I have watched hundreds and hundreds of hours of teachers teaching and I think this is the first time I have understood anything from one of them. No body wants to commit to a particular technique (in support) and here it is beautifully explained, as well as answering all the questions I have had for years about why I sing differently when I use one particular attack, and different again when I use different support! ahhh! if only I had been to a teacher of this caliber! Amazing! such knowledge!
Aanother brilliant video revealing the true Roman School of dinging. I myself sang naturally until an accident haemorrhaged my left vocal fold whic is now composed of scar tissue and paralysed. YET, after years of rest I taught myself to sing again and at 65 have just sung Don Alfonso in Così, Prince Gremin I Eugene Onegin and am about to sing Germont Père in Traviata and Capulet in Romeo and Juliette. Obviously I can’t hear my own voice but people say it floods the place with sound even when singing softly and that every word is clear and distinct at the far reach of the theatre and yet I never try to sing loudly and never try to articulate. I just set up my posture and sing. Great feeling. You young singers, this man speaks the truth. Every quotation of Caruso, Tettrazzini etc is accurate and given in the correct context. Listen and learn.
Thankyou for all of your amazingly simple videos, I have been book learning for years, lamperti, lehman and caruso. You have knitted it all together for me, I am 72 and just finding my true voice,
Thank you Mr Trimble , for your generosity in sharing your mastery. Knowledge, experience that are truly jnspiring and encouraging...toall ages! MANY MORE Birthdays rich in song to you and from you!
Thank you for taking the time to share your wisdom. What you are teaching cannot be found in current day university and college. You are a gems to me. Wish you the best and good health. Regards, James Long Malaysia
Maestro, thanks a lot for sharing your great wisdom and knowledge!!! You have helped me a lot to understand principles of appoggio, slender singing and placement of the voice. Your videos are precious for singers! God bless you!
Hi Michael, thank you very much for sharing your wisdom and experience. Your video really helped me singing in a better way. Now I understand the concept of invisible throat, slender singing, and leaning. Thank you!
My best vocal teacher had me sitting in a chair with my head resting looking up while I vocalized . I had instingtivly done that on my high notes before meeting him but when I did so I had recieved remarkes from other teacher´s. The thing I felt that he did wrong was darkening my vowels which made my high notes heavy and daft. He would have been a really good teacher if he hadn´t had his macho opinion about singing. I personally love all great tenors from Schipa, Alva and Valetti to Del Monaco, Vickers, Melcior and Corelli. My teacher had a high light lyric tenor voice but he idolized dramatic singers like Corelli and saw that as the ideal of singing without really considering my voice as a student. I think that everything you have said in the videos here on youtube and also in your scripts on your website makes perfect sense. The sad thing is that your style of teaching and knowledge is rare. I think that if a teacher tells you something about technique then that shouldn´t change as the voice developes.
Dear Michael. I just love your videos. I have started at a late age (55) to learn opera singing, about six years ago, and have made tremendous progress with my teacher. I am a lyrico-spinto tenor. I have tried many different teachers, and can now tell the difference between teaching methods and aims , if nothing else, judging from my progress and quality of singing I was a able to develop changing teacher. I find your videos just amazing and so clear to understand. They bring all the pieces of my experience together , in the most perfect and harmonious way, when listening to you. I can also see that the one who is teaching, I mean you, had an amazing voice color , which , unfortunately , as a european, I did not have the chance to discover earlier. i wish I can be as dynamic as you are, when I reach your age . Thank you a thousand times for your releases on youtube ( I just ordered your book...!).
I have your wonderful book and read some of it every day. It is my vocal bible. This is such another wonderful lesson among many. Thank you for your generosity for sharing all of your great knowledge with us. You have helped me so much with my singing. Thank You.
Michael Trimble, your videos are pure gold. Im so thankful, that you share all your wisdom so freely with the world. Im having exact these problems currently in my vocal studies here in the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe. Its so hard for me to find this exact point of attacking the note and not pushing/spitting all of my air out, before I'm even half through the phrase and I'm either to "heavy" or to "light" the on between is so hard to find for me. I wish I could hear your take on my voice, because I get often told I am a baritone just because I have trouble reaching the high notes. Sometimes I just dont know what to think, because thwre are so many opinions out there.
