Boost Any Singing Exercise!
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- Get more from any vocal exercise by adding these simple gestures. This will encourage muscle independence and speed up skill development. The secret is to create the most direct connection between your brain and the muscles that sing!
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Absolutely. Neuroplasticity works two ways - it can help you or hurt you. Before I lost myself in the trauma and drama of the music industry, I could predict that I would be awesome, and create something amazing with my voice. When I started to lose myself I could predict that I would strain, and lose my voice. I was always correct. Either way. Thanks so much for your help.
Spot on - careful what you predict!
I really appreciate your breakdown between the mind and voice. I've been singing for nearly 13 years. Started around 12 yrs old and quickly found your videos which helped me immensely recognized my voice and gain the discipline of warm-ups and exercises. I've had no formal training (yet) but have a come along way and I'm proud of my abilities. The hurdle of a maturing voice throughout these 13 years has been tough but always remains my passion. Im setting up for the near future to really allow myself the ability to have a vocal coach and explore a future in this. I just wanted to say thanks for sharing your wisdom and for all the videos throughout the years as they've made a big impact in my life and resonate in my mind to this day.
Thank you so much for posting! I'm glad to be a part of your musical journey!
Aw this is so cute
@@SV-vv7ub Gotta give credit, where credit is due!
Very informative Mark .. started singing in the U.K. s second lurgy lockdown , I have used your UA-cam vids and any live stuff you have done online .I really appreciate your methods and teaching … it has helped me find my voice and for that I can’t thank you enough
I'm happy to help - glad you're using the info!
Terrific Thank You
You're welcome!
This is really good, Mark! Thanks for the eye thing! I will definitely be using that little gem.
You and I have similar clients, and I've been working with the neuroscience of singing for about 20 years now. The more we get this info out, the more people will benefit. Thank you for using your platform (and smarts) to share these valuable explanations.
PS: I've been using the "Home Alone" posture for years and it works wonders, esp for tension in & around the TM joint. AND I ALSO call it the "Home Alone" thing! LOL :)
Thanks for posting, Meredith! Great to connect with like-minded peers!
This was very informative! I find my biggest issue is my trapezius muscles! I will try the circles while holding my neck. 😊
It works for me!
Thanks Mark 4 your tips, I fond them really helpfull 👌. I got to travel 4 gigs by train, aircon dryies my voice, do you know any way around IT? Really appreciate IT&all the best, regards, Peter
If you don't want to use a personal mister - ironically - the masks we all wore for Covid are good for retaining moisture. Regardless, always breathe through your nose.
Hello Mark
Long, long time fan here
It's fair to say that I love you by now
The content you make is invaluable, and you radiate good-heart
I couldn't thank you enough all those years for the great content, but you somehow manage to even surpass yourself every time
This is fucking gold, and words (and previous comments) don't do you enough justice, and I wish I lived somewhere where I could be mentored by you
Thanks again, universal treasure
Thanks, John. I'm happy to help!
Can't believe im jusssst seeing this!!! Beautiful and reassuring and reaffirming as always.
I can't believe anyone sees anything with the amount of information out there! :)
mark! the best sound we singers make begins in our mind!
Yup - it's called an intention!
Really great video. This helped some things congeal for me in terms of my own vocal progression and growth, and I would love to learn even further how the hands can be used to sculpt my sound and create healthy functional habits that work with my body and develop the things that still need developing. I jut my jaw a lot, and have been struggling with learning how to not do that. Do you have any advice, or could you make a short video about it? I know posture is key and my chest weighs me down/forward, so it's hard to kind of fight that and not end up leaning forward when I'm practicing especially when I'm holding an instrument as well. I have had TMJ clicking and locking since puberty and it's somewhat better now, but I still am seeking solutions for how to correct my posture and bring that posture naturally into my singing exercises and practice. Any advice you have about jaw would be welcome.
