An Analysis of CVT (Complete Vocal Technique) Part One!
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- Hello dear viewers,
As mentioned in the video, I am not a certified CVT instructor, I am simply a fan of the method and have been studying it for awhile. You should consider connecting with a certified CVT instructor, like I have done, and also consider purchasing the paid CVT app(there is also a free version) if you wish to understand the CVT system better.
While I am not endorsed by CVT to teach their system, I am endorsed by myself to explain any sounds I made in this video, how they are different from other sounds I made in this video, and am fully capable of teaching any sound/action I made in this video.
It has taken me awhile to wrap my head around CVT, so I hope my understanding leaves you with a better grasp of it and hopefully sheds some light on what on earth these random words we hear (curbing, edge, hold, etc) are!
If you have questions, as always, please let me know In the comments below! Don't be discouraged if you don't understand this right away and are confused. It's okay to be confused when you're learning something difficult and changing the way you think about something!
Stay tuned for part two!
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For more CVT Info please check out my colleague's channels: Rock Vox (www.youtube.com/@RockVoxYT) and Voice Studio East (www.youtube.com/@VoiceStudioEast). I will likely not make a part two.
They're not available anymore...😢
A second part would have been great, I think you explained it very well, it's very informative and interesting. Too bad you didn't do part 2...
Hi 😊 I am an authorized CVT teacher and I just watched your video. I think you did a great job at explaining things and you definitely would make a great CVT teacher! You should consider 😊
It's the first video I watch in regards with your channel, and it's just super donw-to-earth and easy to understand, from amateur level to pro level. Kudos, man!!
Can't wait for part 2 Greg! This video was so useful!!
Lol the mariah hand 😂
You and Tristan taught me how to sing. 🙌 Thank you Greg for the video. 😊 I'm in the process of recording some vocals and literally made improvements with just small changes. Thank you very much. 🙏
This is such a great video. Really looking forward to part 2 !
was there ever a part two? can't find it
You're great! Thanks for this comprehensive overview! You sound awesome! (I attended a 5-day workshop at CVI in Copenhague and it was amazing. I recommended to everyone reading this: it's a save space and you are surrounded by amazing singers and people.)
@@StudioWestLessons When things get better, you should travel there! Save some money and after the workshop you travel around northern Europe. :) I'm eager to watch the second part of your CVT overview. Have a nice Sunday!
Omg, this video is awesome! Now it’s much clearer to understand! Thanks a lot, dude!
Okay guys lets make him famous like tristan
@@StudioWestLessons also hey greg how do i fix a breathy high larynx singing and speaking voice
Paredes?
There ya go greg sounds great now good shit, your editing is getting alot better making it feel less like a lesson
Looking forward for part 2! Can't wait ✌🏻
I use this technique for singing👌🏼 My teacher uses this to teach me. It's really nice and really helps me getting better technique and tone wise!
Certified or not, this video was immensely helpful to me. CVT was used a little bit when I took voice lessons but I never completely understood it. There's very little material about it on UA-cam too. I look forward to seeing part two!
I haven been to day time workshops from CVT and having VC authorised From CVT, but Damn I got the whole idea now and understand it because of you 😱😱 thank you! ❤️❤️Not sure though if I would have understood everything so easily without the basic knowledge of CVT 🌞
I bought CVT book more than 10y ago and this video is really a precious jewel. Thank you, bro!
Np! Please check out my friend Cornelius channel for more info: Voice Studio East and also the channel: RockVox for more cvt info
Super! Very clear and understandable. I am a voice teacher myself. Great!
It's such a change seeing the coach actually perform the techniques taught.. Mentioning no names 'Matt Brenning' 😂.
Too tired/taught all day/has allergies/had a tough gig last night/has a virus/has a letter from his mummy.🤣
Holy shit finally a good demonstration of Density. This video rules
PLEASE MAKE PART 2 !!
Good job. I am a big fun of your Work... is helping me to hit dimash kudaibergen notes...can't wait to part 2... concept of hold helped me a lot to close my vocal folds...
