I have been singing since I was a kid but now I want to take some training and I am about your age too.

Sounds great, good for you! I found that through coaching other singers, and demo-ing songs for them, my range and versatility have skyrocketed as well.

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@@bob.smeenk Very worthwhile video. it took me years as an amateur singer/guitarist to realise that half the songs in my repertoire weren't a good match for my voice. These days I have much more awareness of transposing and using capos. Karaoke site you recommend looks very interesting!

@@startingfingerstyle Getting the key right makes such a big difference to the sound and our confidence :)

Of course! Go to www.bobsmeenk.com/vocal-coach for more info :)

I've heard that story before...did you record your songs (singing yourself)?

Glad you liked it!

So far no. But I plan on going more in depth in later videos. You can go more in depth already on bobsmeenk.com/abc. There's a ton of examples that might help you understand each Mode better.

@bob.smeenk I did already and I'm already improving a lot. Thank you so much for the valuable info 🙏🏻

@@roosmusicality Great! :D

Thanks! I'll put it on my to record list. Don't know when though. Got a lot of fun stuff planned already :)

@@bob.smeenk great cant wait to see more videos. the simplified explanation is better. And oh, i subscribed to be on the waiting list for your community

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Thanks David! When editing, I'm trying to find a balance between pace and naturalness/flow. Maybe I should lean more towards the natural side.

Did you try the tricks in the 3 ways to never let your voice break again video? Let me know if they help! I will also release a video about breath support this thursday or the next. I think that might be helpful too

Love this, thanks! :)

De nada! :D

I'm working on a monster video on breath support and breath control. I hope to publish it this thursday. If not it will be 5th of december. I think that will help. For now a quick thing you could try is to just take in a small breath, or even breath out before trying, instead of taking in a big breath as many singers do when trying challenging stuff. If you take in a lot of air, you need more breath support energy to control it. Hope that helps :)

haha great to hear. I love stuff that just makes intuitive sense once you hear it. More to come :)

Thanks, will do!😁

Thanks! :)

Good to hear :)

Haha you're very welcome :)

On it!😁

Thanks! I love hearing this, and I'll try to keep it up! :D

Have fun!

I'm surprised it took 21k views for this comment to appear 🤣

You can raise or lower your larynx in every Mode to make your singing sound lighter or darker.

@bob.smeenk thank so much!

Haha amen!

Haha I'll try to show up there more often

Well put. I totally agree :)

I'm working on a monster video on the subject of breath support. To try to tackle it once and for all. I hope to release it Thursday next week. In the meantime: breathing in is active. You use your intercostals (muscles linked to your ribs) and your diaphragm to enlarge your lungs and air flows in. Then if you just relax and sigh, the air flows out by itself. For singing we need the air to flow out slower and more controlled. Otherwise we couldn't make it to the end of our lines. And we would strain/break/wobble. Especially on challenging notes. The system controlling (and limiting) air flowing out is called breath support. (Keeping the intercostals and diaphragm activated after breathing in, to avoid all air rushing out immediately.) So breath support is not about pushing air out. It's about controlling airflow and most of the time this means limiting airflow. Hope that helps a bit. But it's a tricky subject. Lookout for my video on the subject. I think you'll find it valuable :)

@bob.smeenk Thanks for the clarification! I'm looking forward to the "monster video". Good stuff ... and helpful.

Haha love this. Could be my motto :) I try to release one of these every Thursday

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You're very welcome :)

That's great! Love to hear this! Enjoy your new voice 😁

Just a tip: you wanna control the airflow by keeping your intercostals and abs engaged on the exhale to stay expanded as long as you can (without tension). You don't want to be keeping the air back with your vocal cords alone. That's way too much work for such tiny cords. :) You don't want to introduce unnecessary tension into the vocal tract.

You should not feel any pain, strain, or discomfort at all in your larynx / throat. It needs to feel easy.

To clarify: You relax your abs and ribs on the inhale so that they can expand, and then engage them to stay expanded when exhaling to control your airflow and slow down the exhale. But don't fight against the exhale either--let the body go back to neutral. You are just slowing it down a little. :)

Great explanations LucaAnamaria, thanks! I'm working on a breath support video to hopefully tackle this subject once and for all :)

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Thanks Paul!

My pleasure :) I love providing options so you can let your taste decide how you want to sing :)

Great! It does not work for everyone. But if it does, it's magic.😀

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You're welcome 😊

Thanks! When enough people are interested I plan to start a community (Patreon+). In it you'll be able to get all the feedback/support/exercises you want :) From me and other singers like you. If you go to my website you can sign up for the waiting list.

Thank you so much :) I'm working on a video on breath support/control. It's a tricky one, so I don't know when it'll be done. But I think you'll love it. For now: it sounds like you try to sing with too much airflow/pressure up there. Some ways to fix that I mention in the video. An interesting exercise to try could be to pick a song, and before sing the first phrase, breathe out fully, then just open your mouth and let the air flow in. Not an active breath. Just open your mouth and let it happen. Then sing the line. Before the next line: pause and repeat. If you take in less air, less will want to come out. You can sing with a lot of air in your lungs, but you have to control it, and if you don't the air, it's a waste of energy. Hope that helps :) More in the upcoming video!

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Glad you likes it :)

Shame. You missed some lame jokes.

I'm not sure how to interpret this so I'll just take it as compliment ;D Happy to provide some laughs ;)

@@bob.smeenk ah my bad, i meant it in a good way! it was a compliment, your demonstrations were really funny to me, part of the reason why I watched the whole video even tho im not a singer!

@@gibbymain1499 haha no problem, and thank you! Sometimes it's hard to discern the trolls from the rest :)

@@bob.smeenk never change! your jolliness is very contagious

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Thanks for your thoughtful comment! I appreciate your comparison and am glad you found the classification helpful. While there are certainly some similarities to other methods, my goal is to offer singers a flexible and easy to use tool that they can quickly adapt to their unique voice and style, rather than a strict theoretical framework. Exactly like you said: it's for quick reference, a cheat sheet, not a complete singing method.

Love this! And I noticed this for myself as well. It's easier to place certain tips and feedback when you have a system to put it in, or reference it against.

Sounds like you got most of it like I intended :) About effects: this can be anything from added air to distortion. Anything that's an add on to "regular" singing and that might complicate things at first. Enjoy your singing! :)

@@bob.smeenk Thank you for a wonderful singing voice lessons that we all can learn from your channel. Some practical tips how to apply the vocal fragments 4 then 7 breakdown process when you sing those difficult parts of the song.