Great talk/lesson. Sort of proves that often the best teachers are the ones that have been through the crap rather than the ones that had just done it right from the start, if that makes any sense. I heard once somewhere that Bach was a terrible teacher, because it (music/composition I dunno) was all so obvious to him he couldn't understand how anyone couldn't get it, so he was impatient and couldn't explain stuff haha. Sounds like you're from the north of England somewhere, the place I feel the most at home. Unfortunately I'm a long way from there and walk around upside down atm . haha Thanks and kind regards

This is one of the MOST important advices I could ever receive! I really couldn't believe how agile my voice became when I finally tried to sing with less volume. Runs are a lot easier this way and it actually sounds more like singing with passion - I really had to ignore the fact that this advice sounded counterintuitive for me in the first place. It is definitely worth a try for everyone who tends to put too much power and pressure into his voice like I did.

This was the video that finally helped me understand the connection between my chest voice and the rest, and actually begin to APPLY it in songs, not just exercises. Can't thank you enough man, great content!

Your video's are clear, concise and your methodology of teaching removed so much of the confusion that some other channels had left me with. It's like now - I finally understand what they were all TRYING to say - but their information always left me with a big weakness in my singing while I focused on such specific aspects of my sound (tension, lack of intensity, silly amounts of nasality, squeezing like mad etc). I have been way too good at pulling my chest up to notes higher than my bridge and managing an excess of tension to squeeze out these notes with distortion etc, to realise now that that's WHY I don't like my singing. Past couple days I applied your methodology as best I could and got amazing results today. Effortless range but power and resonation with it, sooooo much less tension and so much more freedom. Better and more intimate singing when I want to (always SUCKED at that), more or less air in the tone when I want to, more or less nasality (but I still have a lot of that when I go for high notes beyond C5). Anyway, I can't thank you enough for your videos man. It feels like you don't hold any information back from us and genuinely just want us to discover what you did to become better singers. Cheers! <3

this is great mate thanks

Thank you

Do you find lip trills any good?

Here's a question: I tend to have any easier time singing strong and on pitch towards the top of my range (say, C#4-G4), but as soon as it gets a little lower and less "intense" things tend to sound really "weak" and I have a much harder time with pitch. I tend to go flat slightly on those mid-rangy notes, and my higher notes are often closer to pitch. Any thoughts would be great!

Here's a question - obviously at some point you are going to run out of range and it's going to feel "hard" to hit something. How do you know what the top of your range actually is? If it keeps feeling free and easy as you go up, you'd think there would never be a limit, but obviously there is.

What I'd love to hear is how to sing with expression and even grit while feeling relaxed. When I focus on feeling no tension at all, my voice tends to sound weak and expressionless.

What books do you recommend for singers? Great channel

Been singing in a soul cover band, coming from a more metal/rock background, I was kinda strugling, this is great and was a great help

Nice one. 👍 I like your channel and videos !

phenomenal. Idk 292 views, but I'm just commenting to say I watch your stuff, and even though I don't press the like button, I really like your videos btw i dont care the length of your vids, I watched/listened till end

Thank you very much.

Thom Yorke is why I sing almost exclusively falsetto around friends and family. People care way less if something is connected than you think. They just want to hear something pretty.

This is exactly how I was to sing 80s pop 2 nights a week for a few years. I start mixing down at a A3 which makes everything much smoother.

This helped me so much. Here I am on the treadmill doing the vocal exercises 😁. I felt NO tension in my throat. Thank you so much. One day I will be taking lessons with you. I just really suck right now. I do have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. My voice is so hoarse right now. I heard a lot of singers quit because their voice just isn’t the same. I’m determined to just have a pleasant voice. I won’t ever sound like I did 30 yrs ago. What kind of microphone is that? If you don’t mind me asking. I’m going to purchase one. Been watching videos and my head is spinning. Thank you for this video 🎶🎸🎵🙏❤️🎤 .

