I'm tickled to see that, in my AM warm-ups, I'm hitting higher notes 1st thing, than i could before this balloon visualization. have saved twenty some videos on vocal work. I have found Mark's videos to be the most useful by far. He's down-to-earth, direct and most understandable. As a music therapist who sings on the job most mornings, I find the "WakeUp, Voice" video invaluable. Great stuff!

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Gary. I'm happy to help where I can!

Wow thanks Mr. Baxter, this feels like a quantum leap

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

I hope you put it to good use!

I am so thankful for this video! Watched this a few days ago, but the visual and technical perspective just made something click for me, I couldn't stop thinking about it. I wasn't really thinking much of it right before it happened, but I was singing and, for the first time ever, managed to sing an effortless feeling and belty-sounding D5#. Mind you C5 is the highest note I've ever been able to actually sing and sound good at without my voice just cutting out. I wasn't paying attention at all to how I was going to do it, about trying to do it, I just let it happen! I can't quite replicate that feeling or sound just yet, but thanks to you sharing this information I have faith that I can do it again!

@voicelessondotcom

Ай бұрын

That's great! You absolutely can do it again and again once you stop trying!

Thanks for confirming what I've realized with my bass baritone fach doing chromatic warmups: that the difference between higher half steps is lesser than between lower half steps. Low A is way below low Bb, whereas high A and high Bb are just a smidgen apart. Thus extending lower requires a totally different approach than higher.

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Treat every note as an individual and they're all shine together!

This is SO valuable

Thank you so much for this!

@voicelessondotcom

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

so useful. thanks mark !!

@voicelessondotcom

4 ай бұрын

It's the little things!

Very helpful!!! Thanks Mark!

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

I am so glad I found this channel! This is so helpful. Thank you!!

@voicelessondotcom

4 ай бұрын

Welcome to my channel!

As always, timely and on point!! Thanks Mark ❤️

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Glad to help!

Always appreciated

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Glad you like it!

Wow... This is so useful. Thanks Mark

@voicelessondotcom

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome! I hope it helps.

Thank you Mark .❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Great lesson Mark

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Glad you like it!

Wow! This is amazingly helpful!!!!!!❤❤❤

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Hope you put it to good use!

Love the visual, Maestro! A clear demo of the importance of warming up/exercising! I still love warming up with the vowel sounds you taught in one of your videos.

@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole

4 ай бұрын

In a game of poker with an opera singer NEVER FOLD!

Great video and hello from Ireland. I have used your warm up videos before shows for the last 5 years, all of your videos are great and some sprinkled with humour which I love. Thank you so much.

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Excellent info Mark. This is enormously helpful. You are the best.

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

I hope it helps!

Thanks Michael, I appreciate your advice very much. I'll look up some of your practice sessions on YT. Cheers

Merci beaucoup Mark 💯🤘

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Vous êtes les bienvenus!

Thank you!!!

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Thank you!

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Thank you for including the visual metaphor! It really helps!

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

I hope it helps!

@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole

4 ай бұрын

When playing poker against on opera singer don't fold!

Such a great visual. It seems so simple but when you don't know, you don't know. Thank you for explaining this. People like yourself are very smart for being able to convey things like this. Thanks again!

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Glad to help!

Thanks from the Netherlands! As if you read my mind. I always have fear of singing high notes😅

@voicelessondotcom

4 ай бұрын

You're not alone Cathy!

Genius

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

I hope it helps!

Great information

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

I'm happy to help.

i love that you bring in such depth into your lessons! the fact that you really address how perceptions, and beliefs can really corner us into counter-productive habits! So grateful! ....Plus you have a purple studio! how can we not LOVE that? plus, i have a showcase gig tomorrow night singing two tunes that are much higher than my usual. Timely.

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Have a great gig! Go purple!

@kimzombik6821

5 ай бұрын

@@voicelessondotcom purple all the way…even if only in my mind! Thanks!

Thank you

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Exactly the vieo I needed today after performing "Old Man" at an open mic yesterday. While I nail the chorus when practice, on stage I bring so much extra baggage to that part that it all sounds forced. I am going to practice the chorus now with a balloon in hand.

