This is what TED is about - teaching with demonstration - not just people talking about their life.

@littleshadow2707

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@Venus.Y

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@aaronbrown7217

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely far more engaging than someone just talking at you for a period of time.

So clearly and simply all explained. Makes me never want to stop the singing journey I just started !

The way she advocates preparing the breath is strongly reminiscent of the way I've been instructed to set up for weight lifting. Very interesting.

@grungrlistener

5 жыл бұрын

it is very connected.

@shirsh4657

5 жыл бұрын

Opera singers are considered the athletes of the music industry. It's very much a physically taxing way of preforming.

@Intercostaldrama

3 жыл бұрын

@@shirsh4657 The greater the reason for seeking higher vocal efficiency which equates with vocal endurance. Resonance is NOT amplification which implies added energy. But it IS magnification which in any resonant device involves removal of the R component so that the the Q provides purification along with Homer Simpson's embiggening. 😉

@iteapott

2 жыл бұрын

exactly

@liloruf2838

Жыл бұрын

That's cool! Sometimes I really feel I'm lifting my voice and body, when singing. The difference is just about creating tension inside my body (between breathing muscles and vocal cords) than between body and an exterior weight, like you do :)

My vocal teacher sent me the link to this video, and I suspect it's because she wanted to prove to me that all the "inner tube and angel wing" imagery she employs does indeed have a physiological impact. It's great to see her teaching methods explained like this!

@casandraharry8934

7 жыл бұрын

Denton Froese indeed I have been always thought these metaphors must have a simple (logical) lol explanation...... there we have it..... wonderful video

@edwardwheeler197

6 жыл бұрын

Denton Froese does do Pilates. Everything will open up

@aacha548

6 жыл бұрын

yess and doesn't it show what a pointless approach it is that she used with all that confusing metaphorical stuff. I personally hate all the mess with words that singing teachers tend to use. Thank god mine teacher generally doesn't.

@loritassin794

5 жыл бұрын

I use both of these metaphors with my choir too!

@SoulfulTruth

5 жыл бұрын

When I was in my 20's, my voice teacher's metaphor was "... like a water fall ... like laughing... " I hear her words haunting me to this day.

OMG her scarf...

@kerrij.6565

6 жыл бұрын

I know! I was like when is she going to notice XD

@florenciaff5837

5 жыл бұрын

*triggered*

@Sursie_Metzger

5 жыл бұрын

Dabney Ross Jones, Soprano THANK YOU!

@hannahxpress485

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

The opera singers vocies were so beautiful. I learned so much from watching this video. Its very inspiring. Im planning to become an opera singer myself.

@Intercostaldrama

3 жыл бұрын

I liked how the clavicular breathing uncovered pitch problems that vanished when the singer used chest cage establishment. Secondly the Transversus Abdominus has firm connection with the back of the sternum. Third, in the footsteps of Sundberg, tests that disrupt the action being assessed, invalidate the test.

This was my dream from I was 5 years old. I love opera. 🌹

If she doesn’t fix her scarf in 0.5 seconds I’m going to scream

@hannahxpress485

4 жыл бұрын

if someone could just pull the other end of her scarf a little bit down further, then I would be able to finish watching the video without staring at her scarf the whole time. I tried to look away or close my eyes and just listen to the audio instead 😂😂😂

@davidsosa538

4 жыл бұрын

I hadn´t noticed until I read your comment...now I´m so upset :)

@Abornazine_

4 жыл бұрын

Its fashionable in UK to be asymmetrical..didn’t you read vogue?

@noodlesandsprite7052

4 жыл бұрын

SAME

@mziyanda1990

4 жыл бұрын

Is it just me or did this Ted talk end too quickly? Hungry for more

Being rather old I was fortunate enough to hear some of the REALLY GREAt opera singers of the 20th century live, eg Franco Corelli, Mario del Monaco, Giusepe do Stefano, Cesare Siepi, Carlo Bergonzi, Ettore Bastianini, Tito Gobbi, Boris Kristoff, Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Giulietta Simionato, Birgit.Nilsson, Teresa Berganza, Teresa Stratas, Mirella Freni and many others. All I can say is that despite all the additional scientific knowledge re the vocal chords, the anatomy of the larynx, the breath production/control, muscle function and much more knowledge on how the voice is produced and trained, all I can say is that the singers of the current generation are but a pale shadow compared to those I saw on the opera stages in my youth.

