What Your Voice Says About You
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- Опубліковано 21 бер 2020
- What your voice says about you - My favorite part of the vocal development part is not the technique. Not by a long shot. It’s the human part. The calling of the soul back to the person. I believe that our souls call to us through our interests through the things that bring us joy. And for most of us, the relationship with the voice is how we come to heal ourselves.
The voice is always based in relationship. The relationship between you and you. Sometimes we try to use our voice like a pretty mask to cover up what is called the shadow side of ourselves. The shadow is aspects of our personality, our behavior as well as sounds within our voice that we don’t like. So we try to cut them away and hide them from ourselves. In my experience, this is what causes the most tension - resistance to what is. the most forbidding of our own voice to rise up from the deep center of ourselves and introduce itself to us. Instead we begin cutting, no I don’t like that sound, no I don’t like that note, no I don’t like my voice at all. In the psyche when we cut away parts of ourselves it causes a sort of dead zone in the surrounding area. This becomes parts of our voice that we absolutely will NOT go into because we know “there be monsters there.” But the point of vocal development is discovery. To go into those places, bringing breath and vibration into those shut off hidden away parts of ourselves. And yes, the very first thing to happen there is chaos. In this way, freeing your voice and becoming whole within yourself is not beautiful like a resurrection, where you just arrive fully formed and filled with elegance. But it’s more beautiful like an exorcism. Where in the shadow is faced, embraced and integrated.
The voice, which I believe comes straight from our souls. Doesn’t care what the voice sounds like. It doesn’t judge in that way. In fact, the body/soul is healed every time we use our voices in our most authentic way. Without protectionism or perfectionism. In my practice and in my experience with my own voice, I find that when I am the hardest on myself to get something perfect, that there is something in my own voice that needs healing. I usually open up a dialogue with that part of myself. “What is it I am afraid of?” “Not being good enough” or “I am afraid of being disappointed.”
Those injured parts of ourself end up influencing the voice the most because the voice is the instant manifestation of all that we are. That includes our innermost injuries, fears, insecurities as well as our joys.
The best question you can ask yourself in order to heal your voice is “What do I want?” This question is kind of like a key that opens the door. This question opens you up for the relationship between you and your voice to begin. So as you reorient yourself to allow the experience of your voice to matter the most to you, you will discover the exhilaration that happens when you simply spend time with your voice as if it was a good friend. Give your voice space to introduce itself to you.
And when you speak or sing, your voice will show the world all the most beautiful, amazing parts of you.
Best vocal coach on UA-cam by a mile. She always has far more substantial things to say than the rest.
Amen!
100%❤🍀
oui (that's yes in french)
So true omgg
I so see myself in Madeline. It's like shes psychic
I've been working with a vocal coach since November and I've been coming to your channel lately for supplemental content. It's... really hard. Agonizingly so. I have a history of childhood trauma and I never realized until I started this journey how badly that affected me physically - not just mentally. Even when I'm speaking I feel like there's an invisible hand squeezing my throat from the inside. I've always felt that but I just thought it was normal or that I was one of the unlucky ones who lost the genetics lottery. I genuinely believed singing was something I just wasn't born to do even though I loved it so much. But I'm learning that is not the case and it is a skill you can train yourself on. Even though I still hate the sound of my voice and I struggle every day, I have hope now! Someone stole my voice and I'm going to spend the rest of my days working on getting it back. So thank you so much for your kind and inspiring words! They mean everything! :)
This was so beautiful to read. Yes your voice will keep expressing your soul louder and louder and be your path to healing. I have (had) also trauma, sexual and childhood trauma and I've always loved to sing and I got better and better. Now I receive compliments on my voice when I never thought it would be possible. My mom shamed me about it when I was a kid. The shame still shows up but the pleasure and satisfaction are louder now. And even the beauty I can myself perceive. So thank you!! Let's keep fucking singing! Because it makes us come alive.
I am so proud of you both
Oh my Bailey
Your comment pierced my heart because I felt exactly the same as you my throat was so tight like all the time... I am on a serious singing journey for over 10 years now and I can attest to what Madeleine also says that when you become present to yourself your voice will develop so much further than you thought could be possible have faith your voice is a gift like a Stradivari violin but has been abused by people it’s whole life still if we learn to care for it properly it will create magic infused with empathy and grace your voice in 10 years from now will make you question everything and especially all those voices that said you can’t sing!!! Xxx
Don’t give up
Beautifully said ❤
I love how you linked "perfectionism" to "protectionism", embracing who we truly really are is a journey of self-love and self-acceptance.
