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@@adammishan th-cam.com/video/rF5oITEq43Q/w-d-xo.html This is the too late song btw for people wondering, I didn't get not one like on this comment besides my own 😭
@@juleslopez3342 I hate it when I read a comment that has a very predictable joke and I still end up getting instense amount of serotonin release and due to that reaction I almost spat my drink in my front of my laptop
Man, he said "youre not gonna be able to sing" so many times it's actually depressing. You might not be able to reach the level of an opera singer, but you can be creative with the sound that you can do! Don't let this video discourage you, if you want to create music you'll be able to do it
Frfr, plus if the the clip at the beginning is him, I personally don't like his voice, I hate a crystal clear order produced sound, I love a raw, natural voice, and with the assistance of autotune, can make some pretty crazy sounds that you don't get with a clear recording without jumpy spots, I think of autotune as an instrument, aswell as a sort of crutch, some people seem to now how to manipulate auto tune to make my ears damn near orgasm, but for others it just seems to tighten things up, like Drake and nav for example, they have a clear, even sounding voice, which the autotune doesn't change too much, then you have people like capoxxo(rather unknown) or 6ix9ine (when he sings, usually when he fortune Nikki manaj) the auto tune bounces around a little bit, and sounds more chromatic, or chordual(if that's a word) idk my thoughts, also I think his clip at the beginning of the video was auto tuned, as the high part sounded artificially clean near the top of the note, almost fluttered but didn't want to. Idk I'm fried and clearly just rambled lol
Lol the chest does move but what he meant is you’re not supposed to expand your chest and instead let your stomach expand as you inhale. Of course your chest will move a little but not in the same way as if you were just letting your chest purposely expand.
"Don’t ever let somebody tell you… You can’t do something. You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do something’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something’, go get it. Period.” - Chris Gardner
Even though you’re not singing right, that doesn’t mean that you can’t sing and that it’s right. You are good at singing. It’s just some helpful techniques that this man is teaching us, he’s spitting truth out.
It's not so much that you shouldn't hear us, but that it shouldn't ALWAYS be heard. Quite frankly some notes are too long and close together for even the best singers to be silent when breathing. But if our breath is always in our chest, it can be difficult or even painful to sing well.
Chest breaths just make your singing sound worse. A relaxed breath from your lower abdomen will improve your tuning, your range, and the length of phrases you can manage at one time
Dude, you’re legit a fantastic vocal instructor. Omg why am I just now finding you? Dull and lifeless, brightness and cut. Wow! I feel like I found a treasure.
And dont trust these dumb scheme "training programs" just find a music tone that not just sounds good to you but FEELS good then try singing in that tone
Everyone, I appreciate the vote of confidence in my singing ability, but I can assure you I sound like a dying antelope when I try to sing 😅 Still doesn't stop me from pretending the shower head as a microphone though 😌
There's so much to singing he isn't explaining. More than half of our famous singers wouldn't have a career if they took this video as fact. Don't let this shit scare you. Sing even if you suck now. Who cares?? I thought I sucked too, and sounded weak and cracked all the time. Once I learned to use my natural voice I found out my range is just pretty low for a girl. It's also the rarest and now I consider myself a pretty decent singer with practice
Anyone can sing, it’s about practice and good technique. Some people it takes longer than others. I had a hearing problem as a child and had to take a few years of speech therapy, so I have to work harder when singing because I don’t understand how everything works with speaking. Don’t tell anyone they can’t sing, everyone can, it’s about learning.
The reason that happens is because you lose oxygen. When your body has less oxygen and needs more it yawns to get more oxygen. When we get tired our body slows down so our breathing subsequently slows and that’s why we yawn. This is also why when you see someone yawn your body yawns because it makes your brain think there isn’t enough oxygen.
You could try breath controlling exercises- for example, put your palm against your mouth (like an inch away) and try to sing a long phrase. If your palm warms up before the end of it, you're breathing out too much air. When you have your palm in front of your mouth, it actually helps you control how much air you're letting out and it's really effective. Hope it helps!
He’s talking about instead of breathing with a shallow breathe you just need to breathe deeply into your pelvic area in an attempt to make your diaphragm be pressed forcing all of your organs downward creating more room for air and also making your belly go out it just comes to practice. So worrying about not having any training and then attempting to breathe is an awful way to scrub it’s someone’s ability to sing. There is no explanation of technique on how to prevent these things issues he presents to a viewer. Also brightness is something that you can fix with the placement of your voice by attempting to project it and feel it in your cheek bones and nasal area. These things can all be taught.
"If you're not able to breathe then you can't sing" Me: **checks if I am still breathing** God! at least i'm still alive edit: bruh im a singer don't touch me😎 omm the likes i got pls convert to dollars🤣
No one seeing this should feel disheartened, please.... this maybe super PROFESSIONAL and everything but there’s nothing you can’t do with hard work and practice.... all the best to all you beautiful singers out there... 😘loads of love😘
5:13 This is so true. I have friends who sound really good when singing with a deep voice but when it's time to raise up the pitch they find it hard to keep it clean and steady.
I know what you mean. My older brother always hated when I sang along to the radio. He'd say I was too pitchy and tell me to shut up. My sister would stick up for me, but I eventually stopped singing, aside from when I was at Church. The Pastor's wife heard me and asked if I'd sing a solo. I told her that I didn't think I could do it. She had 2 other girls sing with me. I totally froze and ended up not singing. Many years later, I was working in child care. I quietly sang to one of the babies in my class as I was changing his diaper. A coworker heard me and complimented me on my voice. Over the years I've only ever received compliments from anyone who has heard me, but I just keep replaying my older brother's words in my head.
tbf the things he said are essential for good singing ovbs everyone can just change these things for example breathing properly hes right if you can’t do these things you won’t be able to sing
Similar to me I might be able to sing decently if I tried but it seems like such an effort to sing good - I think i will just leave it to the professionals and enjoy their amazing voices
You’re right! Wanna know how I know he’s right? I can tell he’s still recovering from muscle tension dysphonia himself. We’re at around the same place rn in our recovery! (He’s a bit ahead but I’ll be there soon ssssh) Most people won’t hear it unless they’re also recovering and know what tone qualities to pay attention to. It’s SO hard to get rid of unnecessary tension as an adult or even as a teen sometimes because it’s usually by that time chronic and subconsciously happening. You also need to be willing to just sound like shit full projection. We’ve all been there and we’ve all sounded like total Garbo but it’s working through that which being about all the rewards. You engrain the bad habits subconsciously and so you also need to kind of undo it subconsciously as well. Full recovery HINGES on developing more muscle memory that functions at the same executive level as your dysphonic habits. Only then can you really rely on your training 100%, otherwise you’ll always be slipping in and out of bad habits. It’s this weird “in the zone” feeling thing where you stop needing to try, you just feel the music and it just starts coming out eventually. Even after 3 years of recovery I still can’t do it on demand, it take intense warm ups and rehearsal to get an entire song ready to sing live.