“Brain training to sequentially perform tasks to support singing” these are really helpful

@noodlesandsprite7052

4 жыл бұрын

Form follows function

@noodlesandsprite7052

4 жыл бұрын

Breath support and metaphors

@noodlesandsprite7052

4 жыл бұрын

Lateral rib expansion to help the voice and better breath support

As a want-to-be singer, this is now my favorite Ted Talk.

This is mind blowing for me. Maybe this style has become more common place at high level schools, but all the vocal training I’ve received has been exactly as they described, consistent vague metaphors that force me to internally interpret those cues into physical responses, rather than just giving me the bio mechanical cueing outright. That’s not to say that the metaphors aren’t effective for improving your voice, just that they are inconsistent

Perfect.... that was all i always looking for. I could easily see the difference in my voice just by doing the same practise.... now i am ready to enroll in a music college.😍

We need more opera in our life!!! Thank u so much ❤

When the intro played i was surprised! I had that music in my mind a couple of minutes earlier.

nice demonstration for all singers to watch

I need these people. My opera voice is dying in the Caribbean.

@danielasierrayyo

3 жыл бұрын

Giiirl get out of the Caribbean. Get into a college in the uk or paris idk and leave!

@ellejay5024

3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could find lessons in the Caribbean -_-

@AnaisSoprano

3 жыл бұрын

Theres actually great Conservatories in the Caribbean. Im from Puerto Rico did my bachelor in there and subsequently been accepted to continue studies in Italy. I belive also Cuba and Dominican Republic have operatic programs

two wonderful singers

Amazing piercing frequency danika sings at. Beautiful.

Great video. Excellent work Iain!

i am so in love with the sopranooooo

she killed that

I am alone in my room and I cant stop clapping

How about teaching a 49 year old man who always wanted to try singing opera, but has spent the last 29 years in and out of hospital? Long story...but I really wanted to be a opera singer, but was never taught how to achieve that rich tenor operatic tone. 29 years, 11 chronic illness, 34 brutal surgeries has destroyed my vocal cords...any chance they can be saved and I could finally live my dream now that I survived the 4 times I was suppose to die? As a teen, I sang tenor or first bass in 5 different choirs, but my voice is ruined after all those surgeries, from your experience, is it possible to strengthen my voice so I can sing again, and hopefully, learn how,to sing opera? I live here in Toronto, so any advice would be greatly appreciated!

@DingDing11160415

5 жыл бұрын

watch?v=wpHrniTNTDk

@DingDing11160415

5 жыл бұрын

The man in the video is a baritone, but he can do high e with ease when he older than you! It's "咽音" . If you can do exactly what he taught in the video. I believe you'll sing again!

@morrigambist

5 жыл бұрын

i'm 66 years old and have not done any substantial singing for about 5 years. When I almost died from sepsis a few years ago, I thought my voice was damaged beyond repair; but I have begun to take lessons again, and the results are remarkable. Find yourself the best teacher you can afford and lay your cards on the table. If someone is willing to teach you, you may not make the Met, but you'll find satisfaction in every lesson. While you are beyond the age where any opera house is likely to take you on, there is a world of beauty and drama in art song, from the early Baroque to Schubert and Schumann to Sibelius and Mahler and beyond. All you need is a pianist and your own skill and imagination. I wish you every success!

@nataliacook9386

5 жыл бұрын

If you are able to speak, you are able to sing

@SoulfulTruth

5 жыл бұрын

From the time I was a baby, I've been given a terminal prognosis by over a dozen doctors. I've nearly died a dozen times which includes lapsing into a coma - but I sing in ten languages with a full operatic voice - and because my health issues include chronic fatigue - which makes diaphagmatic singing too exhausting - I created a new vocal technique that uses the small muscles instead of the large muscles which results in minimal fatigue - this vocal technique allows me to sing 20 operatic arias in under two hours. I'm a lyric soprano who loved coloratura arias - but couldn't sing them - until I developed my own vocal technique - now I sing Je veux vivre, Una voce poco fa, E strano ... Sempre libera and all the others. That's my answer to your question about whether or not you can do it: our nerves and muscles do what we tell them to do. Happy singing.