Ah brilliant “ thx sir great lesson :)

I’ve really enjoyed your content! Any tips on the super mediocre cover linked below? I’d be happy to do a lesson kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ2QmYB9od14oqcsi=aYscF5OAxZGyQEf2

your videos are absolutely incredible. thank you a million times!!!! a pure blessing. thank you! wow! and I am sorry to hear that you had to go through all of this. And I hope that with time and practice you will return to your voice without any permanent changes. best

Bloody brilliant, thank you, just out of curiosity where abouts are you based in the UK? Would you be open to singing lessons one to one?

Thanks I’ve been loving your videos, do singing straws and singing with lip trolls accomplish the same thing or no? If not, what is the difference?

Nice 36:20, the damn flip. Arghhhh.

Good luck being heard over blaring instruments with this approach. Honestly, if you're doing rock or any high intensity genre, classical training is your friend.

Awesome tips man. Really helpful stuff

Very few people can make this highly nuanced topic as clearly understandable as you can, it all just makes perfect sense and yet is presented in an informal, relaxed way. I’m now going to force myself to loiter on and around those pesky bridge notes, rather than just rapidly sirening through them as quickly as possible! 🤪

Definitely a rocky road... I am guilty of trying to drive too fast and going off the side, too. Great video as always :)

love how practicing with baby noises still makes you laugh to yourself

I also have his 2 courses of Kevin Richard’s, really good exercises.

I've said it before, and I'm going to say it again because I appreciate it. You are so considerate with helping us understand what's going on with the voice and great at thoroughly explaining it. I've watched a lot of music teachers online and they all say great stuff but they always seem to leave out nuances here and there. You seem to make sure you're explaining this and that and how this and that affect this and that. You come off as very relatable and bring up what you felt when you were learning to sing. Which helps understand the struggle and is comforting.

You should definitely upload covers! It would be a good hook. Many vocal teachers don't do it.

Thought this video was about why you cant sing during your lunch break - yet .... "but with this new tech...."

Could you maybe recommend a volume level we could check ourselves against as a reference to get an idea of the proper volume we should be singing at? Perhaps something we deal with everyday like the sound of a car, a household appliance, our speaking voice, etc... Without being in the same room with you, it's hard to know what feels right.

Loved the creaky door video. Big help. But, my worry is sounding too nasally/tinny, borderline country twang.

Hey Calder! I love your videos and the format how you present them and I feel I've been learning a lot from you already - thank you so much for your work and teachings! :) I was wondering if you could share some tips about singing in a similar style as The Cure's Robert Smith. I'm getting better at finding my mix, reaching higher notes singing a lot with a few of my favourite singers, but I always struggle with RS' Voice and can't reach high notes the same way, when I'm singing other bands songs containing the same pitches. Maybe it's still a problem with my larynx, but I always sound way too thin and can't reach the pitches anyway when trying many Cure songs. Admittedly, Open and Doing the Unstuck aren't very easy songs to begin with.

Man.. For the first time ever I hit that high note without flipping into falsetto Very tenuous creaky chest, but undeniably chest Thanks

nice video man, nice tutorial! Can you do a tutorial on how to sing night train by GNR?

I love this video. Beautiful ❤️. I’m going to learn this song and apply what you are teaching us. Love your voice

I wish could be that free in that kind of register. Do you think it's possible for a big lump with a heavy baritone (and a head voice that sounds like it belongs to a different person than the lower register) to ever get that easy with these notes?

brilliant. and we are always our own worst critic, aren’t we? thank you for the fantastic video!

This is great! Please do more of these, hardly any one breaks lines/vowels of actual songs down like this on KZbin.

Thank you for sharing!

Nice My band picked that song, just to annoy me I think. Impossible for me to sing those verse. Too high.

Awesome, makes perfect sense as always. Looking forward to my first lesson to try to put theory into practice 👍🏻

Fantastic!

Needed to hear this today, thank you

Where I can find your another chanell

Because I reallly don’t like the sound of mouth breathing, I will send you a video where Eli Princenn talk about mouth and nose technique, and nose everytime win

What about breathing through nose, not through mouth?