Dear Sir, You truly are the master of superb vocal artistry. I am so grateful that God has directed my efforts to happen upon your channel to bring the clarify to the most important foundational principle of appoggio with all of other vital fundamental principles of great singing. I will explore all you have generously shared. Your opus will be the final masterworks for my vocal library ( I love a great read ) and i am thrilled to have discovered your vast reservoir of practical application which has changed my awareness and has solidified my understanding for my personal technique. You have rejuvenated my desire to perform and I will soon begin visiting with songs for the folks at rest homes and the Veterans Hospitals. I will create shows to raise funds for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. and Wounded Warriors. God Bless!
because they are far too arrogant to read Caruso's words ... they love themselves NOT MUSIC THEY ARE NOT SELFLESS, THERE IS NO EXCUSE FIR THEM EXCEPT FOR THIS
From my experience they skip breathing ,or dont insist in the beginning so that you need them for years. Then they start teaching the funny stuff. They create the problems they have to solve afterwards.
Mate another amazing video,I’ve learnt more from you then 100 teachers online. They constantly told me to relax my abs but I could never get my breathing right. This way I can feel the connection to the breath
This is the first time I came across this notion about breathing, and I've been working on my voice for the last two years. I always felt like my breathing was still a problem for me and was holding me back into reaching the potential of my voice and tone. While trying this breathing technique I feel this is the right way to breathe. It feels so natural to the voice, and there's not tension involved in the throat or neck. I'm really gonna go deep into this breathing, I feel like this is the key to move further. Thank you so much for your lessons, you are such a great spirit. And you're right, if all the masters of singing were preaching this method, who are we to question them :)
For many years i struggled to speak louder. Did this exercise and it is now fixed. I am not a singer, but finally i felt that support of my breath. Thank you
You don't do this (reverse breathing method) everytime you live, just when singing, I read some in the internet and it says it can cause health problems.
I'm reading Iyengar and Van Lysebeth books on Pranayama (Yogic art of breathing) and they also talk about pulling the lowe abdomen inward. It's such a breakthrough for me.
It’s just wonderful how you give us these information with love and open heart!!! Thank you very much! There is one thing that I don’t really understand about letting the abdomen come out in the exhalation. I do agree about the putting in the Abdomen while breathing but then I have been told to keep this pulling inwards movement while exhalation,which for me it makes sense because I keep my base ( pelvic floor) activated. If I let the abdomen come out then the belly comes out and I loose the contact with my back and in general the back side of my whole spine , which I created in the inhalation. I hope we meet soon in person or even we can skype! All the best for you , Stelios
Michael, another amazing lesson! You are truly one of the great masters of the world in vocal pedagogy. Your teachings have been unbelievably helpful to me. I have a vocal guru that I work with but your lessons and writings have been a great compliment to what I've learned from him. I can't thank you enough!!!
Gentilissimo Maestro, grazie mille di tutto. I just ordered your book at Amazon with Kindle. I believe this is the best book that I have searched for a long time. I feel so blessed that I can learn from the Great Maestro! Please keep teaching us and I look forward to all your coming books. Buon compleanno e tanti auguri! Marcella da Taiwan ：）
Thank you for explaining the ladder analogy! I hope I've made some progress after watching 3 or 4 of your videos in the past few months. I keep reminding myself to imitate my friend's extremely annoying daughter who squeals very often when I approach notes that require more head voice. It has been helpful because I have a low voice which allows me sing loud and comfortably (between A3 and G4). I can now approach notes around D5, E5, F5 and G5 without losing much core of my voice.
This technique seems to open the top of the voice ( as the high register needs breath flow to activate the cricothyroids - I think the important phrase is "I let it go" Ie although Michael says he does a contrary motion I don't believe he means he then pushes out his abdomen - Michael please correct me if I'm wrong!!) ( as modern 'support' teachers teach. ). Wish I had come across you much sooner In my life the lack of tenors and teachers how know how their voices work is astounding. Hope you are well and continuing to get your message across this wonderful platform which I wish was available years ago - the young people today have the wisdom of the great singers at their fingertips - unlike books which can't convey the sounds or show the technique in person. You are to be commended for putting this out for posterity.