Please become a motivational speaker! Whenever I feel like I want to quit and watch a video of yours and you make me want to shoot for the stars and achieve all my dreams and things. Hopefully I can get more lessons from you soon!
Thank you sooooo much! It means the world to me just to know that you keep going. #keepgoingtillyoureproud
She’s totally motivational
Kkyk
Hi, Outshriek, I also feel like quitting on a regular basis and I believe many of us singers do.... unlike other instruments singing is something very quirky, as we will never know how others hear us and when we hear ourselves recorded is also so very different.... which makes things very complicated but then, I understand once again that I was meant to be singing and I come back again!
Wow well said hun.youll go far too!
Im only about 7 mins in and damn.. this is fucking true and inspiring. Perfectionism was protectionism, I relate to that so much.
Thank you Madeleine . At 61 , I realize the little boy who wanted to say something with song , can still realize his dream of being himself without restrictions , just wanted to sing . When we're little , we don't care who hears us because we just wanted to do it !!!!!Your helping dear woman !BIG TIME THANK YOU
I clicked this thumbnail “by mistake” meaning to select the one just above it. You know.... The one about how to (insert vocal drill here). My inner voice said.... “Listen to her for 5 mins and if she(her message) doesn’t speak to your soul move on.” 🤯🤯🤯
I’m still sitting in Crisscross applesauce finishing my coffee in awe at the sheer timing of this “accidental” find. I needed to hear this. I was led to it. God bless you for being led to say it. The aim was to find a drill to train my voice. The outcome was a motivational speech, a like and subscribe (and my 1st ever vocal coach)! A heartfelt thank you!
Jung would be so proud listening to her incorporating his work into singing
you really made me cry, singing always was the most important part of my life and i just can define that feeling as "i am not myself without singing" but lately i have been feeling kinda sad because i didn't sound as the people i listened on the internet or people told me i shouldn't post videos of me singing cause it was like bury myself in front of everyone cause i wasnt good enough. When i sing i'm truly myself, when i sing i express everything i am without fear, singing is my whole life and i would never stop until i make it on broadway and share my voice with the world! thanks for your words, you inspired me a lot
@@dioraxchosen that's so sad! its been a while since i wrote this comment and i realized that i didnt sound like people on the internet or mainstream singers bc im a legit soprano and my voice is SO different from theirs, ngl sometimes i get really sad bc im literally TRASH at belting but i think its all about working hard and being committed! i believe in you and im sure you have a beautiful voice💗✨
This made me cry so much because it helped me see my voice differently. Thank you for helping me appreciate it so much more deeply. To me, singing is like the first breath of life. Thank you for sharing.
This lady gives you everything you need to improve your voice . Making you understand your voice and not just singing. That is what she has taught me . And has a added bonus shes cute too
Wow... that was not what I expected! I'm not a singer myself, just love listening to 'great storytellers'/singers who sing with 'raw emotion'. There was so much wisdom in all you've said. I learnt a lot and therefore I am grateful! Love and appreciation from Vienna /Austria/Europe
Just what I needed to hear before my audition tomorrow. Thank you Madeleine! I totally agree with all you've said. With our voices we can stand for ourselves. There's no bad voice in this world. Our voice is like our blood. We live, laugh, cry that's how we sing. All adds up to our musicianship. We just need to be in peace with our voices by being in peace with ourselves. I can't imagine living my life the other way. Thanks for reminding us to realise what we already have within :) lots of love
You are speaking to my soul!
I have never been able to measure up to my own ideal standard. I don't sing for large groups and I am still working on being comfortable with singing in front of my own family.
I know they like my singing voice and I want to be able to share it with them because I feel so guilty about hiding because I'm ashamed of how I sound.
It's like you said, it takes courage and acceptance.
Madeleine, you are absolute adorable. Love your honest, friendly and profound communication. Your videos are serious help. And Last but not least I absolutely adore your style 🤩
So true, honest and authentic. I really wanted to hear this. Thanks so much Madeleine🙏This is so valuable. I love your videos and keep following it as much as I can
I'm listening to this everyday like a motivational speech
the way u talk is so articulate and meaningful thank u so much for this
VERY INSIGHTFUL point:
When we are young in our culture, we have this cutting away, of parts of
ourselves that are beautiful; our culture or family doesn’t know how to appreciate them, so
we cut it away
&
we bury it.
