Hi! In this singing transformation before and after you're going to see how Dane Maxwell went from giving up singing for 10 years to expanding his vocal range drastically, releasing an album and finally singing with more confidence and ease. You can read the full article here: www.philmoufarrege.com/blog/singing-transformation-before-and-after-dane-maxwell Let me know what you'd like to see next!
O this is the guy I saw in the how to sing properly vid, I remembered I watched it and was like damm, this is definitely one of phils best students. Him and doug are my favorites. Havent heard much of the others to be fair. One thing your students often seem to have above other coaches is to me they have more soulful sounding tones. Some other coaches students might be more advanced technically but I feel fall short in having their own unique sound. I would rather listen to him and doug than other coaches students I know. I think it has a lot to do with just their particular voices to be fair, because tbh no offense, but I rather listen to them than you or some other coaches as well. And I think that has more to do with taste / liking a particular sound more than anything. These 2 have very emotional voices which Its what I mainly dig. Some coaches are really technically profficient but it doesnt go past being impressive if you get what I mean. I respect their skill but i wouldnt be a fan, if that makes sense. I guess thats just music and taste.
Hi Katherine thank you for writing. Dane trained with me for about 6-8 months if I remember correctly. He still checks in with me once every couple weeks to keep improving.
i wonder does singing high notes that flip into falseto means our throat doesn't open or the breath support is not enough? or even the voice is to loose? i've do experiment to keep my throat open and sing "Aaa" with head voice on my bridge around A4 above and it become mix voice automatically, some say it would be mix head dominant. i don't feel i was push my chest voice at all. i just want to make it clear to teach someone about mix voice or how it works. hope you reply. thanks 😁
Flipping can be caused by inadequate strength and coordination in the chest voice, inadequate strength and coordination in the falsetto, bad vowel choice, not singing loud enough, too much throat tension, not enough throat tension (squeeze or "cry"), many things. in regards to your point about the AA vowel, it depends on the vowel and also the melody you're singing. Try the same thing on an OO vowel for example and see if it feels the same. Try different interval patterns and see if it feels the same...climbing from a low note to a high note from a closed vowel to an open vowel, or an open vowel to a closed vowel, or jumping from low to high or coming from top to bottom all of these things affect what you have to do and how much weight you need to control in the voice sometimes you need to shed weight sometimes you need to add it depending on your pitch range, intervals, what vowel you came from and where you are going next. Basically this is how I approach teaching.
Hi, can you do a video on proper tongue positioning? Personally I've noticed a huge difference between singing with my tongue resting on my bottom lip vs singing with my tongues behind my bottom teeth. I think it feels easier to sing with my tongue resting on my bottom lip. If I put my tongue behind my lower teeth my voice sounds like my tongue is swollen and I don't believe I have as much oral resonation space because the back of my tongue raises up. (not my larynx)
I talk a bit about tongue in this video here: ua-cam.com/video/JWjbdmHma8s/v-deo.html&lc=Ugy_aKFpzFdCsLl5UjR4AaABAg it's less about "positioning" as it is about training in a way where the tongue is able to articulate vowels and consonants freely. The back/middle part of the tongue raising is not an issue. It's likely that your issue of the tongue could be a symptom of something else going on. Without hearing you and working with you there could be all sorts of things going on.
I think Dane would really appreciate what you just wrote. Ed Sheeran is a huge influence for him. In fact, one of his struggles was the fact he could never sing above a D4 and all he wanted to sing was Ed's "I see fire" that goes up to I think like an F4 or something.
His voice was so wonderful that I was touched
This is fantastic, Phil! You really know your stuff and are churning out quality students left and right.
Hi! In this singing transformation before and after you're going to see how Dane Maxwell went from giving up singing for 10 years to expanding his vocal range drastically, releasing an album and finally singing with more confidence and ease.
You can read the full article here:
www.philmoufarrege.com/blog/singing-transformation-before-and-after-dane-maxwell
Let me know what you'd like to see next!
Very inspiring!
O this is the guy I saw in the how to sing properly vid, I remembered I watched it and was like damm, this is definitely one of phils best students. Him and doug are my favorites. Havent heard much of the others to be fair. One thing your students often seem to have above other coaches is to me they have more soulful sounding tones. Some other coaches students might be more advanced technically but I feel fall short in having their own unique sound. I would rather listen to him and doug than other coaches students I know. I think it has a lot to do with just their particular voices to be fair, because tbh no offense, but I rather listen to them than you or some other coaches as well. And I think that has more to do with taste / liking a particular sound more than anything. These 2 have very emotional voices which Its what I mainly dig. Some coaches are really technically profficient but it doesnt go past being impressive if you get what I mean. I respect their skill but i wouldnt be a fan, if that makes sense. I guess thats just music and taste.
Great job!!!
Thank you Lenny!
I'm amazed
Really touching. Way to go Dane.
Couldnt expect any less from Phil.
Thank you sir!!
Amazing improvement! How long did this transformation take?
Hi Katherine thank you for writing. Dane trained with me for about 6-8 months if I remember correctly. He still checks in with me once every couple weeks to keep improving.
Good job
i wonder does singing high notes that flip into falseto means our throat doesn't open or the breath support is not enough? or even the voice is to loose?
i've do experiment to keep my throat open and sing "Aaa" with head voice on my bridge around A4 above and it become mix voice automatically, some say it would be mix head dominant. i don't feel i was push my chest voice at all. i just want to make it clear to teach someone about mix voice or how it works.
hope you reply. thanks 😁
Flipping can be caused by inadequate strength and coordination in the chest voice, inadequate strength and coordination in the falsetto, bad vowel choice, not singing loud enough, too much throat tension, not enough throat tension (squeeze or "cry"), many things.
in regards to your point about the AA vowel, it depends on the vowel and also the melody you're singing. Try the same thing on an OO vowel for example and see if it feels the same. Try different interval patterns and see if it feels the same...climbing from a low note to a high note from a closed vowel to an open vowel, or an open vowel to a closed vowel, or jumping from low to high or coming from top to bottom all of these things affect what you have to do and how much weight you need to control in the voice sometimes you need to shed weight sometimes you need to add it depending on your pitch range, intervals, what vowel you came from and where you are going next. Basically this is how I approach teaching.
Hi, can you do a video on proper tongue positioning? Personally I've noticed a huge difference between singing with my tongue resting on my bottom lip vs singing with my tongues behind my bottom teeth. I think it feels easier to sing with my tongue resting on my bottom lip. If I put my tongue behind my lower teeth my voice sounds like my tongue is swollen and I don't believe I have as much oral resonation space because the back of my tongue raises up. (not my larynx)
I talk a bit about tongue in this video here: ua-cam.com/video/JWjbdmHma8s/v-deo.html&lc=Ugy_aKFpzFdCsLl5UjR4AaABAg
it's less about "positioning" as it is about training in a way where the tongue is able to articulate vowels and consonants freely. The back/middle part of the tongue raising is not an issue. It's likely that your issue of the tongue could be a symptom of something else going on. Without hearing you and working with you there could be all sorts of things going on.
Not bad :)
it's better than "not bad"!!!!!
He sounds like ed sheeran
I think Dane would really appreciate what you just wrote. Ed Sheeran is a huge influence for him. In fact, one of his struggles was the fact he could never sing above a D4 and all he wanted to sing was Ed's "I see fire" that goes up to I think like an F4 or something.