MimeTroupe

"E" is the easiest in the lower range, "A" [a] in the higher range.

That's awesome that they offer an academic vocal class! Non-majors have to go through so much red tape to take them here. It's really a shame. Well, I'm sure you will ace it!

Very nice, I hope it's going well! Who do you study with? But I would like to comment that I don't always get taken seriously on this thread and I've studied classical voice for years and now I'm in a reputable program. So I don't think taking one class in vocals is a very good argument. I personally think it's a better idea to leave arguments of credibility out of the thread. I would like to point out that vocal technique is way more subjective than you make it out to be. Just because singing is a science doesn't mean there aren't conflicting opinions. Same as any science really.

Darkness and weight are pretty much the same thing. And I personally don't think she's a light lyric at all. Her voice has too warm a quality in the lower register. She could be a full lyric but I'd say she's a high lyric mezzo.

No, I mean their videos focus most of the time on belted notes. It's pretty evident that they think those notes are the most impressive. Which I can see. The mix is just squarely in the middle.

Haha fair enough. That explains the range videos that get posted lol.

Why do you say that? They all have their difficulties. My middle register was the easiest for me to train.

Having an agile voice is something you're born with. You can train your voice to do relatively fast runs if you don't have that kind of voice but it's far easier for some than it is for others. Some people can barely do them at all, especially darker voices. It sounds a lot more impressive than it actually is. At least speaking from my own experience, I'm a relatively agile vocalist.

Oh dear. Another child prodigy. Yes, it is possible to have a light speaking voice and a dark singing voice. It happens with classical singers a lot. But she's pushing her larynx down. Probably to sound older and more impressive.

I don't think there's a good answer for that. It depends on what you personally feel are worse issues or what skills are the most impressive. When you get to that high a level, it gets to be more of an opinion.

Saying she has shit technique is a bit much (or a lot much) but there is room for disagreement. No singer is perfect, Mariah is certainly no exception.

Some people have a smoother transition over the voice break than others, which is great. You probably have one around there but it's not as obvious a switch. The A5 is probably a switch into falsetto actually. Or rather what they call the falsetto at my school. Because a soprano passaggio is around an F. That's perfectly normal. Most likely you're mixing with your head voice through your range without realizing it which is actually a really healthy way to sing.

That's what I thought! You have TMJ, a displaced disk in the jaw. I have the same thing. Because of that your jaw is going to get more sore more quickly when you're using it a lot whether you over extend or not. You can fix it by getting a mouth guard from the dentist. Get an appointment and tell them about the clicking. Your jaw gets more sore on high notes is because you have to open your mouth wider the higher you go. You may also be trying to adjust your jaw too much as you go higher but you should talk to a voice teacher about that.

You can totally become a better singer without a teacher. It'll just be a lot harder and take you a lot longer. And there's a limit to how far you can go without a teacher.

How easy it is to hit a lot of high notes really depends on where they are in your range, how you approach them, and what dynamic they are. I can sing an A5 for days but I'm not consistent at all on an F5. Notes above the passagio (voice break) have to be approached in a very different way. They sound thin and bright and gross to you but sounds loud and full to everyone else. An E5 is a bit low for that but that is the typical mezzo soprano voice break. Yes, proper breath support is extremely important but it isn't a cure all. You have to be careful that it doesn't cause you to push on your cords. You can't muscle out high notes like you can for belts. As for your jaw, does it click sometimes when you open it too widely?

Oh hey! The 24 Italian hits! I sang lasciatemi morire for my auditions. Thank god I don't have to sing those anymore lol.

Choir technique is totally different though. He means a private teacher. Trust me, pretty much all the voice majors feel exactly the same way you do about choir.

You should try hitting the note in head voice and slowly mixing/growing the note. Experiment with increasing the air pressure, support, raising/hardening your soft palate, and brightening & darkening the sound. When it gets to a resonating space you like without cracking, try to remember what that feels like. Then, keep doing the same thing and grow into that feeling until it comes faster and more natural. It'll take a lot of practice but if you keep working at it and experimenting you'll find that magic combination.

A lot of it is probably because SNSD has ridiculous schedules and SM probably makes them sing full out for way more hours per day than is healthy. (You are talking about Tiffany, right?)

It did for me. I also speak differently. And my ribcage has gotten larger around since I've been training.

Huh. When I do a Google search it says it refers to how faithful a sound system is to the original recording. Weird.

Also for the record, in classical music "tone" refers to the sound of the voice and "tonal" is a music theory term. They mean completely different things. Or at least that's the textbook, dictionary definition.

It's not a term I've heard used in classical teaching either to be honest.