My favorite and only voice teacher on YT. My breathing has improved a lot from your videos and my singing has gotten much stronger by just simply practicing singing on the breathe and breathing in the back.
Hello Michael! I have to say I love your channel so much. You are such a fresh breath of air in the vocal teaching industry that is full of confusions and bad advice.I bought and read your book and I watch your videos every single day and there help me tremendously in my journey to learn how to sing. The only thing I’m still a little bit confused about is the breathing in the lower back. How do I know if I do it correctly? Maybe you can make an demonstration video on how to do it? That would help tremendously! Have a nice day☺️
Maestro-I found Your lesson very helpfull.I would like to find out more about abdomen-do we have to pull it in before we inhale?Do we have to hold it like that while singing,or relax it?If relax,then next breath we take we pull abdomen just shortly before next inhale or it should be done like-inhale and abdomen pull in together?Thank You.
Mike, I was watching a few documentaries about Mario Lanza. Did you have any interaction with him? He had a tough, short life. Thanks in advance for your reply.
I have a question....if breathing...chest size....etc....is so much of important....Placido...Pavarotti..(They both had BIG CHESTS) would have had a BIGGER sound than the HUGE sound of Mario Del Monaco....and to my best understanding...they did not come even close to MDM....
It all depends on where the voice is "leaned". Domingo used an extremely pushed abdominal pressure and the reaction was to push a chesty voice into the nasal cavity. He could sing a lot of repertoire, but always struggled to sing high note easily. The voice was not half the size of its potential because the air column was pushed upward and shortened below. His mezza-voce was exqusite because the natural weight of his voice could function without being overloaded with overreaction due to the forcing in the abdomen. Pavarotti did it better because he leaned sufficiently on his navel and did not push (compress with pressure) but used only enough to equalize the resistance of the vocal cords as they closed. Del Monaco used a "Dropping down and under" method which allowed him to exploit the entire breath column. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The more a singer pushes downward, the more the breath reacts upward and the air column gets shorter. The throat narrrows, the Pillars of the Fauces close and the resonance falls down into the nasal cavity. Caruso said in his book...."NEVER SING INTO THE NASAL CAVITY". Del Monaco allowed gravity to do the work by using a "drop down and deep and allow the reaction to occur much higher in his face and head. He did not need to use the muscles in the throat to control breath that was reacting upward against the throat. Del Monaco's method was to maintain a gravity drop as low as possible without pushing down, like jumping up and down or bouncing up and down. Gravity will pull the breath downward and the entire throat will relax an remain free and completely open. Thus the reaction upward was a free one without any upward pushing of the breath against the throat. Pav used just enough pressure against his abdomen in the navel area and controlled the consistent sufficiency of pressure his lighter vocal cords required. I studied with Del Monaco for almost 6 months. He used to say, "Lean against the wall. Don't push the wall. Gravity will hold you against the wall." So any extra pressure will react in a negative way. Leaning (Appoggio) is sufficient to the resistance of the closed glottis and any more pressure will have to be equalized by using other muscles in the throat and upper vocal tract. I hope this gives you an idea. Helge Rosvaenge had one of the most powerful voices i ever heard and his body was not large. He was a '"drop it down and don't push down" believer and did 3 hours of Yoga per day to get his breath down low in the body without pushing anything. I studied with him for almost a year and a half. I could go on, but you get the idea. Remember the THIRD LAW OF MOTION. Thanks for writing to me. Michael t
All young and not young singers:) should watch your extremely useful vocal lessons. Thank You, MAESTRO!
My favorite and only voice teacher on YT. My breathing has improved a lot from your videos and my singing has gotten much stronger by just simply practicing singing on the breathe and breathing in the back.
Thank you so much for pinpointing 90% ( or maybe more) of what real singing would be.
Love your videos so much
My notes
4:58 this is why the support is "more" as you ascend
Hello Michael!
I have to say I love your channel so much. You are such a fresh breath of air in the vocal teaching industry that is full of confusions and bad advice.I bought and read your book and I watch your videos every single day and there help me tremendously in my journey to learn how to sing. The only thing I’m still a little bit confused about is the breathing in the lower back. How do I know if I do it correctly? Maybe you can make an demonstration video on how to do it? That would help tremendously! Have a nice day☺️
You can place your hands on your lower ribcage, as you take in the breath your lower ribcage should expand outwards towards your back.
He explains at 18:40!
@@melregissings can’t believe I overlooked that…. Thank you so much!☺️
Maestro-I found Your lesson very helpfull.I would like to find out more about abdomen-do we have to pull it in before we inhale?Do we have to hold it like that while singing,or relax it?If relax,then next breath we take we pull abdomen just shortly before next inhale or it should be done like-inhale and abdomen pull in together?Thank You.
The force of the breathe should move the abdomen. The only work you have to do is lean the breathe forward against your chest.
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Mike, I was watching a few documentaries about Mario Lanza. Did you have any interaction with him? He had a tough, short life. Thanks in advance for your reply.
I dont really get the ladder metaphor :(
But anyway many useful tips! Ty!
I have a question....if breathing...chest size....etc....is so much of important....Placido...Pavarotti..(They both had BIG CHESTS) would have had a BIGGER sound than the HUGE sound of Mario Del Monaco....and to my best understanding...they did not come even close to MDM....
It all depends on where the voice is "leaned". Domingo used an extremely pushed abdominal pressure and the reaction was to push a chesty voice into the nasal cavity. He could sing a lot of repertoire, but always struggled to sing high note easily. The voice was not half the size of its potential because the air column was pushed upward and shortened below. His mezza-voce was exqusite because the natural weight of his voice could function without being overloaded with overreaction due to the forcing in the abdomen.
Pavarotti did it better because he leaned sufficiently on his navel and did not push (compress with pressure) but used only enough to equalize the resistance of the vocal cords as they closed. Del Monaco used a "Dropping down and under" method which allowed him to exploit the entire breath column. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The more a singer pushes downward, the more the breath reacts upward and the air column gets shorter. The throat narrrows, the Pillars of the Fauces close and the resonance falls down into the nasal cavity. Caruso said in his book...."NEVER SING INTO THE NASAL CAVITY".
Del Monaco allowed gravity to do the work by using a "drop down and deep and allow the reaction to occur much higher in his face and head. He did not need to use the muscles in the throat to control breath that was reacting upward against the throat. Del Monaco's method was to maintain a gravity drop as low as possible without pushing down, like jumping up and down or bouncing up and down. Gravity will pull the breath downward and the entire throat will relax an remain free and completely open. Thus the reaction upward was a free one without any upward pushing of the breath against the throat.
Pav used just enough pressure against his abdomen in the navel area and controlled the consistent sufficiency of pressure his lighter vocal cords required. I studied with Del Monaco for almost 6 months. He used to say, "Lean against the wall. Don't push the wall. Gravity will hold you against the wall." So any extra pressure will react in a negative way. Leaning (Appoggio) is sufficient to the resistance of the closed glottis and any more pressure will have to be equalized by using other muscles in the throat and upper vocal tract. I hope this gives you an idea. Helge Rosvaenge had one of the most powerful voices i ever heard and his body was not large. He was a '"drop it down and don't push down" believer and did 3 hours of Yoga per day to get his breath down low in the body without pushing anything. I studied with him for almost a year and a half. I could go on, but you get the idea. Remember the THIRD LAW OF MOTION. Thanks for writing to me. Michael t
@@Tenoretrimble Sir.....thanks A LOT for taking the time to reply in a lengthy way...
I am watching your videos for appogio / leaning....
I found that I gotta push air out to be able to sing without straining
It seems your soccer makes your have a gigan lung at that time Mr