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Yeah - it's so easy to turn on the "extra" when performing!

Yes - very good.

@voicelessondotcom

2 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

thank u man for all of these helpful thoughts. really. balloons ordered in white...😄😄🙏🏻🙏🏻

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Yes - balloons rock!

This in an incredible video, about a topic that is not addressed enough, or with any real formality. Thank you! Also, speaking about science and the precise dimensions of the male and female voices (and biological proportions in general), it would be wise to tune and sing to A432Hz scientific tuning, or up to A444 Shumann Resonance. If one want's to idealize ones vocal tone, but also to work with your voice with the least resistance, it best to just avoid standardized A440Hz concert pitch whenever possible. A440 hz is this weird sort of grey space on the spectrum. It's not dynamic or interactive. (Incidentally, there is also a new Precise Temperament tuning now by a Robert Edward Grant. A form of Well Tempering that is bases of of A432, as well as an alternate thing for A444hz! So, it's all pretty exciting for the future of music.) The other really amazing thing about A432Hz tuning for the voice is that you will feel a different feeling when you pass truth the vocal registers. Especially from F to F# (green) and B to C (magenta to red). Try it if you LIKE it. But don't knock it till you try it! Thanks for the videos. Love the Voice Lesson channel! 'nuff said. - The Acoustic Rabbit Hole

Lookin golden my friend aging like a good whiskey

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Must be the bourbon!

! maybe this finally solves anotherbig problem i am stumbling with now and then: a muscle in my throat or thereabouts that tightens everything from my ears down to my stomach. i wil do this exercise and some others on your videos until i sort it out. thank you so very much!!!

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

I hope it does put that issue to rest.

@elsawiegers1093

5 ай бұрын

indeed it helps to solve it, with the other videos concerning this matter. you sure are a master!!! thank you!!!

Oh, Mark, our music world would be very low-note without them balloons! Thank you for another inspirational lesson.

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

May the balloons lift you!

Yes. Mind over matter. Making fun in the warm up always unlocks the vocal heights. Becoming "serious" just kills.😅

the guitar metaphor made me laugh so hard, i did that with my diaphragm though. also how are you getting younger and younger? do your vocal lessons reverse the passing of time? :)

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Yes - singing is the fountain of youth - but keep it a secret!

Mark. Great coaching, splendid! I’m curious how Ronnie James Dio could sing so high yet sounding like when singing “normal”, ie with a full mature voice and not in falsetto or shrill? I can sing high sometimes but it just sounds strained and I lose depth and width. Please, let me know or do a video on RJD and similar singers like Robbie LaBlanc who’s got that high yet full voice. For me that dissipates after d4, or third fret b string.

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Ah yes - that's a volume/strength issue. I'll post something on it later.

Thank you and your terrific quote is very helpful... "your brain needs to get in sync with what your body is literally doing when you sing a high note.

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

I'm happy to help where I can!

Thanks Michael. I'm 70 years old and the last 5 years my voice has deteriorated severely. Most of my life I've enjoyed playing my guitar and singing my favourite ol' tunes but now I'm too embarrassed by my " old man crackly voice to sing. I have poor range, not even 2 octaves. If I keep working at it, can I restore my voice to my form of my younger days. This really depresses me. Thanks in advance

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Was there an extended layoff from singing during those five years? Usually that's the tipping poit for change. Regardless of why - your voice won't be like your twenty ever again (neither will your eyes, skin, etc) but you certainly can recapture what you need to sing your songs. I recommend focusing on exercises rather than songs for a while so you're not constantly comparing yourself to yesterday.

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

I hope it helps!

