Living Opera: this is what HIGH NOTES should look like!! || (especially for sopranos!)

[@qwarlock4126]

You know you guys keep saying you are not voice teachers but you are actually saying things that help and they help more than MANY teachers I have had. These really help.

[@errol-ih4jy]

YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SMILE, AND NICELY EXPLAINED.

[@LivingOpera]

BTW - I totally forgot to shut off my music before I made this video...ooops!! So sorry the sound is a bit weird the first couple minutes....

[@lucky-pz3pn]

Thank you for your input.I appreciate all the instructions you contributed.

[@Rosannasfriend]

Thank you. I know you say you're not a teacher, but I'm sure you know enough to teach a few things. Don't be shy to share what you know.

[@LivingOpera]

Thank you so much!! I always want to make sure I'm not saying anything that's confusing anyone - I only ever want to help. But you're right! I will try to be bolder in the future. Thank you!!

[@ShiriMagar]

I like this comment!! Yes!!!

[@lilitanoscuderichiavetta8851]

You are a genius. Thank you 🙂

[@ewhillis]

This is very helpful, and I love your channel. Thank you!

[@BangkokVoiceCoach]

You have such a terrific voice. Maybe your on-screen comments could be in a colour other than white and stay on a little longer? I often have to rewind the video because they fly by!!

[@advocate1563]

Opening the jaw slightly more and raising the smile muscles (without locking them) to lift the pillars of fauces creates the additional space required. And yes, it creates long. Wide embouchure is a disaster as you say. Thanks for sharing your journey. Pavarotti reckoned 20 years to develop his voice and always learning. When your body is your instrument the variability can be challenging. Ho hum.

[@pony7752]

I am a soprano, but is really hard for to reach notes above F#5 :(

[@LivingOpera]

Don't worry! We both struggled with our top registers for a long time. It's a process!!!

[@granolaandgritshomestead1127]

I know this is an older comment. But, when I started voice lessons, my range was D3-A#5. In 6 months, I’ve gone to a F#6 comfortably and I’m getting short staccati in G6-C7. Each of my expansions started that way and then developed into sustainable notes. Proper training and technique is worth its wait in gold.

[@ShiriMagar]

It is such a wonderful journey. I am also a soprano and when I was just starting I also did not have very high notes... Go to a great voice teacher, and dedicate yourself to a devoted practice- over time your range will open up like a beautiful flower 🌻

[@SB-pj4mt]

Hi thak you so much for sharing your singing tips! Can you please explain something about the vocal attack/ onset (opera singing). Do you "feel" your cords closing before making the sound (so you concentrate a little bit about what's happening inside the throat) or do you just let the throat "open" and relaxed and just think the sound out and in front of you? (So you let the larynx and cords do the job by themselves without your control) I hope you understand what l mean. Thank you very much!

[@LivingOpera]

Hi there!! Thank you so much for stopping by our channel!!! Okay, I think understand what you're asking me, so I hope I'm giving an appropriate response!!!! When I do my intake of air, that is when the cords come apart for a second. I don't "put" them together for the onset - to use your terminology I just "let them do their job". In terms of the "direction" of the voice, this is what I imagine: the sound IS going to go out and in front of me, but first it must go BACK. So the steps are: 1. Intake of air 2. Visualize the sound 3. Send the sound a) BACK, b) OVER c) in FRONT and d) OUT. I hope that was clear!!! Feel free to ask more questions if you like.

[@SB-pj4mt]

@@LivingOpera thank you so much!! Now l cleared up my doubts :) it seems that the more you study the more you have doubts..🙈

[@LivingOpera]

@@SB-pj4mt You're welcome!! I think for a while it's like you have "too much information" and it can be overwhelming. It can take a long time to process everything! Then one day it's like there's a "click" - and everything falls into place!! (The trick is getting to the source with the RIGHT info however!!)

[@blade1660]

Great

[@张麟妍]

Hello！Thank you so much could share your sing tips,but I also have questions that puzzle me all the time,which is how to sing high with the low larynx? Could you give some tips to solve this issue?thank you so much!❤️

[@ShiriMagar]

Your question is beautiful, and it's a life long journey:))) A good voice teacher and a consistent practice over time were my answers❤🎶🌻

[@irinadz]

I’m so tired, it’s been 10 years and still no good sound. High larnix, ugh this passaggio - I’m just... I think it’s not meant to be.

[@ShiriMagar]

Oh no!! Don't say that!! I just watched one of your videos, and you have a GORGEOUS voice!! Keep on going!! Learn, trust your path, your voice, your passion- you will figure out everything:))))

[@irinadz]

@@ShiriMagar 😍

[@irinadz]

@@thaiss6947 Wow, thank you soooo much for takin you prescious time and wrighnitng me such a detailed response!! Thank you! Yes, I have a new teacher now and she said me almost exactly the things you mention here!!! I'm so exited and hopefull...! Thank you again and again!

[@liedindingn9596]

😢😢...I could have wrIte this! Your last sentence is very true and hurts deeply, because the hope, the pleasure of singing fades from month to month, WHICH IS SUFFOCATING. I think many teachers should tell sincerely, when they don't know, how to solve the Problem, which is NOT the Singer/the pupil. IT took for me a Long time to discover this, to take Lessons elsewhere. 😊❤

[@contraltissima]

Sherman? Aha.....

[@TenorRinke]

I don't want to be unkind, but this is not real good singing (you have a very beautful voice). You do not sing with an open throat and appogio, because there is no chestvoice in your voice. In your lower part of your voice (knodel) is closed!!! and that is a shame! ,you teacher must have said it. Please, please listen to intervieuws from Maria Callas about using open throat and chestvoice, also Tebaldi it is very educational. Your teacher is very bad for you! otherwise you wouldn't be afraid for singing.

[@advocate1563]

Do share a video showing us how to do it correctly. Just post the link.

[@eileenvanzijl5583]

Chest voice? You know sopranos don't have that in our upper registers right? The pitch we sing at up there doesn't register in the chest. Do you want us to "belt"? Then it would be all chest.

[@TenorRinke]

@@eileenvanzijl5583 I know, the voice must have the same quality from bottem to top. So you mean belting is chestvoice? Nope it is constriction.

[@TenorRinke]

@@advocate1563 Watch, this is opera also on yt.

[@killerbunny123123]

​@@eileenvanzijl5583What he means is, because (pure) chest voice is not developped, the lack of that quality carries onto the head voice (it is a head voice produced by vocal muscles that are not trained in singing in chest voice properly). It all begins with the right development of the isolated muscles of the two registers. Once the tongue is properly out of the way and the throat is open (the tongue should be only slightly raised, not shoved in the back of the mouth like that), you can properly isolate chest voice and produce clear, unobstracted vowels. Once that happens and it is properly trained, the same is done in the falsetto register (whole other set of muscles in your vocal chords). Once both muscle groups (corresponding to chest and head voice, respectively), are equally developped, the voice naturally blends to the point that head voice, is actually only a lighter version of chest voice. It carries the same volume, robustness and clarity of vowels, all the way to the top notes. That's why you hear such strong middle voice in the old singers like Tebaldi, Claudia Muzio, Ponselle, etc. And the clarity of each vowel.. crystal clear "ah, eh, oh" all sounds are in there. And that way the voice achives true "squillo" and is heard over the orchestra, not "with" it, but "over" it, as it was always meant to be. Sadly today that is largely not the case anymore. Although Saioa Hernandez is actually (i think the only one too) a soprano of today who has that kind of vocal development and squillo with properly developped chest voice. Student of Cabellè herself. Who knows, maybe it can be brought back again someday.