Relax Your Larynx | Lucas Lesson

A neutral and slightly lowered larynx is all part of healthy singing. Either extreme (too high or too low) is when trouble starts. The main goal is to sing as freely and uninhibited as possible. The main goal of this video is to help people achieve that. I only had one minute to get my message across so this is all I could cram in a short amount of time! I hope you enjoy and as always, consult with your voice teacher or coach any specific larynx issues you may have. Thanks for watching and I appreciate the support!

[bavosidharta]

sing where you speak, but different culture makes the way we speak sometimes not correct for singing 😂 that's why sometimes we need to correct the way how we speak first.

[samuelvarghese]

Thanks for this much awaited video Lucas. Peace and love!!

[АндрійБойченко-фс]

Thanks for sharing of your experience. This tips is very useful! Please, keep going!

[joeypetes]

Such a genuinely fantastic useful tips always!

[carlosoliva]

Lucas, you are a very good singer. Don't make the common mistake of knowing how to teach vocal technique. These are your feelings and you only have to go through youtube to see the variety of the ideas about singing (of course classical or operatic singing). Please be humble enough to realize that what you think about technique at your age is not what you will think 20 years from now.
You have a passion about singing because you can produce very good sounds, and you think that if you can do it with these kind of thoughts, anybody can. Perhaps and perhaps not.
Do not ruin voices like so many good singers that they think that because they sing well, they have the one and only technique. Teaching voice is a very serious matter. You have lives, not only voices, that you can affect.
Again, I admire your singing very much. Be careful what you said in your videos. Speaking is not singing opera. Nothing to do with it, apart from the sound originating in the same place.
I hope I have not offended you. Not my intention.

[sebthi]

the greatest problem of German singers is the high position of the larynx when singing high tones. Unfortunately a famous baritone invented the concept of "natural" way to sing... 😭
a singer has to learn to control the larynx, there is nothing unnatural, it is a habbit we can learn, that trains the muscle.

[leclavel]

I love your tips, great balance between analogy and facts

[ShaareiZoharDaas]

I was looking forward to the Dallas Opera, I am watching videos and miss live performances both here and at the Met, as a poor student I cannot afford the "good seats " then learned that binocular seats have the best acoustics.

[Опера-ыс]

Thank you so much. Big hugs from Moscow.

[galenboulanger]

Your lessons are so awesome: short, but so informative! Would love to see more

[baritonebynight]

Love watching world class singers sharing their trade secretes. In many ways being a classical singer sucks because its impossibly competitive ....everyone is the audience is relatively small....and you don't make that much money unless you are a super star. On the singers who have made it are almost always insanely generous to those of us who haven't. "Never meet your heroes" might be true in some disciplines....but it's my experience that it is never true in the world of classical singing. It's just so damn hard....and I think even the greats never forget how hard it was to get where they are and how to stay where they are. You're one of the best change!

[ANZORNABIULLIN]

You're cool! You'll make a great teacher!

[maxrampley]

It's all in the breath! Great video, Lucas.

[tokkia]

Swallowing and making an “o” is genius!!!

[flaviamusica]

Thank you SO MUCh, haha loved the ending :p

[lorbsl]

Sir lucas im a choir member bass section.Can you give me some tips and vocalisation for runs.
My choir is having a concert but because of this pandemic its cancelled i still wanted to explore and practice and at the same time learn something and become better, Please help me sir, By the way our repertoire for that concert is Mozart Requiem, Thank you so much sir if you notice this, and by the way im so happy that youtube recommend you to me, ive been looking for a classical singer that is a baritone and im so lucky because there you are giving us tips😊God bless you sir Lucas!

[ParadNorthProd]

I watched just 'cause of the thumbnail

[Yves]

I do not understand. Is massage not good for relaxing the larynx? But why ? It's used in therapy. Does it elevate the larynx? When I manipulate and massage my larynx it relaxes it and I feel like yawning. Swallowing also elevates the larynx! I regret that it was so quick because I would have liked some clarification. Thank you.

[elpidakleanthous]

I have tmj! This can blocked my voice?

[tricky]

I assume I swallow the banana whole... But which orientation should it have?