LIVE: TENOR TALK - PART: 4 - "APPOGGIO" & BREATH CONTROL: THE OPERATIC ENIGMA
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Your teaching style is hands down the best I’ve seen on the internet!
Your way of explaining concepts is really convenient. It immediately becomes easy to understand things that other teachers may over complicate.
Thanks for the content!
Hands down best explanation of appogio Ive ever seen. Was the missing key for me. Thanks man
Your teachings are invaluable to me. It always amazes me that the Italian tenors can sing high notes as loud and intense as they sing those in middle range. More than 30 years ago, I studied with an Italian lady learning Bell Canto style singing. But I could not sing above middle F. She told me that I needed to hook on my nose and switch my voice in order to sing higher. But she could not demonstrate and only said I needed a lot of breath support with an open throat. Although I made an easy progress in my middle range notes but could not sing high notes except in falsetto. As a result, I stopped the study. Last November, I decided to study and improve my singing voice as a retirement hobby as well as a daily indoor exercise activity since I have more time and extra money to spend now. I have an online voice teacher who insisting on more breath support to support higher notes. In reality, he encourages pushing the lower belly and butt muscles to strengthen the support and he himself cannot sing the loud, intense and free high notes. Over several weeks daily practice, I felt my throat is straining and the voice is small and forced even after extreme belly and butt muscle tightening. I told him that I needed to stop singing for a while as my throat was hurting and I needed to see an otolaryngologist to check my vocal cords. After I apply the tummy-tuck and stomach bulging, clear onset to initiate the voice and then let it run freely, for the 1st time, I can hear my voice loud and free. From middle range to High C, my voice has almost the same volume and quality, except the resonance shifted from mostly chest voice to head voice proportionally as voice goes higher. I just cannot believe that sing high notes can be so easy and why so few voice teachers knows this. You are a blessing for voice students. Thank you!
So you don’t have to squeeze your stomach muscles?
Muchas gracias por tu trabajo. Soy estudiante (tenor) de Canto en el conservatorio y tus vídeos me ayudan mucho. Cómo planificarías una rutina de estudio rutinaria?
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Your videos are just brilliant! Thank you
Muy buena explicación....
Qué buenos videos. Muy bien José y muchas gracias por compartir
amazing!! can't thank you enough for valuable lesson🙏
Thank you so much! Great explanation!🙌🏽🫶🏽🎶🎶
These videos are the best! You are really good at explaining everything clearly, without over simplifying. You can tell you really know what you're talking about! And I really enjoy your technique approach, which emphasizes Freedom. For almost a year now, I have tried following advice from other teachers/RUclipsrs, which promote a much more aggressive and forceful technique à la Corelli/ Del Monaco, but it just doesn't seem to work for me. I mean I love those singers, but I can never make that kind of singing natural for my voice atm. Somehow your technique, along with similar gentle/beautiful/dynamic (but ofc powerful) approaches from e.g. Li Vigni just work a lot better for me. So thank you very much for making these videos! (and sorry for the long post xD)
Thanks for the support! 🙏 I am glad they have been helpful 👍😃
Can you make a video on outsets the sound being sung on the breathe like sighing or sul fiato.
Thank you for your candid and easy to understand explanation. So much learning and practicing to do. Will you collaborate with Katrina Velarde and Troy Laureata in the future. You can watch their collab "Araw Gabi" cover song in youtube.
Love your channel! What are your thoughts about breath in throught the nose vs mouth?
For me, personaly, I find it somtimes more economical, more precise, more hygienic... but it's true that mouth inhalation helps me somehow to find the place...
No pianos were abused in this demonstration.
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Thank you for such informative and interesting videos. I think you mean "ease" or "easiness".
Yes, ease in phonation
Do you have a video that explains all the different terms that you are using in this one? Some voice teachers say that by appoggio, you should press down and out as you’re singing to keep too much air from escaping. I keep trying that but it just jams up my voice . I to so much better if I could just let the Air escape as you say. Do you have a video that explains this in more detail? Many thanks!
Excellent! Have you done one on keeping the lyrnyx low? My biggest problem.
So many many questions!! I'll stick to just one. You have a lovely messa di voce. As you're decrescendoing, what, if anything , are you feeling in the abdominal/intercostal area? Do you apply more pressure to that area, less, or neither? Or is it more a feeling of a deeper yawn with less air expended. Sorry for the long and somewhat complicated question. 😀
Great question! Here is a super long and probably over complicated answer! 😃
There’s definitely a feeling of letting go and release. Why? Because while maintaining cord closure so the sound doesn’t get “breathy” or “airy” (and so the sound stays focused and squillante) I gradually apply more head voice when I decrescendo, threading the needle and gradually letting the pedal off the throttle, easing off the chest sound but never disconnecting completely.
Yawn doesn’t get deeper. The onset stays the same, if I went deeper into the yawn I’d start compressing the larynx and over spacing the sound which would create that fake dark “ingolatto” sound.
Support is always engaged! I wouldn’t say I would apply more pressure. If anything the pressure gets more relaxed. I think if I intentionally put more pressure in a muscular way I immediately tense up from “forcing” air out while trying to keep my cords closed. So then there’s too much pressure underneath my cords and keeping them adducted feels like a grunt or like I am lifting something heavy.
