Singing instructor 1: No vibration in the nose Singing instructor 2: Sing with vibrations in the mask Singing instructor 3: Adding some nasal resonance brightens the tone and is totally valid. etc. BTW - On your "correct" high notes, I can hear nasal resonance in your voice, so it is not solely oral. It's just not overly exaggerated like your "incorrect" example.
Good point. Like I said, an “m” consonant such as “mum” will still have SOME nasal resonance. But the idea is the limit how much nasality is in there. All things in balance - always
This is similar to what I commented about on this video. The whole plug your nose thing seems to come mostly from people with classical training. I just don't see how you can have a bright forward tone without allowing nasality even besides M, N, and NG sounds.
Thanks for sharing how to avoid singing more nasally at the mixed voice level by "close" or "pinch" your nose technique. You can drop your jaws to raise the soft palates to cut off the air going into your nasal then more at the oral chamber (pharyngeal voices ). For the mixed voice exercises "Buh then Mum ..." more at the back of the throat along with the constant pinching of your noses to check for nasality or not. I hope I got it right for my mixed voices singing exercises.
Think of mixed voice as pushing your voice backwards. Just use that pinching nose technique to not sing it nasally. If you are a baritone voice like me, I find that a whiny kind of tone is my mixed voice
Edit: I initially thought the video is about powerful vocals and belting! I'm not against other dynamics of the voice! To me, it has nothing to do with head voice, although at high pitches it starts to sound similar, yet still way more powerful and weightier. I've tried head voice bridging, vowels, compression, whatever you can think of, for years and years head voice stayed headvoice. Thinning is not moving towards head voice. I found thinning by being able to control the airflow and pressure (how much we hold the air back.) I used chest voice really violently, an open belt went up all the way to A4 - B4, but it was inconsistent due to the sheer amount of air I had to hold back. I figured out that I can simply just hold back and vary the amount of air sent through my vocal cords, instead of defaulting to blasting air. Mixed voice and high chest voice is all due to the ribcage being expanded, and the lower abdominal engagement working against that expansion aka Holding back, and only pushing just enough air for the vocal cords to vibrate properly I encountered a lot of unnecessary vocal fry this way, but adding a bit more air fixed it. Instant high C's, it literally goes up to E5. Still feels a lot like chest voice due to the subglottal pressures, which head voice lacks. I also never felt any of the resonance mixing people talked about, I'm not doing any vowel modifications, I don't need nasality, or any of the soft palate stuff, everything happens automatically if the support is on point. I say that as long as it's free and not overstrained, people can use their voice how they want to.
There's so much conflicting information on nasality that it's actually insane. This explanation just doesn't make sense to me. Eliminating nasality means a fully lifted soft palate, which means the velar port is closed. If you're completely blocking the path to your nose, how are you supposed to achieve mask resonance? How can the upper portion of your head resonate when you've blocked access to those upper resonators? The higher in your range you get, the more air pressure you're generating (not quantity of air, I mean velocity of air) like when you put your finger on a garden hose that's spraying water. At some point, something's gotta give and the sound has to travel somewhere higher.
Eliminating nasality means eliminating nose "metal". There is a difference between air flow and air vibration. Air flow, the air moves out of the nose. Vibration is like a wave: air goes back and forth and doesn't leave the same place. Vibration moves energy, but not matter. Vibration should be reflected and resonated at the nasal cavity. "Nasality" on the other hand is more often the sound that air is making through improper air flow, meaning, so much air moving towards the nasal cavity that it starts to crash against obstacles and produce metal in a very bad way.
@@musikkamagga3770 thank you for this. But I'm still confused about how the bright nasal resonance can happen if you block off the entire nasal port. If I raise my soft palate all the way up, I get a terrible dark sounding caricature of a cartoon opera singer.
@@musikkamagga3770 very interesting. One of the reasons I found CVT to be confusing is that literally speaking, there is no "metal" in the vocal tract. That would hurt lol. But obviously for some, it makes sense.