Second video please! You have done a great work explainig CVT.
Excellent! everything understood!
This video is gold
Instructions not clear enough swallowed metal materials to produce metal sound.
Gregory Bystritski Also a bit confused here - thought I was holding metal and twanging with reduced density and sounding like an ambulance but turned out I was holding my underwear and had somehow become butt naked while sounding like a whoopee cushion - which mode am I in?
Gregory Bystritski I'm just playing. This is actually a brilliant video and you are a great teacher/explainer/demonstrator and singer
Excellent! Thank you!🙏
tysm for this tutorial!!!! It helps a lot!
outstanding!
Part 2 when..... really great video btw
Hey Brotha! Just dropping some feedback to say your videos are really well-made to learn and understand.
You're definitely one of the really good coaches here on youtube!
This is the kind of information that is really awesome
Also, I would love to encourage you to make a new video about the CVT with everything you've learned about it since :]
Thanks for this video!
Very nice video master GREG😁
Timestamps
0:00 hello
0:43 mindless singing vs analytical
2:18 CVT attempts to map out all human vocal sounds
2:47 using the modes to expand one's perception in order to find a way to create the sounds you currently can't do
4:30 disclaimer
4:52 Power Source Filter
6:15 the four vocal modes
6:59 Metal
8:54 metal demonstrations
9:52 metal is not the same as more volume
10:25 full metallic and reduced metallic
12:27 Density
13:42 density demonstrations
15:34 Hold
18:44 Twang
19:25 necessary twang vs distinct twang
20:32 how to get distinct twang
23:50 Twang demonstrations
U da mvp
@@abhijit2614 no u
@@StudioWestLessons no u
Good job!
Best teacher hahahha, regards from Brazil!
love your videos so much ❤️
waiting for part 2 😊
and rally thank you Gregory... you made me understand the Twang part .... thanks
it reminds me of singing success nay nay nay exercise
Greattt jobb on thiss one ✨❤️
@@StudioWestLessons are you on instagram, cuz i really really wanna talk about the voice with youu
Reduced density basically means mixed voice, reducing density is tilting the larynx like they described in the app and book, basically what people that teach with mix voice also explain the mixed voice with. So in a way cvt also has mixed voice but it has more to do with density than what is necessarily healthy singing as the research puts it
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That experience was really amazing for me!! After that I realize many of my objectives so that I have no words to thank you, seriously. Looking forward to hear from you again on part II \0/
your analysis is spot on and very helpful! your pitch changes tho when you switch "gear", is that normal? also: distinct twang kind of sounds like edge...?
Hey Gregory great video! Question for you: The breathing technique that CVT teaches (drawing in the abdomen for “support”) is different than what you demonstrated in one of your videos about “support”, where your intercostals we’re expanding. Can you give your thoughts on the CVT breathing approach? Thank you!
This is so good! Love the humor too. When is part 2 out?
@@StudioWestLessons Can't wait. you gonna be big someday here, I can just tell that! Hope you got your computer fixed and get your hard drive back! Take care :)
@@StudioWestLessons sounds like a big fat excuse😅
Great. Now i have to subscribe to get noted of part two :P
I hope part two comes out cuz soon this on was great! How's it going? :)
Hey Gregory, can I still probably have part 2? Cause I’m really looking forward to it in a way that the 1st part of your video is really helping me out in my vocal journey, Thanks man! You’re amazing!
@@StudioWestLessons Can you give a reason as to why? Do you not recommend anymore? Is the teminology not useful?
i'm really sad to not see the second part too:(
I do think cvt makes more sense than the entire chest, mix, head, falsetto story. It is just confusing how the CVT techniques map to the other vocal techniques. I have no idea what mix can be in the CVT techniques and I have no idea what the ranges of my voice are without becoming to technical
Mix can be a lot of things, it can be any of the modes in reduced density character. Or medium Overdrive and Enge, or Twangy neutral. It's fun to explore them all. BTW I'm an authorised CVT teacher 😊
Is the free app a short version of the full version, i mean, kind of a synthesis? Or, is exactly the same but just the initial chapters?