Works for Bob Dylan and Neil Young. You sre totally correct about that. Just hard to know if your voice, sound or style is working for you or against you. Plus we hear it inside our own heads and have no clue what it sounds like to others outside of our head I've thought about this often.
ALLY BEAUTIES WITH ASTHAMA LISTEN UP it IS possible for you to sing.... I had pneumonia when I was six months old which led to asthma and I also have nasal polyp(still) but when I started singing slowly my breathing got better and today I am like 13 years old and free from asthma or any breathing problems and even with my nasal polyps I can sing great and hold my notes long... So PLEASE don't give up cause singing will actually help you Love yourself
TBH it is REALLY common nay it’s expected that around 40% of childhood asthma cases resolve in the child tween or teen years. Unfortunately half of these cases usually come back by your mid 20’s-30’s. Nearly all cases recur at some point in their lifetime. I went through the same thing at your age. I got in really good cardiovascular health and thought my asthma was gone forever, I stayed in shape and in my 20’s my asthma came back worse than it was before. I now NEED to stay in really good health or else I’m on a one way DIRECT path to COPD. I don’t mean to scare you, because asthma is a very manageable disease in most cases. Even severe asthma should not be impeding you from singing to the point you sound shitty. Idina Menzel has really bad asthma just as an example. She struggles, but she works hard and has a world renown classical voice. There are also many elite athletes who have struggled with asthma or other respiratory diseases. It’s NOT life defining, it just means you have more choices to make unfortunately. You can overcome the obstacles set by your asthma, but it’s still largely incurable. I hope it doesn’t come back for you. I just also hope others walk away fully informed. Singing will not get rid of your asthma. And typically no, it doesn’t get easier it just becomes “normal” and “regular” With no immediate point of reference and proper work ethic it shouldnt really be a influential factor in your final outcome. You’ll still sound good when you sound good.
I thought I knew I couldn't sing, and I just wanted to double check. Turns out: I can actually follow along to this guy. Sure I'm not the next great singer, but it's nice to know.
I guess I am able to sing? Haha. I just don't know how to use my voice really well. Doesn't always sound good, doesn't always sound bad. Maybe every vocal coaches' ears would bleed when hearing me, but to my unprofessional ears it sounds good sometimes :)).
Wow! Ver impressed with your explanation. Never found a crystal clear video talking about true voice as yours. Finally I could understand! Congratulations! And thank you so much.
oh damn! this advice is amazing, like the breathing technique doesnt effect my chest if you pull that chest during high notes you sound like "wooOOOoo!!"
Breathing from the Diaphragm is actually the natural way of breathing. It’s how we breathed when we were born, but we were sort of “trained” into breathing from the chest. My private vocal coach back in the day would do exercises to help focus on the “belly breath” in order to retire your mind & body
i can tell you right now that a lot of singers take a breath when they sing and they still sing good. idk sounds genuinely stupid to think that 'breathing at all' is a bad thing.
OMG man you just don't know that you've helped me with singing and speaking after many years of speech therapy! Also, resonance = vibration!! Not many vocal coaches will differentiate or say tell it like it is! THANK YOU!!!! YOU'VE JUST EARNED YOURSELF A SUBSCRIBER!
@@karmanuenes7629 Everybody breathes using their diaphragm. It's how we inflate our lungs and without engaging the diaphragm we would suffocate. . So this instruction to "breathe from the belly" is a bit redundant really. We do it all the time.
4:45 "i need to have a little bit of that" *copies what he does *my sister coming into the room thought i was watching spongebob cause i sounded like squidward.
Very informative! However, I know that tough love is sometimes important in this field, but I believe it's important to say that anyone CAN sing, it just comes down to practice, technique, and the amount of training used to get to a level of "being able to sing". There are many cases where people who are completely tone deaf and are "lost causes" train and practice for years and then become adequate singers!!
Been singing for the better part of 13years, only trained (bel canto) for 6 and that ‘pointiness’ has helped me stop straining in my belt register 🙏 you’re an angel my friend
If you can't do this, you can't sing: Talk. As long you practice enough and as long you fix your mistakes you'll be able to sing, just work hard and find your own style
Man I'm so happy I learned this on my own like everything else. Anyone struggling you WILL get there. I promise once you feel it, its there and you won't lose it.
I am 12 I love singing and I know i can sing Just believe in yourself I was stopping my breath till half of vedio I am used to it 😂 I sing very high notes to lower notes🥰
When he says “If you can’t do this, you can’t sing” he isn’t saying it’s IMPOSSIBLE, he’s saying you need to learn to do those things before you can say that you can sing.
I've never had formal training, but I've worked on my voice as best I can through youtube tutorials for several years. I've found that I have a pretty "theatrical mezzo" voice, which, as I understand it, means I can mimic a range of different tones really well by changing my breathing and my placement etc. Go from bright and clean to thick and velvety without any strain. So here's my point: when breathing, I find that when I'm going for a clean, light, pop-y sound, I breathe from my chest (like you said not to). When I want to sing like that, I sound very similar to Tori Kelly or Ariana Grande. But when I breathe from my stomach, I can *only* get a throaty, smoky, Barbra-Streisand-esque tone. I take it that's my "real tone". So, is it bad to ever breathe from my chest to get the higher, clearer ends of my register?
I'm not a vocal coach by any means, but I've been learning on my own as well. I've mostly tried to learn how to sing operatically, but I have dabbled in a bunch of things (power metal mixed belts, death metal growls, subharmonics, different kinds of distortion). Like you, I noticed that it's easier to sound like a pop singer when I breathe "higher" as well, though that does tire out my voice more quickly. I believe the main two factors are the amount of vocal compression we're using as well as the amount of tension in the vocal tract, both of which affect resonance. When I breathe higher, it's more difficult to control the amount of air I'm using due to my diaphragm not really being engaged. As a result, I think I have more vocal chord compression happening there. There's more tension in my throat too, which wreaks havoc on my resonance. But then, I don't want operatic resonance when I'm trying to sing along to "You Belong With Me" or something. I have a couple questions. When you're singing with a well-supported sound, do you feel tension in your throat? Does it feel shouty as you go up in pitch? Can you sing a comfortable note in the lower part of your range, move your larynx around with your hands, and still kind of hold the note? Because it should NOT feel throaty. I wonder if you have some residual tension in your throat. Also, I wonder if you're trying to hit high notes by trying to force more air through. It's taken me ages to figure out that higher notes need less air but more support than lower notes. I'm really looking forward to your response! EDIT: To actually answer your last question.... If that's what you want to do - and you stop when you're tired so you aren't hurting your voice - it's not a bad thing, but it shouldn't be necessary. If you're truly a mezzo, your falsetto/head voice should be plenty high, clear, and resonant. At the end of the day though, singing is about making sounds you like. Whether that's done with perfect technique doesn't really matter as long as you're enjoying yourself and not hurting yourself.
