Hello Beautiful Singers! I am a Berklee College of Music graduate. I have composed and directed musical theatre productions in NYC. As both a vocal coach & piano instructor, I have been teaching hundreds of music students for over 2 decades. I specialize in helping beginner vocalists find their own voice and gain confidence knowing what works best for them. I am excited to share a part of my music classroom here with you!
I can't stop listening to this awesome song. It's so full of raw emotion and shows your talent as a writer and artist. Thanks for putting this out in the world.
So much good stuff here! I You presented this material as if I was the only one you were talking to. This vid together with your others really creates a great primer for learning vocal / singing skills. Super job and your enthusiasm is infectious!!! Doug
Thanks, Doug! I feel like I am teaching my “in person” classes even when I film videos! You’re all with me! 🩷 My goal is to present the basic info that sets students on a confidence course! I’m so glad you liked the weekly warm-ups! More coming soon!!! 🎤
Another beauty! Your enthusiasm is absolutely infectious. I do like your mixing in a little theory and terms into the exercises. I believe that makes for a fuller understanding of the craft of singing. Great job AGAIN! Doug
Hi Doug! I'm glad we share in the enthusiasm! I'm happy to share the bonus theory. I think you'll enjoy the Thursday Theory video when it comes out! There will also be more freestyle material for the creatives and tools for finding our best singing sound. 🤩
I love the powerful parts and their inflections. The passionate, mournful sound is pretty great! How did you produce the visuals? Can I get a "behind the scenes"? (TMC)
Thank you for such a beautiful description! Oooh…behind the scenes! Great idea! I collaborated with an amazing European filmmaker on the video. Luigi Florente brought my song to life with the visuals!!! Thank you for watching! ❤️🙏🏻🤩
@@rosannasvoice I gave it another listen. I can't place the decade, but this FEELS very characteristic of... something! Do you know what I mean? I feel like the drums are a ig part of that. Who did that? What's thst about?
Hi Marie! You have a gorgeous voice! On your rendition of "Amazing Grace", I am hearing chest voice on the low notes and head voice on the high notes. You have a rich head voice! I couldn't detect mixed voice there but I heard your mixed voice on "I'm Here For You". Sometimes, you are mixing and sometimes you are leaning into your chest voice in your mid-range. Both your chest and head voice are well developed which will help you create a mixed voice without straining that you might want to have. If you want a belting out sound in your mid-range, you can practice vocal exercises specifically for mixed voice (which I suspect you are doing🤩). The resonance will go into your middle face and nasal cavity as well as the roof of your mouth. Super talent and splendid work on your channel! I'm on board with a sub. Thank you!!! 💜🎤
What a great video! Chock full of goodness. Beyond the helpful warm-up techniques, I noticed that you kept a wonderful posture. Perhaps posture can be taken for granted, but I believe its important for so many things. With regard to the separate video without the dialog, it may a "nice to have" rather than a "need to have", because this video does a great job of providing a follow along format. I will defer to other viewers. Anyway, this was a well done video with great pacing and very clear motivation! Great Job! Doug
I am really out of practice, but you can hear my rendition of birdsongs at even tide, from my garden concert if you'd like ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IC_Aj0ioWLQ.html
I am everything after training. My original range was Bass Baritone (up to D4). I now go to at least E5 and have slide from C2 to F#5 one day and can make a noise at G5.
these are ranges for operatic fachs. Meaning, that a bass should be able to make the entire room vibrate with an E2. Same goes to baritone with a G2, and a tenor with a C3. Both basses, baritones and tenors can sing alot lower and higher than their fachs are assigned for. However, it won't be well projected, comfortable and won't be full of "ring" of "squillo". There are tenors with notes as low as C2 (and thats me but i have my first resonance loss at A2, second resonance loss at E2, final resonance loss at C#2) and there are basses with notes as low as E1 and C1. All in chest voice, and have powerful, resonant notes down to A1 /G1. Plenty of baritones can also atleast hit a Bb1 daily, but lose resonance beyond G2/F2. The key word here is resonance. Someone can be comfortable singing an E2, but it still might be outside their most resonant range. So to truly find out what someone's vocal type is, you need to factor in the weight of the voice, the volume & loudness of the low notes, the color of the voice, the passagio (where the voice wants to go into mix/ falsetto). But age and level of training also needs to be accounted for, as a trained tenor can sometimes beat an untrained baritone in low notes. Likewise, a trained baritone can also beat both untrained tenors and untrained basses in both low and high notes, especially if we match up an older, 30+ year old operatically trained baritone against some 18 year old random basses and tenors.
