Bel Canto Singing Tutorial Part 1 - Caroline Jones

[@LyndseyMacPherson]

It's not everyday we've access to voice lessons from an angel.💝

[@janellesadler]

Much criticism here, but my voice feels more relaxed after this exercise. I've been a pro singer for 30 years. Onstage, belting, breathy background vocals, swing, rock..you name it. It's all about relaxation. Caroline, you have something positive to offer and thank you.

[@lheslie5424]

Actually ❤

[@darksidessj25]

Humming is placement. You figure this out after a few years of consistent studying. This is why every teacher begins with this exercise. No matter what you do you never leave this spot even when you go to sing. You keep this throughout the entire song.

[@MrTPF1]

I just love your voice Caroline! ;-)

[@nomandla2092]

Oh I just love you Caroline, watching at you alone, heals my soul. Thank you so much

[@somerando690]

This helped my singing so much! Thanks Caroline

[@marylamadura2293]

Love these exercises and they do wonders for my voice. Thank you, Caroline Jones!

[@angelvox1603]

Thank you Caroline. This was incredibly helpful. Your voice is awesome.

[@mariacasemyr]

Beautiful voice!

[@TonioFerritto]

I think these are the best exercises i ever saw whatsoever. One can feel right from the beginning that you have to use the diaphragm or you won't be able to do all open throated with that clean tone. Also the encouragement and statement that it takes time is very soothing! This is bel canto in regards of total diaphragmatic support (and intercostals), open throat, no placement crap, no bubble lips crap. I do agree with the others about the movement of lips/jaw. It shouldn't move. But you are for sure much further developed as many one commenting here for sure!

[@lisaanselmo326]

Hey girl! I found this totally by accident. I love that you did this. I have watched you come up from that 9 year-old girl to the superstar you are.

[@Warlowisnumberone]

Such a fabulously produced video! Bravo

[@sujeysaavedra780]

Thank you very much for taking the time to teach this amazing techniques...

[@rowodehouse6675]

I can see a lot of critical comments regarding this video so I wanted to add another perspective. I showed it to my partner who is a professional opera singer and he thought they were good and would be of benefit to aspiring singers. It may or may not be 'bel canto' I don't know - but I've been working with them now for a couple of months and have had great results - so thank you Caroline Jones.

[@lisaanselmo326]

These exercises are legit from William Whitney who was a bel canto master in the early 20th century.

[@codeblueize]

Wow thank you so much, I’ve been singing my whole life without any kind of training and this helped me so much.

[@piano2451]

You are amazing in every way! Please make more lessons, especially for beginners. This is way too hard for me. Maybe one day! Haha. Keep shining, you are so magical! 🇺🇸💕💕💕💕💕🇺🇸

[@martineyeo7491]

Beautiful voice.

[@petlover196052]

Very helpful Sis! My efforts will pay off, one day, with your instructive lessons. Thank you! ❤️

[@Marine1x1]

Muchísimas gracias Carolina por este fantástico tutorial! Desde Barcelona España:-) Hoy comienza mi aventura con el "Bell Canto" Hermosa voz. Estoy feliz!

[@christiannumme2000]

This is a great exercise performed by a great and professional singer...

[@trishlaine7196]

Thank u for sharing this..i improved a lot with this exercises..

[@jm2389]

So happy this video is still here! Watched the Bel Canto Singing vids 2 years ago and it helped me a lot :D

[@mehurar]

OMG, she`s lovely!

[@pantokrator4ever]

Thanks Caroline!

[@edgarmanzano2549]

Very good, muy bien Carolina me ayudo mucho tus ejercicios, eres lo maximo.

[@lanettecezair1304]

These exercises have really helped me. Thanks for posting them! Do you have any updates?

[@jubalschoolofmusic3676]

I was looking for this. So good. Reminds me my conservatory teacher. I will start doing these excercises right away. Thanks a lot

[@clediamicallefsoprano]

Amazing lesson

[@alluringbliss4165]

thank you for this video, I 'll be using it for my warm ups

[@MrWhiteamin]

Your expressdion is priceless ! Been smoking unfiltered , spray paintitng Sandbalsiting , a bottle of bourbon to be able to talk. And after 5 min, I just listening, I am humbled , and you are , Just that ! ☺

[@somerando690]

Dem

[@RodrigoVillar]

Sinceramente... Estou apaixonado por essa senhorita!

