Singing Is Way Simpler Than You Think.. - Singing 

Very helpful! You filled-in a lot of blanks that kept me puzzled about "singing". I am a 71 year-old singer. I started singing 4 years ago after retirement as a karaoke activity. I sucked but occasionally strung a few notes together. Then I found the miracle of You Tube...began using YT voice coaches and my journey began. You are right...practice, repetition and muscle memory are everything. Even at my age my voice not only astounds, surprises and amazes me but listeners are very complimentary. Weirdest thing is that sometimes I skip several days, come back to singing and find my vocal chords have advanced in ability. Go figure. Additionally, I do work-out just about everyday at the YMCA and the physical training is a big plus. So, I am a believer...if you can conceive it you can achieve it...look-out Johnny Mathis, I'm almost there (LOL). Peace

1:35 - "The reason I can do this is because I can squeeze in a very specific way that you can't" ...YET don't forget to say yet! I'm working on it bro!

Really well articulated 👍 This is such a difficult thing to find accurate information on when first trying to vocalise throughout your entire range and not ‘break’. People who can do it naturally usually can’t teach it, because they never had to actually learn!

thank you this is the best vocal lesson i've ever had

this has made so much sense for me. sometimes when I sing it sounds great and sometimes it doesn't, and I never quite knew what it was until watching your videos. made sooo much progress in like 1 week than i have in the past 2 mothns. it's all about controlling compression. thank you!

Amazing tip! Definitely gonna watch more! Thank you for this, Carl.

Slowly beginning to understand this, Tried loads of videos but this explains it the best in my view , thankyouj Carl

Your explanations are perfectly explained in a way thats easy for anyone to understand...definitely helping me out thanks a lot

This video was a real game changer for me! Thank you so much

Mate, your're fantastic. Game changer. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

This is probably the best explanation of singing technique I've ever heard. Thank you so much 🙏

I need my girlfriend to learn how to squeeze in the right way.

You are amazing teacher Carl. You break it down in such a way that it starts looking so easy for the learners. I am yr big fan and have seen almost all your videos. God bless you...

Brilliant!! In all my singing lessons I have never heard singing explained this way!! Perfectly demonstrated and I actually have something to really work on now. I was definitely forcing it before and trying to push it with the other muscles. Excellent!!!

Wonderful , great examples, you have your unique way to pass the idea to the listeners .

This is so well explained! I think so many teachers here on RU-vid skip the importance of reps and the exercises, and just give quick tips but there are no shortcuts

This tip has completely targeted my issue with talking and singing. Omg you have no idea. I have searched for years and years for the prefect solutions and this is it!!! Thank you forever

U R a very good teacher. Thank you!!

Wonderfully explained!

Finally! someone explains what's supposed to be happening in the throat...Thank You!

this is prolly my second video of yours in your channel I am viewing rn, I wanna learn to sing, i can't wait to try and take everything you say to heart and try!

Carl, you're the BEST on youtube!

you are absolutely the best conveyer for me this make so much sense to me finally someone speaking to me vocally what a relief ...thanks

this preach is just so real, thank you man 👍🏻🙏

Another awesome vid as always Carl! 🤗

You have understood the Anatomy. You are so good

It's easier once you can identify your flaws and work on them! I've whittled my issue down to a few main things that really seem to be mostly rooted to my chest register: managing cord closure strength, breath support and tongue placement. I'll get around that E4/F4 area and either I'll get completely "locked out" (pulled chest/high larynx, tongue shoots up) or I'll have the "release", but it's super weak and I'm cracking all over the place (not enough cord closure and too much air going out). In both cases, I lose my breath and it all collapses. What sucks is that I have a really cool sounding mix, but I have such little control over it at the moment. Like, my whole life's outlook would look SO much different once I can put the pieces of my voice together.

I love all of your videos about singing lesson, i get it and easy to understand.. Keep it man..👍👍👍👍

Great as always! Thank you amigo~~ :)

Thank you.

Every day I have to go through the process of stretching and thinning the cords. It’s actually great to find the shaky place where the cords struggle to hold on and then let go. It means I have isolated the cords from all the tension and other muscles interfering. It gives them a chance to work out and get stronger and more balanced.One thing that really helped me was the feeling of staying on top of the note. I know you’ve spoken about this before. It feels to me like every note is initiated from the lower rib area and into the back, the deep vocal fry feeling. As the pitch ascends the resonance moves up until it is very small and just in the nose, but the feeling of connection stays low, like holding a ball underwater - the sensation of pressing down as you go higher.For years I’ve been able to connect right through my range on a very light and quiet co-ordination, but as soon as I tried to do anything louder or with more closure my cords just let go or I had to squeeze like crazy and it sounded terrible. Obviously I was just using my throat and not finding the connection from a deeper place

great explanation. very well done!

This is a neat idea for a y/t channel.. singing, life, chaos. I'm digging it lol

Oh c'mon!!! Why has no other teacher ever taught this my whole friggin life?!!! On top of it - why did it take me 2 years to find this vid? LOL Such an amazing video - thanks for sharing!!!!

hey man thank you! that was some good info. i'm working with Singing Success too and i don't know how to follow this program right. i mean should i do folder by folder everyday until i finish it and start again or it's not like that?

Aha. Will try to Experiment with that feel. Just started working on my voice.

