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leithinkjesusiscool

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  1. I would say that talking about fach just confuses people in the beginning? Beginners need to find out their natural voices and what they are good at and not so good at. On certain forums you find beginners who ask if they are a dramatic tenor or some kind of baritone. To me this is not very helpful at all. It takes time to find out who you are when it comes to the voice. In my case I am a higher tenor. My teachers says that I am a tenor1. All we beginners need to know is bassically what range we have and how we need to train our voices. You really only know your fach when you have practiced singing for a very long time. Also, there a different fach systems as well. All we need is to search for is our own natural voices. Sure, it is nice to know your fach. I would like to be classified as a spieltenor or something simmilar as I like spieltenors a lot and am a bit an actor myself. I cannot know who I am right now and I am probably not going to sing opera so why even care about operatic fach systems? What do you say?
  2. How do you singers do retrieval practice? It seems to me that this must be done acapella. At a lesson we bassically only sing with accompaniment. I find that I have never been tought how retrieval pratice works for singers. What are your tips? I find that amateur singers who are ok at singing have sung acapella without even thinking about doing it as an exercise.
  3. Isnt it much easier to sing above your speaking range? I find that when I use support from the diaphragm when singing with power I feel like I am drawn higher. Some teachers, including mine, says that for higher notes it is important to think "down". I like this a lot. I really feel like support forces me up. When I hum a note with support i often end up on F#3 which is really my highest speaking pitch (if just talking normally). I use classical singing rather than pop singing. My power is above the speaking range. I feel like there is a mechanism in singing that forces my up to the higher notes.
  4. As tenors what pitch do you like to use for the recitation tone (used in eg church music or other kinds of music)?
  5. Why do so many vocal teachers believe in the hiss exercice instead of breathing exercices using weights on the stomach? i actually went to an opera Singer who told me to lie down on the sofa while he put a weight on my stomach. He said this is way better than the hiss exercise. I think he is into something. I actually use a 5 kg weight at home. What do you think?
  6. I am a person who dont easily understand how other People experience stuff so please be very concrete with me. Some talk about passagio (bridge in English?). I see different bridges in my voice. I need help with what the correct terminology would be. I have my speaking voice around D#3/E3. When I go lower to Bb2 I go to my lower voice (bellow speaking voice). There is a bridge between those. If I go higher to G3 I go above the speaking voice. There is a bridge between those. If I go even higher to D4 there is Another bridge. Then at F#4 there is another bridge. The at G#4 there is yet another bridge. What is the correct vocal terminology for this?
  7. I talked with a director of a Gregorian schola who said that they would even sing as low as A2 (must be great for the baritones but not for me). I want to sing with them since this is music I like a lot. According to one vocal teacher, with whom I agree, the best key for Silent night, when I sing, is C. That high F4 works ok but I shouldn't sing low notes. Did/do the great tenors have any problems with A2? Gregorian chant seems kind of too low for me if A2 is a must. I would even choose higher keys then what is found in hymnals. I disslike singing low notes. When a teacher tells you that your voice has a tenor quality what does it mean? And is tenor voices rare since most men sing too low at sing-alongs? I had one audition with the schola director and she made me sing the low A2 but it was uncomfortable. I dont see any good reasons why we should sing below C3. What are your practical advice(s)?
  8. It's kinda nice if you have drums included. Drums have helped me much more than any metronome or being without them. Or you could play rhythm on the guitar.
  9. Well, if got it right certain kinda singing is more natural. I can't imagine Hank Williams having learned his yodel feeling from formal teacher. But he did have a mentor. But he might have sung solfege in hi church. One vocal style which I find weird is the style used by guys like Jussi Björling. When he sings O helga natt it sounds bit too much. Country music would have sounded more natural, ie if Waylon Jennings would have sung it. I guess classical singing can be unatural sounding to me and many others. Are people here saying that country is more natural and nearer how we normally speak?