[@dianaamati9936]

WARNING TO CLASSICAL SINGERS: As a professional opera singer who specializes in bel canto and who lived in Italy to study it with the greatest master teachers and coaches in the world, I can tell you this is definitely NOT bel canto technique. It seems like anyone with a youtube channel can call themselves a voice teacher and people will believe them. It is incredibly bad technique to tip your chin forward., shake your jaw, and have a wobble in your vibrato. These all have solutions with proper bel canto technique, ironically, what she claims to teach. For example, to not have a wobble, she needs to first have proper breath support, lower her larynx (it is way too high), and provide more air pressure so that the air spins faster and with it the vibrato. The reason her vibrato gets too fast towards the tail end of her phrases is because she lacks this type of support. The vibrato should be consistent and as close to the middle of the pitch as possible. And that is just one aspect of technique as an example. If this "teacher" wants to truly understand bel canto technique, she first needs to study with a master teacher of bel canto (not Andy Anselmo) for several years because she is not ready to teach singers yet.

[@LoaiGebarin]

Diana Amati .. do you have other suggestions on well trained teachers in Bel Canto here at KZbin? I would love to train my self into different styles of singing especially Operas. Can you please answer 🤗

[@artdanks]

Diana Amati - you are sure right! I am also a classically trained singer (not profesional), and right from the start, it was quite apparent this lady (although I'm sure she's very sincere), knows nothing of the "Old School" Bel Canto method of singing. Besides the bad technique she's "teaching", you can hear in or voice the damage this teaching has already caused. So young, yet has a wobble of a 70 year old soprano! Even on a hum! So sad!!

[@LoaiGebarin]

@@artdanks Can you please tell me as I try to strengthen my support , where should I look for good techniques to begin with?

[@artdanks]

@@LoaiGebarin The best is to find a good voice teacher, who truly understand the Bel Canto techniques. They are getting harder to find though. Depends on where you live.

[@KC-kp4wc]

I agree with you wholeheartedly Diana. I studied the bel canto technique and it has kept my voice fresh sounding even as I age. Additional note - if you're singing correctly, your speaking voice should never EVER sound hoarse like it does here. There is some serious damage going on.

[@yehezkielrealme9678]

Wooow,,tonight part 1 learn singing,,okay,,,thank you much😄🔥🔥🔥🌿🌿🌿🌲🌲🌲

[@lalamusicgirl1]

AWESOME!!!! Thank you:)

[@guyzoun]

Thank You !!! Rock On ❤

[@jmemtz9918]

beautiful

[@robioptic]

Thanks for sharing!!! :) These excersises are abfab lol

[@Fairy-door-78-86]

Great !!

[@sampeacock9878]

Awesome video beautiful

[@jacobdavis911]

Beautiful voice ur videos are really

[@xfh3544]

👍thank u for this video

[@marilynlong7727]

thank you so much for your videos as starting to learn classical singing. am a chronic asthmatic. please continue to make videos. they are so helpful and you are beautiful.

[@user-ic5xu4jh6z]

Be careful if you have asthma. Please ask a speeche therapist, singing with asthma is unfavourable If you want to do study professionally. The muscels are overstrained by the apnea. But training for the breathing is surely not dangerous for your voice and your asthma. Best regards:-)

[@zeusbeheld5365]

Oh my, you're amazing... I was all ready to shrug you off after the intro, but wow - you're great!

[@t_caribe]

Question: When trying to follow the exercises in the higher notes, i have the feeling i'm getting into falsetto, and it kinda sounds like u, obviously a lot messier but, kinda sounds right, so, am i doing it wrong? When the Falsetto enters these exercises, should i try something different? I know ur a busy person, but i would really appreciate if u could answer me this! Btw, with, or without answer, thanks a lot for that content, u have an amaing voice!

[@greatsongz1211]

This was very helpful, thank you!

[@garyrichards9539]

In Bel Canto, ah, e, as in Vedo, and o, are open vowels in the mid and low range of a voice, and i and u, are closed in this part of a voice. You have a lovely tone.

[@nannerbenahs]

Very good teaching.

[@user-gm2ub7kf8t]

Hello Caroline, Im looking for good Bel Canto breathing exercises. can you recommend me. Thanks, your singing is an inspiration

[@camera5946]

wow I found this video very helpful and quite similar to warmups used when I was taking Bel Canto from another singing coach, my voice never felt used in a way that was damaging. Today I found this video and I quite enjoyed how my voice feels worked out in a good way. I also incorporated other breathing techniques learned in voice and movement classes. I think the video is beautifully done and informative! I would like to hear the voices of the naysayers and some personal advice on warming up the voice.

[@tigerhotpants]

Great exercices! I can alredy feel the diference between the quality now and then. But, is it normal to lose my a bit of low frequencys?

[@user-ic5xu4jh6z]

No, its not normal! with controle from diaphragma and proper trained chest voice, you lose no power in lower registers! Today we can hear it anymore in a correct way even not the great opera stars in these days do it well! They sound often deeper as they should and colour their voices unnaturally dark!( Netrebko is a good example) Cestvoice is vital, but it seems frowned upon today ...but listen to Callas, Tebaldi, Caruso, and many others.- this was well done!