Hallo Du, This is helping me at age 67 to prep for NORMA. We are scheduled for 8 Nov. A great cast and I plan to be fantastic. Will post the video ASAP. Did The Impresario in Feb 2015 and had high Fs still, getting back into shape for this, then Lusia in Feb and Nabucco next November 2016.
MICHAEL TRIMBLE VOCAL METHOD - "SLENDER SINGING" Published on 29 Oct 2014 trimblevocalinstitute.com ua-cam.com/video/7lOr2yo8-7Q/v-deo.html&gl=BE Fundamentals of Great Vocal Technique: The Teachings of Michael Trimble Category Music Licence Standard UA-cam Licence MAY 28, 2015
You are correct once again, maestro! As you know, Im a spinto, and believe it or not, you've hit the mark on my singing. I am making a conscious attempt to sing "LIGHTLY" and lyrically, instead of tearing the paint from the walls. I love this lesson. Thank you for sharing.
Great lecture! Thank you very much and congratulations on you 80th birthday, God bless you + I envy you that you are a man, because women have more trouble with singing while they are aging. Even when they breathe properly and lean their breath properly ;) Lucky you :)
Mr Trimble, have you heard that Tito Schipa was asked about his approuch to singing and he said something like "the voice is always small it´s never big the breath then comes in and carries it away. I´ve also heard that he was asked if he was a dramatic tenor like Del Monaco would he reconsider that statement and he replied in that case I would think even smaller! The notes that I personally have been most satisfyed with have felt small but vibrant. I like the word focus to describe what light and small really means for me. The voice should in my opinion seek the same focus as someone using a magnifier to create fire. This must of course be done with an open throat.
I have tried to practice your breathing technique for 4 months after 2 years of learning breathing like a sleeping baby , but prevent the epicgastric area and pelvis area from collapsing when exhale is alway a problem. they both collapse and send all the tension back to the back and butt, which make pain happened. Sometime when i expand my rib the belly expand aswell even when i try to forgot it. So , Is there any way to make the belly not involve in the breathing system , in short, how to cure the sleeping baby breathing? I 've try to pull my abdomen in when i inhale but it didnt work, it even creating more tension. Hope to see your reply!
Mr. Michael, would you be so kind to do one video on vocal cry or baby cry in tenor(or any other) voice. you mention that one must use diaphragm, pushing out like a baby, but i have heard that there is also cry in voice, which aids in passaggio area and high notes.
Hi Mr. Trimble...Your videos are amazing! Thank you! Do you have any tips or videos on how to sing with energized sound / breath energy? I find that my sound doesn't spin and lacks energy especially on ballads. I've been working with your breathing videos and they help lots but I'm still unable to connect my voice / sound to where I feel that my voice has drive and energy in the sound. does that make sense? Any clues you can offer are mucho appreciated. Cheers!
FLAMENQUEANTES&THE DODGES 1 second ago MICHAEL TRIMBLE VOCAL METHOD - "SLENDER SINGING" Published on 29 Oct 2014 trimblevocalinstitute.com ua-cam.com/video/7lOr2yo8-7Q/v-deo.html&gl=BE Fundamentals of Great Vocal Technique: The Teachings of Michael Trimble Category Music Licence Standard UA-cam Licence MAY 28, 2015
Hi! Mr Trimble I have a question regarding the term "verhalten singen". If I hold my nose singing imagining that I breath in through the nose and out of the mouth while I´m singing it helps me in getting a none forced production of tone. This doesn´t create nasality in the tone of my voice and still I feel the voice is lifted up.
I always remember the "Filo" especially in the stratosphere.....now I am working on endurance.....gabapentin was the problem before with top.....damned drugs....best not to take any.....now hanging on my teeter inversion table.....
@@Tenoretrimble I've seen many lessons and nothing made sense to me until I got your videos... I was stuck in many techniques such as mixed voice nasal voice etcetera and all I needed to know was to learn open throat technique and all my problems were gone
hi Michael, i am just trying to find the exact bit! I think it might be spelt "metal" - you were talking about something to do with timbre I believe. I will post the time stamp when I find it :)
yes that's it! Sorry, I couldn't find it. Thanks so much for your detailed explanation. I am going to work with this that shape - it feels really free and gives such a clear sound. Yes, you can really hear it when opera singers use this - its much a balanced sound rather than being too muddy or dark.