  10. Somehow I got the feeling that you are a rock singer who likes the Highwaymen. I am no authority on the subject but that's what I heard. But yes you can sing. Yarl you say...then what about twang? Let's be practical here: how can a vo al coach help me sing songs like this one? You say one must simply just sing them and vocal exercices are unecassary when learning this kinda (or maybe I missunderstood you).
  11. Yes that the hiss! Have you ever tried yourself or heard students doing hiss and warmups when doing their daily stuff like making breakfast or something simmilar? Isn't that really the nice thing about singing: you can practice while doing other stuff or is this a no no? I think it can help a lot.
  12. Hi! I would find it interesting to know how you deal with your; so called, warmup exercices. Personally, mine are eg. breathing (mostly just the hiss exercise), lip trills, vowels. They are of course, also more than just warmups as I use them for learning intervals and so on. I've tried the hiss exercice while preparing tea in the morning but...the more physical things I do the shorter my hiss become but on the other hand you sometimes play an instrument and sing which is physical. Might be difficult to get the right body position when being in the kitchen. People, on the other hand, talk about how you can do your exercices while preparing tea and things like that. Has this worked for you or has it not worked? What are your experiences?
  13. So you can sing that low octave Johnny Cash used for I walk the line. One octave lower than most guys can sing. Is this really easy? Why not upload a sobg and give us an example of your Johnny Cash voice? I don't trust you untill you prove it
  14. You just can't mention Sia without thinking of ice cream. Anyway, Freddie Mercury lost his voice mostly during his later years when performing live. I guess the voice can get hurt later in life even if you don't feel it now. I'm not sure this is due to not taking formal lessons as many don't kill their voices like Freddie.
  15. Hi! Can you tell me how people like Muddy Waters or Johnny Cash could learn how to sing without formal lessons? What kind of special informal thing helped them? When I watch documentaries it's like they just did it and it was extremely easy for then but I don't think that's really the truth.
  16. Do you sing the intervals/melodies in equal temperant even if you sing without a piano, ie accapella? Are we singing them differently when away from the piano?
  17. Howdy! I usually do an exercice given to me by a teacher I once had. It's bassically a C harmonic scale in thirds (C-Eb-D-F...). Doing this with a piano is kind of easy. I would not be able to do this without a piano. I recently talked with a musician I know and he told me something interesting. The advice was not to see singing as a theory instrument like the piano where you can easily find the notes. Piano is easy when it comes to find the intervals. Singing, he said, is a lot like talk and when you do different accents. If I could be more expressive when talking it would help my singing. I guess he's right. Still, I'm not comfortable with singing the intervals without the piano. What are your experiences with this?
  18. Hi! I am thinking about learning to sing I heard it through the grapevine. Do you have any tips on where to start? I know some piano so maybe that would be a useful help. Is this a difficult song that is hard for a beginner?
  19. Elvis is gospel music but what I meant by classical/church tradition could be eg Salve regina, bä bä vita lamm or Il mio tesoro
  20. Hi! I am taking vocal lessons from a woman in the classical/church style. We work with singing easy melodies (I play them on piano as that is my instrument) as I am not too experienced in singing. I guess a vocal coach in blues/jazz/gospel would focus on that too but also sing blues scales and microtones. I have a question to you who are very experienced in singing: What is the difference between taking vocal lessons in the classical/church tradition and jazz/blues/gospel tradition? And yes I am aware that there are many subtraditions in these vocal traditions. And please understand that I am asking this so that I will know more information and therefore can take practical descision in life.
  21. Pax! What do you think about John Lennon's voice technique? How would you describe it? Do you think his songs are easy to cover? did he use many different recording techniques or did he actually sing great? I personally think his coolest song is Woman.
  22. I like I'm so lonesome I could cry by Hank Williams and the Drifting cowboys. I found two great covers of the song by Al Green and Jerry Lee Lewis. If you want to sing the song like they did (or like Hank) what do you do? Are you forced to just listen to the song and just sing and hope for the best or are there other ways to learn a song like this one?
  23. Thee is a great song called Hurt that Johnny Cash recorded. When one sings this song do one sing it in C3 or C4 octave?
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