@@JGMeador444 - What a fantastically thorough response! I'm honored! I think I've subconsciously been using less air for higher and longer notes without really realizing it as such, because it just sounded and felt better. I've been a pretty intuitive learner over the years. To answer your questions about tension, I have found that for me, it's more about the _style_ I'm singing the note in, not the note itself. For example, I can sing the exact same notes in *either* the flatter, harder, "shouty-er" style of Tori Kelly or Idina Menzel, OR in the warmer, rounder, more classical style of Barbara Streisand, Leona Lewis, or the older Disney princesses... and the latter is definitely more comfortable and natural to my voice box. It also seems to have to do with the resonance placement in my head/mask itself. I can sing a higher note much more easily if it's in the middle or back of my mask/head (which is more common in Broadway, classical, and opera), but find the strain increases as soon as I try singing the same note in the *very front* of my mask, like Idina, Tori, and many modern pop singers do. I haven't yet figured out how to have NO tension when I'm singing in the first style, and maybe it'll always just be harder, because my voice box literally isn't built for that sound as much. But I'll keep trying, because I love their songs lol. But what I know right now is that when I sing in a more classical, warm, soft resonance, the highest notes feel... freer.
@@milo_thatch_incarnate Gotcha on the high notes / air thing. I have not been a very intuitive learner, so I've had to learn a lot of the how and why to get anywhere. Sounds like you have a pretty good bit of control over how much tension and which register you're using, and that those are conscious choices. That's awesome! As for the placement of high notes.... It's easier for me to have them placed in the back as well. For my high mixed belts, it feels almost straight up. If I put that sound forward, it basically collapses into falsetto and I lose all the power. So in the first style, listening to Tori Kelly (who I had actually never heard of before today, somehow), she seems to primarily push chest voice instead of letting her voice mix, which would make it easier to place it forward. It doesn't seem like she mixes much at all. It might just be a stylistic thing, I'm not sure. Or, ya know, I could be wrong and she could be mixing some in those belts. Regardless, the higher falsetto notes don't sound very connected to me, so I'm pretty certain she's mostly chest belting and then releasing any tension with the falsetto notes in there. Chest belting like that requires some tension, because you're really working the TA muscles to stretch those folds. Contrast that to, if you were going a more classical/operatic approach, using a mix of the TA and CT muscles so that the tension in the folds is exactly what it needs to be to offset the breath pressure you're giving it, and no more. Using the CT muscle tilts the larynx, so it makes sense that the placement of the note would change. I love talking about this stuff, thanks for indulging me! 😂
@@JGMeador444 I love talking about this stuff too! 😄 Also, because I've largely been an intuitive learner, I'm impressed by the amount of technical knowledge you have! It's so cool! I'm delighted to have been your introduction to Tori -- she's amazing. And yeah, she is a very chesty belter. But just like you said, for me, when I hit a _perfectly_ resonant high note belt, for me it usually feels like it resonates right up through the TOP of my head, not the front of the mask. Feels amazing, tbh. Growl notes are so fun too! I'd love to be able to extend my range to a place where I can sing my highest notes with wide vowels... but I'm not there yet. If I want the highest notes to be strong, I generally end up resorting to a more operatic round mouth shape. I can reach up to an F6#, but it's a reach lol -- still working on the tension there. The fifth octave is where my natural voice break is, so half of it is high chest belts, and half of it is head voice. E5 is a killer though -- it's a common Disney and Broadway belt note, but it's RIGHT where my voice breaks 😂
@@milo_thatch_incarnate I have to shout out Julia Nilon and The Charismatic Voice for most of the technical knowledge! And David Larson too for getting me started on subharmonics. It's really interesting how learning on our own still allows us to turn the dials and flip the switches. We just don't necessarily know what they all do or exactly how they're intertwined sometimes 🤣 But when it works and you feel what you've heard you're supposed to feel and it sounds great.... Then you still have to unlearn the bad habits that keep that from happening all the time. That's the worst for me. When I'm singing my highest falsetto notes, I think (I can't exactly experiment to verify right now) I can still make them sound wide by changing just the shape of my lips. I can't get it very forward though, so there's that. On my good days, I can get up to about an F6 or G6 as well, but there's definitely not a lot of power there. Most days it's about E6. The highest I can do with power is like a G#5, and after that it starts dropping off pretty quick. I CAN get up to a B5 with a little bit of power, but I have to do everything perfectly. I'm pretty sure that's the physiological limit of my vocal folds. UUUUGGGHHH, I feel you on the belts being on a crack thing, though it's something a bit different for me. I feel like some backstory on me is needed here. I was in my choir second semester of my freshman year of high school; that's when I started my vocal journey. Right at the start of 2013. The choir teacher (who is incredible, nothing against her), had me singing baritone stuff, because I didn't have any technique and that was the only stuff I could even kind of sing. However, through the years since then, I've been drawn to tenor voices. I don't know how to explain it, but I have been utterly convinced I could sing like them. I kept trying and trying and trying, and it kept not working. In Nessun Dorma, for example, I could do everything but that last B4. After I got a bit of technique down, I could push full chest up to an Bb4 or so. If I pushed pretty hard, I could even get that B4, but it sounded terrible and was NOT healthy. Anyway, Bb4 through C5 felt really weird, then C#5 and up to G5 my body was like, "Oh, yeah, we're mixing now." Then, one day sometime in the last couple years, I learned about the vocal classification called the leggiero tenor. Sounds quite like a baritone with the lower part of their range often going quite low (my lowest chest note is an Eb2, but it has no power) and is often mis-classified as a baritone, but has an upper extension that starts around Ab4 and sounds a lot like falsetto before it's trained but is in fact connected to chest voice. That ticked a LOT of boxes for me, and I really started playing around with the upper part of my voice. Finally realizing what people mean when they say "head voice", because for me, it doesn't start feeling like it's in my head until about Eb5. I thought I just couldn't feel the vibrations everyone else could or something. It was frustrating for me. I listened to baritones as well, and I just thought, "My voice doesn't sound like that." I have recorded myself singing plenty, so I had a point of comparison. Now, granted, my voice still isn't fully mature and it'll probably darken some, but it just didn't sound similar at all, and the tessitura is different too. The point of all this is that I relate to not being able to do things you feel like you really want to do and feel like you should be able to do. All that being said, to fix that break I'd recommend trying to get your mix lower. That's what I had to do to fix my weird spot right at the climactic tenor notes. Your body starts to realize there's another mechanism it can use for that range, and it turns the knobs to make it so. It's incredible how that works. If I didn't lose you, thanks for reading all that. I didn't expect it to be anywhere near that long 😅😅
WOW this video charged me. First of all - if you’re in tune… everything else is based on opinion and subject to the singers choices. Some things may be more helpful/sustainable… but this does not mean you can’t sing? The voice is changing all the time and is different every day. You can change your voice and its habits, like you can workout to get stronger arms. Everyone educate yourself and learn how to use your voice in lots of different ways!! If you learn how to use it we can make vocal choices that align with the music we want to create, and the style we sing in. Sorry if this came across attacky lolz x I just want to encourage people to learn about their voices and know that every voice is beautiful and it’s about making the vocal choices you want!! 🥰🥰 sending love
2nd.... you have helped me so much by the encouragement ... your transformation video is been and will always be my medicine from every day stress. It is so good😭😭😭💜💜
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Title it in a less negative manner than.
