10 years ago I found your videos and that was my first singing class ever, I learned how to stay in tune and control my diaphragm, so when I went to a voice class in my town, I was singing in a very good level, so that was easy to me and I'm thankful for what I learned from you. Thank you. (today I'm a metal singer, this is not my professional profile)
Excellent advice. I used to have unbelievable power and control, I could let my air out slowly over a very long period of time, 1 quick excited breth and I could produce a loud, rich tone, sound with gorgeous timbre and I could hold that note for over a minute, even if I had belted the note out, singing along with Edwin McCain's - "I'll Be" the last note of the bridge for the word 'Can', I believe that it's a B note(or actually, it could be an F# = 5th of B, it's been a long time... I played it on guitar, so I should know, but since I damaged my voice I haven't sang nearly as much. I wanted to give my vocal folds time to heal. Sadly, I have a distortion in my voice that when I hold open my throat, as I was taught, to dance on the notes, holding back just a little bit and controlling the flow, it has a noisy buzz to the tone. I also have to explell a lot of air in order to produce much sound, and since the last car accident I was in, I had injured my back and neck, I was bedridden for many years, so I had given up on life, excruciating pain is debilitating. So I had started smoking again and lost my powerful lung capacity. I can still sing, but not anymore near like I used to. But I am determined to heal my back, neck and voice, lungs and vocal abilities. Do you have any recommendations...??? I would truly appreciate it. Thank you very much and God Bless You
Since this is latest video from Eric I have to say his stuff works. I am on my third day of phase 1 and sound already better. My family thought I did funny sounds during my lip and tongue warmups, but damn it works!!! Excited to see where this leads after finished phase I. I am still not sure what voice type I am for the warmups but I found using "medium" was more fun. Before I only managed to score 5000 for a song in a karaoke app , now I score 20000+ and can keep tone long time. If that what you call it :)
Eric, you're something else. I really appreciate your short youtube lessons. I've also purchased your Bootcamp for Breathing on Udemy and that is excellent as well. Thanks for all you do. Much appreciated!
I have the opposite problem of trying to overpower everything lol. I don't know how to stop turning everything into a belt. I've only been singing for a few months. Once I get to G4, I don't know how to resist the urge to go for the moon.
try to sing with just enough effort for your tone/sound to come out. don't engage too much or else your sound will get too strong. u should try singing into a straw with as little effort as possible (but still using correct diaphragmatic support ofc) to allow your voice to hit a (high) note (like g4-c5) comfortably. you will develop vocal strength and steady breath control this way too if you keep practicing!