There's a lot of influences on our behavior, Davida - so I advocate focusing on the result you want. That means the sound rather than your body parts. A good way to eliminate the posture issue is here: ua-cam.com/video/4cDpUZ7tagM/v-deo.html. And your jaw issues here: ua-cam.com/video/Z69xA7X7x74/v-deo.html and here: ua-cam.com/video/CepoWVNS_78/v-deo.html
I thank you for your time. Getting my strength back. Riding bike outside 12 miles MWF. Singing along with Izzy Kamakawio’ole, Facing the Future album. When I sing in Hawaiian I think of all your vowel exercises. I absolutely love the freedom outside and singing for me. The past wish to be great has transitioned to pure joy of my quality alone time with my health back after long haul Covid and singing freely. My piece of heaven. Thankyou for continuing to educate and provide vocal lessons.
So glad you're on the other side of long Covid, Kimi!
thank you for all the work you put in for teaching us to sing. I started to sing "properly" at age 67, have been practising now for 6 years, and only recently found your channel. it gives me so much new insights at what to do! and I never thought that at this age I could achieve so much. I practice Indian classical music, the style called "dhrupad", and with your classes I am making enormous progress. thank you!
So glad you're making progress!
@@voicelessondotcom I'm only 32, but your comment Elsa is really encouraging to me. I know this is a long haul journey, but I love it. And I'm so happy that the possibilities are endless. I've been singing just 3.5 years, so I hope in 3 years I'll be singing 'properly' too. Not that there's an end point. I just want to keep progressing. Age shouldn't limit us. It's such a myth that only hypertalented teens and kids who started when they were 2 are the only people who can progress and become beautiful singers. I believe in myself and hope to keep making progress.
That seemed like 97% focused on the problem and 3 in the solution lol
Re do it ! I felt awful rushed.
Apply those hand gestures to ANY vocal exercise you do - take as much time as you need!
love this!! already helping my voice and making singing more enjoyable
Glad to help!
Is singing really that complicated.
When someone sings say in the shower, they probably are not a singer as we who sing class ourselves they just sing free and easy the song they have just heard on the radio or something from the past.Iv'e on occasion heard my wife singing in this way when she thought no one was around, she sounds not bad at all but put a mic in her hand she just tightens and can't sing a note.Is this what you are getting at is it really a state of mind, or can anyone learn to sing in a good way.
No - it's not singing that's complicated - it's people! Or more accurately - our culture. Anyone can learn to defeat their inhibitions. It's just a lot easier earlier in life when mindsets are more optimistic.
Excellent information, thank you Mark!
Glad to help out!
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Unfortunately I'm more the hypo-type, but I've suspected the mind being the cause for my singing issues as every thought and feeling make chemistry which is signal to all kinds of cells and of course to nerves and muscels...
You're absolutely correct! Hypo - just means your mind has overblown the risk involved with making a BAD sound. You can thank our culture for that restriction! Challenge that mindset everyday!
@@voicelessondotcom Oh yes, I certainly do!!! It is like returning to the original ability of expressing one's being in the world, not only through voice but with every cell and fibre, like getting out of still back into motion. (Slowly, though)
thank you
Glad to help!
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it!
Thanks Mark. I enjoy your videos. You have a nice sense of humor.🥰
Glad you liked it!
love this absolut great pracitical and intuition-orientated teaching founded or born out of active singing. i am humbly teaching myself and your philosophy resonates with me so much!
Glad to help out on your musical journey, Jakob!
I think you are great. I have been singing to work through my speech impairments, and found you and love ding your practices. But the thing about you never met someone with muscle tension that didn’t have permission I would like to query you on if you’ve ever taught someone who has neuro spasticity, sensory impairments, etc?
Because I have functional and organic neurological impairment to my speech and both have psychological components to management, but even the functional issues are sometimes more … like a glitch for lack of better word. I have spasticity that definitely has psycholgical triggers that nonetheless is not a matter of permission, just saying.
I think you are bright, but you might be confusing people who are very scared and don’t understand what you mean, because you are really talking about habits more than pathologies I feel.