"Your voice will sing you"... "use your voice to give love to yourself"... This might just be the best singing lesson on the internet even though there's no singing in it. Thank you so much, Madeleine, for speaking so authentically from your heart.
Thank you for talking about this.
Thank you for talking about the soul in relation to the voice.
Thank you for affirming that the soul doesn't care about perfect technique 😊 - the soul loves everything!
I'm navigating how the soul expresses specifically through the instrument that is me - it seems to allow such a wide spectrum of expression that I almost get lost in it, like it is saying "you can do what you want!". Still, like you describe from your process, I'm rarely able to make my voice sound the way I think I want it to sound. Like it rebels against too strict of a definition of a desired sound.
Thank you for defining perfectionism as protectionism. 👌
So much is activated in this dialogue. Reminds me of the work of Amit Carmeli who encouraged me to just give my voice to the breath/infinity (which he would often call 'Her' - giving your voice to Her and letting her sing through you, play you like a flute... being the flute, an open resonant space for Her.)
💗
PS. I bet you listen to Abraham-Hicks.
I Have always known that I was stifling my voice and needed to connect down deep for it to really SING! You Madeleine, are hitting my sweet spot. Everything you said in this video is what I already knew, but had to hear it from someone else. But I must say, when you said to include my soul in my practice, well the tears started to come. I am 55 years young and just beginning to go after what I have always wanted to do and that is to sing and sing for other people. I have been taking lessons for a year now, but have still struggled with "finding my voice." You are just what I need to take me to that sweet spot within myself. Thank you so much and I will let you know how my progress is going. Just BE, just Play, and just LET GO, I LOVE IT. Peace , Love and Light to you always.
this couldn't be more to the point! i have been classically trained for many years and ended up hating and completely disowning my voice. the things you're sharing are like i'm listening to myself - eg i have never heard anyone speaking of their voice as being wild, having its own agenda, not wanting to kinda follow their instructions hehe - and that was always my story. i even once connected to my voice thorugh art therapy and "it said" (i was asked to speak as if i was the art piece i made representing my voice) - "i do not belong to you, you belong to me. you will never control me. you have to learn how to surrender to me." that was freakin powerful but it is only now, about 5 years later that i am sinking deeper into the wisdom of it. and don't get me started on the mere concept of LOVING your voice! jeeez! that is completely new to me like - omg that is also an option! i can RELATE to my voice in a loving manner!! and it feel so liberating and touching. finally. reuniting with my deepest self. THANK YOU for this!
oh, wow !!... That video made me cry... a lot. Because, as far as I'm concerned, my voice is something that I want (and always wanted) to control in order to be loved and to please to others. I'm using my voice in my job and in my hobbies (perhaps, I'm over-using it), so it is everywhere in my life and I always want it to be perfect, exactly as I want it to be. And that is really difficult to live because I always have high expectations, a lot of pression. So thank you VERY much for that video and those words. I will remember "use your voice to give love to yourself", among comforting words from you.
What you said about being so aware while learning to sing classically that your voice was deficient and you didn't live up to your teachers' standards is just SO true! I was constantly struggling with myself, trying desperately to apply their points and critiques but the whole time feeling a deep, abiding sense of fear. One of the worst parts was that I knew that my teachers thought I was doing well and coming along nicely, but inside I felt disconnected from my voice, as if I didn't know it and it didn't know me. It wasn't until I began to learn on my own and found like-minded people that I realized there was a way to correct this thinking and become friends with my voice. Thank you SO MUCH for your holistic, wonderful approach to vocal training!
“Let your voice lead you home”
Beautiful Madeline ❤️
I am 63 years old. I thank you for these videos, but this one in particular. I have danced all my life. Mostly salsa but in my later years, 50 and up, ballroom. I was always being complimented by teachers even when I was just starting to learn a particular dance. I was always being complimented by dance partners and when entering in contests for salsa in local nightclubs, by the public. I couldn't see it! I didn't understand what they thought was so great. I would even videotape the dance/performance, but I just saw this heavy built woman doing what everyone else did. For the first time, I understand why the compliments......I dance because I felt the music. I didn't really care what others saw. I just was lost in moving my body to the sound and beat. Because of your video, I understand what I have been doing wrong with singing. I have tried to do everything I have been taught since I was about 55 years old. When I go up on stage in church, I will have moments of connecting with myself. But most of the time, I am so concerned with the perfecting, that it tends to trip me up more! Like the dancing, you have shown me that I need to analyze the words of the song, determine what it means to me while I am learning and practicing it, and then let it out....just let it out on stage.....all of it....all of me. I am going to put this into action the next time I have been given a song to sing. And will continue reviewing this "conversation" as a reminder that I put me out there, for the joy of my soul and for the joy of the Lord!! Thank you! You are an amazing inspiration even for someone like me, who is older but wants to still "dance" with the music, even if with my voice. Thank you.
deep, deep bow madeleine. beautiful, life-changing transmission, sacred wisdom keeper.
