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  1. I agree, but I think music is more interesting than scales so I would just practice support while singing a line from a song.
  2. If an exercise is not helping you, don't do it. Exercises should be simplified approximations to something you actually want to sing. Yes, support is important. I had lots of teachers for years and got basically nowhere. Had one lesson with someone who actually taught support properly, and now I can do most things I want to.
  3. If your vocal range is less when you "support" then your support is incorrect. Either that, or support is not the only thing that has been changed.
  4. "Is it possible to change your timbre?" Yes, to some extent anyway
  5. Hi Bob, I guess it's the thing that we value too highly here on the singing forum . But Vanessa has some of the most mind boggling, thrilling, wailing (full metallic!) high notes I've heard from anyone. There aren't many singers who dare to go where she does e.g. at 2:45 in that clip. Especially live.
  6. Probably the most amazing singer you've never heard of (unless you're Australian), Vanessa Amorosi.
  7. Leaning in means increasing the volume, as far as I can tell. It's one method of having beginners access high notes in "full voice", starting from "falsetto". But it will only work if they are using support. If not then leaning in won't help.
  8. Fair enough. I should have taken responsibility and gone somewhere else when I realised that neither teacher was helping. I did eventually figure that out, but it took too long. "Bizarre just might mean they don't understand what the lessons were trying to accomplish. That's not saying they're incompetent, they're just from different schools of vocal teaching and might be used to different exercises." Definitely, but this was SLS vs SS, and those two schools are quite similar. However if the exercises were accomplishing something, I would have accomplished something. I now believe that a singing teacher should be able to get you on the right path towards your goal within a lesson. Otherwise they're not a good teacher. Making cat noises for a year takes you nowhere.
  9. I've had lessons with Jesse Nemitz. I enjoyed them at the time but ultimately learned nothing, and got confused. I showed the recordings to my other teacher at the time and she showed them to her teacher who is someone very well regarded in the industry, and he said the lesson was bizarre. If you choose something and after 2-3 months have made no improvements whatsoever, look elsewhere. Too many people spend years doing the same things and never progressing, and don't have the guts to try something else.
  10. I'm leaving. Got too much work to do and I don't like this sarcastic crap.
  11. I could parrot various methods for learning distortion that I've heard, but that would probably be unhelpful. If Snejk wants to work on distortion he should get a private lesson from someone who's good at teaching distortion.
  12. Sorry if I seemed snotty too, Ron. I'm actually crap at distortion and can barely do it for a few seconds without it feeling uncomfortable. I'm just 99% sure that it's because I'm doing it wrong. I may be wrong, but from my point of view it seems like the idea that "distortion is always unhealthy" is quite similar to the idea of "stop trying high notes, you're a baritone", which we now all agree is false. Almost all performances I've ever seen use the original key.
  13. There isn't really agreement on this in the forum. Some people claim that distortion can be totally healthy and others say that it can't. One thing we can all agree on is that if it feels uncomfortable, something is wrong so don't repeat it. There are singers that distort all the time for decades. Jimmy Barnes is an example. Is he some kind of anatomical freak? I doubt it. Seems plausible to me that his distortion technique is just so spot on that the vocal folds are fine (I don't know if he has had problems before, maybe he has, but he has had a three-decade career which involves distorting and/or rattling a majority of his notes). Here's a performance from this year, aged 57
  14. I don't know. I also didn't know you had to be a famous megastar in order to know something about vocal technique.
  15. Just because many people say that about their rasp doesn't mean it's necessary advice that must be followed by everyone. It just means their distortion technique isn't 100% and they can feel the wear on their voices. For those people who are really good at distortion they can do it as much as they want. On one of the CVI interviews with Robin van Beek he says he can use distortion every night with no problems whatsoever. I think this "use distortion sparingly" stuff only applies to the situation of people who can't do distortion 100% correctly (which is a lot of people...it's not easy). Here's the bit where he says that: Obviously not everyone can do this, but I'd bet that's because their distortion technique is a bit off, not because of some unsolvable physiological difference.
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