Should i read all the free version and then decide if I buy the full one or go directly to full and skip the free version?
I am considering downloading the CVT app. Are there actual exercises on the app, or just examples of the modes, colors and effects? I am hoping there are exercises because i am not sure what to do with the sounds.... put them to scales.... go up and down the notes on a piano.... use them in songs by replacing the words with the sounds and then adding the words back in.
Just here to say that I noticed the photo of Brian McKnight and I appreciate it. Check out his song Everything if you haven't already.
Awesome video!! Is there a part 2 already? Couldn't find it...
No, unfortunately it was lost but please see my pinned comment for further resources :)
Fantastic content! Many thanks!!
Can't seem to find part two. Is it still up?
@@StudioWestLessons Thank you!
I've been trying to find a serious vocal coach for years. So far I can't sing for more than 10 minutes because it gets painful (I have a super dry throat, nose and live in a dry climate on top of that). Do you think that getting a coach that specializes in CVT would help me get better? If so, who or what place would you recommed for online classes? Thanks for this video :)
My teacher used reduced density in overdrive for me to find curbing. She actually told me that CVI is considering removing curbing entirely and use reduced density with Edge en Overdrive instead somewhere in the future.
I would support that decision too. That makes more sense to me especially because the curbing vowels are seldom used in their true form by singer. Most often everyone uses reduced density edge with a hold to do those curbing vowels.
-Gregory West
I really liked your video and the way you teach vocal techniques but I want you to put subtitles in Spanish. Greetings from Argentina you are amazing
@@StudioWestLessons Thank you very much, your videos. I'm going to subscribe
You had me at hello. And lost me at book. And had me again at App
🤣😂🤣😂
Are there musical theatre programs in the states where they teach CVT?
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sipping tea
Can you blend or hybridize modes of CVT? Like Curbing and Overdrive?
full density, full metal + distortion = just chuck norris's speaking voice
Thanks for trying to explain this weird vocal theory to me. I have to say it's hard to make sense of this.
I didn't get the difference between metal and twang. Metal in CVT sounds just like what I call the deep twang - narrowing the piriform sinuses without narrowing the upper parts of the pharynx or raising the larynx. Twang in CVT seems to be what I call shallow twang (narrowing the piriform sinuses by narrowing the whole pharynx and pulling the larynx up), sometimes combined with ring (tilting the epiglottis). CVT doesn't seem to be able to separate true twang from constrictions that can accompany it. It also doesn't seem to reflect (deep) twang, ring and the larynx position as largely independent essential parameters, or does it?
Density in CVT seems like some combination of decreasing vocal fold closure, increasing vocal fold mass and vowel modifications. So apart from metal, none of these quantities is elementary and they're are all continuous, so I wonder what's the point defining them and calling some range of them a "vocal mode".
ive been holding for the past 24 minutes, when do i let go
Very useful video! Did you learned those CVT techniques via the book, app or via a physical teacher? Do you recommend me to buy the book or the app?
All the above. If you're going to invest in learning CVT then get the app rather than the book as it updates for free for life.
-Gregory
Oh my god, I was looking for this everywhere since I heard Floor Jansen mentioning it and for some reason I couldn't find anything on it until now. Weird.
Hi, is metal when you went from neutral to metal just a general twang, or what did you actually do physically to make it metallic ? You explained how to do the other more specific sounds like curb, twang etc. but I didn't see/hear you explaining how you got from neutral to metal when you sang them. It seemed like having an art lesson where the student has never seen or heard of a painting before and the Art teacher shows them a picture of a sketch and then shows them a picture of a painting, without telling them that they need paint and a paint brush to create that and then proceeds to tell them theoretically how to create colour composition and shows them another picture with lots of colour composition, while the student still only knows pencils and has never seen paint or knows that a paint brush is required. Thanks
How can i reduce and increase metal and density and what is difference between density and metal?