Wow. What can one say that would be sufficiently descriptive? Profound. Poignant. Moving. Authentic. What we all yearn to hear. I am a middle-aged engineer with a background in business - I am convinced that your uplifting, transformative message is wonderful not only for singing, but also reaches to so many other aspects of life! At several points you brought tears to my eyes. It would be a great leaven for our entire society if this message were played for all students & teachers at the beginning of 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade as a handy reminder of how relationship works within ourselves and with each other. Thank you, Madeleine.
Singing always were the only thing I could do right, make me feel happy while doing it and give me a sense of purpose and self value. I love it. The rest of my life was and still is awful but at least there's solice.
Never before has there been a deeper understanding of the magic you speak of, a priceless gift you have shared for those ready
To receive.
I know what you mean by, "natural wave". Sometimes I can get into this special space, where where things just flow, and it feels almost impossible to make a mistake... But then I get over confident, and try to push it, to places that emotional connection doesn't naturally support.
This is what I look for when I choose a version of a song. This is also why covers are often better than originals. The cover artist is singing from the heart. As an empath. I can hear and sense when someone is in that space... and it makes me feel a want / need to be there with them.
In the beginning I will pick apart and try to imitate that vocal piece, but once I have the melody and intervals down, I look for that flow.
To do this I must sing a song that pertains to my immediate emotions, feelings, or outlook on life. If I am forced to work outside that scope. I will temporarily meditate on the message that song delivers and how/why I connect with it... and try to conjure up that headspace.
I have high functioning autism and a lot of trauma compounded on top of it. So I'm super shy, guarded, and selfish about my music. Singing is my only emotional release... It's my therapy. As much as I want other people to connect with it. In my reality, I'm not doing it for anybody but ME.
Performance anxiety is just natural for me at this point... and will be until my outlook on life and emotional state changes. So when I practice, I close my eyes, and try to imagine myself on stage.
To perform I would try to ignore the audience and convince myself they don't matter... they are irrelevant. I am alone in my room doing what I love. Yet in reality I do care... I do want people to like me... I do want them to feel a connection. My life litterally depends on it.
Even on this imaginary stage, this ALL reflects in my voice. I start in a light head voice or whisper. Then as I start to connect with the music I catch the wave. I slowly begin to open up and reveal that I'm actually a baritone. I feel the freedom and let go... agility kicks in and it's all going great.
Many times. I remember I'm on stage. Which brings up the need/desire to impress people... so my voice grows loud and I begin to over compensate. Which easily sets you up for failure because you get so locked into your notes.
Sometimes after a riff/run... Or hitting a C6 as a baritone. 😂 My imagination will conjure a crowd cheer. Or maybe I hear that noise on "The Voice" when a judges chair turns around. This feeling of "total acceptance" always makes me cry.
(Which worries me. Because even if I manage to hold back the tears, and don't have a complete emotional breakdown, I'm sure to get all phlemmy. Possibly botching the rest of the performance. 😥)
Just "being in the zone" and sounding so "perfect" is enough to bring up tears... So I become very easily triggered. It's all a very delicate balancing act.
Now I want to write a song about a gift you don't want to give away 😂 or asking someone to restore my faith in humanity so I CAN share that gift.
I love singing but I've been afraid of my voice for more than 2 decades and petrified of singing infront of people. I'm now on a journey to change that and your video comes to me just in time. Thank you, thank you so much
Your words are not just good sage advice for becoming a better and soulful vocalist, but to become a better, more productive human being for yourself and ultimately, for the world. You put words to something I squarely struggled with my whole life, which is, in your own words, simply surrendering and unapologetically accepting myself for who I am with all my imperfections. I now realize that when I choose to not live life according to some template, some expectation outside of myself, I become, again using your words, a unique gift to myself and the world. God bless you, Madeleine.
