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  • Hey there!! Loved your videos. When's your next one coming? Please let me know. xxxxxx Have a fabulous day!

  • Every note is THROAT resonance! There is no forward placement, no legato, it's awful! How can these people teach anything! They haven't the slightest idea of vocal technique! The breathing instruction is a lot of nonsense! There is no mention of raising the rib cage, particularly, the lower back ribs that controls the opening of the throat! The breath is suspended by the lifting of the lowest back ribs! If that is not done, the throat will control the breath! The breath must be balanced. Pt. 1

  • Every note is THROAT resonance! There is no foward placment, no legato, it's awful! How can these people teach anything! They haven't the slightest idea of vocal technique! The breathing instruction is a lot of nonsense! There is no mention of raising the rib cage, particlarly, the lower back ribs that controls the opening of the throat! The breath is suspended by the lifting of the lowest back ribs! If that is not done, the throat will control the breath! The breath must be balanced. End Pt. 1

  • this man look evil..!!

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  • hahahaha.

  • Vibrato comes from proper body connection and vocal cords that can vibrate freely. Changing dynamics and pitch is not and really doesn't contribute to producing vibrato. You can't PRODUCE vibrato. Vibrato is part of proper vocalization and singing. Can someone help me understand this fact cause I really don't understand what he's talking about.

  • it´s both breathing and pitching if you do it fast.

  • thanx for sharing the tips

  • thats really good help! :)

  • Lol, he wasn't singing d and d#. That was E and F I'm pretty sure. :) Oh well..

  • @CAHop90 lol yes, it was. :D

  • Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyy!!! PlZ .... if This was wrong ......... can someone help me !!! & send me a Tutorials Pleeeaase!!!!!!

  • "I stacked all my gear into a corner, slapped some hair grease on the ole domicile, and virtually looked you in the face and lied"

  • omg the "loud soft loud soft he did is a crescendo and decrescendo".,thats what it called,fyi,thnx!!

  • thats not vibrato, thats tremolo

  • @hungryalbatros so at 1:20 when he sings..."i love you...I need you" are you saying that he is singing it with tremolo???

    Does this man not sing with vibrato???

  • Wow you REALLY dont know what your talking about. Sheesh I cant believe people like you get to teach music. Pitch fluctuation/Vibrato is a result of great vocal balance, perfect balance of chord closure and air pressure so that the musculature vibrates freely without blowing apart of tightening up too much... Or some crp like that :-)

  • Yet again more NON-EXPERTS on Expert Village. I'm sorry Mark W. Black, but VIBRATO iS PITCH FLUCTUATION.... look it up.

    Better still, try this out. Sing a note into spectrographic software ("Sing and See" or "VoicePrint" - these are not too expensive and great resources for singing teachers/vocal coaches) and you can actually see your pitch altering, in realtime, when you use vibrato. There's no doubt about it...!!!

  • @MrTico3302 Actually I think I can explain it by physics. When the voice goes between loud and softer the vocal cords goes back and forth. Now when the source of the sound is moving back and forth it gives a deception of that the note is changing. Try moving a small speaker back and forth from your head and you will hear it. This phenomenon is called "Doppler Effect" and that you can look up too:P BAM SCIENTISTED!

  • @MrTico.

    yes of course its gonna fluctuate some.

    but if you focus on just trying to BARELY CHANGE THE PITCH OF YOUR VOICE up and down.. you are gonna ger terrible results.

    I mean would you say what you said to Mark Blacks face? no you wouldnt.

    Because this guy knows what hes talking about, and you would feel real stupid if you talked in 'realtime.'

    get over yourself.

  • Oh! Is this a Vocal Coach? i think No!

  • how does a fucking vocal coach teach amplitude fluctuation and not realize that his own vibrato is pitch fluctuation? jesus christ expert village posts some worthless shit on youtube.

  • Wow. Yeah...he's bad, but he's no worse than sbgalt. I guess sbgalt has looks on his side. Haha. This guy is sporting a mullet. Haha.

  • this guy's an idiot!!

  • those instruments in the background didn't make the video look any more expert.

  • vibrato is pitch fluctuation....its all about the pitch center, loud soft,that is so false. that's a great way to invite in abdominal tension.

