The Golden Rule Of Opera Singing: Keep A Low Larynx - How To Sing Opera - Operatic Technique

[JAMALEYION]

what ever he is saying he is 100% right and evry 1 knw what he saying is trou but not the begeners so trust him on this 1 and if u want moor prove go and c seth regg and u will find out that he is right ....

[adtellytv]

mine dropped with my balls.

[TheIceFox96]

when it goes too low, my voice fades :S

I'm 16 tho

[GattinoMagico]

RIDI PAGLIACCIO!!!SUL TUO AMORE INFRANTO!!!

[ZeonMagna]

Wow... not good

[barngirlXx3]

omg WHAT!? NEUTRAL larynx!

[martinlgreen]

Dont yawn. Don't push your tongue back. Beware.

[OperaLover84]

No, that is not right! You don't hold your larynx low by pushing your tongue "back and down." That is like a Vocal Pedagogy 101 no-no. The larynx is held in a generally low position by a) head, neck and chest posture b) gentle employment of the surrounding "depressor" muscles in the throat region (you sort of hit on that with the yawn technique) and c) proper breath support. Achieving a correct, healthy laryngeal position is a coordinated effort and does NOT involve depression of the tongue.

[tenorbear60]

No no no.... sorry, keeping your larynx pressed down using the tongue is wrong and not healthy. The "operatic" sound is produced with proper vowels and mixing in the right amount of head voice. Manipulating the muscles around your cords is never, ever good. Sorry, this is just poor technique. Yawning the sound baffles the natural resonance. BTW - you should be able to demonstrate by singing - talking is cheap.

[btsg]

it all depends how you use it. there is freedom to sing badly as well.

demonstrate the difference in sound. tone. volume. etc . thanks

[animefreek141]

Your larynx is NOT your adams apple

[TheAzXEll]

thanks dude i need that

[Arfat]

your neck is huge

[RootSuitMan]

@Arfat LMFAO

[MrBaritonevoce]

Do you mean: Maintain a neutral larynx? A low larynx would make you lose cord closure.

[klb811]

Yup i think u r lol :P

[stopmakingeyesatme1]

my larynx doesn't lower when i breathe in... am i the only one?

[waaa40]

A larynx is not a voice box!!!!!!!!

[AtariMaxiToriyama]

@waaa40 Yes it is.

[TOMxPayne]

Damn! Nigga's got a LONG neck!

[KidThisCrazy]

omg i yawned when he did xD

[olhavracsiul]

Thumbs up if you yawned when he yawned. xD

[darklightartist]

MAAN thats a long neck

[shyt37]

this man has the longest neck i have ever seen!!

[darklightartist]

@shyt37 maybe he's been like photoshopped to emphasise the larynx :p

[RADAMES1983]

All correct.

But it's more complicated..

Onw thing is to control the larynx and just put it down when you reast, and the other thing is to keep id stabile and low when you sing, and not only one sound but all the range...

Personally it took me about 1.5 years of daly training to get use automoticaly to keep my larynx relaxed low and totaly stable...

But it's correct- it's a golden rule, and all the good opera singers do and did it.

[ethalinia]

@RADAMES1983 Ah, man, haha, I have learned how to keep my larynx low while singing notes that are not that high, but I 'feel' my voice rise while singing higher notes, and it my larynx just goes up... how can that be? I mean, if you know how to do it while singing 'easy' notes, then the technique should work for higher notes too, right?

[RADAMES1983]

@ethalinia Yes, but it's totally like sports- need every day training and time, time,time..You develop the musculs that leeking it low, but other s shouldn't work and should be totaly rest.if it wpo;d be so easy- every teacher would teach how to do that, but it's noy easy and needs a very correct training.Some people needs 5 months for that, others 3 years.It's like on a gym: you start with 10kg and it looks hard, but after half year 20 looks easy for you and the same 10 you don't even feel.. :)

[ethalinia]

@RADAMES1983 Haha, I feel better now :) Oh, one more question: If you sing in your head voice (high notes like Christine's in Phantom), do you have to feel them in your head or do they have to be in the back of your throat? I can hit them but they 'feel' really high and they sound shrill... but I don't know if that's because I'm doing it wrong, or because my voice needs to grow stronger and richer (I can be patient and practice every day but I want to make sure I'm not doing it wrong)

[RADAMES1983]

@ethalinia

Well, I'm coming from a school that doesn't believe in "feelings" in teaching, at least at the beginning.

I mean: - everyone can "feel" it in different places and do actually the same correct thing, as well as the opposite.

I think teaching should be based of fisical rules like the possition of the larynx, the respiration, the moth and tang possition. And for that you nees a good teacher who knows the fisics and has a good ear to control whar you do, every lesson...

[ethalinia]

@RADAMES1983 That's the problem, I don't find a teacher, lol, but I know now that I definitely have to keep looking! Thank you for the info :)

[RADAMES1983]

@ethalinia Yes you have.

Nobody can do it alone, and it's good that you don't scream too much, don't od it alone cause you may have problems aster that.

Where do you live?

[ethalinia]

@RADAMES1983 And I thought it might be because I'm holding back and trying to sing too quiet, but I don't dare to sing any louder because I'm afraid it will damage my voice (I can't sing high notes while feeling the notes in the back of my throat, only the 'high' feeling I can do... )