Omg thank you so much Madeleine:'). I really cried a lot throught this video because I really felt identified with a lot of the things you were saying. I absolutely love singing, but I always think I am not good at it and even if I try to train my voice, I am always so afraid and so hard to myself, that I always end up frustraded about not being able to sing as I would like to. But know, listening to your words have trully helped me to remember why I love doing this, have help me to understand I don't have to be so hard with myself, but just love, accept and flow with my voice. And most importantly, you've reminded me how important is to sing with the soul, and motivated me to have the courage to do so. Thank you so much for your kind wordz in this video and for sharing, I know it will help a lot of people!
Singing has always been a therapy to me, I used to say that people couldn' t really know me if they didn' t hear me sing
I needed everything you say. I felt lost with my voice. I was practicing my technique, but somewhere in the process, I lost my connection with myself. I was so focused on the technique, that I could not fully connect with the song anymore. Somewhere in the middle of singing, I was focusing back on the technique, and it was awful. But yesterday, after watching one of your videos, I started to act silly again, not paying attention to technique, to the sound, and just having fun, like a kid. It helped me a lot!
I really was struggling to reconnect with myself. I didn't know what to do and felt that a psychologist wouldn't get it. It had to be someone who gets me. And you are that someone.
From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU.
I thank God for her and how this helps the soul as well the mind and body. She a vocal coach and life coach. ALL FOR IT!
Loving that brooch 🧸
This video just made me cry. I started taking singing lessons, this years, on my birthday, after more than maybe 12 years since I felt like doing this. And not because I knew how to sing, but because I did not. My voice was totally out of tune, out of balance etc, I didn't liked my voice, yet I felt the urge of making the sounds that my soul felt like doing. And I am making this in a period of emotional healing and inner transformation. So learning to sing is not just something that I am simply learning, it's something that fill my life with more color and more understanding of myself. It's a process that adds up to my emotional healing and inner work. Thank you for this video, was exactly what I needed in this moment!
I think when teachers are both emotionally intelligent about how humans tick AND passionate or gifted at communicating some skills or ideas, they shine. You are a gifted teacher! And you do it with some pretty subtle and mercurial stuff. I love to hear your insightful take on things
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I am a week away from Christmas Eve. I am an older female at about 60 yrs old. I have sang in Choirs most of my life, and I love singing.
I am most comfortable singing in a choir setting. My Pastor set me a challenge 3 - 4 months ago, to sing a solo on Christmas Eve. Last night he said I "was not good enough" and the choir needed to sing with me. A week ago another Choir member suggested that she was so knowledgeable (she is not) that she could help me. I am devastated because of their comments.
This video has helped me and reminded me to just be myself. To trust me!
I know that even though there are nay sayers, and even though in all my years of singing, NO ONE has ever told me that "I am not good enough", I know I am good enough to sing. Even though I am not "perfect", no one, especially a couple of amateurs can tell me otherwise. Especially as my last 3 Choir Directors (which were amazing Directors that had a huge amount of experience), and even though I have been to Sacred Praise Competitions, no one told me I cannot sing. I realize that I must rise up and ignore the amateur comments and just sing from my soul. You have given me a boost to my morale and I thank you so much! Thank you Madeleine and God Bless!
I am relating to these words so much….it is nearly exactly how I have felt, feel with my singing. Trying to be perfect (protecting - wow), but wanting to feel free singing with my authentic voice (whatever the heck that is) to express my song through the songs; still, even at my age. To not care so much about sounding perfect would be great! Thanks for this video.
From 15:40 I realised that this goes for life too.. this is a life lesson..particularly about “resistance to what is”...surrender and presence. 💝
I was very proud of being articulate when I was little. Then I kept being told I sound white so I shied away. I use to love to sing but i realize this is what’s holding me back watching your video. Thank you for being you. Thank you for helping. I’m ready to break through.
you are the best vocal coach I ever saw
Your advice is literally spiritual..on the surface its about voice..but it runs so much deeper ..inswear
I am a man who loves to sing a lot, but I have a bad voice, I did not know how to develop it, and I always decided to surrender on the progress because I think that because of my age I will not develop and when I sing I feel that my vocal cords are bound and my nose is completely closed, I exercised a lot, but without any benefit, are there any solutions or give up completely Believe me, this is something I really appreciate and love with my heart. I don't know how to describe it ❤❤😢
This video speaks volume to me.
I am still developing my voice and I do have so much tension in myself that when I thrive, make a mistake, I fall back into resistance. Not allowing myself to pass that hurdle of mistake.
