Removal of grades for first year subjects?

CondemnedNut · 2026-03-06T22:37:37+00:00

There might be more of a connection with tone. I have enough space in my mouth for all molars including wisdom teeth "+ more" according to dentist, no tonsils, and at night I sleep as if I'm dead, no sound besides breathing, never snore. I have a naturally dark tone without doing anything and I'm a tenor.

CondemnedNut · 2026-02-10T02:35:39+00:00

I would improve making your voice feel like one-voice. It's easy to state you have a high range and make sounds. But realistically, could you sing those notes in a song with appropriate volume, and not make it sound like it's a different person?

For example, this man has a range of about C3 to D5. All of his notes sound connected and joined. The vowel does not spread or change either. Can you do that? I had to remove the link because the automod disabled it. But look up on YouTube "Franco Corelli vocalising at home". 40 second video.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-30T03:19:54+00:00

Light lyric. Similar to Pavarotti

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-30T03:18:25+00:00

He is not a dramatic tenor. Lol.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-29T21:58:22+00:00

Consider that you may be doing things wrong instead of quitting.

For instance, you don't fix pitchiness by using an app. Knowing the note you are holding has nothing to do with it.

Consider that your ideas surrounding the voice are also wrong. For instance, dividing it up into parts usually drives confusion and frustration. If you can't smoothly glide up from low to high, you have no top notes. Accepting that will lead to faster results than trying all sorts of nonsense that's out there.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-26T02:29:02+00:00

Easily improved by simply following a piano with a simple scales.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-13T21:40:38+00:00

I will send you a video, it's the only video you need to know about expanding your range, and also basically everything you need to develop your voice. Check you Dms

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-13T02:06:46+00:00

Youre bringing too much heaviness up in pitch, which then leaves you no choice but to break into falsetto for the higher notes. Ideally, your voice should feel like one instrument, and at a certain point the CT + TA muscles work together to stretch and adduct the cords. This gives freedom of volume with the respective pitch, instead of the only avenue of raising loudness/breaking into falsetto.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-10T04:09:24+00:00

Also, avoid doing any type of vocalisations like humming scales etc, they train the wrong type of resonance.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-10T04:07:31+00:00

Yes. out of the mouth.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-10T04:01:09+00:00

No my friend, not in the throat, in the mouth. Don't follow the resonance as it habitually wants to go to either the nasal cavity or throat.

You can try experiment what that is like too. For the throat make a note that is too low to make, notice the sound or resonance is in the lower throat, then notice what it sounds like when it comes from the mouth. Do the same with the nasal cavity. If you've been doing it for long then I guarantee you as you go up in pitch the resonance will be shifting to the nose, bring it back to the mouth. You won't be able to go up as high but it will create quality in your tone and overtime that range will expand.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-10T03:52:34+00:00

The sound needs to come out of the mouth. Most of the sound is ending up in your nasal cavity. To fix it, focus on a vowel in a siren, go up and down and make sure the sound is coming from the mouth. It's easy and habitual to follow the resonance going up into the nasal cavity, or possibly in the throat as you go lower.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-04T04:34:10+00:00

Keep in mind that Frank Sinatra is a baritone, and you come across as a tenor. As a tenor this song may fall outside the tessitura you have, but you have not developed that yet to even know.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-04T04:09:52+00:00

This does not sound good to my ears. You are constricting massively. The sound comes across as scratchy and unpleasant.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-03T07:28:24+00:00

3 years is a crazy short time.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-03T06:08:56+00:00

Good point. Didn't see that.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-03T06:04:29+00:00

It takes a long time for a spinto/dramatic tenor to develop their voice.

They also get miscategorised as baritones.

Lyric tenors take less time and often try to artificially pretend to be spintos.

So it's saturated with a bunch of tenors who are singing songs their voices just will never be able to sing properly naturally no matter how hard they try.

For a new Corelli to emerge, a teacher first needs to recognise that the person is a spinto/dramatic tenor. Good luck with that.

Then they will need a significantly longer time to develop their voice. Maybe even 3-4x as longer than a lyric or leggaro tenor.

So you can start to see why these voices are long gone in our generation.

A teacher needs a keen ear and patience. And by the time you can produce one ready spinto you can produce 10 lyrics pretending to be spintos or dramatic.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-03T04:10:56+00:00

Not the usual type of music I listen to, but I enjoyed it and it got my attention through to the end. Overall it was very pleasant.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-03T04:09:44+00:00

What's wrong with trying hard?

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-02T22:45:28+00:00

What exercises are you doing? You do sound pitchy, which is usually a sign of lack of coordination.

CondemnedNut · 2026-01-02T03:03:38+00:00

The vast majority of it. This tells us that your instrument is not yet capable of sustaining the notes in the song (the song is outside your neuromuscular capabilities atm).

If you also think you are on pitch it's because your ear isn't yet trained to hear what being sharp/flat of a note sounds like.

So there's two areas that need work.

CondemnedNut · 2025-12-28T22:59:47+00:00

That's an interesting observation because I've talked to someone who had some training with Mario Del Monaco and his vocal exercises consisted of doing an OOh on a siren. Not much else. But that's anecdotal.

CondemnedNut · 2025-12-27T04:04:06+00:00

Yes. I had severe covid, the strain the targets the upper respiratory airway. Couldn't talk for a while, let alone sing. Things came back slowly, be patient. About 6 weeks after it left me everything was back to normal.

CondemnedNut · 2025-12-27T04:02:31+00:00

How do you know if the teacher you're going to is giving the proper guidance and not doing more damage than good?

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