Voice Teacher Reacts - Dimash Kudaibergen - SOS

Hi, I'm John honey, I'm a singing

teacher

and contemporary singing teaching author and today I'm doing a bergen damash coup reaction analysis video. I think I said it right, so without further ado, this has been heavy. requested for a competition show watch this guy already get in the mood with his eyes singing artists your eyes are incredibly important and I've talked about this before on my podcast that using your eyes is so important they really are the windows to your soul and he's already creating a mood with his eyes and drawing in the audience and setting expectations, so I'm interested to see where this goes.

He is using his eyes. The other thing he's doing very well from the beginning is that the singers sometimes start too. big now depends on the song, but this song starts off very very delicately and he is using an appropriately delicate vocal approach, this gives him plenty of room to grow his

voice

and somewhere to go and again his eyes are open, the singers don't . closing your eyes all the time he communicates with his eyes and his

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, so he's young, but he's obviously an experienced performer, that was good, okay, so get a singer, he basically has three things they can play with.

I'm going to oversimplify here, but you have the amount of air that you send to your vocal cords you have how much the vocal cords resist the air and thus create different intensities of the sound wave and then what the singer does with his resonance chambers mainly the throat and the mouth and it's already starting to play with intensity and also with the depth of its resonance tube, so if I lower my larynx here, this bump in front of my neck, if I make it a little deeper I get a richer sound because It's a longer tube if I make it a little bit higher I get a brighter sound because it's also shorter so you're already getting that depth there and you're starting to play with it really well.

Wow, it's up, yeah, it's up in soprano F sharp, so that's already impressive, this is and is. This is pretty easy for him and I know a lot of people have asked me to give him a reaction and were expecting something out of the ordinary and he's certainly already delivering and I love the gentleness with which he's able to do it. attack if you want or how the note is starting, he's able to tie the chords together so they don't hit just this little delicate touch very well done Wow, obviously for effect, but he really does it so well, he's getting close to the sound of a of a female operatic voice and what you're doing is making the tube a little bit deeper to get what's called that kind of open throat sound, but then you're keeping the mouth narrower and more rounded and what that does is take away the high frequencies or you're basically taking an EQ and you're adjusting the high frequencies to get that almost hollow Flutey room sound and then with your vocal cords you're making just enough contact to create a robust sound, but not so much that it starts to sound too loud. intense or even masculine, it's cool how you just did that, yeah, let me look at these, I don't know if they're their competitors, but I think they're going to oh oh oh, surpass that and now to a slightly brighter sound a little more contact with the vocal cords, so it goes more into a masculine pop sound, so it shows us a lot of different colors in the boys, cute, cute, Kim, what did I do, he went back to that, that F sharp, but this time is the first time.

He did it more in a male countertenor style, approaching an almost feminine classical sound. Now what he's done is raised the larynx, so that the resonance tube is shorter, it will put out higher frequencies and have a little more contact. of the vocal folds and he's also opening up the vowel, which will make it brighter and more intense, so he's getting that biting sound, so when I talked about those three elements that you can play with the breath, the resistance in the voice. folds and then the vowel, and he is manipulating them very, very well, extraordinarily well and obviously he has a remarkable extended range, so he has the audience in the palm of his hand, back to the feminine sound of the countertenor.

Notice how he holds the valves. They're very, very rounded, very delicate because he doesn't want the biting high frequencies that he had on that previous note, so this is an extreme example, it's very instructive of what the voice is capable of and the different colors that it has. . Someone with an extraordinary voice, an extraordinary gift. I mean, if you think about being blessed with the equipment to be able to do this, that's one thing, but you also have to have the ability to recognize your gift, develop your gift. musicality to be able to connect with an audience, so it's rare that we get to experience voices like this, there are people walking around possibly with their gift in terms of what nature gave them, but it was never developed, it was never really discovered, so you're extraordinarily lucky when someone with that gift recognizes it and takes the time to develop a nice touch oh my goodness, well my keyboard doesn't go that high, oh my goodness, so he's at that high level, that high soprano, that is. that's notable so we have to talk about how singers are able to do this and this is something that's almost if you think about someone that you know maybe they have hypermobility or maybe they can double join if they say like their elbow, they can bend it. more than the rest of us, they're just more mobile, something like this is happening here, if a singing

teacher

tells you they can teach anyone to do that.