Lot's of people don't understand what I mean! I'm OK with that. Just like lots of people are scared when they don't really understand what a doctor just explained to them! So, I am always reminding those I work with that I am not a doctor. My tools are hope and possibility in order to encourage the brain's plasticity to work towards a desired outcome. When a doctor makes a diagnosis of spasticity, or impingement, there is a finality to the condition due to the nature of neurological disorders. However, there is still much we don't know about the brain. And so we must keep watch that our perspective on healing doesn't become self-limiting. Just like it's a fairly new therapeutic approach for you to work through speech impairments via singing because speech and singing travel via different neuropaths to the same muscles. And I am a tireless advocate for encouraging folks with organic impairments that are of no fault of their behavior (faulty operations, strokes, spasmodic dysphonia, traumas) to continue "asking" for a better outcome. It matters. Your brain is always listening - if not always able.
I absolutely agree with you there, for sure. Thanks for the response. I do think you have a lovely way saying that.
Greetings my friend!!....In 2017, the music world was shocked by the bursting onto the scene of a 22-year-old singer named Dimash Kudaibergen, who performed on the famous Chinese competition show for professional singers called “The Singer”... It was just It was necessary for this young man to make his first appearance, making a cover of one of the most difficult songs in the world, a famous French composition called "S.O.S. D'un Terrien En Détresse", to be considered from that moment on as the best singer in the entire planet....No one in the musical field had ever seen a human being, being able to reach vocal ranges above 7 octaves and several semitones, that is, all 88 keys of a digital piano, which reaches a little more than 7 octaves and as if that weren't enough, sing the more than 12 languages...Since then all kinds of experts (Vocal coach, analysts, singing teachers, youtubers, reactors, etc.) have dedicated themselves to reviewing their presentations to try to understand how someone can sing this way...The incredible thing is that that presentation in China was in 2017 and 5 years have passed since then, but what Dimash has done in these 5 years is to further improve his wide vocal range, which is currently practically above of the 8 octaves... The Covid pandemic stopped his concerts worldwide, all with tickets sold in just seconds, via the internet, but at the same time it ended up catapulting him to the top of popularity worldwide...Anyway, since I think you are one of those reactors who have not yet met this impressive singer, here is the link of that presentation in China in 2017, with the song S.O.S. and I would like you to mention my name as the person who recommended him to you...You have to be prepared because you ar going to receive an avalanche of views, comments and new subscribers....I leave you one more recent video than the others, so it does not have the same number of views as the previous ones, which have millions of views, but it is a more complete video, with an intro, subtitles in several languages and with the improved quality of audio and sound....ua-cam.com/video/bDX3FhmyNac/v-deo.html
THANK YOU Mark! More please.
You got it!
Excellent points all! Now I’m thinking what I do when I’m singing!! Thank you!
Glad to help!
great video looking forward to more like this!
Glad you liked it! There's plenty more like this on my channel!
This is really interesting. I find that there are high notes I sing with power and confidence when the band are performing live that I struggle to recreate in a recording environment... Even when I'm engineering myself. This feedback loop of negative expectation could be exactly what's happening. Now I need to break the cycle!!
I've been running some of your warm up and vocal health exercises for a while now. Your teaching is excellent, so kind of you to provide so much here on UA-cam. Thank you.
You're spot on! I struggled with inconsistency between stage and studio for years when I was younger. Try getting very physical (jumping around - aerobic exercise) to hijack your brain while recording. Once you break the cycle a few times it doesn't require such dramatic steps!
@@voicelessondotcom wow, what a great idea - I will try that. Thanks so much.
Really good educational video, Mark. A number of interesting points to ponder. Thanks!
You're welcome, Claudia!
Very interesting talk. Thank you for posting it, Mark. I esp. find useful how you end with a few simple diagnostics.
Glad you liked it - hope it helps!
@@voicelessondotcom Hi Mark, I was wondering about neuroplasticity. Do you have some specific papers or articles you recommend reading? Thanks and Happy Holidays!
