Singing Lessons - Understanding Compression: Part 2 - Beginners Guide - Voice Studio 

Vintage Carl popped up! Hope you are well. 🎶🎵🧡

Your videos are pure gold.

One of the most amazing videos I have seen on singing? Fantastic explanation!!

your understanding and ability to communicate is amazing. I learned a lot from this and I know exactly what you mean about maintaining the original sound; when I hang on to the original sound as go higher without fear, it's always surprised how much easier it can be.

This is even more informative than the last video about compression. U rock

Carl, I've been following you for years at this point, I think I first started watching your videos from the Brett Manning singing success forums and I just wanna say you've been a big help in my unraveling of the mysteries behind the voice and singing. I love the way you explain using different amounts of compression to convey a different emotion, similar to how a painter will use a different color. Lately I've been a bit confused if I was 'wrong' to sing in a lighter tone with very little compression the same way that Michael Jackson would in some of his songs. This helped clear that up. Singing is about conveying emotion and painting a picture for the listener, different amounts of compression are necessary to keep the sound from becoming sterile and boring.

WHERE HAS THIS VIDEO BEEN ALL MY LIFE????? SOOOOO GOOODDD THX Carl!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great lesson! thank you for providing clear and practical explanations about this.

Learning to lean into the sound instead of straining into it is by far the hardest part of learning to sing!

You are amazing. Your explanations are perfectly concise and clear. Thank you sir.

Best video I've seen on compression 👏🏾 Thank you!

Gold... thank you.

None of our chorus coaches talk about compression or anything about cord closure. This is all new information....but I don't really understand how to do it. As soon I get over being sick and can talk again I will hope for a lesson with you!

thanks for these videos. this has cleared up alot for me and I am finding I can belt much clearer and brighter now. feels awesome and makes singing way more fun.

Thank you for doing this. It's very interesting.

awesome!

Gracias 🙏

DUDE SO HELPFUL!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

Nicely done tutorial.

Thank you. Great vid.

cool man this is great to watch.

very helpful carl ,,, thank you!!!!!! from Philippines!!!!!!!

Thanks Carl. Great lesson. From the land down under.

I am thoroughly fascinated and inspired

best teacher

Great explanation. Thank you!

Really excellent explanation and demonstration! I've been working to perfect this balance for years and it is has only been quite recently that I've been actually able to keep the balance. The problem I have seen is that when I am tired from working all day where I talk quite a bit, my voice feels out of balance and it is more difficult to sing in the evening. I'm trying to teach my body to pace myself when I have to talk a lot and speak with a more balanced tone so that at night, when I want to sing, I can actually do it consistently.

Excellent video. You explain what happens if you have balance, as well as what happens if you have more closure and less air pressure. What happens when you have decent closure, but more air pressure? Is this what causes the “pull” and breaking at the top?

Hi buddy great lesson im taking voice lesson from6 months and my teacher didn't mentioned about me about these thing they only tal about breath nothing more so my voice didn't improve a little bit with your lesson i understand more about vocal mechanisam ! So is there anything beside maintaing balance between air flow and compression" like resonance "etc or if balannced we dont have to think more

Trying to sing the acoustic version of layla by eric clapton, and to get that dark sort of voice i feel like i have to use alot of compression, buy i really struggle to make the sound open and not sound really strained ^^

I'm a beginner and I was experimenting with my voice. I managed to mess up in one day while trying to produce sounds with "open throat" , as he mentioned in 4:30 I dried out my cords and next day it was feeling like I got sick :,( At least now, I know what not to do know.

Any video for vibrato? Thanks

I was wandering I saw your video and now adays I'm praticing godsmack under your scars, love his voice, no forcing but still sounds rock, and so for myself I got some situation on which I am not able to do some compressions when singing softly, the exemple I could place is when he is saying the word sense .(In which I think is compression but not sure) He does it, In the beginning when he says (do we make sense) I dont know other terms than compression, but mainly I'd like to do the same, with a clear voice like he is doing, mine is sometimes""windy", and keeping it soft, just like almost like he was talking which I need to practice. And so I was wandering if you could give me some tips to get this, techniques and exercises and also what video of yours you recommend me for this. For me it seems to be using his fry vocals for this moment, but when I'm doing it doesnt sound what his doing and so for myself when doing it seems and feels that I should be compressing deeper in the throat, (on which i'm not able with soft voice).

I have no problem going up higher at low volume, but I sing at high volume, so I can't find that perfect balance up there... I end up squeezing my throat when I use vowels like e or u... frustrating !

Awesome vid! Just a quick question though; Is 'lean' when compression and air flow are working consistently together? How can it be explained through power vocals or belting?

dayum, *KEY INFORMATION STARTS FROM* 2:50. But Carl, what about this situation, what should i choose? Situation: i am doing "mum, Bub, Ney" excercises and I come close to my "scary pitches" like A4 so i have 2 choices: 1. keep the same air flow and compression and eventually start loosing closure (similar to vocal fry sound) or even lose closure at all (just air goes between cords but they dont produce any sound) 2. Increase air flow and compression to get more couple of tones (maximum of b4) and start tensing and eventually splash. What would you suggest and is it normal that i have this feeling of "weak grip" and "fry mix" :D :D :D

Very Helpful Carl Thank-you! I've just recently (a few days ago) discovered how to add rasp/grit to my singing that doesn't leave me with a sore throat. However what I am often experiencing is what you've described at the 11 minute mark (strain and push)in the area you've described immediately under the jaw/chin. Not sore per-say but gravelly and noticeable for a few hours after. Is this normal/to be expected when singing with grit or am I still doing it incorrectly?

I do not pay attention to this when I sing, it's like sometimes it works(my voice) and somtimes it doesn't. I am so unaware.

This’ll be an odd question but do you have any tips for maintaining compression while singing phrases? I can hold onto it pretty well during scales and warm ups but when I do actual phrases, all my technique and compression goes out the window and I sound like garbage

Im finding it difficult to feel like my support is connecting to actual air flow. I've watched a lot of videos and understand the concept of support, but when I try to concentrate on engaging muscles below to try and regulate the air coming out it just doesn't feel like I'm actually controlling anything. It feels like im just engage muscles and the air is still doing its own thing. It's hard to describe. It's as if im trying to make air come out just using muscles below rib cage but it feels like a superficial thing rather than those muscles doing it

Where can I find the #1 video?

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