[@seppbarbetta5156]

thank you :-)

[@viralgio2813]

I already fucked up it’s nighttime

[@71avis]

Nice, thank you

[@loniousmonk]

This is more music theater than bel canto ... restarting the resonance between notes and so on. And bel canto absolutely does not use jaw or lip manipulations to produce vibrato, like she clearly doing in the video.

[@prayasgoswami5218]

It was an immense insight in helping to extend my vocal range ,though I had zero experiences earlier .Thank you so much ☺️♥️ ....

[@lillianjohnson5041]

Beautiful training. Thank you very much for your time. I love it.

[@danielraushenberger1068]

WOW! YOUR A GREAT TEACHER AS WELL! THE DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING IS REALLY COOL; I PRACTICE QI-GONG ( PRONOUNCED ' CHEE KUNG ' ) BREATHING EXERCISES IN CONJUNCTION WITH TAI CHI AND ACUPRESSURE, FOR NEURO-MUSCULAR AND MARTIAL SPIRITUAL ENHANCEMENT. SILLY ME, I DIDN'T KNOW LEARNING TO SING WAS SO TECHNICAL; I THOUGHT IT WAS SOMETHING YOU WERE JUST BORN WITH playing the bumpkin guitar simpleton here. YOU REALLY DEMONSTRATE THAT NATURAL TALENT AND CLASSICAL TRAINING ARE QUITE THE MAGNIFICENT COMBO. DOESN'T JUST ADD--- IT MULTIPLIES

[@afonsodias1303]

Oi Caroline adoro suas música são linda e vc é muito linda e canta muito são paulo capital brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷❤❤❤🎋🎋🎋🎋🎋

[@kerrylamb1007]

thank you-your video is helpful-if you have more \iI will give them a try

[@qhurbagha8474]

You sound magnificent wow

[@jorge.sanchez7909]

Hi. I am from Argentina and I greatly add your tutorial. I hope to understand it; especially in explanations in the English language. I do not know if there is a possibility that you can translate what you explain or if you could write it. so I could translate it. It is that my spoken English is not very good and it is difficult for me to understand some concepts. Of course very grateful; a cordial greeting.

[@st14]

Ha ha, tilting your chin and lifting your chest is called “the cover” LOL

[@THSonGoogle]

wow, you are so beautyful!

[@LoaiGebarin]

Charming Lady 😘 you sing from your heart you smile and laugh from your heart. That is the secret 😘

[@partituravid]

Is wobbling jaw part of the secret?

[@RitikaPant-gu2fv]

Yup

[@tatjanalehnhardt-niederste9987]

Голос рассшатоный,старый.как у бабушки без опоры.

[@newyouketo]

Helps with the vibrato

[@argon805]

a beautiful presentation! wish I could see you in concert...

[@aloquevas01]

Buena o mala técnica me gusta como suena su voz, muy diferente a como canta sus canciones.

[@DmitryiBarsh]

why are there no subtitles?😢

[@janeflannery8757]

at long last! a beautiful and classy American woman, without the fake eye-lashes and all the other stuff that make these gals look like plastic Barbie-clones, and especially, without the ugly spoken english pressing down on the vocal cords! Wow the states needs more women like you Caroline! nice to look at, nice to listen to, and thank-you, so very instructive, kind, clear, interesting, knowledgeable... bravo my friend! A breath of fresh air...

[@zoen219]

In the second exercise, her jaw was moving quite a bit especially when descending- not sure if this is a good thing? Seems to contradict what I have been taught. Someone help?

[@zuraiashvili8647]

definitely don't move a jaw. Jaw drops at hinge loosely without any force and does not need to move or shake for voice production.

[@ShaneMcCrae]

Both Steven Tyler and Myles Kennedy use this technique and they are both as good now as they were at 20. Sold.

[@zynniaquaoar2439]

Sebastian Bach said he also uses this technique.

[@LuckyqueenA]

Italian is the most talented for arts

[@AliyaOfficial4life]

Love you Caroline!!!!!!!!! Big Fan!!!!!!

[@GemmaLouiseDoyle]

Thank you Caroline. Beautiful video, the best wishes for happiness and success in your career. Love Gemma Louise Doyle

[@peterlundgren8090]

Your the best !!!

[@Blaskyrkh]

But what if I can't even hum so high although I'm training for some time ?

[@trevorjefferson4840]

Adam Walerian for some people it takes longer (not in the since that you develop something you never had, but you just never realized, or it never clicked until all of a sudden). For some it’s just not there.

[@arzmtv7171]

1-Envías el aire a el paladar blando o al paladar duro atrás de los dientes? 2-cuando usas la inhalación del sonido?