Hello again Michael! Quick question: Are you pulling in the abdomen PRIOR to the inhale, or AS you are inhaling? Is there a different result between the two methods? Thanks! -Cameron
Hello sir, forgive me if i bother you but i really need your help. The death drop used to work well for me until i stupidly change my breathing technique without aware that was bad. Now i feel so desperate because I dont know how to get my natrual breathing back. Is it possible for me to get my voice back or it is ruined forever(the voice feel strain and unhealthy) and if it is possible , could you suggest me some exercise or something like that to take everything back in line. Because the more i do exercise, the more i fell the breath develop to the wrong place.
HI Maestro Trimble I write this with the full knowledge that you are probably not going to reply. I take it that you still do not want to respond as you think that I am ignoring your advice and that could not be further from the truth. Please do believe me when I say this. 1) I have contacted various martial arts masters and have tried to arrange private lessons with them for a) Qi gong b) Wing Chun One of them, who is a Christian, whom I am really interested in, does not want to teach me and I am trying to convince him to change his mind. I refer to your video on "Slender singing"- ua-cam.com/video/7lOr2yo8-7Q/v-deo.html Find your teaching on "Oo- Ah" slide helpful and it is very consistent with the top down approach. The minute I do it, I already find the pressure from the back muscles against the solar plexus. 1) A question though- Do we do this exercise with the "B" consonant? So that means it would be "Boo-Bah"? 2) In one of your instigators, you recommended using your "Nyah" or "Neh" to find the natural placement of the mask. The NEH does work wonders in helping one's voice to sound naturally forward and bright. But I find that I still have the tendency to descend into throat and my pitching is still NOT AS STEADY as using the "B" consonant. So which is better then- the Neh instigator or the "BE" consonant at the tip of the lips, which would close the nasal passage way and get the voice above the nasal cavities? Please do reply Maestro Trimble and please do not ignore my plea to you for help. For so long I have traversed this long vocal road of isolation, confusion and pain. I am the threshold of giving up, and you gave me a glimmer of hope. Then everything came crashing down with that one email that ruined everything, and it did not even represent what I really thought or felt. Please do give some leeway that communication via email is limited and that my true intentions were not captured. Please do show mercy and grace just this once. Please don't abandon me just as I was seeing some vocal light and miracle at the end of the tunnel- namely, your tutelage and help. Awaiting your reply eagerly Humbly yours always
It’s fine what you demonstrate, however, I’m not hearing noble voices from you when you cover them!!! I’m not hearing an Italian aue, aoe, aee and this is what most of us suffer from. What is your take?
This video alone is worth around 2-3 years of conservatory and it only has 5 thousand views...
You are a genius! I prayed how to God to help me sing better and I come across your videos. You’re a blessing!
The same.... The same.... The same...
Me too . I'm in my mid sixties and am getting my voice back!!
I have watched hundreds and hundreds of hours of teachers teaching and I think this is the first time I have understood anything from one of them. No body wants to commit to a particular technique (in support) and here it is beautifully explained, as well as answering all the questions I have had for years about why I sing differently when I use one particular attack, and different again when I use different support! ahhh! if only I had been to a teacher of this caliber! Amazing! such knowledge!
Aanother brilliant video revealing the true Roman School of dinging. I myself sang naturally until an accident haemorrhaged my left vocal fold whic is now composed of scar tissue and paralysed. YET, after years of rest I taught myself to sing again and at 65 have just sung Don Alfonso in Così, Prince Gremin I Eugene Onegin and am about to sing Germont Père in Traviata and Capulet in Romeo and Juliette. Obviously I can’t hear my own voice but people say it floods the place with sound even when singing softly and that every word is clear and distinct at the far reach of the theatre and yet I never try to sing loudly and never try to articulate. I just set up my posture and sing. Great feeling. You young singers, this man speaks the truth. Every quotation of Caruso, Tettrazzini etc is accurate and given in the correct context. Listen and learn.
You are beautiful and really kind for sharing this with us! Happy 83 soon!