@@MichaelTurner856 yup
The damage has been done 2 yrs ago bro it's too late 💀
@@XamaruBeats did you watch the whole video? It's clear that I am saying you can get better if you avoid the mistakes
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This is the too late song btw for people wondering, I didn't get not one like on this comment besides my own 😭
0:15
ahh yes, breathing, one of the many challenges i face
😂
I hate it when i suffocate
@@juleslopez3342 I hate it when I read a comment that has a very predictable joke and I still end up getting instense amount of serotonin release and due to that reaction I almost spat my drink in my front of my laptop
Lucifer Morningstar r/woooooooooooooosh
@@gus9351 i hate it when that happens too
this guy destroyed a lot of people's career without even realizing
FR
exactly why people should ignore this video
I rlly want to like this comment but 69 likes is just too good to ruin
@@themanager8688 well, you can like it now😅
(Visible confusion) how?
It doesn’t mean you can’t sing, but necessarily you need to develop the right techniques! Best of luck everyone, and much love. ❤️
NoName? Then i call you zinnie🥺
Resonance ♡
i cannot escape nct can i lmao
oh a czennie
@@buttercupstay-6144 HEHE
Man, he said "youre not gonna be able to sing" so many times it's actually depressing. You might not be able to reach the level of an opera singer, but you can be creative with the sound that you can do! Don't let this video discourage you, if you want to create music you'll be able to do it
I am one you touch Thank You So Muchhh😢😥
@@tom__j3684 good luck bro! Keep going
@@thek-nerd3143 ahhhwwwww thank you so much love u❤❤
Frfr, plus if the the clip at the beginning is him, I personally don't like his voice, I hate a crystal clear order produced sound, I love a raw, natural voice, and with the assistance of autotune, can make some pretty crazy sounds that you don't get with a clear recording without jumpy spots, I think of autotune as an instrument, aswell as a sort of crutch, some people seem to now how to manipulate auto tune to make my ears damn near orgasm, but for others it just seems to tighten things up, like Drake and nav for example, they have a clear, even sounding voice, which the autotune doesn't change too much, then you have people like capoxxo(rather unknown) or 6ix9ine (when he sings, usually when he fortune Nikki manaj) the auto tune bounces around a little bit, and sounds more chromatic, or chordual(if that's a word) idk my thoughts, also I think his clip at the beginning of the video was auto tuned, as the high part sounded artificially clean near the top of the note, almost fluttered but didn't want to. Idk I'm fried and clearly just rambled lol
@@tom__j3684 hey bud! goodluck
*me, knowing i can't sing*: lemme confirm this real quick
Lol I can’t sing
😂
Hahahaha samee
Hahaha same
haha same.
Me a professional singer, watching this at 5 am because I have anxiety
Sameee! I'm worried that I can't really sing. lol. Also yes, anxiety.
What's your channel
I was looking in the comments so I could find anyone else who related to me lol
That's too true...
Hi five! Hahaha
“If you can’t do this, you can’t sing”
Auto tune: allow me to introduce myself
All Hail Lelouch!, lol.
no. please no. not autotune.
Hahaha
@@domonkosmolnar mindenhol csak magyarok bruhhh
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I'm dying here
"Notice how my chest doesnt move."
Camera cuts off just below neck.
Lol the chest does move but what he meant is you’re not supposed to expand your chest and instead let your stomach expand as you inhale. Of course your chest will move a little but not in the same way as if you were just letting your chest purposely expand.
Well it's obviously not moving that's why his shoulders weren't rising.
Agreed
@@saylorsaturn2043 he was being sarcastic
@@saylorsaturn2043 I tried it and I now realize that my chest expands a little but not a lot like you said.
However, I don't sing XD
Plot twist: Anyone can sing, it just requires practice and dedication.
Well not me thou
double twist : u R a beautiful human being for putting this here .
Not if you’re tone deaf
V UNKOWN you can learn anything it mostly has to do with your mindset
Dude, there are people who can barely speak
"Don’t ever let somebody tell you… You can’t do something. You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do something’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something’, go get it. Period.” - Chris Gardner
Thank you
@「maybe_later」 dang that hurt
True. But...
You're not going to be able to sing.
@UClY7SGLu142jkTs1DKPyAuQ yeah but not taking the chances feels more painful
Thats me every song
4:07 Kind of a *Patrick* voice.
4:27 Kind of a *Spongebob* voice.
Am I the only one who felt like that?!
😂😂😂 ME TOOOO
True😂😂
AHAAHAHAHAHA
he sounds more like spongebobs cousin if youve watched that episode
@@creeperlex4376 No I haven't watched it.
Even though you’re not singing right, that doesn’t mean that you can’t sing and that it’s right. You are good at singing. It’s just some helpful techniques that this man is teaching us, he’s spitting truth out.
So I guess physically I can, it just doesn’t sound good. More practice for nothing here I come...
I have faith in you, youngling
Same
same, i can do these stuff, but my voice is weird :(
you got this i bleieve in you
Ever heard of u d e m y
No one:
Me at 3AM: _ah ah_
Yeah, 😂 my dad probably thinks I need help because I was doing that too
I can't because I'm gonna wake people up😂😂😂
Mimicing the ah ah without the sound reminds me something 😂 I just watched
😭😭😭😭😭
😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦
Personally I like hearing singers take a breath, it feels more real and relatable
It's not so much that you shouldn't hear us, but that it shouldn't ALWAYS be heard. Quite frankly some notes are too long and close together for even the best singers to be silent when breathing. But if our breath is always in our chest, it can be difficult or even painful to sing well.
totally
Guess you're not a Tay Zonday fan
I HATE IT
Chest breaths just make your singing sound worse. A relaxed breath from your lower abdomen will improve your tuning, your range, and the length of phrases you can manage at one time
Dude, you’re legit a fantastic vocal instructor. Omg why am I just now finding you? Dull and lifeless, brightness and cut. Wow! I feel like I found a treasure.
Everybody gangsta till Billie Eilish starts doing this and all of a sudden it is a new musicak style and the best technique in the world
HypnosisFn I never meet anyone who thinks that, and I know a lot of Billie friends
Next people will be singing like Stitch and they will be hero’s.
Jake M stitch is cute tho
Billie English who?? Lol
@@user-jc8dy2sl7k ummm have u heard her belt??? No time to die 3:21
The title is already hit me before I even watch the video
Me too😕
Same i was like. Oh well i cant sing anyway
I already know I can't sing, I'm just here for validation.
And dont trust these dumb scheme "training programs" just find a music tone that not just sounds good to you but FEELS good then try singing in that tone
You can sing if you put the effort into trying :)
Everyone, I appreciate the vote of confidence in my singing ability, but I can assure you I sound like a dying antelope when I try to sing 😅 Still doesn't stop me from pretending the shower head as a microphone though 😌
Literally anyone can sing. Just try to hit the notes more accurately and capture the essence of whatever you’re singing.
