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Listen to live recordings, but be aware that most "official" live recordings are just as procesed as any studio recording.

For a video could you talk about how to be consistent on stage? I had a gig a couple days back, and monitors weren’t working properly etc. and I wondered if you’d have any tricks up your sleeve for dealing with things like this

I have hours of fun playing guitar and singing…. It’s just those in the household don’t enjoy it.

Let me know your thoughts on this topic. I hope these ideas give you some good for thought. 🎤 🎸

Great advice. I’m actually using different colors pencils and make marks on the chord change with the lyrics or word in the song. With this Adele song ( when we were young) I’m playing it exactly how it was written. He has me landing that chord right on the lyric/ word in the song. I’m pretty good at that except for this song. It’s driving me NUTS. !!! I think because it’s sounds and the way I’m playing it like a piano. . A strum for each chord. . Like no rhythm So hard to explain. If I get this right I can do anything. Thank you for this video. The timing was perfect 🎸🎹🎵❤️🙏.

Pragmatic usable advice, no bullshit, no sales pitch. I hope this channel takes off like it deserves to buddy.

Excited to watch this. I play lead guitar and sing in a band 😭

Absolutely MAKES SENSE. I love how you start off with I’m here to teach you “ WHAT NOT TO DO”. 😄. Your channel will grow big. See most people are here because we are having. Trouble Less is more!!!!!!!. I have been applying a lot of your advice and yesterday I actually sounded okay. It’s really that breath support and controlling the air. I definitely practiced too much because I am a bit hoarse. Mostly due to my Hashimoto’s. I Sounds like I smoked a pack of cigarettes and I don’t smoke So to the smart …. That said your talking voice sounds shitty well it has nothing to do with singing. Once I get that song down to the best I can do it. …then I will share. ( Adele When we were young). I honestly never thought I get any tone back. Hey if you practice and apply exactly what your saying slowly you will get it. It seemed like yesterday it just Clicked!!!! . So I’m working hard and then I’m going to need lots of help😃. Here I took opera lessons when I was very young. I did good back then but life happened. I really just want to enjoy singing and playing my guitar. Having fun. I would be ecstatic.if I could get 40% of what I had back. Just keep being you. A few guys/ singing coaches are going to ruin peoples voices. That’s one thing I know when they are teaching it wrong. I guess those opera lessons paid off. Thank you for keeping it real. 🎵❤️🎹🎸🎼

I watch a lot of stuff like Tiny Desk Concerts because I love that live "intimate" sound, but I wonder how much effects/processing most singers have on their voice even on a live performance like that? I'd love to see more performers actually sing live in person.

Super helpful 👏

Great insights, but would be good to have a little less talking and more demonstrating. In fact I would say the same to most of your videos

TH-cam recommended your content to me yesterday, and I've already watched this video (and all your Shorts) a couple of times. Good luck on your channel!

Music producer/audio engineer here. Yes every single track you hear the vocals are HEAVILY Processed. Everything from dynamocs to pitch to timing. We do what we must to keep up with the standards of today. But trust me when i say the finished product sounds NOTHING like the raw vocal we recieve

Isolated vocals of artist like David Bowie and Sinatra really help me to understand what it is I’m hearing

What I'm always looking for is a "direct off the mic" isolated vocal track of famous songs... not just isolated from a mix with AI or whatever... but a true... "exactly what the mic heard" track... that way one can try to tell just how much is the vocalist... and how much is processing. Such tracks seem really rare and hard to find though. At least outside the original tapes.

I hear ya- I grew up around a lot of metal music, so that's what I tried to replicate, and I kept losing my voice. But now that I'm older and decided that I don't really care what others think, I started singing a lot differently- I sound more like a cowboy opera singer now- no idea if others like it or not, but again, I decided I don't care... it's much easier on my voice.

Fantastic advise, I'm a huge fan of the ABC voice model which clearly shows you can't achieve the higest notes in your range at your maximum volume, it took me a while to get myself to back off from my maximal volume but it was so worth it - makes singing higher parts effortless. And you're right, so much of what we hear in recordings isn't a real voice, multitracking, compression, production effects, EQ, etc.

Had a similar situation except my cyst was HPV. Had long road back. 3 months therapy and it’s been 7 years. Building a new tribute project now. You better believe I’m going at it totally different these days. Love the content.

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).

Thank you !

One of my favorite singers is Chris Cornell. I struggled with a lot of his stuff, and I'm not really sure how I learned it, but yes, I agree that much of the really intense stuff, I'm actually not pushing very hard at all with my voice. I am with my body, my face, my emotions, but my vocal chords are actually dialed down a bit, but I'm using mic technique to make it keep it's intensity.

Usually when I listen to music I try and compare the vocals to how someone singing in real life would sound, it made me realised how insanely processed modern vocals are! Especially the compression

Great video, I’m working on this, I’m a beginner, my ears are not good, I hear things and think I’m reproducing it, then listen to the recording and I’m missing the notes or out of tune, my ears deceive me big time, but I’m improving with ear training

This is something I've also been learning the hard way when I've been gigging. I put a lot into my performance, especially as I'm on my own in a noisy pub, and I do a lot of older rock stuff. I'll often fall into the trap of pushing too hard, and tiring out my voice, sometimes almost losing some it at the end of the gig. I've got a bit better after working on my technique (I was mainly just a guitar player before), and this vid is really useful.

