THE CORE VOICE: Part 1-Metal vs. Wind Textures, Intro to Breath & The Meta of Singing.

Tim it’s like you read my mind! You asked me in a comment a while back why I haven’t gotten back into singing if I miss it. I was just thinking recently that I would love to learn from someone like you specifically because I love your energy, and how you think and explain things. Here you are delivering! The truth is I stopped singing a long time ago for many reasons, but one of them was gender dysphoria. Many years later I started HRT, and now my vocal folds are a bit different and my muscle memory is confused! I have considered finding a coach but I’ve been shy and it’s also hard to budget for right now. I’m going to try my best to keep up with these videos and track my progress. Thank you for sharing with us!

I am listening to this at work in the office. It would be very unwise for me to make the sounds! 😅 I will plan to watch again later at home.

I thought the exercises were very effective. I didn't realize just how loud I could be! My cat came in the room and was like "what are you doing?" lol. Now that I know what it's supposed to feel like, singing along to Pandora is going to be really, really different.

I still need to find time to dig into this. It's been a crazy weekend and that is carrying right over into the week. But, find time I wll. Can't wait.

Sorry in advance for the long response 😁. I enjoyed the explanations a lot. The practice exercises were also intriguing, as you said, they made me aware of the unconscious body reflexes that happen when I try to sing. Music is a dear part of me, even though for now it is more of an auditory exercise + me trying to hum or attempt to sing almost every song that brings me joy. I never thought of singing as something that everyone can do, but as I grew up(being almost 25 right now) I started to see the singing as one of the natural ways of expressing emotion that everyone can do. I plan in the future to get back to learning the violin and also start on the piano since they are my favorite instruments, but now I feel like I might need to add singing to the list as well 😊As a side note to the naturalness of singing, here in Romania, the religion is eastern orthodox christianity, so the chants in the church are from byzantine origin. I find them quite fascinating, since they combine very naturally almost every technique of singing. For me this was one of the first examples that led me to start viewing singing as something that is natural, since almost every person present at the church is singing when there are important moments with well known chants. From what I researched, the best singers of these chants were trained in the psaltic art of singing. In the lyrics books at the church and online, I can see notations using both classical music notations and psaltic byzantine notations. I am looking forward to seeing the next one. I mainly joined the community for the exclusive reactions, but I was very happy when I saw the announcement for this type of content.

Can’t wait to dig into this 🥰 I love singing and I can carry a little tune, but I’ve never taken lessons. It’s on my bucketlist 😄

Cool! Thanks for doing this! I don't have anywhere else but the shower to sing, but I always find it interesting to know what effort and hard work is behind great singing voices. Also this was so short, but yet also so long. If this makes any sense. I wonder what my neighbors were thinking if they heard me singing along to your exercises! 😁