BE LIKE THE BALLOON! 🎈- (An analogy for Breath Control & Cord Adduction)

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[@melvinbernard4541]

You are an amazing teacher. I have sung classically for a long time. I have felt these laryngal changes in my own singing and instinctively made them because I realized it fixed me but noone ever put discriptive words to it like you have. I think if I would have understood this as a younger singer, my technique would have locked in faster. So many singers dont realize that the laryngal position changes as in ascends through the vocal range to create the one voice sound.
You are doing the world of classical singing a HUGE service. Anyone that listens to this that has had vocal training as a singer will benefit because the vocabulary is clear and precise.
Thank you for taking the time to verbalize what you have been taught and experienced in your own vocal journey. Learning to master the vocal instrument as a whole is hard because our larynx can tilt in sooo many different ways for many different styles of singing that for those that dont have a teacher guess forever on how to fix it. Our laryngal positiins also effect how we feel and stablize the breath underneath us. When the voice is not in the head voice position, the rib cage has a better chance of deflating and collapsing because the open throat position isnt set up to maintain what is underneath. Likewise, coordinating a proper inhalation sets the tilt. It absolutely has to work as one unit. I would love to see a clear video on why it is important to coordinate them as one unit while balancing the set up on the appoggio.

[@aitenirjamanov833]

Thank you so much for these videos sir! You cannot imagine how helpful your videos are for me, I wait for your videos each time so keep doing it! Thanks!

[@llsf1234]

Any tips on how not to engage the tongue root while adducting the cords?

[@Tenor_Simerilla]

Stick your tongue or hold your tongue out with your hands while doing it. Releases any tongue tension or if your tongue tends to get “swallowed”. Don’t listen to the sound it’ll sound “ugly” because your tongue is sticking out. Focus only on the sensation while doing the exercise. 👍

[@marie-raquel.c]

​@@Tenor_Simerillayes! Sensation >>> sound.

[@Delectatio]

Nice one, Jose!:)👍

[@gthomp26]

So to clarify, inhale, hold your breath, adduct the cords then sing from the narrow column of air as it escapes?🤔

[@evgeniykrishtopa8198]

Great explanation difficult things in simple example)thanks!

[@MultiHeXs]

Thank you! ❤

[@Shamsithaca]

Even sopranos like Julie Andrews perfected the breathe, suspend, sigh, released sound. She does this in every single note for a SPLIT second before launching into sound, even her A-flat at the end is based on this very concept. Her sound is SO even, so clean, so bright, bell-like to a fault even... th-cam.com/video/7QKw9-cV3i0/w-d-xo.html

[@blazindav]

Can you make a video on vowels? I've heard it said that the support takes care of itself, which I think you mention in your videos, if you have the proper vowels as you sing. It seems most people have a problem with their passaggio because they don't modify their vowels properly, or use the correct vowels. Thoughts?

[@Tenor_Simerilla]

I’ll do a video on vowel modification. 👍

[@blazindav]

@@Tenor_Simerilla Thx

[@accapozzy5440]

Cool analogy! With the glottle stops and those sorts of exercises, how do you know if your actually doing it right?

[@Tenor_Simerilla]

Adducting the cords will create pressure underneath them because air wants to escape but you’re not allowing it to just yet. On the exhalation (when we phonate) you will feel the sound almost “accented” and you can describe the sound and hear it as having more of a “point”, a more focused and very “laser like” sound, very resonant, and “bright”. The vowel you choose to sing in will be very clear because no additional air other than necessary is used to create the sound and being allowed to escape. No “breathy” or Extra Aspirated sound quality.
What’s most important is you shouldn’t attempt the glottal attack in a forceful way!
It’s not a grunt, or yell, and shouldn’t feel like a “tug” or “hefty/weighty” feeling in your throat. Banging your cords together or an exaggerated harsh closure of the cords is not healthy and will fatigue you quicker. The action should be very soothing to the throat, like a sigh, or a moan. It’s very subtle. Attempt it first in “head voice” and gradually add chest to avoid starting the exercise with a harsh grunt or tug attack. 👍

[@Alec_CM]

@@Tenor_Simerilla What are some other physical sensations or checks we can do to help us know if our we're doing this glottal attack correctly or incorrectly? For example, if you were to place your finger on your Adam's Apple, or other parts of the neck or even chest, ribs, back, etc, what are you feeling? Is the Adam's Apple perfectly still, moving up, down at all, etc? Many thanks for your invaluable videos. We so appreciate your generosity.

[@Tenor_Simerilla]

@@Alec_CM in the words of the legendary Manuel Garcia, who taught the glottal attack as a means of singing:
The pupil... should draw in breath slowly, and then produce the sounds by a neat, resolute articulation of the glottis, upon the broad Italian vowel “A”. If this movement be properly executed, the sound will come out bright and round. Care however must be taken to pitch the sound at once on the note itself, and not to slur up to it, or feel for it. The pupil must also be warned against confounding the articulation or stroke of the glottis with the stroke of the chest, which latter resembles the act of coughing, or the effort made in expelling some obstruction from the throat...(this would be what NOT to feel)
The glottis is prepared for articulation by closing it, which causes a momentary accumulation of air below; and it is then opened by a sudden and vigorous stroke, “similar” to the action of the lips when strongly emphasising the letter “P”.

[@hanademiriova7118]

👏👏👍👍🫶🫶

[@TheBaritonoAssoluto]

Not the ballon vibrato