I have been taught so different, blow up the floaty tire, but pull up and in the abdomen, so I tried your method, and yes plugged my nose, air cut off but the pull in and up voice opens OMG, I have studied with 8 teachers, its the first I heard of just pull in right away. WOW!! I will experiment thank you so much, do you teach via zoom or Skype?
Muy buenos consejos, son muy utiles y eficaces, aunque entiendo muy poco ingles su lenguaje corporal hace que se entienda bastante muchas gracias !!!!! felicitaciones !
What a fascinating video! - let me see if i understood - pull the abdomen inward when inhaling and pull it out while exhaling/exhaling? - would that be it basically? - i'm a bit confused when you say "lean in to the ladder" or such. Is it a concious action? or a subconcious action that simply happens when exhaling/making sound?. In other words - inhalation is more concious through the action of pulling the abdomen inward - but exhalation is simply passive?. I see you say in a comment below "Relax completely outward while singing and squeeze the breath up agaisn't the sternum or lower chest while singing" it's a bit confusing because it says to relax - then it says to squeeze?. I'll watch other videos from you on this topic too see if i can better understand it :) Regardless thanks for the video good sir!!!.
Michael Trimble- Important question about inhaling!!! If you inhale in your lower back, how come you do that if you dont flex your abdominals? The only way I find my breath going into lower back and expanding into the back, rib cage and so on is when I hold (in this case- flex) my abdominals. If I don't- my stomach expands like a balloon and nothing happens in the lower back and rib cage.
Thanks a lot that you share your very helpful experience with the public! I am glad to see that you have sung in Karlsruhe where i‘m living. I have problems with my vibrato. Generaly i have a caprino-vibrato that is getting faster in the high notes! What can i do to make it slow? Thank you maestro
I studied with Chernov some too. Wonderful man. And I believe you are correct. I was amazed to feel his stomach, and Corelli's too...they were not tight at all. Just and incredible and proper coordination. The amazing thing about them was how small their emissions actually were and the acoustic results they got from them! I remember Maestro Chernov saying no.. no... Sam... I sound like a mosquito in my head as I vainly tried to match him. And I remember Corelli wiping me out on my tape, while I was singing full out into the mic which were a few feet away, while he was across the room barely making a noise. You couldn't hear me and he blew out the mics even in his upper 70's! I hope all is well with you Maestro Trimble. I enjoyed your book a great deal.
Thank you for your wonderfull videos Michael. I am a bass/baryton and was just wondering if basses should use this way of breathing/singing on the lowest notes to or are there something else they did in the past to get strong low notes?
on one of your clips you mentioned a breath from the lower back that only Caruso and Sutherland used. please tell me the name of the technique or how I can find out more about it
@@braddavis6219 I've never come across it in Milan, and I find it very odd that such a book existed and no longer does. Perhaps it was an article in a magazine.
Same technique applies to speaking too. Those doctors don't know anything. Expanding my belly caused me serious problems. No matter what the doctors say avoid belly breathing.
I heard from a teacher another supposed quote from pavarotti who were supposely saying "when i exhale i think as if i were a toothpaste tube (which is pointing up) and that i was pressing the very down of the tube from front to back." ... So i'm a bit confused. Maybe the teacher understood exhale instead of inhale.... But it makes a big difference :/
Louis, we have go be specific about what body parts are doing what and when are they being done. the "toothpaste squeeze" occurs in the lower back while singing and is described very carefully and in great detail in Caruso's book. Pavarotti was a real "front leaner" (like a baby laughing or crying. The movement is "like a baby. it is all in the belly... push, push, push", He described it exactly in a Master Class at Juilliard. Of course, if you press the breath forward, the ribs in the back squeeze together (to quote Caruso) and that is the "toothpaste squeeze" that many of the great singers used according to their own descriptions of how they sing. You can order my book from Amazon and read about what the great singers had to say about how to breathe and how to support. Pavarotti's method of breathing and support were described the way babies breathe and support when they laugh and/or cry. ... The lower back expands and moves downward when breathing and the breath is then leaned (pressed) forward against the diaphragm (chest, lower chest, upper belly) while laughing or crying. check it out and see what you think. Michael
Thank you very much for your answer and your time! I was wondering about what to do with the lower belly part, and it was not clear for me the term "abdomen" Cause it's a big part. Now i understand preciselly!!!