What you're here for starts at 12:48 (it's all very good, but here's where you learn the concrete steps to improve your breathing). Grab a towel with palms facing up and follow these three step (to create and sustain a lateral rib expansion): 1. Shift your weight out of your heels. 2. Draw the pelvis up and back (activating the transverse abdominus) 3. Pull the towel away from the midline (firing your lats)

@shengalabu8050

7 ай бұрын

Commenting so i can track this comment

5:53 I’m sure that offended a lot of people 😂

@elenacornelisse8970

5 жыл бұрын

She's not wrong though

@olenaandrosiuk1531

3 жыл бұрын

well, there is no untruth in that

@jameshogan6293

3 жыл бұрын

The snobbiest comment in the video. She may have a very good point were it not that we are talking about music, not sport. All the breath support in the world won’t help you sing a vocal solo like Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Mcferrin. Let’s not even mention originality, creativity and song-writing.

@LianaJaden

3 жыл бұрын

@@jameshogan6293 actually, vocal solos need breath support. How do you think they have the smooth and accurate pitches? Breath support. Breath is the first step in singing. I am a vocal performance major and have studied both classical and jazz performance.

@huhuhuhurricanestreamwow7937

2 жыл бұрын

@@hopewonder kpop singers like the main lead vocalists most of them have amazing breath support because they have to dance. Singers that participated in eurovision like Sanja vucic also have amazing support despite the heavy dancing. I think that they are two kinds of pop the performative : who requieres a lot of stamina to dance and sing correctly The standard: playback or simple jumping while singing good enough.

This was amazing but all I was distracted by was her ill proportioned scarf. Wonderful informative data.

@qawi272

4 жыл бұрын

There was no data in the video.

I so love this! ❤

Excellent job. Would like to be 30 years younger and learn with you!!! Excellent!

Even though the soprano sung the Queen of the Night aria lower, still impressive! She made the lower key work.

@jeppoo1

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, in Eb-major, so two half-steps lower. Which was the key/tuning of the instruments when Mozart lived btw! Nowadays the tuning is higher and everything Mozart/Bach is sung in higher keys.

@TheConexiondivina

2 жыл бұрын

If indeed the note it reached was an Eb and it was not an F

Wonderful, great information. I need to know more!

She wasn't begging, she was forcing. Voice spreading.

Thank you.

I was thinking about the last aria lippen from lehar!

OMG DANIKA'S VOICE

I wanna be an opera singer

@albertmozart6086

3 жыл бұрын

@JC Denton I concur.

All the voice is staying into singers after such kind of lessons.

Awesome

Wow!!!

I'd be afraid that if I 'release my abdominal floor', I'll have an accident in my trousers.

I want to be able to sing Christine's AAA... Aa... Aa... Aa.AAAAAAA.........

litle voices

Chest cage establishment is still the foundation upon which all the other parts of support depend and a soft well supported legato, is the test. I did not hear that in the final duet. I heard spectacle rather than mutually seductive passion. FORMANT shifting is the engine room of passion and legato.

@arxsyn

5 жыл бұрын

Intercostaldrama For me, the classical Cross over artist that has the most impressive Bell like ring is Rhydian, a baritone.

@Trillidotia

4 жыл бұрын

@Nicholas Ennos You have not a clue what you're talking about.

@roycey32

4 жыл бұрын

@@Trillidotia I laughed so HARD when I read it as well! Like... Whhhhat???

@Intercostaldrama

3 жыл бұрын

@@arxsyn Clearly cross-over comes after the singer has perfected h/her vocal technique to allow a peak ability. To me, cross-over means doing non-vocal things to your voice in an attempt to simulate studio equalisation etc. There's an American word I absolutely love for it's perfect description of this, "equilibration." Approximation, rather than calibration.

she didn't sing the usual high F in Queen of the night, she sang an Eb, probably cause its morning, none the less it sounded good

I love them all!!!!! i want to marry danika!!!!!!!1 im crying

Ian becomes way more attractive when he sings for some reason. Not sure why.

Wouldn't it be simpler to send them to ballet classes where all of the aforementioned stature targets are basic to ballet?