  • his vibrato WAS and IS a pitch fluctuation. thats what vocal vibrato is.

    some of these expertvillage videos are just plain and simply false information.

  • @wonderlover I think it's just the way to teach. If you say to someone to ALTER THE PITCH rapidly, he's going to wobble his voice.

    If you say SING LOUD AND SOFT rapidly, he's going to do the right way. It does alter the pitch, but you don't say it that way or that might confuse the student.

  • Wrong, I'm sorry.

  • very interesting...

  • I can produce natural vibrato, not forced, by relaxing my throat muscles at the end of a long note. It just happens naturally for me. I don't have a lot of vibrato though, so sometimes I do fake it when singing :p

  • lol... I have always been called raw talent until i started playing with my vibrato and was called out for it.. now i'm a signer in training... I have done all kinds of things... talent shows... basketball games... footballgames.. you get the point but i sound pretty good

  • i have been wanting to sing for a long time but dont excatly know what sounds good or bad. i like your technique. how would i know if im not doing the right pitch?

  • Record it, that's the only way I found. Or if you don't have a microphone, try to find someone you know who would listen to you and tell you wrong or good.

  • This is very good. I was teaching flat/sharp/flat sharp, and then speeding it up. I'm going to teach it this way from now on. Thanks!

  • This was soo much help !!! thanks :D

  • Should I even be singing at 16? I need to learn, I know I can, I play guitar and I've taught myself for the last 2 years after leaving lessons. I'm covering an Opeth song and need to sing, instead of just growling.

  • Totally agree with AmhranaiAlainn. When someone sings well it's not that they're just listening to the sound, analysing it and then changing the voice.

    A good singer pays attention to how they feel. The quality of the singing is reflected in how good the feeling is. Singing is really natural.

  • check out the singing success videos

  • I just naturally sing like that without doing anything - you sound like my dad haha (you could take that a good way or bad) =]

  • ehem, ehem.... i think, the most proper way, of anything, is to just SING! make sure that you're in pitch and in tune and in rhyme. how? juz vocalize... get a voice teacher that vocalizes your voice on the piano. nothing beats the basic, people.

    i.e. look at american idol, those they consider great singers are those who just let their voice out naturally, the simpler the better. aight? (i meant during auditions, not when america votes)

  • I totally agree with Nashlam1990..

    Now days you don't hear vibrato used much.. alot of bands just sing and they

    don't add the vibrato.. Singin just isn't what it use to be lol

  • I heard from another vocal teacher that vibrato comes more naturally to women then men. Women get it when they are younger and the men get it when they are older. That's why we hear guy singers nowadays don't do any vibrato in their voice. Except for Matt Bellamy. He is awesome :P.

  • i agree.. Matt Bellamy is Awesome! cant wait for the new album!!

  • get a life amhranaalain you probably cant sing so shut up. teach your own class you ass.

  • he he i like it when people post these comments. The road to great singing is through knowledge, for knowledge is everything. The wrong knowledge or half knowledge in singing can be very dangerous and that's why I posted my comment. We must obey the laws of nature when we sing. TobiasRieper acknowledged what I was saying and made a very valid comment. If I were you TobiasR, you just keep doing what your doing. Don't try to make vibrato as it happens naturally when you don't listen to yourself.

  • This is an example of someone who is teaching detrimental knowledge. He teaches from a sound / tone perspective, which is wrong. Singing is not about your voice and how you sound. It is about how you use your voice. The singing voice is essentially sustained speech. When you talk, do you consciously listen to how you sound? NO! Speech is a natural thing. The truth is - so is singing! The perception that you have to consciously do things with parts of your body to create lovely singing is wrong.

  • you are totally right... its like me when i play guitar and sing. I concentrate on playing most of the time that i get vocal vibrato out of no where!!

    its just very hard not to concentrate on your voice to pull a vibratto though but i guess it takes practice and i hope i get it : \

  • Yes, that's a good example. When you are distracted from 'checking how things are going' the naturalness of your voice is freed up. The way to approach it is to immerse yourself in the 'story of the song'. Say each word with clarity i.e. pronounced as if spoken and put the correct meaning into that which is asked from each word or phrase. Let the voice do it's own thing, don't try to assist - I know that is the inclination. It's more about training the mind, not the voice.

  • Yeah I know what you mean...