We all have limitations in our voice and your limitations are very different than most of us. This is an extremely high mark for a male singer. I'm trying to think about my experience if I've ever taught someone who can reach that high. I think I can only think of one person and I'm talking about thousands of students that I've taught, that's incredibly remarkable and the control that he has over that is why I'm referring to this gentleman here on the right. I don't know what he just witnessed, he just seems stunned because I don't know if he's a fellow competitor, but you're just not going to be able to compete at that level.

I mean, that's not something you can train in your boots. that's something that nature gave him Wow so he goes again, he's manipulating the length of his resonant tube ah and he goes back and forth depending on the color he wants, when he's able to pull colors at will, this is extraordinary and I mean, he's jumping from sounding like an opera woman, sounding like an opera man, and then sounding like a pop singer, and singing, I mean, this is a reaction video that you could literally do as a series of two hours, there's a lot going on here. so I don't want to dwell on it, but this is really good, look, there's a little bit more poppies ranging from the brighter ones instead of thinking.

Wow, now he's in those really high notes, but instead of holding the real falsetto and the more rounded vowels now he's really starting to open up. He put a little bit to Virgil, the operatic sound. He just did something really subtle and really cool. I'm going to take this down because you could really miss it. He comes in. to a very light falsetto and as he holds the note, it involves a little more depth, a little more contact with his vocal cords and that gives us a little more intensity of sound and then he takes it back and does it.

It was very fast and very smooth, that was all. Oh, open the arc a little bit, this guy is actually very good and this is a great example of when the right voice meets the right song. I mean, I'm not familiar with this song. It has a very melodramatic Cirque de Soleil vibe, very emotional, with a lot of ups and downs and it's just the perfect vehicle for what he's capable of doing now. I will say that singers might see this and might get depressed because they would think I can't live up to that, how am I going to sing like that?

Well, the good news is that, first of all, it's probably not. I mean, if you look at the world population and what people receive in terms of their vocal equipment from nature, this is a very, very rare type of voice, so you probably don't have this gift, but you don't have to. Music is about expression and communication, and you know, this idea of ​​who are the best singers in the world is like asking and discussing who. the fastest person in the world and although now that is quantifiable, right, you could look at the time and say, well, this person is faster than this, but then you would say, okay, what are you talking about, middle distance sprint marathon and then there is no answer? because it's going to be different people and in music you can't say that one person is better than another or that you have to be able to sing like that in order to be a singer, I'll just tell you that I'm probably not going to sing like that, this is an absolutely remarkable voice and This is a person who took his gift, worked very hard at it and was also blessed by nature with very good looks, charismatic, but beyond the boys, if you are a fan of him or you.

You are a singer, what is also very instructive is the way you communicate with the audience, the way you use your eyes and then do this wonderful thing before the next section of the song, it will give you a clue as to what comes. and he'll make moves where you think, oh my gosh, something big is coming, he's telepathic, he's giving you clues that hey, something new is coming, something new is coming and his body language changes and I really love it at the end, he acts like he has something big approaches and then very delicately lowers it to end the song, so keep your expectations hanging.

I mean, this is a performance, I don't care what kind of music you would like to listen to if you want. I can watch this and not get involved. Don't know. I just don't have that software in my brain. I mean, everything he's doing engages me as a listener and as a viewer. I mean, I can, I can see it with my voice. teacher brain, which sometimes I don't like to do because he always wants to analyze the singers and he also appeals to me as an audience member, as someone who just wants to enjoy listening to another human being sing and and so does he and as many voices as I have heard, it is difficult to be truly surprised by a voice, and he surprises me, he is absolutely extraordinary.

A lot of people asked me to do an analysis of it and I know why if you're a fan, I totally get it, but this is just a beautiful example of what's possible with the human voice at the extremes and not everyone will be able to do this, not everyone They have to be able to do it, you should. be inspired by someone like this and it should inspire you too, work hard because this young man has worked hard, he has talent, but he has also worked hard at it, so damash, if I have a hat, I would appreciate it. and thank you all for recommending it hey, if you like what you hear, make sure to subscribe to my podcast, the intelligent vocalist.

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