There's so much to singing he isn't explaining. More than half of our famous singers wouldn't have a career if they took this video as fact. Don't let this shit scare you. Sing even if you suck now. Who cares?? I thought I sucked too, and sounded weak and cracked all the time. Once I learned to use my natural voice I found out my range is just pretty low for a girl. It's also the rarest and now I consider myself a pretty decent singer with practice
Anyone can sing, it’s about practice and good technique. Some people it takes longer than others. I had a hearing problem as a child and had to take a few years of speech therapy, so I have to work harder when singing because I don’t understand how everything works with speaking. Don’t tell anyone they can’t sing, everyone can, it’s about learning.
exactly
i think saying "you can't sing" it was a little be rude of him as a vocal coach
we all have different type of voice, problems etc..
I can relate to this so badly. My hearing fucked up my speech
@@TYGVloggeractually I think I find that word as a motivational one. It's like he wants us to prove him wrong 😊
Him:if I you have trouble breathing” me with asthma: 👁👄👁
People with asthma can sing, he is just talking crao😂
Ooff😂
Harry Styles.
He means while singing though.
@@shivalisingh3835 it was a joke 😭😭 I was trying to be funny but it failed badly lmao
Me a musical theatre and vocal college student watching this nervously...
Can anyone learn how to sing properly just by online lessons
@@rinthi_s2644 97% of people can but 3% just cannot
Pentagon540 blabbermouth Pineapple I but like why XD
@@rinthi_s2644 maybe because they just might stop trying at one point-
Same here 🤣🤣🤣
Anyone else yawn a lot when they’re in the middle of singing? It freaking sucks
I did when i read the word "yawn" in your comment🤣.
The reason that happens is because you lose oxygen. When your body has less oxygen and needs more it yawns to get more oxygen. When we get tired our body slows down so our breathing subsequently slows and that’s why we yawn. This is also why when you see someone yawn your body yawns because it makes your brain think there isn’t enough oxygen.
Santiago Vinicki OMG SAME, SCARY 😂😂
Yes!! I hate it😂😂
You could try breath controlling exercises- for example, put your palm against your mouth (like an inch away) and try to sing a long phrase. If your palm warms up before the end of it, you're breathing out too much air. When you have your palm in front of your mouth, it actually helps you control how much air you're letting out and it's really effective. Hope it helps!
I like around 4:30 where you clearly demonstrate how to get that range in your voice. it was really helpful how you solo'd out the dull + sharp sound
Him: "if you're not able to breathe without this 0:21 happening, you're not gonna be able to sing."
Me: crying asthmatic noises 😭
harry styles has asthama, he is one of the best singers, you can sing just some practice
@@liyashaaaa4969 "one of the best"? Yeah no
@@Memu_ dude wtf, you dont like harry styles? One direction? What even are u?
@@liyashaaaa4969 A man with taste
@@Memu_ more like a man who’s tone deaf
No one:
Me at 10 pm:
ᗰᗩᗰᗩᗰᗩᗰᗩᗰ~
Same same HAHA
Am doing it in the evening 😂 my poor parents ✋💀
lmao, same, cept its 1am here rn
Hahaha so true it's 10 pm right now
Me a mezzo at 12:47
Soprano warm ups time
He’s talking about instead of breathing with a shallow breathe you just need to breathe deeply into your pelvic area in an attempt to make your diaphragm be pressed forcing all of your organs downward creating more room for air and also making your belly go out it just comes to practice. So worrying about not having any training and then attempting to breathe is an awful way to scrub it’s someone’s ability to sing. There is no explanation of technique on how to prevent these things issues he presents to a viewer. Also brightness is something that you can fix with the placement of your voice by attempting to project it and feel it in your cheek bones and nasal area. These things can all be taught.
Any recommendations for me?
breathe into your pelvic area excuse me
Yeah every time I breathe out, my tummy does the opposite of what he wants it to do I’m so lost and I’m 2 secs in
“if you can’t do these things you can’t sing”
*me: attempts to sing with the jntro*
Looks like you cant type either...LOL
@@johntrueblue u be quiet
@@johntrueblue its a simple mistake that is what happens when you type fast
@@johntrueblue You’re talking about someone typing, when it seems like you’ve never learned punctuation.
@@Ap-ku1ce 😂😂😂
"If you're not able to breathe then you can't sing"
Me: **checks if I am still breathing** God! at least i'm still alive
edit: bruh im a singer don't touch me😎
omm the likes i got pls convert to dollars🤣
R u a kpop fan?
•mxcha. cake• yes I am😄
My k-pop buddiessss
Lol
the dead people watching this 👁️💧👄💧👁️
2:43 i tried that, sounded like that baby covered in peanut butter
💀💀💀
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@@fatsanii let me use your name
lmfaooo
Itaitaitaitaita my god
Any other choir kids like “yup, mhm, that is correct”
Yup, mhm, that is correct 🤔
Yes yes😂
Yessir
This is the comment I was look for!!! PERIODDJDKSNXJ
Yes lol
As an upcoming artist from Uganda 🇺🇬 I really do appreciate this 👈🙏
Me first time watching Adam lessons.
Adam:If you can't do these things
you can't sing.
Plays intro*
Me:Bruh........Oh.
Literally 😂
Yessssssssss I made that 69😅
And literally yeah I closed and reopened for that same reason "intro"
@@kushalxettri4130 xD
No lie😂😂😂
😂
No one seeing this should feel disheartened, please.... this maybe super PROFESSIONAL and everything but there’s nothing you can’t do with hard work and practice.... all the best to all you beautiful singers out there... 😘loads of love😘
3:31
* Hears it *
* Does it *
Mom: What????
Ngl, this took my a second to get.. 😂 underrated comment
LOL-
That moment would be de@d scary. 🤭😂🤣
MOMOMOMOL
😂😂😂
That’s the first beginner singing video that got right to the point and made sense. I thank you!
5:13 This is so true. I have friends who sound really good when singing with a deep voice but when it's time to raise up the pitch they find it hard to keep it clean and steady.
For me I’m kind of the opposite
You just described meh,,..
me: ughh ughh ughh
mom: what are you doing!!!!
HAPPENING TO ME RIGHT NOOOOW HAHAH
😂
😂😂😂
LOL IKF
😂😂
I can actually sing but anxiety gets me lol
Same
Advise, sing a song u have fun with. If u have fun the audience will have fun as well
then you can't sing
I know what you mean. My older brother always hated when I sang along to the radio. He'd say I was too pitchy and tell me to shut up. My sister would stick up for me, but I eventually stopped singing, aside from when I was at Church. The Pastor's wife heard me and asked if I'd sing a solo. I told her that I didn't think I could do it. She had 2 other girls sing with me. I totally froze and ended up not singing. Many years later, I was working in child care. I quietly sang to one of the babies in my class as I was changing his diaper. A coworker heard me and complimented me on my voice. Over the years I've only ever received compliments from anyone who has heard me, but I just keep replaying my older brother's words in my head.
@@asardinha2067 FELT😭
damn all the people were right I can't reach my dreams just because of my breathing.
WHERE MY ASTHMA HOMIES AT?
Here 🙋🏻♀️😢
hey💔👅💔✌
Harry Styles has asthma and still a good singer! Go on then, it is possible for you to sing!
