Singing Lessons & Voice Training : How to Open Your Voice for Optimum Singing

[KarenLeFemme]

Someone PLEASE control these children!

[LeonardoNasir]

@Mynameisaw look up Guy Babusek for the perfect example of a baritone turned tenor. It is quite possible to expand your range.

[hamberg42]

@Mynameisaw

Really? You really though you might be about to say something worth while after that? Why are you still posting.

1) I told you to tell me where you are dumb fuck. I'd like to pay you a visit.

2) Wow really? Do you want a prize? No one cares

[hamberg42]

@helmetBETTY your an idiot

[nathan6t9r]

hahahahahahaha holly shit he looks like a bigger verson of the fat dude in Boat trip

[gregorymcdpachsa]

I love your advice. I wish you had your videos numbered so I could follow the lessons in order.

[winking420]

i thnk he is going to blow up

and yea before blowing up plez kick the vocal 's ass

lol

[enis35350]

hahahhahahahhahahahhahahah

[archangelmike07]

i can"t hear your singers voice

[PrinceOF9Imagination]

me either LOL

[archangelmike07]

hey thanks for the back up! hehehe!

[SmileySasky]

@archangelmike07 cuz theres no mic

[archangelmike07]

@SmileySasky

hello test mic test, oh there's no mic.. LOL

[SmileySasky]

@archangelmike07 wahh ?

[jasony2k]

do u teach how to obtain whistle notes?

[Roboterm01]

hey this helps :D

[STICKRAZUL]

I Wish i sounded like i think i sound ;_;.

[AnotherOneFound]

yeah dude i know exactly how you feel, i was so proud until i heard a recording

[STICKRAZUL]

Exactly. I Wus sad.

[Bjoerrelli]

when your aim is all about volume you much likely get a wobble in your voice because you will probebly unless your extremly gifted push to much air through the vocalcords making them suffer severly. But I admit there are blanks in the SLS teaching and breathing is definitely one of them. I prefer Vendera and arceneaux over Riggs and these SLS guy.

[flaze3]

well of course breathing matters. BUt if your voice is focussed and open then breathing becomes much less of an issue. And if you concentrate too much on breathing, you can actually restrict or damage your voice.

[Bjoerrelli]

for me it feels crucial to keep my diaphraim in a low position when I sing all through my range but aspecially high in full voice. I´m not saing that you should overly concentrate on breathing exercises but to say like riggs that he knows many great singers who are poor breathers and many great breathers that sing like shit is to say that breathing means nothing and for me it does even if poor cordclosure and tension in the jaw or in the swalling muscles are just as or even more important.

[flaze3]

i think the best form of breathing is the 'natural breath' which is something iv been working on.

I think a lot of good breathing is keeping the body as relaxed and open as possible.

[Bjoerrelli]

I think that the inhalation should feel natural and deep but the exhalation has very little to do with the way we exhail when we speak. For us to be able to hold a consistent airlow that we need when we sing the diaphraim must be kept low and the ribs expanded without collapsing otherwise we run out of breath very early and the tonal quality when we sing long phrases in fullvoice is impossible to maintain.

[flaze3]

oh sure. You need to get the sound in the right 'place'--eg, saying 'nyeh' or 'ee' very nasally. But once the sound is focussed, I've found that the body self-regulates the outward air-flow

[Bjoerrelli]

maybe if you only sing with a microphone and never sing without.

[flaze3]

Singing with the right frequency with an open throat means you have to support the sound with your abdominal muscles. I'm just saying why not achieve good breath support indirectly?

[archangelmike07]

ehehe, right!

[Matheus222]

Kurt Cobain has his mouth almost closed when he sing the low notes?

And I don't get this shit! Where is a good singing lesson?

[flaze3]

Try Brett Manning's 3 vocal tips. They are better than anything James Meny has to say... :p

[FSActor45]

boooo

[Shrevesdale]

Thank you. You are a very good and sincere teacher. Five stars.

[rhawkins98]

u barely hear him fucking sing

[amberleeday]

turn up your volume fool.. stop acting so childish & grow up

[rhawkins98]

acually, im 11

and its fuckin turned up

i cant hear his voice becaue the piano is too loud!

gawsh

[atta96andKaulitz]

Thanks :)

[Sevilou]

all the fucking pros commenting negative can simply fuck off and leave this vids to us, who are learning

[cutekaykay]

shoulders back!! :-P

[MichaelMcc77]

nonononono

[emocrocadiles79]

ok that student dude was kinda hott but...

i think u shood teach him some breathing lessons first and dont have him sing falseto cuz it didnt sound the greatest but other then that

good job =D

[Reganluvsyooh]

EWW nwo really cute lol

[RocktheStageNYC]

This isn't falsetto, its a very light chest and head resonance to help bridge from the chest to the head registers.