Every time I'm in lesson, I get to a certain note and I just suddenly stop going up the scale. My instructor is always reassuring me to try, you did it before and you can do it again! I resist. I stop. I want to get past this and thrive. I want to project more with confidence.
This will be my motivation-video before or after I sing to remind me why I am singing/wanting to learn to sing [I'm a theatre nerd, want perform].
Thank you for making this video, it is allowing me to make mistakes, learn from it and accept the break/flat/wrong pitch... to then grow from this and thrive further.
What a beautiful gift i gave myself to listen to this talk... I've been taking advantage of the vocal lessons for a few weeks, and have noticed a shift... but this took me deep into what i really want in my art. I am 62 years old, and am on the verge of recording my first cover song and music video! i have recently learned to like my singing voice for the first time in my life, and this just brought me deeper. i am so appreciative of your generosity of spirit, and am shifting the focus of my work to more of a connection to soul.
Thank You Madeline, for this reminder of my relationship to my voice.
Oh my God…it is so beautiful!! Thank you!! Gratitude!! You are an Angel, that help us to find our Soul!! ✨✨✨✨✨🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🎙🎵🎵🎵🎵🌷🌷🌷🌷💓💓💓
You are a godsend! Thank you for this discussion! 🥰
yesss that’s righteous anger. that’s how u feel it. love that for u!
This video helped me realize that it's not always about technique all the time. I noticed that when I sing from the heart I sound so much better and it's such a sweet release of emotion. Even in my relationships with others I'm afraid of my voice and it's something I've been trying to overcome for a very long time. I didn't realize how much that correlated to the way I sing as well. Thank you for this video!
I'm so proud of you and am blessed by every video you share. Thank-you from my soul to your soul ....distance has no power over the friendship my soul has with yours.
This is wonderful! Thanks for sharing a bit of your journey. It’s so relatable for all in the ‘expressive’ arts! Wish I could’ve realized this 35 years ago.
This was so deep and beautiful. Well said. ❤
Hey there🙂🌿
I really needed this right now.
I’ve listened and watched your videos, many times.
I appreciate your spirit.
I appreciate your knowledge and the way you articulately express it.
You
Spoke here about getting in touch with your own soul.
People tell me (at karaoke) that I sound like a professional singer. I am not. I’ve been too afraid to.
I used to sing all day, write music… it just exuded out of me.
Then… well life happened. Four years with an undiagnosed medical condition (they figured it out after four years… simple fix. But, it took a lot out of me).
Then an operation. Three closest people I’ve ever known in my life died.. all in a three year period. (one of them was my daughter).
No pity party here, but it changed me a bit. The innocent joy kind of left me. It got lost in the morass of things.
It was my soul that sang.
My voice was so flexible and smooth. So pretty, and expressive (so they told me).
Anyway, your point in this video and the thoughtful way you conveyed it, really touched me.
It remiiiinded me of all the thoughtful times I had when I would go into the woods to pray… or break dead branches… throw rocks… whatever I felt like doing. A quiet place… a thoughtful place. Time to be I distracted.
Your love, compassion and kindness led you to share this.
Just think, a year later (today) I’ve been changed by your thoughts.
Thank you🙌🏼🎶 yer’awsum
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I just realized something… as I saved your video… I went through the list of ‘headings’ of saved videos I have listed.
…. There was not one video building and encouraging on this subject. Amazing. Thank you.
So inspirational. You teach from the heart, soul, and love. Everything resonates with me.
Wooow! I love the way your excercises makes us FEEL the spaces our body needs to make EACH sound. Slowly. We gain control. AMAZING! AMAZING!
Thank you for helping me to love my voice, which is to love me!🥰
One of my favorite videos about singing and voice that I've ever seen in my life. Thank you so much I really needed to hear this.
So true, Madeleine......................... and so much my case too............................ My added value is because of who I am, because I am a woman who started to sing at a very late age, a Southern European who brings a lot of soul into her singing, of moving people to tears or to laughter.... I don't need to have the best voice in the world..... I sing so many genres, in so many languages... already that is I believe very special! I know that there is a lot I still need to learn but I don't need to be perfect or sound like everybody else! Some people will love my singing, as they will love me, others won't, that is a reality of life and it is all right! Thanks for all the effort you put into teaching us so many skills and most of all in teaching us how to be ourselves!
Madeleine, I got up this morning and when I logged into UA-cam, this was one of the vids that was on the sidebar.. I clicked on it and boy what a surprise. This is by far one of the best vids I've ever heard about not just singing but about being in this world. Your words touched me in a deeply profound way. Everyone needs to hear this. Thank you so much for sharing your personal story.