@@micaelaclifford2729 this really makes my self confidence go kinda up lmao
😂🙋🏽♀️
I watch these for 2 reasons:
Singing better
And
To Get rid of my anxiety
Hey. I too have anxiety but sometimes these kind of videos makes me even more anxious. Btw I was searching for something else and this popped up.
Aww army are u fine now?!
@@aproudbbdkbsbestie267 well my anxiety got worse but I have my friends besides me and they help me alot so I guess I'm feeling good
@@iamarmy2627 ommo I hope u will cope up with it soon... It's great to know you are having supprtive friends... All the best^^
@Kaleb First of all I'm not American second of all iam diagnosed with anxiety it's easy for you to say that I'm shy
at about 4:30 you can hear spongebob and patrick having a conversation
😂😂😂
I was about to comment the same thing 😂
Oh my god 😂 i hear it
Lol I literally just commented that lol 😂
He sounds like a south Park character
Anyone can sing... some people better than others... I have friends that don't respect those techniques but still have AMAZING voices.
He deserves an award for not laughing when he was like “ ah ah ah “ 😂😂😂😂
Yes
Yes
fr, i was so close to bursting out in laughter 😂😂😂😂
@@i_zay_ya4196 i did lol
Lmaooo
adam: everyone can sing!
also adam: if you cant do this you cant sing.
also also Adam: Not everybody can sing.
also also also adam: You can sing, you just have to do this!
tbf the things he said are essential for good singing ovbs everyone can just change these things for example breathing properly hes right if you can’t do these things you won’t be able to sing
So, I've found that it's not that I *CAN'T* sing, it's just that I suck at it.
Similar to me I might be able to sing decently if I tried but it seems like such an effort to sing good - I think i will just leave it to the professionals and enjoy their amazing voices
You’re right! Wanna know how I know he’s right? I can tell he’s still recovering from muscle tension dysphonia himself.
We’re at around the same place rn in our recovery! (He’s a bit ahead but I’ll be there soon ssssh)
Most people won’t hear it unless they’re also recovering and know what tone qualities to pay attention to.
It’s SO hard to get rid of unnecessary tension as an adult or even as a teen sometimes because it’s usually by that time chronic and subconsciously happening. You also need to be willing to just sound like shit full projection. We’ve all been there and we’ve all sounded like total Garbo but it’s working through that which being about all the rewards.
You engrain the bad habits subconsciously and so you also need to kind of undo it subconsciously as well.
Full recovery HINGES on developing more muscle memory that functions at the same executive level as your dysphonic habits.
Only then can you really rely on your training 100%, otherwise you’ll always be slipping in and out of bad habits. It’s this weird “in the zone” feeling thing where you stop needing to try, you just feel the music and it just starts coming out eventually.
Even after 3 years of recovery I still can’t do it on demand, it take intense warm ups and rehearsal to get an entire song ready to sing live.
Everyone can sing, its there style to make music so catchy or good to hear even if he/she has a bad voice ..
Thank you every person just has a tone they just need to find it
Works for Bob Dylan and Neil Young. You sre totally correct about that. Just hard to know if your voice, sound or style is working for you or against you. Plus we hear it inside our own heads and have no clue what it sounds like to others outside of our head I've thought about this often.
ALLY BEAUTIES WITH ASTHAMA LISTEN UP
it IS possible for you to sing.... I had pneumonia when I was six months old which led to asthma and I also have nasal polyp(still) but when I started singing slowly my breathing got better and today I am like 13 years old and free from asthma or any breathing problems and even with my nasal polyps I can sing great and hold my notes long... So PLEASE don't give up cause singing will actually help you
Love yourself
TBH it is REALLY common nay it’s expected that around 40% of childhood asthma cases resolve in the child tween or teen years.
Unfortunately half of these cases usually come back by your mid 20’s-30’s. Nearly all cases recur at some point in their lifetime.
I went through the same thing at your age.
I got in really good cardiovascular health and thought my asthma was gone forever, I stayed in shape and in my 20’s my asthma came back worse than it was before.
I now NEED to stay in really good health or else I’m on a one way DIRECT path to COPD.
I don’t mean to scare you, because asthma is a very manageable disease in most cases.
Even severe asthma should not be impeding you from singing to the point you sound shitty.
Idina Menzel has really bad asthma just as an example.
She struggles, but she works hard and has a world renown classical voice.
There are also many elite athletes who have struggled with asthma or other respiratory diseases.
It’s NOT life defining, it just means you have more choices to make unfortunately.
You can overcome the obstacles set by your asthma, but it’s still largely incurable.
I hope it doesn’t come back for you.
I just also hope others walk away fully informed.
Singing will not get rid of your asthma. And typically no, it doesn’t get easier it just becomes “normal” and “regular”
With no immediate point of reference and proper work ethic it shouldnt really be a influential factor in your final outcome.
You’ll still sound good when you sound good.
Thanks, now I can give up
Don't give up! With pratice you will be able to sing again
I thought I knew I couldn't sing, and I just wanted to double check. Turns out: I can actually follow along to this guy. Sure I'm not the next great singer, but it's nice to know.
4:27 Trump, get away from this body 😂
LOL
Lmaoooo
so Trump can sing lol
Haha, you went from Spongebob to Patrick at 4:40 😂
😂😂
I guess I am able to sing? Haha. I just don't know how to use my voice really well. Doesn't always sound good, doesn't always sound bad.
Maybe every vocal coaches' ears would bleed when hearing me, but to my unprofessional ears it sounds good sometimes :)).
keep practicing army u will do it and have such a beautiful dream 🥞🌺🍭
@@kiki-dk2zd Armys everywhere
Wow! Ver impressed with your explanation. Never found a crystal clear video talking about true voice as yours. Finally I could understand! Congratulations! And thank you so much.
Me who sucks at singing but meets the requirements: "hmm, guess I can sing now."
Congrats my guy
Same
You are doing it the other way around. I like it :D
I thoroughly he was gonna say “if you can’t breathe, you can’t sing” DANG IT
Why am I doing this? I KNOW I can sing😂
I can too, well I believe I will be able to, but I can't rn😢
You are blessed! 💗
Right lmao
oh damn!
this advice is amazing, like the breathing technique doesnt effect my chest if you pull that chest during high notes you sound like "wooOOOoo!!"
me: **tries breathing for the first activity**
--1 sec ltr--
me: **yawns while breathing in**
ME TOO LMFAFOAOAOAOAOOAAO
Breathing from the Diaphragm is actually the natural way of breathing. It’s how we breathed when we were born, but we were sort of “trained” into breathing from the chest.
My private vocal coach back in the day would do exercises to help focus on the “belly breath” in order to retire your mind & body
3:43 me pretending to be sick infront of my mum to skip school
Lmao
Lmfao
That pfp is 🙃
I didn’t pass my test🥲 i’m so far behind
Hahahhaha XD
i can tell you right now that a lot of singers take a breath when they sing and they still sing good. idk sounds genuinely stupid to think that 'breathing at all' is a bad thing.
