Michael Trimble Vocal Method "Breathing the Larynx"

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Internationally renowned Tenor and Master Voice Teacher, Michael Trimble. 59 years of expertise/performing, teaching and Artist training/acclaimed vocal pedagogue. Career building, vocal literature for aspiring students and experienced professionals

[@DanielAvinashVOX]

"Nothing should move unless the breath moves it". Powerful!

[@jamessampson7175]

At 66, I'm in "recovery" from all the inadequate teaching I've experienced in my life. Every one of your videos contains correctives I've never had in my lessons. So very grateful for having found your rock solid principles with which I'm applying and improving. Mille grazie!

[@notinterested100]

Learning so much. Thank you for your generosity

[@PapagenoHannover]

Magnificent. If you have studied anatomy and physiology of breathing, you know, that the expanded chest will influence the position of the bronchialtree and its upper roof, the larynx. The goal is a natural lower position not influenced by muscles of the throat. Why is the bronchialtree following the movement of the thorax? Well, the thin space between pleura membrane and lung membrane contains the pleurafluid. The adhesion force means, the lung and the bronchialtree will follow the size of the thorax. The best way of a lower flexible larynx is a deep breath, as exposed in the video.

[@ARTEMIYNIK]

But if I don’t need my larinx so low?specially for pop music but even for Show must go on

[@e.l.2734]

Yes. This is it, I finally found someone to help me continue the work my former singing teacher was trying to do on my voice.

[@ΣπύροςΚιζιρίδης]

Sir, "thank you" couldn't ever express my gratitude for sharing with us your deep knowledge and, above all, for using generously your extraordinary teaching skills to be understandable.. Grateful and respectful, Mr. Trimble! Greetings from Greece.

[@Endrit719]

The teacher we all need but only few know of

[@UsherYuan]

Thank you so very much for your generosity. Teachers in those days do not give it all.You simply light up my day.

[@1046C]

Now I understand why I feel like my singing suddenly improves on the way back from my swimming session 😮🏊‍♂️

[@9ersfannorth531]

Thank-you Michael Trimble, you make a great deal of sense to me.

[@carriepett6660]

My biggest takeaway was to breathe deeply and smile. Also, I found my larynx.

[@rubenruiz5809]

Genius techniques. Your videos have significantly improved my singing and more importantly my severe stuttering problem. My throat was so tense and yoru tips for breathing deep down into back, leaning the voice, then letting the voice ride the exhale.. genius. THANK YOU.

[@ARTEMIYNIK]

I want to listen how you can sing some modern songs with this breathing method.

[@leandrolafont1938]

it works as charm, open thorat, low larynx naturally done.....thanks!

[@p83otfan]

So many things in the evolution of singing.

[@michaelamadivocalreality.2052]

You are a living Legend Maestro. Amazing Amazing Amazing Amazing Amazing Amazing Amazing practical Videos.

[@morrighanbond]

Bless your heart! Thank You Maestro!

[@VIDEOHEREBOB]

Thank you for your knowledge Mike.

[@OrbisonTributeArtist]

Outstanding...thanks so much for your generosity.

[@josepmariasaperas]

Thanks for your wisdom and inspiration!

[@hamgaamensemble5989]

Thank you very much!🙏

[@yonathansuissa8814]

Great video!!! I've been learning a lot from Corelli's recordings lately and your explanations matches completely the things I've noticed with his singing. Also thank you for clarifying the connection between the larynx and the breath and the "power of inhalation". 🙏👏

[@loreleipowell5983]

Thank you so much for this instruction, Michael 🙏🏽

[@tabletmulti]

I met your videos today and I'm already your fan. Thank you! Success!

[@errol-ih4jy]

thanks MAESTRO really helpful.

[@hugocasanovas7519]

genio!!!!!

[@TheGreatnes7]

Awesome video Mr. Trimble! Thanks!

[@TheGreatnes7]

I watch them everyday, Mr. Trimble. I've been practicing a lot. I will contact you soon, Thank you for the videos!

[@davidradevic6354]

Omg thank you sir so much!!!

[@murbly]

This is amazing. Very clear very helpful explanation.

[@tenor.luso-brasileiro]

Thank you very much! The best explanation I saw about this!