[crazyemo113]

THATS STUDENT IS HHOOOOTT

[Chrystina1Girlicious]

thx dude im ready 4 a spot light come to me poperazzi

[alexanderthewraith]

People just like to talk trash!

[mykidshateitwhen]

that "student" of yours needs some breathing techniques before anything else.

and you need to give him a simpler vowel because if he can't sing loud with what you call a closed sound, he needs to practice with a more open sound like la or just ah

another thing, men's voices don't change every day, women's do.

men have a voice change and that's it. it can get deeper and lower over puberty but this guy is clearly past that. that scale was way to high for him. you can tell he was struggling.

[jash12per]

breathing technique vs. Speech level technique.. which is better.. mine is SLS..

[ziggydamaestro]

Men's voices DO change every day.

Why has he gotta sing loud?

[RocktheStageNYC]

what is "loud" about this? This is speech level singing technique to get over the passagio and into "the mix".

[parakeetloverforever]

Ok?? Well kinda thnx. That helped me with my guitar lessons.

[Princess3713]

KOOL~

[DefinedStar]

from 0:30 ok....

[Emziewemz]

there both well fit

[priscisg]

Thanks for the video :)

[lululemonxx]

lol this is just a weird load of comments..the vid is ok too brief tho..but otherwise ok n i agree u shudnt call a arpeggio a scale lol xxx

[saavik001]

Funny how mean people are when no one can see their face.

[GrimTrippin]

@saavik001 it's called cowardice, because they would never say such things in real life. e.g. they will get their noses broken.

[iSapThat]

@saavik001 wonders of anonymous

[SopSarah]

Again, this is an arpeggio, not a scale. Please, please take some lessons!!

[jamesmeny]

Again, I know that it is an arpeggio. If you are a teacher, i'm wondering if you get people to listen to you by criticizing them and making comments like, "take some lessons," Trust me, i've been around the block. I think as voice teachers we are all on the same side but some take voice like it is a religion., ie., I'm right, you're wrong and you'll go to hell for doing the wrong thing. This is just not my style. Thanks for your comments, though.

[nicolashrv]

First : You cannot tell your student "take a lesson" because he IS taking a lesson and you are the teacher.

Second : Call "scale" an arpeggio its like if you go to cooking lessons, and call the "SUGAR" by the name of "SALT".Even if both are white and comes in little grains, its two different things, and if you keep with that mistake, one of your students will put salt on his coffee.

Third : Singing is not a religion, but involves the physical part of someone and you cannot play with it.

[jamesmeny]

I was replying to SopSarah's comments for me to take some lessons on how to teach. I recognize that I call the arpeggio a scale. Though it does not conform to the traditional definition of a scale, it does have a formal name from prominant music schools that refer to it as a scale and understand that most commercial singers understand the term "scale" better than "arpeggio." As for religion, I don't advocate religious following of any vocal technique. What works, works. Thanks for your comments.

[nicolashrv]

Well...I doubt a music school can be prominant if they call scale an arpeggio.What else they do? They call a square "circle"? and dont use dinamics because common people doesnt know what is that?

And by pure logic a "scale" is something that moves "step by step", therefore cannot define an arpeggiated chord, because there are notes in between.

Also, I dont see this working, because I cannot listen what your student is singing, and not because Im deaf.

His voice has NO projection at all.

[libertybenz]

HAHAHAHAHAHA NU NU NU NU NU NU HAHAHA that guy looka like a bear!

[MusicAdd4ever]

STFU ! If you don't want to learn nothing, just say bad things of people, go see other videos!

[ziggydamaestro]

I agree with you to an extent; however, there are SO many internet videos out there claiming to teach people to sing when the author hasn't got a clue what they're talking about - which can lead to viewers employing bad habits and poor technique. In the same breath, there are also good videos out there too.

[Shrevesdale]

Ziggy, which do you consider the good ones?

[AangsterBboy]

I agree with the first comment. I never took choir class in middle school and If i joined next year in sophemore year, taking choir, i'd be way behind. Oh. and Its REALLY weird how the guy in the green shirt does not move at all except for his mouth. Not even his face. Eh.