Thankyou for all of your amazingly simple videos, I have been book learning for years, lamperti, lehman and caruso. You have knitted it all together for me, I am 72 and just finding my true voice,
Thank you Mr Trimble , for your generosity in sharing your mastery. Knowledge, experience that are truly jnspiring and encouraging...toall ages! MANY MORE Birthdays rich in song to you and from you!
Thank you for taking the time to share your wisdom. What you are teaching cannot be found in current day university and college.
You are a gems to me. Wish you the best and good health.
Regards,
James Long
Malaysia
This is an amazing video with a lot of precious insight! By far one of the best vocal videos I've ever seen!
This is some of the best advice a young tenor could get!
Best regards,
BM
Maestro, thanks a lot for sharing your great wisdom and knowledge!!! You have helped me a lot to understand principles of appoggio, slender singing and placement of the voice. Your videos are precious for singers! God bless you!
Thank you so much Mr. Trimble! You are such a great blessing =) Best regards from Indonesia. May God bless you with health and much joy, Sir!
Hi Michael, thank you very much for sharing your wisdom and experience. Your video really helped me singing in a better way. Now I understand the concept of invisible throat, slender singing, and leaning. Thank you!
My best vocal teacher had me sitting in a chair with my head resting looking up while I vocalized . I had instingtivly done that on my high notes before meeting him but when I did so I had recieved remarkes from other teacher´s. The thing I felt that he did wrong was darkening my vowels which made my high notes heavy and daft. He would have been a really good teacher if he hadn´t had his macho opinion about singing. I personally love all great tenors from Schipa, Alva and Valetti to Del Monaco, Vickers, Melcior and Corelli. My teacher had a high light lyric tenor voice but he idolized dramatic singers like Corelli and saw that as the ideal of singing without really considering my voice as a student. I think that everything you have said in the videos here on youtube and also in your scripts on your website makes perfect sense. The sad thing is that your style of teaching and knowledge is rare. I think that if a teacher tells you something about technique then that shouldn´t change as the voice developes.
Dear Michael. I just love your videos. I have started at a late age (55) to learn opera singing, about six years ago, and have made tremendous progress with my teacher. I am a lyrico-spinto tenor.
I have tried many different teachers, and can now tell the difference between teaching methods and aims , if nothing else, judging from my progress and quality of singing I was a able to develop changing teacher. I find your videos just amazing and so clear to understand. They bring all the pieces of my experience together , in the most perfect and harmonious way, when listening to you. I can also see that the one who is teaching, I mean you, had an amazing voice color , which , unfortunately , as a european, I did not have the chance to discover earlier. i wish I can be as dynamic as you are, when I reach your age . Thank you a thousand times for your releases on youtube ( I just ordered your book...!).
You explain “schlank” so well!! Wonderful
I have your wonderful book and read some of it every day. It is my vocal bible. This is such another wonderful lesson among many. Thank you for your generosity for sharing all of your great knowledge with us. You have helped me so much with my singing. Thank You.
Michael Trimble, your videos are pure gold. Im so thankful, that you share all your wisdom so freely with the world.
Im having exact these problems currently in my vocal studies here in the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe. Its so hard for me to find this exact point of attacking the note and not pushing/spitting all of my air out, before I'm even half through the phrase and I'm either to "heavy" or to "light" the on between is so hard to find for me. I wish I could hear your take on my voice, because I get often told I am a baritone just because I have trouble reaching the high notes. Sometimes I just dont know what to think, because thwre are so many opinions out there.
Thank you so much. From the bottom of my heart!
thanks for the lessons, Maestro. I realy aprecciate it.
Thank you Mr Trimble!
Sounds like Garcia or Lamperti teaching! Wonderful and incredible to demonstrate at this age!!!!!
-5!!! bless you and thank you Michele!!!
Sir, you are amazing and thank you a lot for this invaluable knowledge. Greetings from Montenegro!
Sir, thank you for your response, I will be glad to contact Natasa. All the best, Merima.
Hallo Du, This is helping me at age 67 to prep for NORMA. We are scheduled for 8 Nov. A great cast and I plan to be fantastic. Will post the video ASAP. Did The Impresario in Feb 2015 and had high Fs still, getting back into shape for this, then Lusia in Feb and Nabucco next November 2016.
Thank you... You are very good man maestro.