@@ramseyvoicestudio Metal if I understand correctly is sound produced by the airflow colliding against hard obstacles, such as teeth and the hard palate. If you sing with enough "frontness", you have airflow colliding against those obstacles. Now when air collides against obstacles in the nose, that is not good, which is one of the reasons why healthy (and good sounding) belting favors air flowing through the mouth. I don't like CVT because it doesn't have a focus on mixed voice, and proper mixed voice is not any of the CVT modes. In CVT, you have to sing each syllable of a song in a different mode, so "singing in a mode" is only good for scales. You on the other hand have a perfect domain of mixed voice. It is a "mode" that CVT teachers seem to have not discovered yet 😬
Singing is created by the vibrations (the closings, if you like) of the vocal cords against the air. So by closing more, they DO hold back more air and covert the vibrations into sound more easily.
Same here...upper respiratory infection I picked up sharing the mike at a Karaoke event about 4 weeks ago. I am only just getting over it and able to sing clearly again. 😔
This has been going on since September 29 and it’s now November 21st. Almost 2 months. Nasal sprays, on to second type of inhalers, was on antibiotics, steaming and it’s still tormenting me 😢 next step is Pulmonary breathing tests. 😩ugh
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Thank you for the lesson. I'm still trying to master my mixed voice. 😅
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Did your Saturday online class last weekend...awesome just like this video - thank you Matt!😊
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Singing instructor 1: No vibration in the nose
Singing instructor 2: Sing with vibrations in the mask
Singing instructor 3: Adding some nasal resonance brightens the tone and is totally valid.
etc.
BTW - On your "correct" high notes, I can hear nasal resonance in your voice, so it is not solely oral. It's just not overly exaggerated like your "incorrect" example.
Good point. Like I said, an “m” consonant such as “mum” will still have SOME nasal resonance. But the idea is the limit how much nasality is in there. All things in balance - always
This is similar to what I commented about on this video. The whole plug your nose thing seems to come mostly from people with classical training. I just don't see how you can have a bright forward tone without allowing nasality even besides M, N, and NG sounds.
@@GevT03 you absolutely can. I could show you easily!
Thanks for sharing how to avoid singing more nasally at the mixed voice level by "close" or "pinch" your nose technique. You can drop your jaws to raise the soft palates to cut off the air going into your nasal then more at the oral chamber (pharyngeal voices ). For the mixed voice exercises "Buh then Mum ..." more at the back of the throat along with the constant pinching of your noses to check for nasality or not. I hope I got it right for my mixed voices singing exercises.
Nice job!
Think of mixed voice as pushing your voice backwards. Just use that pinching nose technique to not sing it nasally. If you are a baritone voice like me, I find that a whiny kind of tone is my mixed voice
A guy named Chris liepe explains this like gold. Also don't be afraid to sound stupid!
Pushing it backwards is an interesting way to put it
@@ramseyvoicestudio It helped me a lot with finding my mix
@@TheOfficialMisterC glad to hear that. Obviously, I'm lacking the context.
@@ramseyvoicestudio Just figured I would give a quick tip to people, (If they need), even though I'm not a pro lol
Edit: I initially thought the video is about powerful vocals and belting!
I'm not against other dynamics of the voice!
To me, it has nothing to do with head voice, although at high pitches it starts to sound similar, yet still way more powerful and weightier.
I've tried head voice bridging, vowels, compression, whatever you can think of, for years and years head voice stayed headvoice.
Thinning is not moving towards head voice.
I found thinning by being able to control the airflow and pressure (how much we hold the air back.)
I used chest voice really violently, an open belt went up all the way to A4 - B4, but it was inconsistent due to the sheer amount of air I had to hold back.
I figured out that I can simply just hold back and vary the amount of air sent through my vocal cords, instead of defaulting to blasting air.
Mixed voice and high chest voice is all due to the ribcage being expanded, and the lower abdominal engagement working against that expansion aka
Holding back, and only pushing just enough air for the vocal cords to vibrate properly
I encountered a lot of unnecessary vocal fry this way, but adding a bit more air fixed it.