So basically metal is just an amount of mixing (chest/head) you use, from what I understood from the 1st 10 min of video.
The thing is that head/chest voice can mean more than one thing, for some people chest is M1 and head is M2, and it's physically impossible to mix those two. For other people it's resonance and so on. I personally love CVT because each thing means only 1 thing and they explain it with pictures and sound examples and sensations. It's been very helpful to me
Still waiting on part 2 brother! 😢
Hi Greg, interesting video. Who was your CVT teacher and how many lessons did you take?
@@StudioWestLessons I am interessted in which teachers or which courses in CVT you attended. CVT is great!
You are funny. 😊
... And you're funny ! xD
Part two?
This is such a great video! Have you ever done Part Two?
@@StudioWestLessons Philippe. That was a great one too.
I'm a full metal vocalist
So basically hold means establishing compression by tensing your abs to bring the false folds together?
Sort of. Keep in mind you can very the strength of the hold and if you do it in neutral with a low volume it will not feature a lot of abdominal tension and any false fold approximation. To many, a hold feels like a cry or pout. This isn't exactly a clear area in CVT imo and interpretations of what 'hold' is differ from teacher to teacher.
6:25 lmaooooo that was hilarious
why can’t i find part two? ):
And part two is never happened?
Is it true that higher notes become clear automatically with time and we should practice lower notes more otherwise voice become stubborn after voice gets matured at the age 20 pls brother rply
@@StudioWestLessons I am asking you what's your opinion
That was a great review.
I am learning with CVT too and I am still confused about some of the terminology.
Where did you get the info that the reduced density modes (Overdrive and Edge) and curbing are equal? It's not stated that way in the curfent CVT app, right? Your explanations of reduced density as hold is actually easier to grasp than those in the app.
They're equal in the sense of density- ie they're equally reduced density but with a different vowel. Curbing in the advanced level only has the curbing vowels (oo, o, uh) and excludes the overdrive and edge sounds (which means vowels). In the foundational level, curbing includes those edge and overdrive vowels/sounds. Simply put you can have a restrained character with any vocal tract setting (and any vowel sound) so you can have a yelly/call character in RD or a twanged character in RD, which would respectively be overdrive and edge in reduced density.
Thanks, that was helpful.
I have another question. Metal and density are described as certain sound qualities in the app, and I think density is attributed to the vocal cords. Would you say that both metal and density are determined by how well the cords are adducted and how freely they vibrate? (My theory is that hold is established by a strong tension in the vocal cords so that they cannot vibrate as freely).
@@tobiaswolf6630 no, it's to do with whether the vocal folds are being stretched to achieve the sound (reduced density).
@@SaiChooMusic Thank your for your reply. Are you talking about the "laryngeal tilt"? And could it be that while the folds are being stretched for reduced density, they maintain the vibratory pattern (for the modes)?
Is there a part 2?
@@StudioWestLessons ah that's a shame... thanks for replying tho! You got great stuff on this channel!
Please study more from CVT. And then comeback with your own pitch range!
1:27 14:00
Hey Greg how did you learn CVT? I'm a bit lost
@@StudioWestLessons Awesome, thank you!
Still w8ing for part 2 😁
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If ya'll think this is good just check out part 2, you're mind will be blown...
(keep searching you'll find it)
nice outro, o_o
@@StudioWestLessons Yeeee sure lmaooo it's all good
Metal is a less breathy sound. i think I get it. You can hear a more "Compact" kindof sound. Less breathy. English not my first language sorry
1:35 was that sarcasm with the soft palette?
@@StudioWestLessons thanks i had to make sure, your videos help out a lot bro
@@StudioWestLessons that’s great cause i’m in the process of unlearning that’s and i’m starting to be able to do that creaky door thing or that flageolet tension that i think you call it, it doesn’t sound pretty tho but i can go high and not strain. i also heard you say in that flageolet video that you had to work a lot on your chest voice for it to work so it’ll be super if you elaborate on that in the future, and merry christmas by the way
Pleas pleas pleas pleas pleas make the secend part I can't get a teacher pleas
CVT is great, but they were wrong about flageolet. To that end, questions and answers about it have been deleted from their forum and there is nothing about it on their site.