As the diaphragm ascends slowly i try to think “expansion” in the intercostal area, maintaining the feeling of the “suspension” phase (phase #2) I mention in the video.
Although it’s a losing battle because as you use air the diaphragm inevitably rises. However thinking of expansion while sustaining the note helps me not collapse the intercostal area, staying in the “noble” position. With chest up and ribs open as I sing.
That’s what I mean by “engaged.”
PS. The “belly tuck” helps as well. I feel support in the area between the naval cavity and below the chest.
Air flow always stays steady, pressurized, and “laser” like while going through the adducted cords but gets gradually less and less intense and energized as I decrescendo.
Think of a balloon. 🎈 If you inflate one and then let it go, it blows all its air out from a wide open rubber “neck” as it fly away…Now inflate the balloon and “stretch” the rubber neck making the opening a much more narrow pathway for air to escape. You now get that horrible balloon “squeak” sound. Air still comes out but at a slower rate and more “pressurized” or “laser” like. You can also hold that squeak for 30 seconds if not longer before the balloon is un-inflated. Compared to just a millisecond it takes to un-inflate if you just let the balloon go.
This is “Breath Control & cord closure”. The rubber neck in this case is your vocal cords and the balloon is your lungs filled with air. Your cords need to adduct to make the passage way narrow for the air flow to come out pressurized and laser like as the diaphragm raises and expels air from your lungs . This way we can mitigate and control how much air to use for the upcoming musical phrase….kudos to you if you made it all the way to the bottom of this reply. My fingers now hurt after typing it. 😂👍
Quick question about the belly tuck. Whenever I do that, I notice that my epigastriam pushes out firmly. I don't know if that's what you're talking about when you say that you feel support from the bottom of the chest to above the naval area. The epigastrium, as you know is right below the sternum and below the diaphragm. I've always been told not to let it pooch out cuz you lock yourself up even though I've often gotten good results when I do that. Just curious to know what your feelings are about that in general.
@@HoltonJohnson yes, that’s correct lean on that abdominal wall of muscle. Engaging the epigastric area will give you a consistent, supported flow of air. In contrast, after the inhalation phase, and making sure you prepare the onset (yawn), and expand the intercostals to get that deep diaphragmatic breath. Tuck in the hypogastric area, just slightly and feel that wall of support which, if your cords are adducted, you will feel the pressure is ready for phonation and you can control and regulate the air flow very comfortably.
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For me, as a student, and for many others, it is sometimes difficult to sing a relatively simple peace to the end - we spend a lot of physical efforts and get tired. On the other hand, I saw that famous video with 93 years old Angelo Loforese singing Nessun Dorma (an aria I am not even close to yet) - and it makes me think that correct singing should require no more physical efforts than an 93-years old old man can produce (and such an old people are very weak and senile, unfortunately), thus, should feel pretty easy for a healthy young or middle-aged man🤔 What are your thoughts on this, Jose?
Yes There is certain musculature that needs to be developed over time through vocal exercises and yes the body is always well engaged when singing . But it’s not so much “physical” effort (like going to the gym to build bigger muscles) as it is physical coordination and mental focus. Think of a tightrope walker, for someone like that to develop such a skill, sure they need to be athletic and certain core muscles need to be trained, but more important than that is the mental focus and coordination that you need to be able to walk through such a thin line in the first place. There is balance, focus, you need to stay calm, and bounce back every time you fall.
As we ascend as a tenor we need to allow the vocal cords to stretch and thin…along with engaging in our support this process takes out the overwhelming sensation of “weight” and “pressure” that makes us fatigue and tire out quickly. If we think “physical” or “power” we will most likely start “forcing” sound, and won’t allow the cords to extend enough making it close to impossible to sustain in a healthy manner a note and very much make us fall off the “tightrope.” Usually in the form of a vocal crack or just a strangle.
There’s ALOT of layers that go into creating a healthy, soothing, and ease to phonation. Not because it takes a tremendous amount of “physical” effort but because it takes a tremendous amount of coordination and preparation of all these different layers:
(onset/yawn, natural lowering of the larynx, raising of the soft palate, releasing tension of the tongue and jaw, inhaling and expanding our intercostal, allowing our diaphragm to descend, feeling the support of suspension, adducting our cords, exhaling while maintaining the onset and the cord closure, and doing so in a controlled slow manner by with the help of cord closure and engaging our abdominal wall to stop the diaphragm from shooting up and blowing through all the air)
That’s a lot of steps, and like a well oiled machine we need to have the coordination do all this automatically, smoothly, and at times within fraction of a second between musical phrases. Loforse at 93 years had this coordination down packed…look at his breathing and tell me he is not a machine👌
Set up the process (technique)…and the result will come. If you go merely for the result without a process…you’re fu*ked
Thank you so much for such a detailed answer!🙂👍
It seems something related to Lauri-Volpi's examples: ruclips.net/video/Y8erukaVLUQ/видео.html
Love that video! Lauri Volpi is a pristine role model for any singer
Dear Jose, I follow you and your explanations are sincere. But, I wonder why you need to use an expletive. If you’re trying to connect with the younger generation of “youtubers”, you are off the mark. The youngsters who are interested in Opera don’t need convincing with expletives. Chabge course. 😊🤷🏻♂️🤌
Thank you!