I used to be scared of extreme high soprano notes as a mezzosoprano and also of extreme low contralto n otes of my 4 ictave range simply because I couldxseecthe piano notes being played. When the piano p l ayer turned the piano away from me and order me to stop being so obsessed with n I tes being played and gocus more on MY notes I was singing, this problem vaninish3s, though I still got a little anxious about extreme high notes sounding not to my satifaction,xa bit wobbly or foggy, not crystal bright and pure, clean, bell like, as I wanted them to be, fantasing about singing coloratura soprano, whix, of course I'd never be, because that's not my natural voice type. And my extreme contralto low notes sounded so weak and pathetic, when I wanted robust power, like deep, strong ballast. notes. More mature and wiser now, I accrpt I will never be a half dec e nt contalyo boice either, because it's not my boice type. Far easier and better to simply accept what you werr born with and make the most of its best features. But one famous low voice female singer did once give me useful vocal advice that did not destroy my hppes of ever singing extreme high or low notes, which I liked doing, mainly gor att e ntion grabbing, shock effect. She said: choose a ongs eith most notes in your best vocal register (mine bring 'Medium' ) but with the occasional quick extreme high notes of diving down yo the depths with darker, low notes. Give all the frilly, trilly, Colorature extreme high notes a miss. Just do the plain high notes, forget the ftillscand trills because my mezzo boice is too thick yo do that agile stuff on extreme high notes. And forget sustained darmness and power on extreme low notes. My voice lacks such booming low notes power.just briefly hit the low notes (to show I do possess these), then move up again, to a safer vocal zone, ie the mid 2 octaves, gor my boice type. Basically, my extreme high octave and my extreme low one are only reserved for 'special effects'. Most of the main singing happens on the mid two octaves. That's more than e nough range for most modern music, which typically requires very little range, though, if one can sing the occasional very high or very low note, it seems to cause such audi e nces to go 'Wow!', but it's really no big deal. With classical singing it's somewhat more exacting, but, even do, your vocal range you typically would sing in to sound bearable is determined by what voice type you are classified as: Bas, Baritone, Mezzo Soprano, High Soorano, Contalto, Tenor, CounterTenor etc. Some of these eg true Contalto are rare. Most women who think they are 'Altos' or Contraltos are just Mezzo Sopranos, the most common femsle voice type and best suited for most mainstream modern music, like Jazz, but not classical, which favours Sopranos. The masculine Counter Tenor is rare. Not surprisingly, given that, in an earlier historical era, this besutiful boyish man voice was achieved by castrating young men, by the Church, yo try to keep the beauty of boy voices after they break, at puberty. I have also, on rare occasions, heard the extremely rare adult masculine soprano voice, not a Tzenor, but a real soprano. It sounded incredibly beautiful, very unique...

Do you think it’s possible that some folks have anatomical reasons as to why they can’t hit higher notes? I have no issue singing up to C5/D5 in falsetto but can’t sustain much past D4/E4 in a full connected voice

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

The same two vocal folds produce falsetto and full sounds (it's the muscle inside the folds that creates the difference.). So in your case it's balancing strength and flexibility. You clearly can sing the high notes but overdrive when asking for a full sound. In other cases it's the size of the larynx that determines the range of the voice.

@FitxFresh

5 ай бұрын

@@voicelessondotcom gotcha so by overdrive you mean I’m pushing trying to force a note and that may be what’s keeping me from hitting it with a full voice sound? Thanks for the reply

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

@@FitxFresh Exactly!

Balloon? I don't need no stinking balloon. I have a secret weapon that did the same thing for me, although I didn't figure it out until just a few days ago, when I needed to sing high for a song I was recording. See, I'm a baritone. And my short "range" is officially down mostly in the 3s, okay? But I realized the vocal phrase would sound much better higher, like around C4 and D4. When I tried it out I realized I could sing it easily. Why? Because for more than five years, I've been warming up daily to your Good Morning Voice exericse, and other exercises. That goes below and above my range, which I thought is just for the practice of loosening up my voice...sure, I kind of hoped it was extending my range too, but I didn't really trust it. Now I do! Once I got out of my own way, I realized I do have a higher voice now I can use. I'll get a balloon if it makes you happy, Mark, but I think you've been training me without it! Thanks, Mark!

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

So . . . you're saying I gave you morning balloon? :)

@jackeppington6488

5 ай бұрын

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@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole

4 ай бұрын

My LARYNX is mourning after all that laughter! 🤣😂🤪@@voicelessondotcom

How are you aging in reverse? Need video 😂

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Stay peachy!

Either this was recorded a while ago or I want to know your secret for reverse-aging! 😄

1st LIKE?! Wow, I got hear early❣️

@voicelessondotcom

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting!

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