That’s not what he was saying haha. He was stressing the importance of breathing with your stomach rather than your chest
He's talking about utilizing your diaphragm.
It's good training for singers to learn breathing control to maximize their capability.
Xaxaxa, without breath and diafragm u can’t sing . Never sing with throat!
Tell me you don't sing without telling me you don't sing
OMG man you just don't know that you've helped me with singing and speaking after many years of speech therapy! Also, resonance = vibration!! Not many vocal coaches will differentiate or say tell it like it is! THANK YOU!!!! YOU'VE JUST EARNED YOURSELF A SUBSCRIBER!
Adam: breathing
Me, an asthmatic: ...
Me too. Still love singing. I am going to keep. Even if my nose is always congestionate. XDD
Same... Same 😔
This is actually similar to how I breath when I play my flute. It’s better for control and allows you to intake more air
As soon as i hear “with this subscription i created” i log off right away
So I clicked on this on a whim, and I was not expecting singing that GLORIOUS in the intro. Dude that was blumming angelic, just WOW.
I m a music teacher but today I knew I can't sing. Thanks man😅
How on Earth am I supposed to breathe without inflating my lungs? My lungs are in my chest, not my belly.
ur body use the diaphragm to inflate the lungs when breathing from your belly
U dum dum
Babies breathe from the belly not the chest, everyone just learns how to breathe wrong for some reason
it just takes practice
@@karmanuenes7629 Everybody breathes using their diaphragm. It's how we inflate our lungs and without engaging the diaphragm we would suffocate. . So this instruction to "breathe from the belly" is a bit redundant really. We do it all the time.
4:45 "i need to have a little bit of that"
*copies what he does
*my sister coming into the room thought i was watching spongebob cause i sounded like squidward.
Reading this comment while doing it LMAO 😂😂😂
Reading this comment while doing it LMAO 😂😂😂
that is a great title. I scrolled past it, then came back and said “hold on lemme just check”
I personally have a really big interest in singing and from this it tells me i can sing and im kinda happy
When i did breathing exercise, my mother thought that my asthma's getting worse 🤣🤣🤣
Very informative! However, I know that tough love is sometimes important in this field, but I believe it's important to say that anyone CAN sing, it just comes down to practice, technique, and the amount of training used to get to a level of "being able to sing". There are many cases where people who are completely tone deaf and are "lost causes" train and practice for years and then become adequate singers!!
4 am in my room: uh uh uh
my wall: oh will she shut up
Literally
my non-existent dreams about singing have been crushed years ago
4:31 lowkey sounds like spongebob tellin me how to sing and I have no complaints
Omg I'm laughing so hard😂😂😂
2:49 that’s what she said
welp looks like im not singing he just proved that I cant sing
Been singing for the better part of 13years, only trained (bel canto) for 6 and that ‘pointiness’ has helped me stop straining in my belt register 🙏 you’re an angel my friend
2:42 His nostrils are moving while he makes "a"
Shhh secret technique
4:42 U SOUND LIKE PATRICK FROM SPONGBOB AND THAT MADE MY DAY 🥺✨✨
If you can't do this, you can't sing:
Talk.
As long you practice enough and as long you fix your mistakes you'll be able to sing, just work hard and find your own style
Man I'm so happy I learned this on my own like everything else. Anyone struggling you WILL get there. I promise once you feel it, its there and you won't lose it.
I am 12 I love singing and I know i can sing
Just believe in yourself
I was stopping my breath till half of vedio I am used to it 😂
I sing very high notes to lower notes🥰
Which music do u use to sing ?
Your account is 6 years old, you been on TH-cam since you were 6? Ok sure
@@jasperfk lmao I was when I was 7
@@jasperfk might be there parents or siblings phone?
0:06 yup i can't do that
Lmao XD
Breathing
Exists
If you can’t do this, you can’t swim either
His eyes are dreamy
When he says “If you can’t do this, you can’t sing” he isn’t saying it’s IMPOSSIBLE, he’s saying you need to learn to do those things before you can say that you can sing.
Yes! Thank you! Someone understood!
2:57
"Mom its not what you think it is"
Me when I listen to DESTROYA.
Like, how am I supposed to explain that?
honestly you can’t explain that lmao
@@Alchemy818. LMAO
I sound like a choking bird while talking and here I am watching videos about singing.
he:do this, ah,ah,ah
me:*trying to copy
sis:WTF ARE YOU WATCHING?!!?
SAME
lol
I've never had formal training, but I've worked on my voice as best I can through youtube tutorials for several years. I've found that I have a pretty "theatrical mezzo" voice, which, as I understand it, means I can mimic a range of different tones really well by changing my breathing and my placement etc. Go from bright and clean to thick and velvety without any strain.
So here's my point: when breathing, I find that when I'm going for a clean, light, pop-y sound, I breathe from my chest (like you said not to). When I want to sing like that, I sound very similar to Tori Kelly or Ariana Grande. But when I breathe from my stomach, I can *only* get a throaty, smoky, Barbra-Streisand-esque tone. I take it that's my "real tone".
So, is it bad to ever breathe from my chest to get the higher, clearer ends of my register?
I'm not a vocal coach by any means, but I've been learning on my own as well. I've mostly tried to learn how to sing operatically, but I have dabbled in a bunch of things (power metal mixed belts, death metal growls, subharmonics, different kinds of distortion). Like you, I noticed that it's easier to sound like a pop singer when I breathe "higher" as well, though that does tire out my voice more quickly. I believe the main two factors are the amount of vocal compression we're using as well as the amount of tension in the vocal tract, both of which affect resonance. When I breathe higher, it's more difficult to control the amount of air I'm using due to my diaphragm not really being engaged. As a result, I think I have more vocal chord compression happening there. There's more tension in my throat too, which wreaks havoc on my resonance. But then, I don't want operatic resonance when I'm trying to sing along to "You Belong With Me" or something.
I have a couple questions. When you're singing with a well-supported sound, do you feel tension in your throat? Does it feel shouty as you go up in pitch? Can you sing a comfortable note in the lower part of your range, move your larynx around with your hands, and still kind of hold the note? Because it should NOT feel throaty. I wonder if you have some residual tension in your throat.
Also, I wonder if you're trying to hit high notes by trying to force more air through. It's taken me ages to figure out that higher notes need less air but more support than lower notes.
I'm really looking forward to your response!
EDIT: To actually answer your last question.... If that's what you want to do - and you stop when you're tired so you aren't hurting your voice - it's not a bad thing, but it shouldn't be necessary. If you're truly a mezzo, your falsetto/head voice should be plenty high, clear, and resonant. At the end of the day though, singing is about making sounds you like. Whether that's done with perfect technique doesn't really matter as long as you're enjoying yourself and not hurting yourself.
@@JGMeador444 - What a fantastically thorough response! I'm honored!
I think I've subconsciously been using less air for higher and longer notes without really realizing it as such, because it just sounded and felt better. I've been a pretty intuitive learner over the years.
To answer your questions about tension, I have found that for me, it's more about the _style_ I'm singing the note in, not the note itself.
