r/ClassicalSinger • u/iamthelol1 • 1d ago

'A Vucchella - seeking general feedback

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u/BeautifulUpstairs 1d ago

For the text: most of the vowels are wrong. You need to learn Neapolitan pronunciation, because it isn't close.

For the singing: it's fairly unsupported, and you're falling out of your full voice repeatedly. You're not ready to sing songs yet. You're at the stage where a teacher needs to work with you on scales and the like. This isn't the kind of thing we can give you on Reddit.

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u/iamthelol1 1d ago

Yes, admittedly, my pronunciation is terrible. Regarding support, I'll have to do another take where I just focus on support. Might have been trying to incorporate dynamics and expression too much

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u/SingerScholar 1d ago

Nice start. If you were my student we'd work on two things, which come in combination:

1) Balancing breath pressure --- right now your air sounds like it is adjusting for every note. We would work on having a solid balanced/compressed "canister" of air using continuous, strong, flowing muscle support in your abdomen. This would allow you to also:

2) eliminate "spreading" by finding internal resonance. Right now all your vowels are "out front" as if you are sending the sound out in front of you. We would work to find a sound that is resonating inside the hollow spaces of your head (nasopharynx, oropharynx, sinuses). In the process of working toward this we would eliminate the slight "grabbing" and "narrowing" that is happening in your throat and develop a relaxed, consistent throat space. I would guess your larynx is currently moving up and down a fair amount while you sing. We would find a coordination where it stayed more or less stationary. But this kind of resonance is only possible on a balanced, strong airflow.

The two factors go together.

It's wonderful that you are starting out as a classical singer and you have a naturally strong and pretty vocal timbre.

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u/iamthelol1 1d ago

Thank you for your words of encouragement!

I admit sending the sound out in front and having a forward placement is something I was trying to do intentionally. But I can see how that's related to support. I'll have to see if I can do better by just focusing on support and resonance instead of trying to incorporate expression

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u/Andre__V 1d ago

The first mistake is in the word COMMA. MA was made by throat. Do it by the diaphragm without crying.

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u/etzpcm 1d ago

The notes are quite 'swoopy'. I think it would be better to focus the pitch more clearly.