This is so interesting, thank you.
Super!!!!Thank you so much!!!!
MICHAEL TRIMBLE VOCAL METHOD - "SLENDER SINGING"
Published on 29 Oct 2014
trimblevocalinstitute.com
ua-cam.com/video/7lOr2yo8-7Q/v-deo.html&gl=BE
Fundamentals of Great Vocal Technique:
The Teachings of Michael Trimble
Category
Music
Licence
Standard UA-cam Licence
MAY 28, 2015
You're the best.
You are correct once again, maestro! As you know, Im a spinto, and believe it or not, you've hit the mark on my singing. I am making a conscious attempt to sing "LIGHTLY" and lyrically, instead of tearing the paint from the walls. I love this lesson. Thank you for sharing.
Great lecture! Thank you very much and congratulations on you 80th birthday, God bless you +
I envy you that you are a man, because women have more trouble with singing while they are aging. Even when they breathe properly and lean their breath properly ;) Lucky you :)
Thanks!!
sir just want to ask what is the proper attack of breathing in singing..
I can certainly see the similarities in Rich di Renzi's wonderful teaching!!!!
Mr Trimble, have you heard that Tito Schipa was asked about his approuch to singing and he said something like "the voice is always small it´s never big the breath then comes in and carries it away. I´ve also heard that he was asked if he was a dramatic tenor like Del Monaco would he reconsider that statement and he replied in that case I would think even smaller! The notes that I personally have been most satisfyed with have felt small but vibrant. I like the word focus to describe what light and small really means for me. The voice should in my opinion seek the same focus as someone using a magnifier to create fire. This must of course be done with an open throat.
I have tried to practice your breathing technique for 4 months after 2 years of learning breathing like a sleeping baby , but prevent the epicgastric area and pelvis area from collapsing when exhale is alway a problem. they both collapse and send all the tension back to the back and butt, which make pain happened. Sometime when i expand my rib the belly expand aswell even when i try to forgot it. So , Is there any way to make the belly not involve in the breathing system , in short, how to cure the sleeping baby breathing? I 've try to pull my abdomen in when i inhale but it didnt work, it even creating more tension. Hope to see your reply!
Mr. Michael, would you be so kind to do one video on vocal cry or baby cry in tenor(or any other) voice. you mention that one must use diaphragm, pushing out like a baby, but i have heard that there is also cry in voice, which aids in passaggio area and high notes.
Hi Mr. Trimble...Your videos are amazing! Thank you! Do you have any tips or videos on how to sing with energized sound / breath energy? I find that my sound doesn't spin and lacks energy especially on ballads. I've been working with your breathing videos and they help lots but I'm still unable to connect my voice / sound to where I feel that my voice has drive and energy in the sound. does that make sense? Any clues you can offer are mucho appreciated. Cheers!
Thanks so much for the great advice! I'm encouraged and will keep plugging away! :)
FLAMENQUEANTES&THE DODGES 1 second ago
MICHAEL TRIMBLE VOCAL METHOD - "SLENDER SINGING"
Published on 29 Oct 2014
trimblevocalinstitute.com
ua-cam.com/video/7lOr2yo8-7Q/v-deo.html&gl=BE
Fundamentals of Great Vocal Technique:
The Teachings of Michael Trimble
Category
Music
Licence
Standard UA-cam Licence
MAY 28, 2015
Yes. A 1000 times. Yes.
Sir, please ...
Could you make a video on pop/rock singlng?
I would love to listen to your knowledge regarding that kind of voice
Thank you
Jaffer Ridaa me too can you tell us your thought on pop singing how it is different from classic techniques.
how can I find out what kind of tenor I am?
Hi! Mr Trimble I have a question regarding the term "verhalten singen". If I hold my nose singing imagining that I breath in through the nose and out of the mouth while I´m singing it helps me in getting a none forced production of tone. This doesn´t create nasality in the tone of my voice and still I feel the voice is lifted up.
You are marvelous. Are you still teaching ???
Mr. Trimble, are you saying a heavier weight voice, should or should not try to learn to sing lighter? Singing lighter has never come easy for me.
I always remember the "Filo" especially in the stratosphere.....now I am working on endurance.....gabapentin was the problem before with top.....damned drugs....best not to take any.....now hanging on my teeter inversion table.....
