have dynamics, don't squash the limiter. But without any compression and to listen with full volume on head phones because there is no other choice is annoying when a quite talker all of a sudden sings loudly. Ouch! Keep that in mind for future videos and keep them coming, really good stuff! Thanks!
btw just a tip there is a setting you can do on youtube where you can break the youtube progress bar in to different parts, like for example for the first 10mins you can a heading when you hover over the progress bar saying "intro" so it just makes it easier on longer videos to find the exact part you are looking for :)
A few of my teachers actually would have you sing phrases with no consonants. It sounds funny but connecting all the vowels on the phrase and then adding the vowels back in seems to help strengthen the sound.
Great video. Not using what’s called “Contiguous Phrase Singing” (moving between vowels without disrupting the line) is one of the most common mistakes singers make when in the mid & high range. One of the most important practices in Bel Canto. Something other vocal methods like SLS & SS tends to leave out.
@@SingingRevealed I just get scared singing louder and higher because I start losing control. I knew that losing/changing certain vowels helped but I never really applied it. But once I tried it made a huge difference 🥰 thanks again for this video 💖✨
hi Gregory, Could you talk about feelings involved and sound designs in singing in your channel? I'm sure there are not enough material about this published
@@StudioWestLessons Oh goodness, there's probably some computer generated thermonuclearliquid dynamics model out there. Just thinking about it is making my head spin.
The length of time the vocal folds stay closed (closed quotient) significantly changes the sound. It’s possible for a female classical singer to sing sound much louder than a female pop singer in certain pitch ranges, but the pop singer has a longer closed quotient for her sound and the classical singer a longer open quotient. (That is Crazy) A male classical tenor and a rock singer on the other hand have a very similar closed quotient in their high range. Weird and wild stuff... the voice is fascinating.
I'm a voice teacher and doctoral candidate for vocal pedagogy and I want to say. "Singing doesn't happen in a Petri dish". I hear a lot of talk about science and "dispelling myths" and I can say from my own experience singing is an implicit process and must remain that way. One of the many reasons for the degrading of singing in our current times is scientists trying to make it an explicit process and micromanaging all the facets thereof. I'm thinking about making my own singing channel and have been studying. You are on a 'good track' with a lot of your illuminations, there are some missteps I see but I look forward to seeing more.
Hey man you’re amazing. I’m also learning to sing with a cvt coach after 5 years of self study and it’s all coming along. But I think that watching your videos definitely helped me develop my ears for the different modes. Quality content man. Thanks for working extremely hard and tirelessly for your videos. You deserve way more than some of the other youtubers out there.
@@StudioWestLessons I wish for your success man, good luck hey, fingers crossed!!
True! Greg is doing a great job. It was fun filming this.
Thanks its like I had a free cvt masterclass ^_^ My singing has never been better. Just for 1 day of practice I finally found the center of Edge, Overdrive and the elusive Curbing!
Those high notes G4 - B4/C5 becomes so much simplier and easier to access especially for me as a low baritone. I have the 2012 book and sound library and cvt free app. Still I cannot gain control over the modes without watching this video. I finally get it now, so clear. Thanks you very much and may God bless you.
It always blows my mind how you can use different sounds of words as a base, such as "YOH" and then replace the word but keep the same shape and feel of it, in this case replacing it with the "EYE" sound of LIFE. So so clever. I think we both learned a great deal from this instructor. 👍🏻 You're a brilliant singing teacher, Greg - brilliant because you're always questioning and learning about the voice and your own voice, and putting this into practice. A great teacher never has all the answers, but is constantly seeking them. Thanks for the video. 👍🏻
great instructor! A lot of his points about legato and relaxed consonants were very insightful, because they are core precepts of opera, which is part of his background, but he shows just how much they also apply to pop and rock too. Thanks for sharing!
This guy is a genious and you're a bloody legend. As a vocalist and vocal coach this video is gold. Thanks for making this happen! 🤘🥇🙏
I sang that A so easy following your lead. I trusted I would based on your explanations, but also it’s still such a surprise. I’ve never sung one so fully!
The concept that he mentioned at 9:39 is such a relief to me about my own experience and my assessment in relation to the singers I've known in my life so far. Job well done for both of you with regards to shedding some truths and dispelling myths about vocal pedagogy and the instrument inside us, which is our vocal cord.
New subscriber here! 🤗
I started singing for hobby 25 years ago and my first teachers really did not teach me any technique. 15 years ago I came across a vocal coach of speech level singing and that was the first time I had a bit clearer idea about the technique. Thanks to videos on youtube in the last five years I learnt more, so it is true that in the last 20 years the vocal technique has improved so much. I wish I had these informations 25 years ago.
