My YouTube channel where I share my voice, multiple instruments, and humble opinions. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFS8YTB42PVcxoHHf6hrsFg

I would like to use this forum as a means to both aiding fellow and more so beginners than myself in what ways I can, and also as a means to grow my YouTube channel as in the future my content will be improving a lot and I'd like to stop bedroom singing and start sharing my voice and getting honest and informative feedback. 🙂

So anyway, I thought I'd drop by and see if anything is happening here lately. I haven't much to offer but let's see where this goes.

Tommy

I am singing student from Spain. I have been trying to learn to sing intermitently from 2011. I had some lessons with some teachers here in the forum. I learnt from all and think they are great ( Phil, Felipe, Daniel Formica). I was told about the existence of this forum by Felipe, and I am happy to have found it. I thank you for the effort in delivering and clearing up many things and feel that there is someone on the other side .

Best wishes!

I'm Sebastián, a ballet dancer from Chile. I've been studying singing for a year and a half aproximately. I've had quite a few vocal problems this year but I'm recovering very well.
Namely I had an awful case of gastroenteritis and with all the vomiting and reflux my voice got really bad. I compensated unconsciously with all kinds of muscle activity. Now I'm getting better 🙂 Singing again, going to the speech pathologist and taking singing lessons.

I hope to learn a lot in this forum, share my stuff, and I hope also to help others based on my experience in singing

I started out with severe social conditioning to not sing out and make loud noises as well as extreme tension issues. I had no idea how to breathe correctly, support, or stand best for singing. When I asked my first classical voice teacher to teach me to breathe correctly and support, he even told me it was not important as I was already breathing... which was rather sad/wrong because I now know I definitely did not know how to breathe properly after growing up as an asthmatic.

I took multiple years of classical voice (and also violin) as a non-major while in university and am now about to start medical school in Texas. I have a background of nearing two decades of classical piano and violin experience as well as ~8 years of guitar and frequently accompany myself when I sing. I feel my classical music and scientific study background transfer well to studying details, interpretation, as well as mechanics and technique in voice. When I first started taking classical voice from a grad assistant, I was originally labeled a low baritone (teacher would even focus my lower extension down to D2) and was told I would not be able to sing past F#4 where I was hitting a ceiling. After lots of researching and work put in while learning from various methods (listed below), I have been able to find a connection that goes past C5 in a rather chesty phonation that has become more balanced with some work but remains a bit heavy for my liking. I did get considered a tenor at that time though I feel my resonance shifts seem to lie more in high bari areas.

The methods I have encountered, looked into, and learned from in the past include SLS/Singing For The Stars, SS, TVS (back when the book was under 75 pages long), Arceneaux Approach (2.0, so long ago!), CVT (strong information, interesting ideas), and most recently KTVA and Breaking The Chains. I am also a huge fan of Dan Formica, Phil, Marnell, and Felipe, frequently watching their videos as soon as they are uploaded, applying what i learn, and commenting with how awesome their insight is and how appreciative I am for their generosity with instruction. I hope to be able to learn to develop more versatility and control of dynamics in my voice.

I have found KTVA to be the most helpful in helping me overcome my strong predisposition/fear of singing out while teaching me to modify and sing rather powerfully, but now find that I am more chesty than I would like to be and am trying to learn to back off more in order to have more options. So far, trying to round the embouchure a bit more and go for a less huge mouth opening that is a bit more vertical than horizontal seem to be valid steps to take in learning to lighten up the mass and use gentler breath management and onsets in my practicing. I would like to learn to improve my control over compression and breath management.

Singers I would like to be able to sound like include Al Green, Brian Mcknight, Marvin Gaye, Jason Mraz, Luther Vandross, Dan Formica, Sam Smith, Allen Stone, Ed Sheeran, and Gabe Bondoc. Yeah Dan is between Luther and Sam lmao

I hope to engage in educational and meaningful discussions on this forum to learn from those who I trust to not lead me astray. I could go on and on and on, but elect to stop myself here. My work and progress can be found at my soundcloud, here:

I'm thinking of buying Phil's program, since it's set up a LOT more like an actual teacher/voice lessons instead of just a program.

Lastly, I'm glad I discovered this forum for "exiles" . I actually think the other place has gotten a lot less "this is really X's forum so his product is always the top suggestion" than it used to be, but I almost think 99% of the discussions on there is pretty much mental masturbation and way too sciency haha.

I wasn't around for whatever drama happened on Modern Vocalist, but I've always been fond of Marnell's posts for years now so I asked him if there was anywhere he posted and that is how I arrived.

I do miss some of the discussions of the older era of the forum and would like to have a place to post about singing and vocal function in general to fellow singers without having commercial pressures as well . I'm not the most knowledgeable or skilled about voice, but I do like helping people.

Asim Hussain said

I found this forum through looking up an old TMV post of one of the user's here, and, after a few weeks of watching this site grow, decided to join. I've been training sporadically since 2009 when I was 17. I practiced SS, T4PoS, KTVA, took several lessons with those guys, and I'm currently taking from Moufarrege. I listen to stuff like Interpol, Arcade Fire, Joy Division and Radiohead - not exactly technically brilliant stuff - so I'm probably not expected on a site devoted to singing, but I believe good technique is universal. My goals are to master holding back air, vibrato, and enunciating.

Good luck to everyone.

Good to see you here bro

Good luck to everyone.

HeyYouNotYouYou said

My favourite singers are Rody Walker from Protest The Hero, either of the DragonForce vocalists, and Russell Allen from Symphony X.

Cool! They are all great. Rody Walker is probably one of the best singer of his generation. I don't know how he learnt to sing like that. I was thinking about covering some stuff from Protest the hero, more focusing on his cleaner tones and find someone for the screams, but i think i will handle the screams myself

I also enjoy long walks on the beach, deep conversation, holding hands, romance novels, pruning the garden, skinny dipping and piggy-back rides. Call me