@marietrushina

5 жыл бұрын

lohphat, no, it wouldn’t, because you don’t sing in ballet class. Even very well trained sportsmen, dancers and actors, perfectly aware of their bodies’ functioning, get puzzled when it comes to singing. You might have a perfect stature but then the high note comes and your whole body instinctively responds to that by raising your shoulders, stressing various muscles etc. Though I must say that, in my opinion, there’s no problem with using those mental images - half of a singers work happens in his mind, and it’s fine.

@Trillidotia

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely not. It is significantly more involved than just that.

@lohphat

4 жыл бұрын

The take away from basic ballet training is strengthening of the core and proper balance as so you have a stable foundation for any other subsequent physical demand. Even football players have improved their game as they learn in class how to protect and strengthen muscles to protect joints and tendons better. My experience in musical theater is that having some basic dance training helps your stature and projection as you are often tasked with having to move WHILE signing.

They could have turned the mics on for the last part.

High notes Microphone.exe stopped working

I want to sing opera, amateur Messa Soprano

The song is featured in Star Wars, Not Harry Potter...

@quentinbrandel1017

6 жыл бұрын

GemmaDoyleOfficial that doesn’t impact any of the information shared.

@qhsperson

6 жыл бұрын

What about Apocalypse Now?

@noemigallardooficial

5 жыл бұрын

I think it was a joke...

@savioalves1234

5 жыл бұрын

that was a joke

@lordvoldemort5533

5 жыл бұрын

R/wooosh

I am 22 and wondering if I am too old or young to really learn opera singing. I sang in high school but not so much in community college but have always been praised for my voice. I originally wanted to go to school to be an opera singer but I couldn't and still can't read music, so I went into something else. I still have my own mini library of opera songbooks, music books and am involved with my city's opera house. Though I have a soulful passion for opera, I always get very nervous when I have to sing. Is it really worth taking 10+ years at my age to learn operatic singing when it may all be for naught?

@zachgoesham

4 жыл бұрын

Of course you are not. 22? You have so much time. Get going!

@maiamaola6143

3 жыл бұрын

@Thais Solin Thank you so much for your thoughtful and kind words. It really means a lot to me.

@niamhm4109

2 жыл бұрын

@@maiamaola6143 oh yeah your voice will just be starting! Tryn

@pugh.joseph

2 жыл бұрын

Actually Franco Corelli, a famous opera tenor who had his golden age in the 1950s only started training for opera when he was 30. He is one of the best tenors ever so don't let age be a barrier. In fact, the older you get, the stronger your natural voice will get. By the time you are 40 is the absolute latest time to start as this is when your voice finishes its development and it can't change anymore.

@iamHis888Heismine

Жыл бұрын

Luciano Pavorotti couldn't read music either. Don't let that deter you! That desire to sing was put in you by God Himself! Find a voice teacher and begin.

Why is the Queen of the Night aria down a tone?!

the moment loren sang magic flute im like "plz marry me xd" hope this is not creepy xd

The singers had microphones on?

OMG.

What is the name of last performance?? Please let me know!!!

I live in the NJ/NYC area. Where and how can I find a kinesthetic consultant to help me with my vocal training?

This is GREAT!!!!! Hahahaha!!!

Canadian opera company Coc

12:55

18:22 she says : I wanna die in italian wow that’s amazing 😉 !

I'm only here because Amira Willighagen inspired me to sing. She's just pure gold, her voice takes me out of this realm

Where the tenors are??

WE FOUND IT MEN, WE FOUND *COC*

Can someone who doesn't have a good singing voice become good at opera singing?

@yogajedi3337

5 жыл бұрын

Anyone who have the DNA physique for loud singing can become an opera singer. You train your voice. Learn a couple of roles and you are in business. Hard work and determination. No natural real musicality needed. It's explained very well in this video. Factory fabricated voices so if one singer has to cancel they just call in a replacement.

@erichmayr7299

4 жыл бұрын

If your normal singing voice is healthy you can actually try to train your body for the Opera. If you should Sound Like Bruce Springsteen... Please Go to a doctor! IT depends on your voice Type, age, mental and physical health to become an Opera Singer! Singing Opera doesnt mean to sing only Arias. Indeed you have to learn recitativo and acting too! IT IS a very HARD Business!!! try IT!!! It's never too late to try...good luck!!!!