  • i have trouble with vibrato on low notes, but i am working on it

  • hey,this is tremolo,not vibrato...to make vibrato,you need the whole air flow to be perfect,the singing position,diaphragm.ect.i can make it but just on the low notes.since im not a opera singer,i cant control my voice perfectly on the higher notes,i to cramp it,but seriously this wont help you achieve anything,because yu need to work with your singing teacher alone,someone needs to hear you,and seay if it is good...because to you it may sound that way,and you could be beeking like a goat.. ;)

  • one ur wrong

    two, ur wrong

    three- of course a one one on one vocal teacher is better, I dont think anyone given the choice between private lessons and watching some free 2 minute video thinks the free two minute video would be more helpful.

  • well some people can't afford one on one lessons and this is what they can get, not much but it helps

  • yea this is great that was my point to all the people who are like " This sux, u need a one on one lesson"

  • oh I'm sorry, i didnt know thats what you meant

  • a vibrato is a frequent variation in pitch, a TREMOLO is a variation in amplitude, which is what the guy in this video is attempting to do. Just thought I'd point that out for anyone learning about this.

  • 0.20 second is vibrato

    0.42 second is tremelo

  • tremelo is basicly vibrato very fast, and its just in your head

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  • 1:19

  • but he has such a good voice

  • She doesn't scream, and her technicque is near flaweless to be honest. She has excellent tonnage and pitch placement. I'm not sure where you were going with your comments, but it sure doesn't make you look knowledgable in the slightest. Maybe you don't like her music, and that's understandable, but to say she can't sing, or doesn't know how to sing, is just idiocy.

  • ????? What? Really? Tell me this was a joke.

  • Excuse me, here even the tecnique is wrong, first, if you need a vibrato in the middle of the phrase, in which way you think you will be able to control you diaphragm and breathing after the vibrato? But there's no strict rules about learning tecniques, just "feel your breathe and your body" use the diaphragm and do not overstress your body,,

  • hes doing it a different a different way but I guess that works as well

    but you usually use different pitches to use vibrato

  • WRONG! different pitches, either tones or semitones (in the case of much Spanish music for guitar even quarter tones) are used to produce a trill, but vibrato must not include two pitches.

    Trill and Vibrato are two different things entirely.

    This man calls it Veyebrato, it should be pronounced Vibrato with a short I sound as in Video.

  • Are there any online voice videos where the people actually knw what they are talking about?

  • but everyone has a voice

  • Wow thats completely false, dont listen to this close minded idiot. ANYONE can sing, its a matter of opinion as well, some people will like you, and some people wont, but with practice you can reach the stars and beyond, dont ever give up and let idiots like 'elvedin555' tell you that you can't, YOU CAN!

  • ahahah

  • Yes anyone can sing, some times they sing and it sounds awful.

  • right said.

  • ahahahhahahaahahaha

  • Shut the hell up....people.....he is trying to help you...idiots!!!

  • I hope this guy isn't a professional. REAL vibrato IS a slight variation in pitch. Tremolo is what he is describing - a change in amplitude (volume). He should know this.

  • Yeah, seriously, this involves using your diaphragm only for vibrato instead of it being in the laryx, vibrato Is a SLIGHT fluxuation of pitch not change, we must tell people!

  • yay!

    Thank you orchestra!!

    I already knew what vibrato was, thank god, but it's different in orchestra, so this helped SOOOOOO much

  • Is there something wrong with me? When i sing a cappella, i can never sing on tune, with karaoke(No voices) I can't sing on tune, but then if i sing along to a song i know, i sing it perfectly. I think its that i can't find the right pitch until i hear it (Hence why i sing better with other voices). Is that it, or is it something else.

  • awesome tip.. i swear after this video i can do abit vibrato.......

  • Vibrato is a naturally occurring phenomenon when the controlled breath oscillates over the vocal cords and is not simply a variation of soft and loud on a note. Everything must be relaxed, throat muscles notwithstanding and all elements must be in control before vibrato will occur. HARDER to STOP a naturally occurring vibrato than to create one but a created vibrato is NOT NATURAL and therefore this idea is bogus like most of what you're saying. Sorry you don't know what you're talking about.

  • idiot

  • Yeah I'm afraid you are - fool!

