Voice & Vocal Damage: Singing Tips : Singing Tips for Voice Balancing

Learn singing tips for balancing your voice with singing and vocal training tips to avoid vocal cord damage from bad technique in this free online vocal coaching video clip.

Expert: James Meny
Bio: James Meny has taught the middle voice technique for years. He is also trained in the opera & classical vocal styles & has studied under Seth Riggs, who teaches stars like Josh Groban & Stevie Wonder.
Filmmaker: Todd Sapio

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[GodsLion100]

no I would not go university to learn medicine..rather if I wanted to become a doctor than i am forced to as the current system in place forces me to do so.... Same goes for vocal training if you want to teach vocal that you are forced but please remember knowledge is free for those who seek it and it your intelligence on that matter that determines the results not memorizing a couple of essays and doing a open book exam.....

[AtariMaxiToriyama]

@GaryProVox If he started with two, then it IS a "feat" that he can now hit 3. Why are you being so pompous?

[aminul1984]

@000231846597 If you want to learn a good singing technique then go to a university vocal teacher not someone that teaches out of his house or studio.

These so called teachers are mostly trying to make money, I am not saying all of them are like that but most of them are.

You would go to univeristy to learn medicine then why not go there to learn voice?

[aminul1984]

@000231846597 If you want to hear a pop singer use good classical techniques to sing then search for Jed Madela.

You will notice that his sound is more richer than SLS singers and when he goes higher he doesn't go quiet like SLS singers, his voice actually sounds louder. He has a tone in his voice, SLS singers have no tone or resonance because everything is all squeezed, they don't make use of their resonaters like lifting the cheeks which help to resonate sound in the head.

[aminul1984]

@000231846597 Swedish/Italian technique is more closer to a good technique than Speech Level Singing. What SLS does is it fools the voice but in the long term people who use SLS get nodules.

They completely neglect support and opening or resonance, in fact SLS singers actually have no tone, it's all flat. SLS sqeezes too much which is bad.

I have studied SLS for 2 years and I know what the problem is with it, I have found a better technique now, a classical one.

[Jacc0s]

@aminul1984 No, higher notes require way less air than lower notes and can also be sustained for much longer.

[aminul1984]

Sorry i'm meant to say Swedish/Italian school of singing.

[aminul1984]

I used to study SLS before and I saw that it was making my voice worser. I studied it for 2 years.

Now I am studying the Italian/Swedish technique with a classical teacher.

SLS is very throaty and it will only damage voices, have you noticed that most SLS singers have a hoarse voice when they speak, is that a good thing? I don't think so.

When you hear a good classical singer speak their voices are always resonating and very clear.

This guy in the video is pure SLS which is garbage.

[aminul1984]

One of my teachers told me that naturally in SLS when you come from a high pitch down you tend to drop everything, like your whole body collapses. This is wrong because you should use the same amount of air even when you are coming down, if you collapse your whole body then you will go back in the throat.

[aminul1984]

What I meant about lower back is breath support comes from the lower back. This is what is taught in classical training.

Higer pitches do not require faster air nor does it require more air but the same amount of air as lower pitches, if you have faster air then you will only blow out your vocal cords which is very damaging.

Air flow should not be restricted nor should it be forced, you should not feel pain in your throat.

The example you are giving me is a very throaty technique.