@Trillidotia

4 жыл бұрын

No.

@Trillidotia

4 жыл бұрын

@Isabela McK Look those poor deluded people who audition for American Idol: "I don't care what you soo- called experts say, I KNOW I can sing!" There is a big difference between noise and actually singing on a recognizable pitch.

@Trillidotia

4 жыл бұрын

@Isabela McK sometimes it doesn't matter how much technique someone learns, if they can't carry a tune, that's it. It's like a learning disability. I am a classically trained singer, sang a few minor operatic roles, mostly just chorus, but i do know what it takes to be a professional opera singer. Very, very few make it. It's like the Olympics if singing. Most people will never be able to attain it, no matter how much they work at it.

I'ma a natural but taking notes

Porqué está en si b? Es muy confuso

But there's a mic in the singers hair!!! Was it turned off?

@Roberthkeith

6 жыл бұрын

Nyakaat lol

@PajamaFeet

6 жыл бұрын

Yes! You can hear their voice resounding in the room instead of the way the dialogue sounds amplified through the mic.

@salamzander

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

Who are these people? Names in the titles please.

4:43 What's the name of the song ?

@rosegranger2872

2 жыл бұрын

Der Hölle Rache from the German Opera Die Zauberflöte.

Mi sembra che il teatro la scala sia il più importante al mondo e tutt'ora lavora...

Pinza‘a stance

the mozart's queen of night is a bit out of tune

@thequeenofthorns7449

6 жыл бұрын

Амадей Моцарт I'd say it is transposed.

@voiceofwisdom1

5 жыл бұрын

And it was transposed down a whole tone...

@annaneely7666

5 жыл бұрын

I THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY

@Sparky82

4 жыл бұрын

it is very much in tune for the key it is played it. Just not in the original key.

@lemonarizonatea

4 жыл бұрын

Okay, I’d like to hear your “perfectly in tune” queen of the night.

They were happy enough to grope the poor guy in the blue shirt.

Qué manera de marear a estos dos chicos

I don't think this is a very good example. No teacher has ever used metaphor ...they trained my muscles and my voice with a series of diff exercises then tried to apply it to arias and songs. They kept it all pretty sensible and grounded.

@Trillidotia

4 жыл бұрын

Are you serious? Every voice teacher I've had used metaphors. Never heard of any decent teacher who didn't.

It was so good I almost peed my pants.

In China, most of the audiences cannot understand this. They hardly reach the youtue. Could you upload video to China websites? Or I download it and send it there.

She forgott about heavy metal

I struggled to hear the singers without the mics on this talk. I wish opera would permit mics

@Trillidotia

4 жыл бұрын

If you'd been in the audience, you'd have heard them quite well. Thre only time mics are ever used in opera is if it's performed outside.

@yogajedi3337

4 жыл бұрын

True, but it's useless shouting the loudest you can into a mic. An operatic voice is very limited. Contemporary music with an operatic voice sounds very silly. Check a musical for better and understandable singing.

@Familylawgroup

4 жыл бұрын

@@Trillidotia I am hearing impaired (deaf in one ear) and I use a bone conduction based device by Cochlear to hear. Usually, I can connect to an FM system or a telecoil system so I can hear the performer easier.. I understand the WHY they aren't amplified but it would be nice to accommodate hearing impaired fans who don't use sign language.

Is this why all young singers nowadays sound exactly the same, with sounds indistinguishable from each other, and with their jaws shaking when they hold the note, as if they were chewing gum?

@Trillidotia

4 жыл бұрын

A shaking jaw is an indication of tension. Good singers don't do that.

Is it only me or does the Kinetic Consultant seem a little too happy about getting to touch that Ian boy?

0:44 nope lady, that's video games 👌

Pretty holier than thou, don't you think?

@kylejensen2409

5 жыл бұрын

You know, coming from an opera singer, I kind of agree with you.

Queen of the night one step lower seriously ?