They have always said, "singing too loudly in flageolet can cause a split in the voice". In RD Neutral with air (M2), sure. Pushing flag in M1 does not cause a split...It fixes one. Come to think of it, they don't even use density any longer. Now it's "highway and byway".
@@StudioWestLessons Huh...In the book, they called the split "creaking". I noticed that pushing an airy M2 without support led to creaking. Used to think that the "trans voice" sound was M3 (very high larynx, almost whistle register-like sound), but recently discovered that I could also do that in M1 and M2. Without support, it would be M2 and pushing that with air led to creaking. So what I thought was M3 was actually M1! This became apparent while starting in M1 NWA and slowly raising the larynx to get into flageolet without changing the vibratory pattern. It is the same volume at the source (larynx), but the filter (resonance) is closed off. That said, pushing it a little each day does make it eventually louder- I can do M1 with flageolet almost as loud as without it now and that helps with getting fuller closure in M1 than M2 Neutral With Air was giving me. IMO, M2 NWA is a dead end for people who want to sing in M1 FM because it teaches the vocal folds to always be in partial vibration. M1 flageolet in NWOA is maybe not the route most people take, but for me it helped with "building the head voice ramp" that Frisell talked about. It's especially useful for singers who habitually lower their larynx too much for Edge and Overdrive. This training approach has made my M1 less strained and even corrected a swallowing problem! :-)
Also: Did you know you can map out all the modes by their harmonics? AudioStretch from Bandlab does this. It's free on Google Play and has a little piano roll with the harmonics across the top. You can slow down the speed of an audio file and change the pitch and the harmonics move up and down as the sound wave changes in amplitude and timbre. I learned a lot about the CVT modes by studying the clips of your voice you once sent me. Also analyzed the CVT library. If F1 is higher than H2 or H3, it's Neutral. On a swell from quiet without metal to full metallic, H2 in Overdrive stays the same height, but F1 shrinks down and almost disappears. In Neutral, particularly on closed vowels, only F1 is visible. In Edge, the harmonics look like a staircase and repeat every octave. In Curbing, F1 and H3 are the same height, with H2 a shorter line between them. In Edge, H3 is the most dominant frequency, which is way up in the 5th octave! That shows up even on low notes in Edge. Creaking has a crazy amount of harmonics- so many, the lines look grayed out and shaped like London Bridge. Love that app! It instantly shows you if you're in Neutral or not.
@@StudioWestLessons "Flageolet is actually an unintentional creaking", Complete Vocal Technique 2012 edition, page 78, last paragraph.
Highway and Byway are in the app, but not in the book. They might be in the 2020 edition.
I'm really confused about the CVT vowels and how they change in full metallic modes, could you do a video on that? Their AY and OH in Overdrive sound more like EH and UH to me and their UH, O and OO sound like AW, OU, and OO.
@@into.the.wood.chipper. well the research never stops. And we are not talking about flageolet in the same manner any more. That's why it's great to be updated 😊
I cannot understand how twang differs from metal(
Also plllz tel me there's a p2?
@@StudioWestLessons Awesome :-) I tell ya one thing that's killing me at the moment - how to sing in curbing or fuller density neutral in the higher part of the voice (I think I got my CVT terminology right there!). For me anything past the G below tenor high C has either got to be Overdrive, Edge or reduced density neutral. It's really bugging me out 😅
Well explained. But without the goofy stuff it would be considerably better.
metal=edge
@@StudioWestLessons now i get it.. tnx for your time
where the f is part 2
17:23 too much sensuality for today
Gosh why are they confusing with strange therminology which takes a Loooooong time to understand. "Metal" is just high frequency , or high formant at 3 khz (male), it appears after adding twang.
No it is not just that :) You could have a neutral with twang for example (formerly metal like neutral) that will have a lot of energy in high frequencies. This "buzzy" sound does not automatically make something metal.