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.
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.
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!
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! 🇺🇸💕💕💕💕💕🇺🇸
Muchísimas gracias Carolina por este fantástico tutorial! Desde Barcelona España:-) Hoy comienza mi aventura con el "Bell Canto" Hermosa voz. Estoy feliz!
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 ! ☺
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.
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:-)
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Diana Amati .. do you have other suggestions on well trained teachers in Bel Canto here at RU-vid? I would love to train my self into different styles of singing especially Operas. Can you please answer 🤗
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 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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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).
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.
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 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
@@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.
Well made video with a few good vocal exercizes. Aiming for pure vowels is one of the keys of Bel Canto. For future videos I suggest demonstrating repertoire with a pianist.
Shameful there is a hater in this thread with an inflated ego. These voice lessons are excellent. Caroline has a patient, peaceful teaching technique and a voice that is pleasant to accompany while practising. Bel Canto is an operatic vocal theory which trains one to come into the fullest beauty of voice. Even if Caroline is not singing Opera, she has attained her personal state of Bel Canto, her voice is beautiful. Personally, I love Carolines coaching videos and have come back many times to warm up with her voice.