@onelittleplum

4 жыл бұрын

Nicolas Dosch it was early in the morning lol CMON MAN give a girl a break

@nicolasdosch4010

4 жыл бұрын

Nicole Dawn she did a great job anyway , just singing an aria in another key shows it’s not for you. As a student in singing it’s very usual to sing in the morning, specialy for exam 😢 She has a great voice anyway don’t get me wrong , maybe a more lyric tone than a coloratura soprano

A fun talk, but mostly nonsense. If it weren't nonsens the singers would have better technique. He is woofy and she has mixed her registers, producing very shrill tones.

@Tkimba2

3 жыл бұрын

But hey! They sound "intellectual"! Isn't that what's matters the most, I. E. Making Opera seem more intellectual than pop?

@celibidache1000

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tkimba2 Yes, opera is a science for the intellectuals, portraying the deepest of naturalistic and sublime Bergman-esque psychological themes, aimed to give the audience a three hour psychotherapeutic lecture, granting them the possibility to honestly ponder their own insignificance. Strong feelings meant to move your soul? No, that's for pop music.

@Tkimba2

3 жыл бұрын

@@celibidache1000 this was so hard to watch... (of course I couldn't watch the full video)... Sometimes I think it's already too late for opera... Look at these people spreading all this nonsense. They're the big majority. What's one to do? I mean one who really loves it and knows it? Even if you are doing the right thing (and I'm not just talking about technique, there's a thing called style which people like Di Donato and such totally ignore, and than there's a thing called tradition), how isolating it is when everyone around you is on a completely different world?

@celibidache1000

3 жыл бұрын

@Aaron Anderson You misunderstand my terminology. What you call mixed voice, I call head voice - ie coordinating chest register and falsetto in varying degrees depending on pitch and intensity. That coordination is, as you say, absolutely vital for great singing. By mixed registers I refer to an uncontrolled and static mixing/blending of chest and falsetto, where the low register becomes woofy due to too much falsetto participation, and the middle and high register becomes pushed, shrill, constricted, and often overly heavy, due to too much chest participation.

Asymmetry is a vibe, but this lady's scarf is just so wrong. I cannot watch this. If i was in the audience i would have honestly leapt up and tugged it into place

Sorry i started to tune out when she was giving the instructions - she uses far too much technical terminology - and tuned back in when he had to sing adn then i wondered, did all he have to do was hold the towel in that postion to prevent the rib cage from collapsing. I will try it but not until tomorrow. Apart from that, is it really necessary to use all those technical physiological terms.I agree that instructions should be concrete instead of metaphoric and abstract but too much jargon is a pain.

@iemgote7249

5 жыл бұрын

If you can't feel the music you shouldn't be a singer.

What is the point of demonstrating what she said earlier if she is singing with microphones? It defeats the purpose of her explanation.

5:45 what the heck is she talking about ? She had a microphone to her left cheek the whole time.

@Trillidotia

4 жыл бұрын

It was switched off while they sang.

The singer did have a mic.

@sebthi7890

5 жыл бұрын

this microport only used for the talking voice. Listen attentively, you can hear the opera voice comes from far, when the lady sang the popsong the voice was came directly more two dimentonal, the opera voice has more plasticity. It produces specific echos.

@user-ki3iw6rp2g

4 жыл бұрын

Vivienne Maynard and?

Ellie Goulding is a pop singer and her songs are NOT easy ma’am! Lights has octave jumps in chest voice... in the verses!

@yogajedi3337

4 жыл бұрын

Don't bother. None of those on the stage can sing well enough. They just are self admiring themselves. No top manager will ever consider to invest one cent on these types of run of the mill talented singers/artists.

@dorothyallspice1862

3 жыл бұрын

Mariah Carey too.

@yogajedi3337

3 жыл бұрын

@Aaron Anderson Opera singers are good in what they trained to be good at. Barking loud as possible so the cheap back row tickets will not complain hearing anything. Do you think an opera company will hire a singer that doesn't sing loud enough, hahaha. Perhaps opera singing can be an event in sport tournament measuring loudest db four 2 hours.