[@rahatlukumich]

I was looking for this for so long. Thank you so much, this explains everything

[@raynardi7243]

Bravissimo Maestro

[@VenusLover17]

Thanks so much

[@aarondimoff5180]

Brilliant video! I'm in the midst of correcting my younger technique into exactly what you're talking about here. Unlearning the depressed-larynx style using muscles instead of breath is hard to unlearn haha.

[@wow-lh8gf]

I also tried the straw...but my throat tightened...it was nice that I found you the next day 🙂

[@alejandrogijondelvalle3091]

Good Michel class.

[@moirbasso7051]

Why Breathe? "Breath is the one renewable resource available to the singer to 'reset' the mechanism." One of my 'sayings' I tell my students, constantly.

[@JBurtonTenor]

Maestro, thank you for this! I'm enjoying your videos very much! At the end, when you speak of leaning your breath against the bottom of your chest, in which direction does that lean happen? From above, leaning down (i.e. Lungs to diaphragm) or from your back (where you sought to inhale) to your front chest (where you want to experience the sensation of a lean?) or....another option? Abs upward? Thank you again!

[@JBurtonTenor]

Michael Trimble I'm so very touched by this! Thank you! I sent an email to the address on your website. Hopefully we can continue to talk there.

[@bourbakis]

At 5:55, "Karate is great for training breaths" 😂, I'm a karate practitioner having learned proper breathing from singing teachers like yourself & bel canto singers, Riggs, etc. plus countless trials/errors.

[@jgdasa]

Wonderful Class!!!!

[@brandonburrell8517]

Great lesson.

[@advocate1563]

Caruso is also on record as saying he only took enough breath for a conversation with a friend. Is it about intensity of breath rather than volume (your corelli impression suggested volume)? Thank you for being the link to the old tradition; it is the foundation, yet almost lost.

[@Rex-qq5bp]

wow

[@EnricoAdriano]

Power of inhalation that you describe about the noisy sound of Corelli seems to be imitated by the Russian baritone Hrovostsky. Is that sound that he makes on the inhalation done to lower the larynx?

[@Yves75018]

I confess that I don't understand the point of Franco Corelli's inhalation (5:15) supposedly to open the throat. The noise we hear is precisely the tight walls of the vocal tract and which also leads to coughing because it is irritating...

[@heal2hair517]

Hi Michael, Thanks for all the precious knowledge you share with us, I am learning so many things! I have a question for you about breathing: I've always been taught to expand my belly 360 ° while inhaling, but I've almost always focused on the front part of the body. And now it feels unnatural to pull my abdomen in while inhaling, and even more unnatural to release it outwards when singing, because I feel like I will never get the air I need if my belly isn't expanding. My lower back may surely be tight and not free but what you say is that the "need", technique, or habit of expanding the belly when inhaling is wrong and unnecessary as I can get the amount of air I need by just using the lower back (?) Thanks in andvance for your answer/clarification. Greeting from Italy Maicol

[@andrejstepanov2203]

thank you very much, Mr. Trimble for sharing your vocal wisdom! may I ask you sir, what did happend with the Voice of Kirsten Flagstad? I love her voice, but I do not know very much about her voice technique. kind regards, andrey

[@andrejstepanov2203]

+Michael Trimble thank you very much sir! yes indeed the color of her voice is something staight out of heaven! I heared her for the first time few years ago and i was stunned from the beaty and warm quality of her voice! she also has a warm resonant speaking voice. there is a video on youtube, where you can hear her speaking about wagner, Mr. Trimble! kind regards, Sir!

[@MichaelTheTenor]

Hello Michael,thank you for the video.I used to use this type of opening throat and it seemed right until i faced one unpleasant moment.When i am going to sing a big frase and i have enough time for opening throat inhalation everything is allright but when i have short frases i simply dont have enough time for that and i have to breath in faster, and i feel a lot of discomfort doing that. What can you say about it?

[@MichaelTheTenor]

Michael Trimble Thank you very much!

[@user-ef8ow1nz1o]

so my larynx should not move even when i do a Siren exercise for example? it should only move when im inhaling ? but when im singing (exhaling) it should not move up or down, is that correct? how would i get high / low note variatons on one exhale then? sorry im very new to thing. cheers

[@Naypa11]

Mr Trimble, when a student is first developing his breathing, is it apparent then keeping the sternal arch while breathing into the lower back becomes somewhat hard? Is this a strength that will be developed?