Dear Sir, Pavarotti said he learnt correct appoggio from dame sutherland when he toured with her. and she taught him as you explained it@@Tenoretrimble
Do our stomach suppose to go in when inhaling for sleep too and talking or only for singing? How will I get enough air in if my stomach is going inwards?
So I must not pull and creat tension just like athlete squezze bicep. I must not flex it right. Inhale in lower lungs via diaphragm and not flexing out the belly
@@Tenoretrimble Hi! I would like to take a lesson from you too, if I can afford it. I'm a full lyric soprano who dabbles in musical theatre and contemporary. Have a lot of jaw tension
Michael Trimble Maestro, I was just reading Caruso's and Lehmann's explanation on this. I'm sorry to say but theirs is a little vague. Your explanation is spot on. Vielen Dank!
There are a lot of important contradictions in this explanation on breathing. Hold the abdomen in or relax it? Why not breathe all around the body to get a full breath? Why block the diaphragm from descending in the front? Why not fill the front and the back to get the fullest breath? For the breath to push against the sternum, the abdominal muscles have to be active and go inwards, any other way is unnatural.
Hi, Read the book by Enrico Caruso- the greatest operatic tenor in history. Simply the greatest, period. He used this method of inhaling while pulling the abs inward. .
Hi Maestro Shoud My chest get wider or get forward and up !!! My abdomen get inward and up and then My chest get forward and up, but shoud I use My side of My chest allso ?
Read the book by Enrico Caruso- the greatest operatic tenor in history. Simply the greatest, period. He used this method of inhaling while pulling the abs inward. .
Dear Sir,
You truly are the master of superb vocal artistry. I am so grateful that God has directed my efforts to happen upon your channel to bring the clarify to the most important foundational principle of appoggio with all of other vital fundamental principles of great singing. I will explore all you have generously shared. Your opus will be the final masterworks for my vocal library ( I love a great read ) and i am thrilled to have discovered your vast reservoir of practical application which has changed my awareness and has solidified my understanding for my personal technique. You have rejuvenated my desire to perform and I will soon begin visiting with songs for the folks at rest homes and the Veterans Hospitals. I will create shows to raise funds for
St. Jude's Children's Hospital. and Wounded Warriors. God Bless!
Why my teachers never told me this. Thank you Mr. Trimble.
because they are far too arrogant to read Caruso's words ... they love themselves NOT MUSIC THEY ARE NOT SELFLESS, THERE IS NO EXCUSE FIR THEM EXCEPT FOR THIS
From my experience they skip breathing ,or dont insist in the beginning so that you need them for years. Then they start teaching the funny stuff. They create the problems they have to solve afterwards.
Mate another amazing video,I’ve learnt more from you then 100 teachers online. They constantly told me to relax my abs but I could never get my breathing right. This way I can feel the connection to the breath
Can you show me how you can sing modern song with this method?