  • hey guys can u help me? I can sing but when it's in my head it sounds hecka good, but when others hear it sounds fking bad (it also sounds bad on camera) HELP ME!

  • listen to yourself when you sing. if you can't, get a mic and record yourself. audacity is a free download.

  • story of my life

  • ? idk......

  • whatever i didnt quit understand this

  • great tippppppps!

  • what's a quarter note o.o... what's a beat

  • music is measured in beats, like time is measured in seconds. each beat fits a note. so a quarter note fits in a beat 4 times

  • a beat is like a musical syllable. (U know, like the clapping thing u learnt in school.)

  • I did not have the privlidge to go to school. My dad was an abusive loser who beat my mom, she worked all day. I got beat on at school and dropped out early soooo no.

  • great It works:D

  • why do you guys say he sucks,any explanation?

  • That wasn't high or musical.

  • high school musical

  • This one actually worked with me !

  • this may be inaccurate but i find it to be a good excercise anyway lol

  • He's really demonstrating tremolo not vibrato. I think good vibrato may be only possible for some people. Michael Jackson could do it when he way a kid, but later resorted to a rapid tremolo technique. Perhaps his ET noise spoiled his voice (since the noise acts as a resonator). Actually, he sings like he has a cold all the time now.

  • Noise? Nose I meant.

  • You had it right the first time.:)

    I'm a guitarist, 35 years. Yes, a pro, but that's no big deal. Many electric guitars have a "tremolo" bar on them. The Fender brothers got it wrong in the 50s and it just stuck. Tremolo is done with circuits, not a bar. That's vibrato. But don't tell your tech to put a vibrato bar on your guitar. Who knows what he might come up with. He would do it for sure. I recently had a talent control wired into one of mine. Ha!! No ego here. Peace, E.C.

  • yep on the tremelo, ET unneccessary

  • vibrato is natural and is the vibration of the vocal cords when they become well relaxed.

  • so you mean, to have vibrato, the vocal chords must be well relaxed? how will it be relaxed?

  • just practicing and being careful to not use your larynx.

    the little ball between your chin and our throat.

  • hah reminds me of a bee......

  • That's a load of bullshit. That's a good way to fail at every vocal audtion you will ever go to.

  • That's a load of crap. Real vibrato is a modulation in pitch frequency, NOT in amplitude.

  • That's what he said, This is just an easier way to do it....

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  • i think it's not bad.. i find it really cool :D

  • This may be a stupid question. but i have a OK voice i want to know if i can make it better

  • of course you can. search for eric arceneaux's voice training/ warmup vids on youtube. they actually work, eh. x

  • Arceneaux is a mixture of SLS technique and some stuff he has adapted/made up himself. Some work, some dont. Proceed with caution.

    It is laryngeal wobble which causes vibrato, btw. (or a kind of tremolo caused by fluttering the air, like this guy. Maybe)

  • this dude's a hack!

  • guys just a reminder , dont hate on the video just cause he teaches you how to force vibrato . there still are famous singers who create a fake vibrato still and they're doing just fine , regardless of how unhealthy this technique is for you're voice . its just a quick way to get a vibrato

  • preety good i guess...

  • Could you help me i have a good voice but sometimes tones pass through my nose? why and is it and is there a techniq to stop that?

  • i have the same prob... :/

  • search up eric arceneaux on youtube , he tells you exactly how to get rid of that problem with proper breathing

  • thanx

  • i want lessons but my parents don't think im gonna follow up with it >.>

  • My parents are the same way but don't let them discourage into not doing it.If you feel you can do it, go for it. If your parents don't believe in you, you k now that I do.

  • Whatever they are saying: this is very helpful!

  • This is a little thing called FAKE VIBRATO!! take this video off!! its teaching to "make" vibrato! you don't make it it comes naturaly when you get to a certain stage of singing!

  • what a fake vocal teacher...all this kind of videos only provoque misunderstandings about vocal training.

  • Thanx for the vid

  • yes, u can! if u cant get lessons 4 any reason. i cant get lessons bcuz my family cant afford them. :( it sucks

  • dont feel bad

    i cant afford em either

  • i can afford it....but im cheap.

  • My technique was way off before I started watching these videos, and since then I've learned a lot! It may not be as good as in-home lessons, but it's much better than nothing.