I think the first basic thing everyone needs to understand when trying to compare themselves to studio recordings is that today virtually nothing comes out of the studio without pitch-correction (auto-tune/melodyne). This is an obvious step in the mixing process in almost every recording. The majority of YT "stars" rely heavily on auto-tune and their audience do not even realize that they are being cheated. You'd be surprised (in a negative way) what your favorite artists really sound like on a raw tracks without pitch-correction.

Awesome stuff man, thanks for the lesson

I’m really struggle with a new track of ours at the moment to try and get emotion into it without my voice breaking up on the high points but also the very quiet parts. It’s about grief and I’m playing with the idea of “time heals” so that as the song progresses so the negative emotion get accompanied by optimism. It’s a tough one for sure with plenty of subtlety and nuance

John Lennon, Ray Davies, Eric Burdon all wouldn’t have their excellent vocal style without misinterpreting what they were hearing.

This is very true. I noticed playing the guitar and singing into the microphone over and over and over again with song after song causes me to train my voice... I mean to adjust because I'm hearing the sound back coming out of the amplification. My God I can definitely hear when it's off when it's overpowering when it's too soft coming into the voicings.. I love when you say stop singing so loud. I recently wrote a song called Maple Moon. And just recently I recorded myself singing it in the very same key but bringing the loudness in my voice down. In return what I got was a song that stayed in step with the timing and is enjoyable to listen to... This guy knows what he's talking about and I just learned this by singing into that microphone for The last 5 years

thanks for making a video explaining this further!

Honestly, this is such a simple message but why wasn’t that explained to me from my teacher whom I payed for?? Thank you so much!

I appreciate everything you’re doing brotha Do you ever listen to bands like Dance Gavin Dance? I’m curious what you think is going on with how he’s doing what he’s doing Even live, he doesn’t sound “not intense” if they makes sense

High notes are small, low larynx, 'discovered' and not pushed - it all needed said to me 100 times to absorb and believe it and every time it's told to me it hits different as I get closer but also forget how far I can go with those concepts. I think as a teacher you have to be aware of how the same message can hit differently and is valuable to repeat. Super solid advice and help from you again! Sitting working on very quiet oooooo sounds this evening :) If there was a basic support option on Patreon I would do it to support you just for the videos, like a couple bucks but no interaction. I have a singing teacher! Or Ko-Fi which I think has better terms for creators.

Could you talk in the future about developing the skill of singing and playing guitar simultaneously?

Thanks! I’m a visual learner and just listening to you describe the placement visually with the yawn feeling immediately got me to the right sweet spot.

Wow...loved this! I've been learning to sing by myself for just three months and I've watched several teachers here on youtube. Your way however, really works for me. I don't like most teachers methods as I'm just into playing around with my voice and learning how to change its tone and where I feel the vibrations. I think I'm learning a lot about my own voice just feeling it out. This type of video and advice however is priceless. Thanks so much! Subscribed 👍

Nice to meet you Calder. I have had a passion for singing for many years now, but I have never done anything serious with it. Do you know when I improved the most? When I finally accepted myself, my voice timbre and actually started singing live instead of doing millions of lip rolls over and over again. Evolve 30M + E935 each day for several months taught me more about what it really means to be a good singer than any other exercise I've been doing in the past. After sitting on that damn stool in front of the speaker for hundred of hours now, hearing my every mistake, every breath, bad intonation, tension, I'm finally starting to understand it. It looks like it will be an interesting channel to follow. Be genuine, keep it like that and don't turn it into another colorful reaction videos bs...😀

I tried an intense “ehhhhhh” with just lifting the soft palate. Something in the back of the mouth is blocking me. I tried “backwards”. It lifted the soft palate and it was completely free. 😊

Maybe explain: How to compress / and relax .. I think people that are new will go wreck their chops immitating you?

Let me know your thoughts on some of this stuff and, as always, I hope it helps.

You're totally contradicting Ken Tamplin. I wonder who's right? JK.

please never delete your channel

Very relatable as always. I’ve got a gig tonight, but I drank too much last night and got a lot of acid reflux. My voice does not feel ready for the gig lol 😭

You and my singing teacher are the only two people I have found who can properly teach singing. That might just be what works for me but your teaching is extremely relatable and feels very practical.

Very helpful, Calder. Many thanks for this and all of your excellent videos!

I so get this! It's incredibly helpful. I find that I fall into the habit of going too deep/chesty when I'm signing with louder music because I keep thinking I have to sing over it instead of letting the mic do its job.

When going up into the head voice area, I have to use a lot of support to prevent the tone from cracking (doesn't have to sing loud, but a lot of support). Is this how it should be, or should I be able to do go up without support when doing the door squeek exercise?