Instant high C's, it literally goes up to E5.
Still feels a lot like chest voice due to the subglottal pressures, which head voice lacks.
I also never felt any of the resonance mixing people talked about, I'm not doing any vowel modifications, I don't need nasality, or any of the soft palate stuff, everything happens automatically if the support is on point.
I say that as long as it's free and not overstrained, people can use their voice how they want to.
There's so much conflicting information on nasality that it's actually insane. This explanation just doesn't make sense to me.
Eliminating nasality means a fully lifted soft palate, which means the velar port is closed. If you're completely blocking the path to your nose, how are you supposed to achieve mask resonance? How can the upper portion of your head resonate when you've blocked access to those upper resonators? The higher in your range you get, the more air pressure you're generating (not quantity of air, I mean velocity of air) like when you put your finger on a garden hose that's spraying water. At some point, something's gotta give and the sound has to travel somewhere higher.
This video should make sense. Sorry you're confused. Definitely not my intention to add to more nonsense out there.
Eliminating nasality means eliminating nose "metal".
There is a difference between air flow and air vibration. Air flow, the air moves out of the nose. Vibration is like a wave: air goes back and forth and doesn't leave the same place. Vibration moves energy, but not matter.
Vibration should be reflected and resonated at the nasal cavity. "Nasality" on the other hand is more often the sound that air is making through improper air flow, meaning, so much air moving towards the nasal cavity that it starts to crash against obstacles and produce metal in a very bad way.
@@musikkamagga3770 thank you for this. But I'm still confused about how the bright nasal resonance can happen if you block off the entire nasal port. If I raise my soft palate all the way up, I get a terrible dark sounding caricature of a cartoon opera singer.
@@musikkamagga3770 very interesting. One of the reasons I found CVT to be confusing is that literally speaking, there is no "metal" in the vocal tract. That would hurt lol. But obviously for some, it makes sense.
@@ramseyvoicestudio Metal if I understand correctly is sound produced by the airflow colliding against hard obstacles, such as teeth and the hard palate. If you sing with enough "frontness", you have airflow colliding against those obstacles. Now when air collides against obstacles in the nose, that is not good, which is one of the reasons why healthy (and good sounding) belting favors air flowing through the mouth.
I don't like CVT because it doesn't have a focus on mixed voice, and proper mixed voice is not any of the CVT modes. In CVT, you have to sing each syllable of a song in a different mode, so "singing in a mode" is only good for scales.
You on the other hand have a perfect domain of mixed voice. It is a "mode" that CVT teachers seem to have not discovered yet 😬
i think sovt help your vocal chords to actually close less, as they don‘t have to hold back so much air.
Singing is created by the vibrations (the closings, if you like) of the vocal cords against the air. So by closing more, they DO hold back more air and covert the vibrations into sound more easily.
I was wondering, how important is the uvula to singing?
It is important! Why do you ask?
I can’t pronounce consonants and its pretty tight for me, can’t release any air
Then let’s focus on the vowels
What about a tiny yawn to drop larynx?
Thats a great idea!
After an upper respiratory infection, how can I get my voice back to normal. It seems to be taking forever.
Have you tried steaming it daily?
@@ramseyvoicestudio. No. But I’ll start that today. I’m seeing Dr today as well. I’m on puffers and they aren’t helping.
I had an infection quite similar to that a few weeks back, and it took me 3 weeks or so to recover completely.
Same here...upper respiratory infection I picked up sharing the mike at a Karaoke event about 4 weeks ago. I am only just getting over it and able to sing clearly again. 😔
This has been going on since September 29 and it’s now November 21st. Almost 2 months. Nasal sprays, on to second type of inhalers, was on antibiotics, steaming and it’s still tormenting me 😢 next step is Pulmonary breathing tests. 😩ugh
Dear cod he’s annoying
Why thank you ❤
@ramseyvoicestudio
Don't even bother listening to douchebags, you have a wonderful voice.