Douglas Stanley & Nelson Eddy vocal technique demonstration

Infamous voice teacher Douglas Stanley demonstrates vocal technique with the assistance of Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 - March 6, 1967).

Stanley wrote several books on vocal technique with revisions as more scientific information came to light. He was really the first teacher to hearken back to the original bel canto method of developing and coordinating the vocal registers. He taught Cornelius Reid as well as my teacher. Unfortunately, while Stanley was a genius and had many things right he was also very violent and abusive - although you don't hear that in this clip. So he made a lot of enemies in the vocal world who later tried to smear him. Not because what he was saying about the voice was wrong, but rather due to hard feelings.

It is a shame Stanley was so mentally unstable because it distorted many truths about the voice that he had discovered from a scientific standpoint. Stanley tried to push the voice to its maximum and made many exercises much too harsh and violent. My teacher would later greatly revise and advance the technique, taking out things that were wrong, violent or misunderstood. He was the greatest of all Stanley's pupils together with Eddy and Jerome LoMonaco. Many people *claim* to teach the Stanley method or *claim* to know things about the approach and are completely misguided.

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• Del Monaco
• Corelli
• bel
• canto
• reid
• tenor
• baritone
• lomonaco
• hadley
• caruso
• ruffo
• melocchi
• opera
• aria
• soprano
• mezzo

[jimh23]

Do you want to talk about, Vocal Technique? Don't start something you can't finish! I have forgotten more about, Vocal Technique than you have ever imagined! I studied for most of my career. I sang in opera houses in Germany, Austria and Italy. I am a member of Actors Equity, AGVA, AFTRA, AGMA. I was a theater director, I operated a theater, directed musicals,dramas and hired musicians and performers for all types of concerts! I learned how to sing from the best teacher!

[MrCafiero]

@jimh23 ROFLMAO! Don't flatter yourself. I can certainly finish it and easily. Just your ridiculous comments show your complete and utter lack of knowledge. Otherwise you would have known what LoMonaco was getting at which is the ideal functioning of the vocal apparatus. And if you are so great let us hear the recordings! You, your teacher, their students etc. Otherwise you are merely words on a page.

[jimh23]

What are you, 10 years old? I am not about to engage in an argument about something that's purely a matter of opinion, forget about it! Think what you like, I couldn't care less about your evaluation! Bugger Off!

[MrCafiero]

@jimh23 Actually, it is not a matter of opinion. Either you know your facts or you don't. And you clearly do not. So stop your commenting based on ignorance.

[topmeat69]

Are there any recording of Thomas LoMonaco ?

[MrCafiero]

@topmeat69 I just uploaded some of Tom's recordings! Enjoy!

[topmeat69]

@jimh23 one only has 1 of 2 choices, to understand or misunderstand it. no other choice......

[MrCafiero]

@jimh23 Also, please share YOUR own singing or your student's singing and let's compare to LoMonaco and his students. Put up or shut up.

[MrCafiero]

@MrCafiero That tells me that you heard about the other things second hand and know are on here spreading lies. You have an agenda. Also, if you had a high larynx he was probably showing you it needed to be lower. You don't know him well at all. You are a fake. One of those charlatans who come out of the woodwork and spread lies. I teach the exact technique and know every detail of it and your descriptions are nonsense. My students are singing phenomenally as did his including Hadley.

[MrCafiero]

@jimh23 Ah...well, there you go. One lesson hardly constitutes "knowing" someone personally. Secondly, I studied with him for a decade, two lessons a week, sat in on countless lessons, masterclasses. I have some masterclasses recorded. Tom 100% demonstrated all the time.  And there is NO way in one lesson he would do any of those things. First lessons always consisted of him hearing you sing arias then trying to explain what he felt you needed work on etc. con'td.....

[jimh23]

I know Tommy Lo Monaco, personally. I had one lesson with him and that was one too many! Firstly, he didn't, "Demonstrate Any Vocal Principals," when I asked him to show me what he meant, he told me, "I Don't Do Demonstrations!" He had some sort of a, "Bent Spoon," that he used for, God knows what, he kept holding my Adam's Apple down with his fingers, to keep the Larynx down! I went through this for 45 Min. That was all I needed, I got the hell out of there, fast! No Thanks, I know him, well!