Hi Celatra. Thanks! I didn't see any singing on your channel. Are you also a singer or teacher? I've been teaching hundreds of students and wanted to share what the most common comfort ranges from my experience have been. We also sing a lot of pop, rock and theatre. I appreciate your input here! I hope people will find the additional info helpful. Please share your singing if you can! Everyone has a different voice and there are exceptions. I think the ranges I gave here are a good guideline to start with especially for beginners or contemporary singers. Thanks again for your comment.
@@rosannasvoice I'm a singer with pop / rock/ metal/ jazz training for 9 years and recently dived into classical/ opera and have a very deep dive into the history of opera, operatic fachs, voice types, misconceptions about the voice and voice types, etc etc. i've had talks with operatically trained people, some with 6-8 months, 2-6 years, some with 10+. the one thing that both singing teachers and many other people get wrong, is that they'll call anyone who can convincingly sing a G2/F2 a baritone or even a bass, when in reality, many tenors can sing these notes with reasonable amounts of quality, especially if they are bigger voiced tenors. Another misconception is that baritones can't have reliable comfortable ranges above G4, when many lyric baritones have A4's and Bb4's written for them in Operatic Arias. The voice also only ossificates at around 30 years old, give or take 5 years depending on your voice type + sex. Which means that you can't really assign a accurate voice type to somebody until their voices are fully matured and settled. As for my singing, you probably will never hear it. I'm not that confident that i'd share it. My knowledge on singing is greater than my skills in singing at this point.
@@Celatra Hello! Interesting that you mention baritones. I've worked with a few baritones that can comfortable go that high and a few that could not. People are commonly curious about their vocal ranges. I pointed out in my video that these are merely "labels" that have been frequently used to help singers classify their most comfortable range "today". I agree that voices change with maturity. I mentioned in the video that I am supportive of singers expanding beyond the limits of these classified ranges. Singers I work with are choosing audition and performance pieces so knowing their best notes today is helpful while still working to expand in the future. I think it's wonderful that you are diving into the opera world!
Another great one! Huge value add for those of us males trying to find our range. Years ago, (decades actually) a musical friend play the same ranges as you to help me find a comfort range when we were taking music theory together. I like the encouragement for those who may be able to expand their comfort range. Great job! Doug from QML
Another wonderful video! This short vid was PACKED with great info. I loved the view of the keyboard, too. However, you very clear description/demonstration of the ranges will be super helpful. Thanks for also adding the encouragement for followers to practice and to expand their ranges. Great Job! Doug
Nicely done! I am sure that others will find this extremely helpful. I like that you explained what each term meant and your video helped show how to do the exercises. Very well done! Doug
Thank you, Doug! I love teaching musical terms and their uses to my students! I think we get inspired when we expand our music theory knowledge. 🎵I really appreciate your comment. 💖Sing your song! ⭐
Yes! I totally agree! Singing from the diaphragm first and then placing the sound in the best part of the face like I demonstrate here works for my students. Those two things, plus breathing! Thanks for adding the emotion to the potion of singing the best way!
Wonderful advice, Rosanna. Thank you! For pitch, I need to pluck the melody out on my keyboard so I know exactly what notes I'm singing. Your breathing and open vowel guidance is perfect! Can't wait to try!
I'm so glad the guidance with breathing and open vowels are helpful to you, Laura! It's excellent that you can play the piano as a tool for practicing the melody notes and staying on pitch. 🎹Playing piano is great for ear training, music theory comprehension and so many other creative things! Thank you for watching!!! 💖💖💖
You're so welcome! Thank YOU for being here!!! I'm happy if anything is helpful to you. Your voice is important. ⭐⭐⭐ I gave a 6 year old ukulele protege student at the school a sticker for playing me a song and she returned the next week with a sticker for me! It even matched my outfit! Thanks for enjoying the experience with me! 💙
Really fine video. Well explained and demonstrated. I would think that getting in the pitch groove may be a big challenge once the breathing is under control. I really liked this video!