ALL you say makes so much Sense. Inspiring. I would like to take private classes with you but the Exchange curency is enormous... I Will try at least once a month. I Leave in Brazil
Bible. Im so gratefull to hear this exactly words I need to hear, I love the depts of the meanings of this conversation. Estoy agradecida de escuchar este tipo de meditaciones respecto a mi voz y también otras cosas, justo andaba necesitando esperanza de encontrar una buen coach de canto y di con esta, such a blessing me devolvio la fe y me confirmó que las coach femeninas son superior!
Incredible, you made me cry. I wish you were my coach. You are a great artist and a great teacher.
You are so amazing at explaining things, every time i feel like giving up singing (I’ve only just started actually learning at 44) I watch your videos and get a new understanding which encourages me to carry on. Thank you
Thank You Madeleine for this very straight to the soul honesty. I struggled with being perfect and wanting to please others and wanting to sometimes sound like someone else , and I realized that when I let go of the fear of a mistake or crack or break , and just connect with my soul I realized my soul has the ability to just sing and in a most unique marvelous way . Love You !
No one teaches like you. Amazing.
Thanks a lot Madeleine! The unique, essential prerequisite of a singer is his/her humanity! The poetry of soul is in fact all! Gracias! Finally somebody had to hit the nail on the head!
Wow....that was so good. I prayed a prayer and clicked on this...wow.
Wow. The first video I've seen with this marvelous vocal coach is packed with insight and solutions to negative vocal habits which sneak in. I'm especially interested in vocal longevity for senior adults. The vocal exercises are immediate help. Brava!!
It felt like siting there with you and listening to you. I love learning with your videos. And now I feel like I know you more and understend you more. You are great techer and also cool coach. ❤️ I thing it works. Becouse with people like you guiding me. I started to loose a fear from my voice. And i realized when I sing and does a mistake I just smile or make even more creazy sound and just continue singing. And some time ago? I was so strict and hard on my self, and it just kept me silent. And also I have realized. For me, sing "better" is much more influenced how I feel good about my self. Much more influenced than concentrating on various techniques and those "how to do it". And with you? I love those videos where you do fun. Doing sounds like a baby cry or doupy sounds. It is so great fun. 😃😃😃
Wow thank you so much for this! You made me cry! It touched me deeply. I can't wait to start accepting me for me and welcome my authentic voice ❤
LOOOVE THIS!! this right here! this is the magic so many of us are looking for. Only to realize that you already have it in you. Being able to be one with the voice and love it. It is absolutely freeing. You are awesome. Thank you for helping me on my journey with my own voice.
Hi Madeleine thank you for this wonderful healing video. I've been healing my body and mind from years of trauma and abuse and recovery from brain surgery and depression past 5 years and in the process discovered and then also qualified as a hypnotherapist and sound healer with singing bowls and aromatherapy. I've been preparing for a new healing concert, first after lockdown lifted. Also just for my own hobby learning to sing (I've been notoriously bad, off pitch and no range or rhythm all my life...) so generally your videos with super practical approach with these helpful exercises had been a true gift. Few days ago I practiced with my friend and guest for the concert, great multi instrumentalist who plays duduk. After an hour when he played with me I went into such a flow that my throat opened and I continued to chant one long note in sync with the bowl. That felt so amazing surprising and shocking to me but he said now you need to sing more notes, we need your voice too over and above the instruments. So I've been practising like crazy with all youtube videos available, only one week left until then. I don't know how will the voice behave as I have no song, no plan...but with this one video here you just brought so much smile on my face and encouragement with what I already pursue. With my voice I first wanted to sound better for my hypnotherapy and health coaching sessions so that my clients feel even more energy, expression and authenticity that goes their way with my words but it turned into whole new journey leading to now singing. I can tell that you went through your own journey and the way you speak and lead your videos reminds me of some of my training and coaching practice. Maybe if things align I will get to be coached 1:1 with you one day. Until then, thank you for the inspiration and bringing more acceptance to us all with our voices, this video is truly therapeutic. Danka
this was the advice i needed to hear. As soon as I stopped trying to sound the way everyone kept suggesting i should sound, it felt better. sounded better. still needs work! but it feels like a voice with potential rather than a voice i'm fighting with. So thank you. This is only the second video of yours I've watched. In two videos you gave me the missing link to the technical struggle and the emotional struggle I've had that I kept trying but failing to explain to whoever was trying to teach me to sing. seriously, thank you.
