How to sing high notes when you are older! Two exercises - from Barbara Lewis and Singing After 40
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2018
- Barbara Lewis teaches singers over 40/50/60 how to sing well!
Rediscover your high notes with these two exercises.
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I am 76yrs and enjoy my singing. Yr video is most helpful.
So good to hear from you, Ann Margaret! I love that you are enjoying your singing. If there’s anything in particular that you wonder about regarding your voice, and you think a video would help you, please do let me know. I wish you great singing! Barbara
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Very generous words, Wayne. Thank you! I hope your singing is going well! My best, Barbara
i'm 76, a rock shouter now trying to develop some technique. been at it for a few years. can't believe it has taken me this long to find you.
Awesome that you working on your technique now! Is there a specific issue that I can help you with by doing a video?
So good, at 76, I'm so enjoying learning to sing to my fullest potential with you❤
That's wonderful, Roz! I'm so happy to read your words. Is there anything specific that you would like to work on in your voice?
I was invited to join worship group at church because I can "sing in tune". I've been singing warming up exercises daily and studying how to improve breathing , standing , increasing range etc. It's amazing the difference in 5 months! I love it ❤❤
@@rozjeffery1 You can make a lot of progress in 5 months if you are committed. Clearly, you are! Please keep in touch about your progress. Best, Barbara
It was very helpful. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful, Julia! There is nothing like singing well to lift us up. My best to you, Barbara
Note to self:
4:05 Yee-hee-hee
8:15 the slide into a siren
9:38 Yee-hee-hee full octave
Excelente clase gracias por compartir
Gracias por tomarse el tiempo de mirar y responder!
Wow! You are an excellent teacher. I just love these exercises. I will continue watching for your videos. ❤
Thank you, Marie-Josee! I am happy that you found the video useful. I hope some others are good for you too. Thank you for letting me know!
I need a lot of staccato exercises, because I sing Queen of the Night (a bit lower than the highest high versions). I get a bit tired though.... and struggle to breath as the notes are very fast, so then I don't reach the high note. I suppose you know the two places I am talking about, which are both the same. Need to find a way to work on that. All the rest is fine.
Yes, I do know what you are talking about. Awesome that you are working on that aria. It's fierce! Rapid notes, plus the tessitura! Congratulations. I guess I would work on that in small chunks. A few phrases at a time. And for short periods of time. It's a tiring piece. Not knowing your voice, I can only suggest that you keep a very steady and strong upper body to conserve breath and to keep your breath well compressed. You might also try staccato exercises in single and double arpeggios - the vocal athlete! I wish you the best.
@@BarbaraLewis-SingingAfterForty Wow, many thanks for your advice.......... Queen of the Night actually came about because I had a very dear friend, who unfortunately passed away last year, the amazing English Maestro Julian Smith, back then living in Wales. I used to have lessons with his wife, who is an opera singer, Mirouslava Yordanova and sometimes he would come in to say hello. That is when he suggested I sing that aria which, I will confess, would never cross my mind, not in a million years but OK, if he believed in me.......... The only parts where I really struggle is the repeated parts with the staccato and worse when it gets to that very high note, because by then I am out of breath, as I don't know how to breath just before it. I do have a slower version which I should go back to. I hope you don't mind me sending you a video of a rehearsal I did a while ago: czcams.com/video/bpMIgMvl5bw/video.html. Well, it does need a lot of work, but I love singing it. I will follow more of your lessons and thanks for devoting time to older voices! Being almost 67 will probably start to make things more difficult.
Do you know something I do very wrongly? I still can reach very high notes, maybe because I started to sing very late in life, so didn't tire my voice? But sometimes when I reach the very high notes at the end of a song and need to hold it, I freeze. So I do get there but the longer I stay there the more my jaw seems set in concrete. Not a good sound and not a good look. What am I doing wrong? Those are my "money notes", hahahaha.... but I need to go back to letting them flow freely. Thanks
Perhaps we should talk about this in a private email, Francisca? I listened to some of your singing on your channel. Wonderful voice! if you want to chat a little more, send me a message to the email on this page: www.singing-tips-with-barbara-lewis.com/Group-Singing-Sessions.html
As a tenor, should I follow you an octave lower or use my head voice?
I think it would be best to sing an octave lower than me. I you want to exercise you head or falsetto range, you could do that now and then, as well. Let. me know how it goes. I hope I have kept within the tenor range.
Do you have any help for keeping the lower notes?
Can you tell me what is happening with your lower range? Did you used to have better low notes and they are less powerfu now? Or do you want to begin to develop the lower range. I did one video some time ago about lower notes, perhaps this will be helpful as a start? czcams.com/video/jbn7W354q3w/video.html
Thanks! My lower nots are more difficult. They used to be strong too! I’m 60 and I sing in a rock band and I sing in a 1940s style female jazz trio. I sing the low harmony in that group,
@@teriwalalce5686 Hmmm. I'll think about it and create a video that may be useful for you. I'll post it here on CZcams.
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Thank you! 😊 I love cats, too. I hope your singing is going well!