Hello! UA-cam videos are spectaculat!!! Is there any option to have spanish subtitles to understand everything? Greetings from Madrid, Spain.
Hello! Thank you very much for your answer. I'll tell you if I understand the videos. I'll hope see them.
@@Tenoretrimble , I have watched the two last videos with spanish traslations! Spectaculars. It's very clear! I have understand everything
He has like 4 new videos with a live Spanish translator!! Check them out!!
Oops, he already answered😅😅
I think that breath technique applies for pop singers as well, doesn't it?
@@Tenoretrimble you can't imagine how better I am on my comfortable high notes after taking your tips... God bless you infinitely
@@Tenoretrimble I've seen many lessons and nothing made sense to me until I got your videos... I was stuck in many techniques such as mixed voice nasal voice etcetera and all I needed to know was to learn open throat technique and all my problems were gone
Michael, can you please explain what you mean when you say "mettle" :D
hi Michael, i am just trying to find the exact bit! I think it might be spelt "metal" - you were talking about something to do with timbre I believe. I will post the time stamp when I find it :)
yes that's it! Sorry, I couldn't find it. Thanks so much for your detailed explanation. I am going to work with this that shape - it feels really free and gives such a clear sound. Yes, you can really hear it when opera singers use this - its much a balanced sound rather than being too muddy or dark.
Hello again Michael!
Quick question: Are you pulling in the abdomen PRIOR to the inhale, or AS you are inhaling? Is there a different result between the two methods? Thanks! -Cameron
Ha ha I meant Singing.
Hello sir, forgive me if i bother you but i really need your help. The death drop used to work well for me until i stupidly change my breathing technique without aware that was bad. Now i feel so desperate because I dont know how to get my natrual breathing back. Is it possible for me to get my voice back or it is ruined forever(the voice feel strain and unhealthy)
and if it is possible , could you suggest me some exercise or something like that to take everything back in line. Because the more i do exercise, the more i fell the breath develop to the wrong place.
alot of teacher teach their student to breath to the front belly, is that a good breathing technique, sir?
thank you sir, for your amazing lesson, the reply is simply wonderful, it clear my view alot.
HI Maestro Trimble
I write this with the full knowledge that you are probably not going to reply. I take it that you still do not want to respond as you think that I am ignoring your advice and that could not be further from the truth. Please do believe me when I say this.
1) I have contacted various martial arts masters and have tried to arrange private lessons with them for
a) Qi gong
b) Wing Chun
One of them, who is a Christian, whom I am really interested in, does not want to teach me and I am trying to convince him to change his mind.
I refer to your video on "Slender singing"- ua-cam.com/video/7lOr2yo8-7Q/v-deo.html
Find your teaching on "Oo- Ah" slide helpful and it is very consistent with the top down approach. The minute I do it, I already find the pressure from the back muscles against the solar plexus.
1) A question though- Do we do this exercise with the "B" consonant? So that means it would be "Boo-Bah"?
2) In one of your instigators, you recommended using your "Nyah" or "Neh" to find the natural placement of the mask.
The NEH does work wonders in helping one's voice to sound naturally forward and bright. But I find that I still have the tendency to descend into throat and my pitching is still NOT AS STEADY as using the "B" consonant.
So which is better then- the Neh instigator or the "BE" consonant at the tip of the lips, which would close the nasal passage way and get the voice above the nasal cavities?
Please do reply Maestro Trimble and please do not ignore my plea to you for help. For so long I have traversed this long vocal road of isolation, confusion and pain.
I am the threshold of giving up, and you gave me a glimmer of hope. Then everything came crashing down with that one email that ruined everything, and it did not even represent what I really thought or felt.
Please do give some leeway that communication via email is limited and that my true intentions were not captured. Please do show mercy and grace just this once.
Please don't abandon me just as I was seeing some vocal light and miracle at the end of the tunnel- namely, your tutelage and help.
Awaiting your reply eagerly
Humbly yours always
It’s fine what you demonstrate, however, I’m not hearing noble voices from you when you cover them!!! I’m not hearing an Italian aue, aoe, aee and this is what most of us suffer from. What is your take?
Sorry no clue about classical singing