This is the first time I came across this notion about breathing, and I've been working on my voice for the last two years. I always felt like my breathing was still a problem for me and was holding me back into reaching the potential of my voice and tone. While trying this breathing technique I feel this is the right way to breathe. It feels so natural to the voice, and there's not tension involved in the throat or neck. I'm really gonna go deep into this breathing, I feel like this is the key to move further. Thank you so much for your lessons, you are such a great spirit. And you're right, if all the masters of singing were preaching this method, who are we to question them :)
After this method all of my throat tension disappeared
Same to me. its a feeling of being compeletely free! This vido is really a great gift!
me too
Absolutelty me
Yes...cause you are opening your throat vertically
What do you think about this method for pop, rock modern music? Because when I inhale like this, I have too much air and my chest is lift
For many years i struggled to speak louder. Did this exercise and it is now fixed. I am not a singer, but finally i felt that support of my breath. Thank you
You don't do this (reverse breathing method) everytime you live, just when singing, I read some in the internet and it says it can cause health problems.
Maestro...if only I had a teacher like you in my youth. Thank you!
amazingly detailed visualisation! I immediately discovered a lighter, clearer voice. Thank you so much for this great video!
I'm reading Iyengar and Van Lysebeth books on Pranayama (Yogic art of breathing) and they also talk about pulling the lowe abdomen inward. It's such a breakthrough for me.
Thank you Mr. Trimble! You are a true master!
Bravo, Mr. Trimble! Amazed was the right word!
It’s just wonderful how you give us these information with love and open heart!!! Thank you very much! There is one thing that I don’t really understand about letting the abdomen come out in the exhalation. I do agree about the putting in the Abdomen while breathing but then I have been told to keep this pulling inwards movement while exhalation,which for me it makes sense because I keep my base ( pelvic floor) activated. If I let the abdomen come out then the belly comes out and I loose the contact with my back and in general the back side of my whole spine , which I created in the inhalation. I hope we meet soon in person or even we can skype! All the best for you , Stelios
YOU can kind of keep the inward tension adn push outward at the same time, thus retaining tension and support
Michael, another amazing lesson! You are truly one of the great masters of the world in vocal pedagogy. Your teachings have been unbelievably helpful to me. I have a vocal guru that I work with but your lessons and writings have been a great compliment to what I've learned from him. I can't thank you enough!!!
Can you understand what he means please… because in another video he said opposite things
Thank you very much for passing your knowledge on to us young generation...
Gentilissimo Maestro, grazie mille di tutto. I just ordered your book at Amazon with Kindle. I believe this is the best book that I have searched for a long time. I feel so blessed that I can learn from the Great Maestro! Please keep teaching us and I look forward to all your coming books. Buon compleanno e tanti auguri! Marcella da Taiwan ：）
Thank you for explaining the ladder analogy! I hope I've made some progress after watching 3 or 4 of your videos in the past few months. I keep reminding myself to imitate my friend's extremely annoying daughter who squeals very often when I approach notes that require more head voice. It has been helpful because I have a low voice which allows me sing loud and comfortably (between A3 and G4). I can now approach notes around D5, E5, F5 and G5 without losing much core of my voice.
This technique seems to open the top of the voice ( as the high register needs breath flow to activate the cricothyroids - I think the important phrase is "I let it go" Ie although Michael says he does a contrary motion I don't believe he means he then pushes out his abdomen - Michael please correct me if I'm wrong!!) ( as modern 'support' teachers teach. ). Wish I had come across you much sooner In my life the lack of tenors and teachers how know how their voices work is astounding.
Hope you are well and continuing to get your message across this wonderful platform which I wish was available years ago - the young people today have the wisdom of the great singers at their fingertips - unlike books which can't convey the sounds or show the technique in person. You are to be commended for putting this out for posterity.
Dear Michael Trimble, maestro, thank you 10000 and 10000000, ♾️ times.
absolutely brilliant. this guy knows what he's talking about. subbed
Maestro, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience with us!!! 💕💕💕
I have been taught so different, blow up the floaty tire, but pull up and in the abdomen, so I tried your method, and yes plugged my nose, air cut off but the pull in and up voice opens OMG, I have studied with 8 teachers, its the first I heard of just pull in right away. WOW!! I will experiment thank you so much, do you teach via zoom or Skype?
Wonderful, maestro!! Thank you very much!!