  • I think u have 2 be w/ a singing voice cuz most famous singers are lip singers and they are rich so they could get singing lessons but they actually sing horrible, but that could b bcuz they dont want ppl 2 no they r lip singers or sumthin idk

  • i am very happy to read the comments on this- this is a very inaccurate and potentially damaging video. I am going through a lot of vocal problems from unconscious technique like this- it is VERY hard to fix once you get into this habit.

  • thanks dude!

  • The guy in this video is a good singer. I love Expert Village.

  • your a good singer.

  • you idiot, ive been playing the violin for 11 years and i was also in the top choir in my high school. this is one way to vibrato with your VOICE. its totally different on stringed instruments. DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS DethByMyIbanezAxe PERSON. He's an amateur.

  • tell me about it rofl

  • if what you say is true then then your choir teacher didn't teach you very much. i recently graduated from the atlanta insitute of music after completing 4 semesters at north georgia college and state university as a music major and i'll have you know i have never heard "vibrato" be described as a fluctuation of volume. that would be tremelo. go look it up if you dont believe me.

  • your right and i agree with you but you can at least be nicer

  • You're right, Vibrato is also NATURAL not forced out, you don't learn how to create Vibrato, you just sing correctly (From the diaphragm) and practice a lot.

  • You retard that's a tremolo! A tremolo is a rapid change in volume, while a true vibrato is a rapid but slight change in pitch.

  • and you, tremolo is not rapid change in volume, thats called a crescendo. vibrato can be done different ways with the voice. its not the same as classical instruments.

  • sorry what i meant is that a tremolo is a rapid but slight back and forth change in volume (what he did in this video).

  • the word i was looking for is fluctuation. i meant that i vibrato is a fluctuation in pitch, and a tremolo is a fluctuation in volume.

  • thanks that helps :]

  • The information out there is vibrato comes naturally once the voice is relaxed and at peak performance but this flies in the face of what I discovered whereby Joan seeming can turn it on and off. This means that her vibrato was induced .

  • I am strangely in two minds at present.I have listened to Joan Baez for may years and she used loads of vibrato when she sung. However I noticed her when she did backing vocals for Bob Dylan and she sang flat so as to sync in with Dylan.So she could turn it off!!!!

  • that was cool thanks man

  • ur a genios holy crap i had no idea u do vibrato lyk that.

    no wonmder my singing sounded like opera

  • thank you for the upload!

  • Joan Baez would have been the singer I know from a non classical arena who sang with loads of vibrato.The second would have been maybe Melanie Safka and then Joni Mitchell.

  • my vibrato is very great, but, I still need voice lessons..=/

  • Oh, if you want to know about Vibrato, just listen to Matt Bellamy in "Muse". Oh wait, I forgot, he's shit.

    Thom Yorke de Radiohead however is very good.

  • waaw that really helped THANK U SO MUCH

  • All of you are quite possibly the biggest idiots on youtube # 1 this guy has been getting paid to give voice lessons for numerous yrs. That make "HIm" a professional not you haters, Second as he explained its a way to do vibrato an stiil remain in perfect pitch. If you vary in pitch even the slightest amount then you are sharp or flat no matter what the degree. So shutup an let expert village teach you a thing or two.

  • lol. google it, watch Eric Arceneaux's video on Vibrato, and then tell us who the stupid ones are.

  • eric arceneaux is a freakin scrub, he sounds terrible

  • Just because someone has been getting paid to do something doesn't mean they do it correctly or well. And regardless of what he says, vibrato does not happen as he explains it. The thing he calls vibrato is nothing more than a forced unhealthy manipulation of the voice and surrounding muscles. Vibrato IS a fluctuation in pitch, however slight. That's just a fact. If you want an expert, talk to Richard Miller (and if you don't know who that is, look him up), not expert village.

  • so how can you actually get vibrato then?? like is it possible for eveyone??

  • yeah it didn't made sense after doing such. wtf

  • if this is such a bad lesson then why are people giving it 4/5 stars?

  • cos he acts like he knows what he's talking about and he hasn't a clue.

  • How does that get him 5 stars?

  • sorry but that's totally incorrect of vibrato. Its not about going loud or soft, its not something you force. Vibrato is simply the freedom of the voice...allowing your breath to connect with your resonance chambers.