Thank you for putting this video out, I hope people who have the chance to listen to this at the beginning of their journey or career will take a deep listen at this, because if there is one single magical spark that's most important to understand about singing, it's contained in this video. There is no better way to describe what learning to sing really, truly is about. You articulated it so perfectly.
If I have one advice to give to any singer, this is it.
I'm touched by this video. It explain what happen to me right now. Thank u :) (A girl from TAIWAN)
This is absolutely the truth rn. Shaking off the perfection and shielding and being that authentic trueness. Thank you for that. X
This was life changing, thank you! I really needed this. :)
You just touched the essence of our singing which we forget when we sing..so beautifully explained our soul connection when we sing.thank you very much
You are the best teacher 👍
This was exactly what I needed today. What a balm. Went to try and sing in the shower with ease and freedom and acceptance. My voice cracked all over but I almost cried, I felt so moved at how healing it felt on my soul. Thank you!
I hope you’re keeping safe through this unprecedented time. You are amazing and I love when you talk about stuff. I love your tone 💯
Totally agree with you Madeleine. I'm a professional singer and vocal coach and i understand exactly what you mean.
Very well said and explained.
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I needed this after my disastorus solo this past Sunday!! I'm 76 and my voice isn't what it used to be so I was really being hard on myself and wondering why the stage fright after 62 years of performing!
Thank you, Madeleine, for sharing these thoughts with us. It touched my on a very deep level!
This video has really helped me to see my voice differently. I sometimes really struggle with my need to be or to sound perfect and in a lot of areas in my life i found out that I'm just blocking myself and being so hard on myself when something doesn't happen like i wanted to. One day I had a Gig with my Band and I can say that that was the first time that I felt so incredibly comfortable on stage and i had so much fun and i just felt that a kind of flow. After the gig I noticed that the people felt this what i had experienced in that moment. They were really surprised that this voice came out of this "little" girl (I'm 18 but not really tall:))
I could never really tell what had happened in that moment or what I did different compared to the other gigs. But since then i tried so hard to get this feeling again but now I notice that I can't force all this I just have to trust, let go and let it flow again (+ also be aware that my thoughts while singing are also influencing my voice) ... Yeah so that was my thoughts on that. I'm sorry that it's so long 😅😅 i just had this need to share this and to say that i really appreciate your videos especially those where you talk about topics like that 😊❤️ have a great day 💫😃
I can relatively relate to all of this. My main thing that I struggle with keeping perfect control of is vibrato. And I HAVE noticed I have more control when I let go of it in a live OR studio performance. Letting go AND accepting my voice's strengths and weaknesses in a performance has helped me to shine better than ever. I hope this is what you're talking about Madeleine.
That was so important for me to hear, thank you so so much, Madeleine!
You are such a light! Thank you
Absolutely agree ! Wow ! Beautifully said . Yes yes yes !!! 💗💗💗💗💗💗
You're truly a healer! Thank you for this lovely, vulnerable video
This is the best video I’ve watched in awhile, not just voice related. Thank you 🙏
I can really tend to forget what I do all this technical stuff and practicing for. thank you for taking your time to say these beautiful things! its so true, I wish all the best to you, thank you!!
I needed this today. Thank you ❤️
Wow perfect timing!!! I freaking LOVE YOU!!! Thank you thank you thank you 💜
Absolutely lovely and eloquently said. You've covered alot here. I get it. I used to sing alot, mostly ceremonial and some social songs as well. Started singing when I was about to turn twenty six back in 92. We used to sing around a large drum, "native american" drum. Once, in a ceremony I felt myself sorta being sung, if that makes any sense. I was singing but it felt as though something, something powerful and lovely was singing thru me. Anyways, hard to verbalize. It was just awesome. Years later, I decided to explore singing in other "styles", such as rock, hard rock, blues, etc. just for the hell of it. I then found myself involuntarily trying to imitate singers'tones and whatnot, just as I had done at first (for months) when I started singing for the first time in my life, these native american (anishnabe songs mostly) songs. Not sure why I did that. Lack of self confidence perhaps has something to do with it. Anyways, my intent in exploring singing in other styles I love was to see if I could sing rock or whatever else with that feeling of raw authentic power that I almost always felt when singing those powerful anishinabe songs that meant so much to me...I still haven't found it. I do feel it from some singers though. It is definitely sorta magical, awesome...