Hello: I am contacting you today because there is a considerable discussion about true bel canto and how it is done. There are four components of true bel canto: the lift of the throat, the mask of the face, the inhalation of the voice, and the holding of the breath. It is the inhalation of the voice that is causing all the discussion--some people do not believe that people can sing by inhaling thier voice. Of course, many people know a little about this way of singing and that it is called "Inhalare (Inalare) La Voce" or Inhaling the voice) to sing. I would like you to confirm that bel canto uses inhalation of the voice to produce sound. The second issue is regarding the way that inhalation of the voice occurs. In true bel canto, the voice is continuously inhaled into the mouth to create sound and air exhales through the nose which creates a swirling confluence of air...and it is an actual inhalation of the air into the head and NOT just an imagined act--is that correct. We need you to tell us if these two above mention components are how true bel canto produces sound. Thank you James LePage

@iemgote7249

5 жыл бұрын

This isn't an email service.

@thebookofahilan7667

5 жыл бұрын

This is amazing

@Farzonalmfao-ly1uj

5 ай бұрын

This is the best comment I've ever read

I don't like how they mock the popular singers and their training. You don't need to revile or humiliate others work or profession to demonstrate that yours is good enough. Actually, I prefer to think both popular and Opera singers should be using the same techniques for breathing and support. We are all using the air to sing after all.

@yogajedi3337

3 жыл бұрын

Not one of those trained opera singer are talented enough to make a popular career. Instead they train barking as loud as possible and self admires their awful sounding soprano voices a person with intact hearing can't stand for more than a song or two. If they were good singers for real the opera houses wouldn't be so sparse populated. The average audience age at the Meth is +60, persons with hearing aid, yeah just that fact speaks for itself

@Intercostaldrama

3 жыл бұрын

No one is mocking anyone by pointing out that defective technique is both dangerous and does NOT produce the goal of harmonically rich tone without strain or ear-shattering noise. Yes noise is definable.

@yogajedi3337

3 жыл бұрын

@Aaron Anderson That Peter Barber again. He's less than run of the mill and almost totally unknown. Just accept it. If you want' vocal range used with real talent or real why not check Dimash Kuidalbergen. He's tremendously popular and that Peter not, guess why.

this is outdated. Most teachers today do not teach the way she is insulting the profession. Geez . We all know this info it is not new.

@Trillidotia

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yes they certainly do.

@Intercostaldrama

3 жыл бұрын

@@Trillidotia Kate is clearly referring to vocalization rather than singing.

I disagree about the largest known art form part -- I don't think that opera is the largest known art form known to man.

@shutingleung8143

4 жыл бұрын

Art is larger than many things we can imagine

12:43 Dam grab me a piece

Women get away with whatever they want. I think Ian caught wood @ around the 12:40 mark, geeeez.

@rebeccagreen7241

4 жыл бұрын

I'm with you, King Willie. It was inappropriate

Not wishing to be classified as sexist Lilly Prince but why have tests shown that only 24% of a soprano's words are discernible to the audience when, with a baritone, it is 100%. It seems to me that the need to raise the FORMANT by opening the mouth vertically makes four of the five Cardinal vowels unachievable? Can you sing an [I] vowel with your mouth wide open vertically?

@michaelparham7126

6 жыл бұрын

Intercostaldrama there are actually a few scientific studies that talk about why you can’t understand sopranos after a certain pitch. It has to do with our ears inability to discern various vowel sounds above a certain pitch level. Baritones sing at a level closer to normal speech, thus the reason our diction is so easily understood.

@lightbulbfish

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@ariassongs

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelparham7126 WRONG!!!! I HAVE HEARD MANY SOPRANOS THAT HAVE IMPECCABLE DICTION AND YOU CAN UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD!!! ITS ALL ABOUT THE TRAINING!!!

@celibidache1000

3 жыл бұрын

The vowel "i" (ee) has a very low fundamental pitch. When women sing high notes, they sing above that fundamental pitch, making it impossible to create all necessary harmonics needed for the ear to interpret the sound as an "i" vowel. Therfore the vowel is shifted toward "ae".

@Intercostaldrama

3 жыл бұрын

@@celibidache1000 Hi again just found this. I'm a tenor (of course) and I use the ee vowel as a guide as to whether the other vowels have a balance of formats. This to ensure that those darker vowels are not resulting in an uneven scale. It would appear that sopranos do the same. To me, at least, swallowed tone (lack of higher formats) spells the ruination of clarity. What do you think? Reg. Sydney, Australia.