Thank you very much, Maestro
Muy buenos consejos, son muy utiles y eficaces, aunque entiendo muy poco ingles su lenguaje corporal hace que se entienda bastante muchas gracias !!!!! felicitaciones !
@@Tenoretrimble gracias, muchas gracias !! Saludos !!
Love you Michael ❤️
This is something you must get used to it, takes time and lots of practice, but once you get it, you and your listeners will be much happier.
What a fascinating video! - let me see if i understood - pull the abdomen inward when inhaling and pull it out while exhaling/exhaling? - would that be it basically? - i'm a bit confused when you say "lean in to the ladder" or such. Is it a concious action? or a subconcious action that simply happens when exhaling/making sound?. In other words - inhalation is more concious through the action of pulling the abdomen inward - but exhalation is simply passive?. I see you say in a comment below "Relax completely outward while singing and squeeze the breath up agaisn't the sternum or lower chest while singing" it's a bit confusing because it says to relax - then it says to squeeze?. I'll watch other videos from you on this topic too see if i can better understand it :) Regardless thanks for the video good sir!!!.
Squeeze the air from the lower back against the sternum
Absolutly fantastic !!!
Your the best!!!!
Thank you Mr Michael for your video
Michael Trimble- Important question about inhaling!!! If you inhale in your lower back, how come you do that if you dont flex your abdominals? The only way I find my breath going into lower back and expanding into the back, rib cage and so on is when I hold (in this case- flex) my abdominals. If I don't- my stomach expands like a balloon and nothing happens in the lower back and rib cage.
Incredible! So how do we correctly refuel our air in between words when we don’t have time for that nice full breath? 😮
This is brilliant
Thank you for explaining!
Thank you. very clear.
Thank you!
Amazing !!! 👍
Wonderful!👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️
Thanks a lot that you share your very helpful experience with the public!
I am glad to see that you have sung in Karlsruhe where i‘m living.
I have problems with my vibrato. Generaly i have a caprino-vibrato that is getting faster in the high notes!
What can i do to make it slow?
Thank you maestro
Help me sooo much
Thanks:)
The great Verdi baritone, Vladimir Chernov, breathes this way.
So does Callas.
I studied with Chernov some too. Wonderful man. And I believe you are correct. I was amazed to feel his stomach, and Corelli's too...they were not tight at all. Just and incredible and proper coordination. The amazing thing about them was how small their emissions actually were and the acoustic results they got from them! I remember Maestro Chernov saying no.. no... Sam... I sound like a mosquito in my head as I vainly tried to match him. And I remember Corelli wiping me out on my tape, while I was singing full out into the mic which were a few feet away, while he was across the room barely making a noise. You couldn't hear me and he blew out the mics even in his upper 70's! I hope all is well with you Maestro Trimble. I enjoyed your book a great deal.
In one video, all of my problems were solved.
Thank you for your wonderfull videos Michael. I am a bass/baryton and was just wondering if basses should use this way of breathing/singing on the lowest notes to or are there something else they did in the past to get strong low notes?
on one of your clips you mentioned a breath from the lower back that only Caruso and Sutherland used. please tell me the name of the technique or how I can find out more about it
Thank you for this video. Do you recommend this technique for sopranos singing Der Hölle Rache? I couldn’t quite get the staccati out.
Yes ! Thank you 🙏! 🌹🌹🌹
Thank you very much! :)
Galli-Curci wrote a book?! Is it in print?
Thank you!
@@braddavis6219 I've never come across it in Milan, and I find it very odd that such a book existed and no longer does. Perhaps it was an article in a magazine.
Hey Bradley Prob in - Great Singers on the Art of Singing available on amazon!!
Exactly! BRAVO!
So for singing, you should breath the opposite of how a speech language pathologist would advise you to breath for healthy speaking?
Same technique applies to speaking too. Those doctors don't know anything. Expanding my belly caused me serious problems. No matter what the doctors say avoid belly breathing.