@@youngamy Any one of the several thousand papers on the subject will do! The abundance of research makes it clear - the brain changes based on conditions. Some of those are environmental (chemical) but many are cultural and imaginary. The imaginary factors are messy to study because they rely on self-reporting - but it's what I deal with every day!
@@voicelessondotcom Okidoki!
Not gonna be a tool about this coz you seem like a decent fella who did this out of ignorance, not malice, but "trans" isn't a gender, it's a descriptor. I'm gonna read that 1% as nonbinary trans because theyre not male or female. Most trans people are. Minor correction but in this current climate of massive transphobia and lies about us, it's important to represent stuff accurately, enough people think being trans makes "male" or "female" invalid as it is. Just for reference. Thanks for the singing lessons.
I'm simply reporting what is said to me when a singer starts lessons with me. I'm indifferent about categories.
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Glad you liked it!
I am so glad I found you
Me too!
Ufff dammm mark I think you was talking about me.... Dammm. Lol thank you maestro
Hahaha - I hope it helps!
Most of my family members (paternal) were singers, and most of my family members (maternal) were dancers. I spent more time around my maternal family and of course, being a music lover, became a good dancer, but, I also wanted to sing. I had a problem, anything I want to do I needed as much learning material or the practical application will not work. Because of the internet, I can now, at the age of 69 (I started using online programs at 65) I can sing. I use your UA-cam programs for warmup and training. What you have just presented was what I had to deal with after the learning material was studied. I've recently jumped back into playing guitar and so I had let up on singing for about 2 months. When I was re-studying guitar phrasing I realized what I had left out of my singing, emotions and at the same time, I realized my mind wasn't on the message of the song but on the technical part of singing. I'm learning to let go and I've seen immediate results. Thank you for bringing this more into focus.
What a wonderful post! Thank you for sharing!
This is amazing. Another wonderfully helpful video, Mark. Thank you!
You're very welcome, Flint.
Recently uploaded a video of myself singing and I can hear the improvement and I have to say your videos are a major reason for my improvement.
That's great! So glad to help!
Wow! Brilliant. This is me and this gives me hope as well as practical things to do. You truly are a gift.
Glad to help!
Thank you, Maestro Mark! Great information once again! Have a wonderful weekend!
Thank you, Lorrie!
Tqsm Mark. Watching from Malaysia. Wht an amazing info. It seems easier bt whn I tried to sing i always tend to off pitch with the music . Even i tot i wasnt. Kinda really frustrated i feel tht i wasnt meant to b a singer eventhough i love. It brings me down whn i failed. Thy called me death tone
Everyone is meant to sing! So, either improve your singing skills or find new friends!
Dear mark..pls tell me how to improve my death tone
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Thanks!
You make a great job, Mark. Thank you very much!
You're welcome!
Brilliant, uniquely focused vocal concepts (or should I say, psycho-vocal concepts), beautifully communicated. Thank you, as always, Mark, for getting right to the heart of the matter with singing!
Thanks again, Billy!
@@voicelessondotcom Thank YOU, Mark!
You are awsome Mark! That is (I think) priceless knowledge you are sharing with all of us. I find relaxing neck muscles the hardest from all of these goals. Now I know how I can practise relaxing them! Thank you Mark!
I agree - the neck muscles are VERY stubborn!
Neck muscles here too! As I let the shoulders drop, the volume increases noticeably. Without relaxation, you don't control air anymore. If you don't control it, you can't control your voice. If you can't control your voice, your singing will be bad. It all starts with relaxation.
@@DenisMorissetteJFK Muscle independence is the key! Some muscles work to sing - many should relax!
@@voicelessondotcom Pitch is becoming more and more independant. I focus on certain things while asking my brain to take care of the pitch and finding out the right notes to sing. I'm finding out that the brain does not need my help that much for this task. When I focus too much on pitch, I tense.
@@DenisMorissetteJFK Absolutely!