[@gedas7058]

In what way would a POP singer would need to breathe? I guess it's in a lower back by holding ir sucking in abdomen and sing with pushing it out. But what about the inhalation itself?

[@gedas7058]

Michael Trimble Thanks for the information! But am I correct when I say that people physically suck the abdomen in? Like it goes in and makes belly look smaller? And you want to tell me that whenever you support your voice, your belly doesn't expand outwards but rather it's being leaned somewhere? I guess I have to understand the concept of leaning first.

[@ARTEMIYNIK]

You singing everytime through your nose?

[@Tenoretrimble]

The extreme opposite! All singing is done with the nose in the closed state....Bob, babe, boob, Bo (Peep), 'beetle. I learned this from Jussi Bjoerling and Zinka Milanov. NEVER sing in the "Mmmmm". resonance. The nose opens and the sound, although it can sound pretty good, blends with the orchestra and does not project over a big orchestra. I sang a lot of Wagner. The "mmmmm" resonance was totally lost in the heavy orchestrations. The closed nose (bahb, bohb, etc.) made. the voice sound very powerful in the back of the theater. Try it and see if you like it. It works like a miracle. MT

[@ARTEMIYNIK]

@@Tenoretrimble sorry I made mistake I mean breathing through your nose)

[@jefolson6989]

Joan Sutherland breathed deep into her back, but it didn't improve her diction. Her throat was so opera she didn't wish to take a chance on consonants. Everything else in her method must have been in place. Mayne every great singer has a "flaw" which becomes their trademark. Trimble always uses examples from my favorite singers. Studying Flagstads sound- she had such easy volume, and a serenity in production, she can actually sound lazy, dramatically. It's all too easy for her.

[@richardgaming8051]

all technique everything what you learning is super important that s how singing even Rob halfrod the only diffrents what he does he use twang comprasion ;/ to sound like metal eveything else is the same ofc .. in this time over years he lose almost everything ........ Amazing

[@jacquelinebouviala245]

My larynx goes down if I breathe through the mouth, if I breathe through the nose, it stands still...

[@jacquelinebouviala245]

@@Tenoretrimble Thank you very much, M. Trimble, for this quick response. I keep trying...I am not successful for the moment, I will let you know... I understand that for you inhaling through the mouth is not an option? Still, It seems to me that there are as many mouth - breathers as nose - breathers among the great singers (Hines' interviews in his book "Great singers on great singing " And why not both?

[@jacquelinebouviala245]

@@Tenoretrimble Thank you again for this quick answer!. I am not really worrying,.. . I am a French soprano, 71, and my very modest career as an operetta singer and soubrette is behind me! Still, I sing every day and I am deeply interested in singing technique. I inhale through the mouth ,as one of my teachers told me to do many years ago (the others did not even mention the subject!). It seems to me that my larynx drops when I inhale through the mouth and, as far as I am concerned, not when I breathe through the nose...That is all I wanted to say., Your motto "nothing is moved except by the air " seems to me to be respected, doing so, isn't it ? I do not use any muscular help, or voluntary gesture... Thank you for your videos , with respect and admiration!

[@Naypa11]

Is there a specific Yoga postures/regime you recommend to train the breath?

[@RachelGerrard]

What is the best way to increase our sucking in power?

[@RachelGerrard]

It's OK, I scrolled down and you have already answered this question!

[@RachelGerrard]

I'll get my clarinet out.....

[@AdamPUnger]

Rachel Gerrard this works alot for me. Get one of the elastic rubber bands that people use to work out with. Tie it around your waist tight but not too tight. Then hop on a bike or something and when you are riding breath in deeply and try to continue to expand the band with your breath long as you can. I think when its right you feel like your really engaging the muscles you use when you’re at the bottom of a squat

[@AdamPUnger]

Michael Trimble these are the best explanations of how to sing ive ever seen

[@thewrestlingpalace9989]

My name is Nyjal, how can increase my power of inhalation. I can not inhale deeply enough.

[@thewrestlingpalace9989]

Michael Trimble I live in the USA in Virginia of eastern time zone. I don’t think I can afford the book unfortunately.

[@thewrestlingpalace9989]

Michael Trimble do you literally stop the breath??

[@alejandrogijondelvalle3091]

Sorry, Michael