opera progress 

Thought it'd be fun to post some of my progress so far. This is over the last couple of years. If I'm honest the last video is a bit old now as I fell off the opera practise wheel for a while but I'm back on now and making good gains so I hope to post new material soon. Sorry for ultra-grainy quality, dingy low-light and informal attire (yes, I'm singing in my PJs in video 3): these are literally just my own personal video diaries to track my progress and were not made with public broadcast in mind.
Also I've realised that the gain changes a lot between clips so sorry for that. I'm only just starting to use video editing software so still getting to grips with the basics! I'll go back and sort that out when I have a moment but, for now, clip1 and 4 are louder than clips 2 and 3. However, until then and if you're watching this before I've sorted it out, you can still tell which vocal examples have more natural loudness because of the quality of the resonance (the depth and amount of natural buzz).
Notice in the first video I've got the right idea but it's quite squeezed and you can hear a loud grunt at the end of the scale phrase. This lessens over the next videos and you will hear my voice get deeper, rounder and louder. This is what the technique does.