[@vilridge9702]

I clicked dislike because the title of your video says "Bel Canto Singing" but when I searched for your performances..you sing "pop style." You sing good as a pop singer but nowhere near classical singing (as you claimed in this video).

[@deborahdavis6320]

I studied Bel Canto 6 years and I'm a JAZZ SINGER. You can sing any style strongly with this technique. As long as you can adapt to the style and adjust phrasing certain things to that genre. But, Classical made me STRONG. ( up until a certain age) Voices age too.

[@delilahharris3834]

How many singing educators teach this Bel Canto across the world?

[@psdelport8893]

Many of them claim to teach it, and precious few of them can agree as to what exactly it is and how to achieve it. 😅

[@anthonyhenrysmith]

amazing!

[@lorenat2905]

6:40

[@halimatu2455]

Поющая Принцесса нравитса, уроки классные, поработаю!.. от Ур.А.

[@wmcheong5783]

Would love to hear you sing opera.

[@user-ic5xu4jh6z]

Believe me, you would'nt hear a thing while Orchestra playing forte😂

[@drumformation]

the link to the breathing exercises does not work...bummer

[@davedonahue4576]

🤘🏻🍀🤙🏻

[@kingamitrowska]

This has nothing to do with bel canto.

[@dariusaurelianroman1982]

Hello Kinga Mitrowska! Please tell me more about your affirmation. Wish you a wonderful day!

[@maximus1295]

@@dariusaurelianroman1982 she singing in mask and wobble.

[@AleGluck90]

@@dariusaurelianroman1982 WARNING TO CLASSICAL SINGERS: As a professional opera singer who specializes in bel canto and who lived in Italy to study it with the greatest master teachers and coaches in the world, I can tell you this is definitely NOT bel canto technique. It seems like anyone with a youtube channel can call themselves a voice teacher and people will believe them. It is incredibly bad technique to tip your chin forward., shake your jaw, and have a wobble in your vibrato. These all have solutions with proper bel canto technique, ironically, what she claims to teach. For example, to not have a wobble, she needs to first have proper breath support, lower her larynx (it is way too high), and provide more air pressure so that the air spins faster and with it the vibrato. The reason her vibrato gets too fast towards the tail end of her phrases is because she lacks this type of support. The vibrato should be consistent and as close to the middle of the pitch as possible. And that is just one aspect of technique as an example. If this "teacher" wants to truly understand bel canto technique, she first needs to study with a master teacher of bel canto (not Andy Anselmo) for several years because she is not ready to teach singers yet.

[@luomodelloggione6564]

beautiful girl + singing = beautiful singing!

[@archithlon]

Que bella chantate di angela...

[@Sc2TheWarrior]

you are really pretty, keep the fucking amazing work. you have a fan somewhere :)

[@curvadevento]

love you good will

[@Karppazz]

Will Smith?

[@blackwidow4759]

A lot of you are saying this ISNT bel canto bit is it STILL helpful for singing?

[@lasri2568]

Yes. But It caused Nasal resonance more.... In Bel Canto, Nasal resonance is such a Taboo things

[@theljthund9562]

@@lasri2568 ofcoure yes. This is completely out of bel canto

[@anchavald]

me enamore😍

[@clefnoteproductions6695]

However it coming out of hum you have to take it out of the nasal area. Hold your nose when singing vowels or consonants. This takes it where it should be. Pharyngeal. Well connected falsetto and chest. Like Luisa Tetrazzini, Fedora Barbieri, Ebe Stignani, Lina Bruna Rasa, Franco Corelli, Beniamino Gigli. Classical singers from the early 20th to mid 20th century

[@theljthund9562]

I don't get it. Can u tell spesifictly

[@clefnoteproductions6695]

@@theljthund9562 sometimes demonstration is better than trying to write or verbalize it. Jack li Vigni has some excellent videos explaining much of this. Plus if you read the treatise of Garcia,Marchesi, Lamperti and others you'll find answers. Then finding someone like Jack who can put all these together in lesson that are clear to us

[@jorge.sanchez7909]

Thank You!!

[@Koolarrow1987]

Song of silence

[@user-lb4ml2gs8m]

How to find resonance？

[@lesthermiranda1794]

No offense but even her chest voice is breathy, that is not a good sign

[@yuliana703]

Lesther Miranda , I think that's because she has too small and high voice and doesn't train low register

[@caninbar]

diminuendo

[@pavelborsky7773]

Great exercises, great videos. Thank you very much! (so much vibrato, what a pity)

[@user-ic5xu4jh6z]

Correct vibrato comes from diaphragma- she fakes it!

[@togcbu]

i like it when u break the note. sounds cool

[@mymomsaidyourmomstudio]

Thank you for sending this to me @samarajohnson

[@jacobdavis911]

u are beautiful