Really great video! I was just wondering, is P!nk a singer that has a consistent squeeze when she sings? I love her voice and I feel like she does but I can't really tell.

great video and information thank so much

Awesome

These videos are great thank you, you've gained a fan girl! ha x

You are the man! I could never manage the time for lessons, so was stuck in the "completely relaxed throat" area, which I was starting to figure wasnt exactly accurate. It seems that in order to make people relax the chewing muscles (digastric, if I got it right), instructors will promote complete relaxation of the throat as to get the pumping from the belly, but Im finding out another reason was to promote some kind of muscle independence of the squeezing muscles you talk about, if I got it right :) (I practice 99% of the time with my thumb stuck under my chin just to make sure Im doing the right thing, but ended up with just an annoying falsetto after F F#). Many thanks :D

hey carl these are videos i need, cux i can relate to someone who had been where i am right now(beginner)

Man, that squeezing thing, that was the missing part that i couldn't get! Thank you a lot!

Really struck as I listen to you discuss fine motor skill learning and efficiency of effort how directly what you're saying parallels elite athletics -- see Roger Federer. I suppose singing is a kind of athletics in itself but I never thought of it that way until now. Fascinating video.

It's so odd, I think I might have learnt on my own. At the time I just figured that there needed to be a "path of least resistance" for vocal performance to do the things they do (aside from training). Just like with everything there are rules and tricks that help one be more efficient and felt less constraint, so I just applied that theory to singing. Then it was a matter of just testing, starting small singing simpler lower pitched country/folk tunes like James Taylor, and then move up from there.

I like to think too. Intuitively on a deep level we all know how to squeeze for a specific tone due to very primal sounds made as a baby. We have some references such as crying from hunger. Sometimes it feels like its almost a letting go and allowing yourself to squeeze. Probably mixed with a bit of my own problems/inhibition. First time time I truly felt free when singing was the first time I did shrooms. Pretty crazy what it does to certain parts of the brain. Shutting of certain areas. I would be happy to share with you some of my vocal recordings of some of my most strained singing and recording where I felt my voice felt infinite

So many coaches on RU-vid n endless amounts of informations out there to my experience that was truly the most valuable piece of advice on the internet So don’t u guys mess around just do it!

Yoooo this makes more freakin sense to me now!!!

I've actually been singing for quite a while, but i've always struggled with singing in mixed voice, and always did it quite loud. I'm starting to realise I never actually did it quite right, and that's why I can't sing in a lower volume with ease. I'm trying to re-build my muscle memory. Are there any exercises you can recommend?

hi ! some time i sing very good and others no ! i discoverd that my problem is sqeezing the right way, before a watch this video, but i have seen a video of you once when you talked about that, its very important to keep in mind that its a mater of balence betweeen compression and other things , thank you Carl

Can you please do mitch grassi please. He is a very good counter tenor and I would like to know how he does it to go off of it

It's a ZEN kind of thing, I've learned over the years.. your at your BEST when your totally relaxed, that's why you should "sing" how you SPEAK

Can I email you a link to a YT singer for analysis of her technique?

It's still hard for me to understand what the squeeze really is... Even tho I have watched several videos, does it come from the diaphragm? The throat? The larynx? It's confusing

For those who love 'Diva's" , I recommend checking out the Lebanese Hiba Tawaji. I find she is special somehow although her high register is a bit piercing and I find her lower register more interesting. The reason she sounds so good has to do with her special crossover music (jazz, classic, pop and middle eastern mixed) and also her Arabic which is a very interesting language for singing it seems.

I didnt want to sub to you at first because i thought ah another sing channel and i wont be following those because im pretty confident already, the way you explain things is on some next level stuff bro its like everything you say is perfectly clear to me. thanks dude, btw have you ever tripped on psychedelics? really curious

Hi do you do Skipe lessons ?

this is so good, took me 2 years to find it gee

I don’t see where is your email?

I want to see that painting that's above your bed. I'm a painter, not a singer. I enjoy your videos.

Hey Carl, at least i seen 3 videos of you talking about squeezing. But i got a question. The squeezing lesson is basically a complete lesson that made me sing well in pro level? Cause we have so much more lessons in sing theory, but you talk about squeezing like the better and the most efficient. (And thats is a thing that i gotta insight before, like all millions of vocal lessons are more of the same). So, Squeezing is all that i need?

Personally I found that light squeeze doing nothing but making my vocals weaker overall over the course of a year. Now, I did get a bit too breathy and falsetto-ish back 1-2 years ago with my vocal technique. Thankfully I started developing my belt voice, that made me start to get a balanced and powerful sound at the same time. Im just curious, are you against belting or what? It sounds like you bridge very early. I never found these squeezing excersizes helpful, but Im not neglecting that I might have done something wrong in the process.

is that squeezing what I'm feeling when I keep my larynx from raising as I go higher?

Thank you for the description... I’m 52 now.. It is too old for me to learn singing?☺️

You remind me so much of Derren Brown

6:44

I sound like an electric clipper

Sometimes I'm so confused by the presence of dislikes on a video.

Hahaha.i love your joke...

how old are you carl?

.....light bulb....thank you

Thats my issue. I can only get it right about 5 times out of 100 and its completely random and unreliable 🙄

Each time I try this, I choke

Why the bra dude? Does it help you sing the high notes :)