THANK YOU
So, when you lean the breath, are u now singing with compression? Or are u exhaling.. thanks Mike.👍
Is this the method that you use to speak as well?
wish he was my teacher
I heard from a teacher another supposed quote from pavarotti who were supposely saying "when i exhale i think as if i were a toothpaste tube (which is pointing up) and that i was pressing the very down of the tube from front to back."
... So i'm a bit confused.
Maybe the teacher understood exhale instead of inhale.... But it makes a big difference :/
Louis, we have go be specific about what body parts are doing what and when are they being done. the "toothpaste squeeze" occurs in the lower back while singing and is described very carefully and in great detail in Caruso's book. Pavarotti was a real "front leaner" (like a baby laughing or crying. The movement is "like a baby. it is all in the belly... push, push, push", He described it exactly in a Master Class at Juilliard. Of course, if you press the breath forward, the ribs in the back squeeze together (to quote Caruso) and that is the "toothpaste squeeze" that many of the great singers used according to their own descriptions of how they sing. You can order my book from Amazon and read about what the great singers had to say about how to breathe and how to support. Pavarotti's method of breathing and support were described the way babies breathe and support when they laugh and/or cry. ... The lower back expands and moves downward when breathing and the breath is then leaned (pressed) forward against the diaphragm (chest, lower chest, upper belly) while laughing or crying. check it out and see what you think. Michael
Thank you very much for your answer and your time! I was wondering about what to do with the lower belly part, and it was not clear for me the term "abdomen" Cause it's a big part. Now i understand preciselly!!!
And practice with good results!
Dear Sir, Pavarotti said he learnt correct appoggio from dame sutherland when he toured with her. and she taught him as you explained it@@Tenoretrimble
Do our stomach suppose to go in when inhaling for sleep too and talking or only for singing? How will I get enough air in if my stomach is going inwards?
Pull in from the lower abs meaning pelvic area wirh inhale.
So I must not pull and creat tension just like athlete squezze bicep. I must not flex it right. Inhale in lower lungs via diaphragm and not flexing out the belly
Hi
Ok I understand , Do you have singing lession online ?
Peter in Stockholm
@@Tenoretrimble Hi! I would like to take a lesson from you too, if I can afford it. I'm a full lyric soprano who dabbles in musical theatre and contemporary. Have a lot of jaw tension
Gold 👌
What's first?
"abdomen in" or "breath to the bake" ?
or together?
Michael Trimble
OMG thank you so much for your quick response .. I appreciate that, and I love your chanel because it gives me hope!*
Michael Trimble Maestro, I was just reading Caruso's and Lehmann's explanation on this. I'm sorry to say but theirs is a little vague. Your explanation is spot on. Vielen Dank!
@@3ziz55ify what did maestro say? His comment got deleted
eye opening! or shall we say lung opening
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There are a lot of important contradictions in this explanation on breathing. Hold the abdomen in or relax it? Why not breathe all around the body to get a full breath? Why block the diaphragm from descending in the front? Why not fill the front and the back to get the fullest breath? For the breath to push against the sternum, the abdominal muscles have to be active and go inwards, any other way is unnatural.
Hi, Read the book by Enrico Caruso- the greatest operatic tenor in history. Simply the greatest, period. He used this method of inhaling while pulling the abs inward. .
Hi Maestro
Shoud My chest get wider or get forward and up !!! My abdomen get inward and up and then My chest get forward and up, but shoud I use My side of My chest allso ?
I don't get it
I've not ever seen a pulling in of the abdomen while taking in air.
Read the book by Enrico Caruso- the greatest operatic tenor in history. Simply the greatest, period. He used this method of inhaling while pulling the abs inward. .
For baritones is the same technique, I guess?
Most definitely YES!
Yes, gratefully it is simply for all voices. I am a tenor.
I call it miniature groans/groaning.
When you inhale to you pull to hard
Where is Michael now?
Thank you!
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