maybe it’s just me being no used to it? but when I send my sound back and access my my heady voice is feel more disconnected and more airy. Is it a normal tendency?
it feels lightly more pinched
im a male bas—baritone.
in other instruments you practically have to start age 5-6 it seems for violin etc. I am wondering before serious opera training do most professionals start vocalizing in choir etc at that age too?
can you start in your mid twenties and reach a pro level?
do you need to know how to analyze ratios or is it just pure memorization?
essentially I am carrying my full chest all the way up which isn’t right. My teacher tells me to send it up the back top molars of my head. Creating more thin whiny sound. It doesn’t feel like more normal vocie and kinda sounds weird. It does feel lighter however.
I am a 26 male, I was raised my a single mother with no other family as immigrants. She had struggles with depression and anxiety and she put a lot of that onto me. I felt as though I’m more like her husband in terms of her emotional dependence. However I have no real family outside of her in Canada.
Anyways, we get along in other ways but I’m increasingly getting frustrated as our day to day is fine but our perspective on life is completely different. She is very material and prestige driven. She coaches me on what jobs to apply to and how we must move to America for more money and how we must invest bigger house. She works a damn near min wage job and I make 50k as an accountant while she has these big goals.
Im also losing my hair due to genetics but she just starts yelling at me that it’s because I don’t take care of it, no amount of science will correct her. This is just one thing that to put into perspective.
luckily met a great girl and want to spend rest of my life but she opposes since she is of a different race I think. she gives me suggestions of other woman which puts me into rage.
I feel sad living day to day and my life feels so contained. I’m not sure if it’s purely my mother or my own ineptitude to succeed.
AM I thinning up properly, I know it sounds quite back and throaty but it maintains connection to chest.
Technically we are 5x a week onsite for audit but sometimes we get to use wfh. Boss doesnt make a sharp distinction but says its "once in a while" thing you do.
I probably use one every 6 weeks but in the beginning he was fine but now he is asking in depth questions exactly what I am working and basically showing me he doesn't like me working from home.
I guess I am asking about office politics. I know he won't ever refuse my request ( based on previous requests ) but don't know if I should just stop asking for it as its bothering him.
only once u hit mini exams or while learning new chapters? mcq only?
Is it because of the close up camera feature I notice sort of hides people's flaws. I assume sample bias too. Not sure if anyone else noticed it.
I feel as though a lot of the teachings are very technical the way instrumentalists are. Unfortunately that is the way our instrument is designed. However, I feel as though many teacher speak from the perspective of already knowing. For example, one teacher says to place sound back and up. Although this is a cue that might be that simple for him, support, vowel, larynx all need to be there too. I've had many teachers btw and it ranges from some teaching 0 technical work.
Hello friends, I am an alumni and recently graduated. I do have my t card wondering if there is a way to get a room to practice vocalizing only for a bit though. Maybe its not possible so thanks for answering. I understand there are other spaces but generally reddit says universities might have the best facilities.
One thing I notice is that when I try to sing a rep there is a lot of tension. Even on the lower range, I think a lot of that is trying to smoothen the sound and also trying to move between pitches deliberately.
I remember my old teacher said never to track your pitches and has a realization that in speech we never track what we say rather our emotional intensity allows us to hit the notes.
When vocalizing from a psychological perspective do you consider yourself acting in speech rather than trying to sing something musical if that makes sense? I know to someone who sings naturally it’s 2nd nature but to us adult beginners.
Hello, so my first clip https://voca.ro/18pIXPn0pBh7, I have heard responses that is way too much heaviness and chest from my last post.
In this next trial, I decided to change my perspective, instead of trying to thin my chest or try to stay in my chest, I allowed my voice to go into a thin space internally. Which is naturally happens but always FELT wrong inside cause voice would feel so small: https://voca.ro/1l4xWcy2voi2.
Not sure if I am headed towards right direction.
Yes I do have a great teacher but he is away and only once a week.
At A3 I feel my first "ceiling" in my voice. Then I go into a more stretched chest voice or some people say its a mix. At the C4 there is this buildup like the cords are blocking the air but there is a dam and a huge amounts of air wants to just bust through. I assume I am not thinning properly?