This is literally what I’ve been looking for
Nice! Which questions did it answer?
@@SingingRevealed It answered a lot but for me the main thing was how to practically approach the lines of a song and modify the vowels for different modes
Nice to see this collaboration, and to be able to say wow! Nice surprise! Wow interesting and possibly helpful information and they are such generous people!
Oooooh Greg is back at it again, and the tea is hot!! Thanks Greg!!
Thank you so much! I'm from Denmark and I've had some great CVT teachers. I still don't get the "mix voice", so frustrating. I hope I will understand it someday, but the vowels is definitely so important. Even the teacher says that you'll never "get it" if you dont change "gear" which is the four boxes (my cvt teacher says). Love this method and proud of Denmark. :D
@@StudioWestLessons Yes, you're so right about that. It's wierd that so many of us get obsessed with "mixed voice". So yes, I just want to sing without breaks in the voice all the time. I think I have a chest voice and headvoice and no in between, but I'm sure i'll get there with a lot of practice. Thank you, this is properly the best explanation i've seen so far. Thank you
dayumm this is great greg!!!
This was an incredibly valuable video-lesson, Greg. Thank you
Hi, great videos, really appreciate it but one thing you need to improve on (maybe you already do as this was an older video) is volume compression in the video editor. It's ok to have dynamics, don't squash the limiter. But without any compression and to listen with full volume on head phones because there is no other choice is annoying when a quite talker all of a sudden sings loudly. Ouch! Keep that in mind for future videos and keep them coming, really good stuff! Thanks!
I love your content 😍
btw just a tip there is a setting you can do on youtube where you can break the youtube progress bar in to different parts, like for example for the first 10mins you can a heading when you hover over the progress bar saying "intro" so it just makes it easier on longer videos to find the exact part you are looking for :)
A few of my teachers actually would have you sing phrases with no consonants. It sounds funny but connecting all the vowels on the phrase and then adding the vowels back in seems to help strengthen the sound.
This is incredibly informative, thank you Greg !!
Thanks Greg... now I'mma be walking around the house for the next week or so wondering why I have "Life is a Hah-way" stuck in my head.
This was amazing!
Love it!
Great video.
Not using what’s called “Contiguous Phrase Singing” (moving between vowels without disrupting the line) is one of the most common mistakes singers make when in the mid & high range.
One of the most important practices in Bel Canto. Something other vocal methods like SLS & SS tends to leave out.
So many takeaways in this video ! Thanks !
Thanks for the interview man!
Awesome!!
I also think you should make a polemic on larynx height, especially the whole low-high thing.
Asesine greg !! Thanks for sharing this !
Love this video helped a lot!!!
We had a great time filming this. What helped you the most?
@@SingingRevealed I just get scared singing louder and higher because I start losing control. I knew that losing/changing certain vowels helped but I never really applied it. But once I tried it made a huge difference 🥰 thanks again for this video 💖✨
hi Gregory, Could you talk about feelings involved and sound designs in singing in your channel? I'm sure there are not enough material about this published
Great stuff
Got that almost Robert Lunte high register - so awesome! Keep em coming
Bravo!
Oof, there’s some good shit in here. Especially the sound design section.
Amazing video for vocal nerd like me
So you're telling me that the vocal cords can vibrate at whatever frequency but the ratio of them being closed-open can be different?
@@StudioWestLessons Oh goodness, there's probably some computer generated thermonuclearliquid dynamics model out there. Just thinking about it is making my head spin.
The length of time the vocal folds stay closed (closed quotient) significantly changes the sound. It’s possible for a female classical singer to sing sound much louder than a female pop singer in certain pitch ranges, but the pop singer has a longer closed quotient for her sound and the classical singer a longer open quotient. (That is Crazy) A male classical tenor and a rock singer on the other hand have a very similar closed quotient in their high range. Weird and wild stuff... the voice is fascinating.
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Yall both not belting with me... Im sorry
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@@StudioWestLessons 🤩
Heh Michael! 🙌🏼
the looseness of jaw is essential for volume..
I'm a voice teacher and doctoral candidate for vocal pedagogy and I want to say. "Singing doesn't happen in a Petri dish". I hear a lot of talk about science and "dispelling myths" and I can say from my own experience singing is an implicit process and must remain that way. One of the many reasons for the degrading of singing in our current times is scientists trying to make it an explicit process and micromanaging all the facets thereof. I'm thinking about making my own singing channel and have been studying. You are on a 'good track' with a lot of your illuminations, there are some missteps I see but I look forward to seeing more.