For example, I can sing the exact same notes in *either* the flatter, harder, "shouty-er" style of Tori Kelly or Idina Menzel, OR in the warmer, rounder, more classical style of Barbara Streisand, Leona Lewis, or the older Disney princesses... and the latter is definitely more comfortable and natural to my voice box.
It also seems to have to do with the resonance placement in my head/mask itself. I can sing a higher note much more easily if it's in the middle or back of my mask/head (which is more common in Broadway, classical, and opera), but find the strain increases as soon as I try singing the same note in the *very front* of my mask, like Idina, Tori, and many modern pop singers do.
I haven't yet figured out how to have NO tension when I'm singing in the first style, and maybe it'll always just be harder, because my voice box literally isn't built for that sound as much. But I'll keep trying, because I love their songs lol.
But what I know right now is that when I sing in a more classical, warm, soft resonance, the highest notes feel... freer.
@@milo_thatch_incarnate Gotcha on the high notes / air thing. I have not been a very intuitive learner, so I've had to learn a lot of the how and why to get anywhere.
Sounds like you have a pretty good bit of control over how much tension and which register you're using, and that those are conscious choices. That's awesome!
As for the placement of high notes.... It's easier for me to have them placed in the back as well. For my high mixed belts, it feels almost straight up. If I put that sound forward, it basically collapses into falsetto and I lose all the power.
So in the first style, listening to Tori Kelly (who I had actually never heard of before today, somehow), she seems to primarily push chest voice instead of letting her voice mix, which would make it easier to place it forward. It doesn't seem like she mixes much at all. It might just be a stylistic thing, I'm not sure. Or, ya know, I could be wrong and she could be mixing some in those belts. Regardless, the higher falsetto notes don't sound very connected to me, so I'm pretty certain she's mostly chest belting and then releasing any tension with the falsetto notes in there. Chest belting like that requires some tension, because you're really working the TA muscles to stretch those folds. Contrast that to, if you were going a more classical/operatic approach, using a mix of the TA and CT muscles so that the tension in the folds is exactly what it needs to be to offset the breath pressure you're giving it, and no more. Using the CT muscle tilts the larynx, so it makes sense that the placement of the note would change.
I love talking about this stuff, thanks for indulging me! 😂
@@JGMeador444 I love talking about this stuff too! 😄 Also, because I've largely been an intuitive learner, I'm impressed by the amount of technical knowledge you have! It's so cool!
I'm delighted to have been your introduction to Tori -- she's amazing. And yeah, she is a very chesty belter.
But just like you said, for me, when I hit a _perfectly_ resonant high note belt, for me it usually feels like it resonates right up through the TOP of my head, not the front of the mask. Feels amazing, tbh. Growl notes are so fun too!
I'd love to be able to extend my range to a place where I can sing my highest notes with wide vowels... but I'm not there yet. If I want the highest notes to be strong, I generally end up resorting to a more operatic round mouth shape. I can reach up to an F6#, but it's a reach lol -- still working on the tension there. The fifth octave is where my natural voice break is, so half of it is high chest belts, and half of it is head voice.
E5 is a killer though -- it's a common Disney and Broadway belt note, but it's RIGHT where my voice breaks 😂
@@milo_thatch_incarnate I have to shout out Julia Nilon and The Charismatic Voice for most of the technical knowledge! And David Larson too for getting me started on subharmonics.
It's really interesting how learning on our own still allows us to turn the dials and flip the switches. We just don't necessarily know what they all do or exactly how they're intertwined sometimes 🤣
But when it works and you feel what you've heard you're supposed to feel and it sounds great.... Then you still have to unlearn the bad habits that keep that from happening all the time. That's the worst for me.
When I'm singing my highest falsetto notes, I think (I can't exactly experiment to verify right now) I can still make them sound wide by changing just the shape of my lips. I can't get it very forward though, so there's that. On my good days, I can get up to about an F6 or G6 as well, but there's definitely not a lot of power there. Most days it's about E6. The highest I can do with power is like a G#5, and after that it starts dropping off pretty quick. I CAN get up to a B5 with a little bit of power, but I have to do everything perfectly. I'm pretty sure that's the physiological limit of my vocal folds.
UUUUGGGHHH, I feel you on the belts being on a crack thing, though it's something a bit different for me. I feel like some backstory on me is needed here.
I was in my choir second semester of my freshman year of high school; that's when I started my vocal journey. Right at the start of 2013. The choir teacher (who is incredible, nothing against her), had me singing baritone stuff, because I didn't have any technique and that was the only stuff I could even kind of sing. However, through the years since then, I've been drawn to tenor voices. I don't know how to explain it, but I have been utterly convinced I could sing like them. I kept trying and trying and trying, and it kept not working. In Nessun Dorma, for example, I could do everything but that last B4. After I got a bit of technique down, I could push full chest up to an Bb4 or so. If I pushed pretty hard, I could even get that B4, but it sounded terrible and was NOT healthy. Anyway, Bb4 through C5 felt really weird, then C#5 and up to G5 my body was like, "Oh, yeah, we're mixing now." Then, one day sometime in the last couple years, I learned about the vocal classification called the leggiero tenor. Sounds quite like a baritone with the lower part of their range often going quite low (my lowest chest note is an Eb2, but it has no power) and is often mis-classified as a baritone, but has an upper extension that starts around Ab4 and sounds a lot like falsetto before it's trained but is in fact connected to chest voice. That ticked a LOT of boxes for me, and I really started playing around with the upper part of my voice. Finally realizing what people mean when they say "head voice", because for me, it doesn't start feeling like it's in my head until about Eb5. I thought I just couldn't feel the vibrations everyone else could or something. It was frustrating for me. I listened to baritones as well, and I just thought, "My voice doesn't sound like that." I have recorded myself singing plenty, so I had a point of comparison. Now, granted, my voice still isn't fully mature and it'll probably darken some, but it just didn't sound similar at all, and the tessitura is different too. The point of all this is that I relate to not being able to do things you feel like you really want to do and feel like you should be able to do.
All that being said, to fix that break I'd recommend trying to get your mix lower. That's what I had to do to fix my weird spot right at the climactic tenor notes. Your body starts to realize there's another mechanism it can use for that range, and it turns the knobs to make it so. It's incredible how that works.
If I didn't lose you, thanks for reading all that. I didn't expect it to be anywhere near that long 😅😅
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1:50 the transtion 👀
WOW this video charged me. First of all - if you’re in tune… everything else is based on opinion and subject to the singers choices. Some things may be more helpful/sustainable… but this does not mean you can’t sing? The voice is changing all the time and is different every day. You can change your voice and its habits, like you can workout to get stronger arms. Everyone educate yourself and learn how to use your voice in lots of different ways!! If you learn how to use it we can make vocal choices that align with the music we want to create, and the style we sing in. Sorry if this came across attacky lolz x I just want to encourage people to learn about their voices and know that every voice is beautiful and it’s about making the vocal choices you want!! 🥰🥰 sending love
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2nd.... you have helped me so much by the encouragement ... your transformation video is been and will always be my medicine from every day stress. It is so good😭😭😭💜💜