Recently Marc encouraged us to discuss about this stuff and I find it very interesting. I was used to sing mainly in M1, used it every time for the "main singing", I admit I was actually kind of practicing my m2 a long time ago (very sporadically) but never incorporated it to the "true" part of me, you know those flageolet kind of stuff and some Dimash songs and honestly I always had this sense of "ok this is just cool sound but it's not complete" and I would just leave it there and I usually never showed my M2 voice to anyone else but me. A few days ago I decided to play on the piano bohemian rhapsody and don't stop believing by journey, I sang through that only in M2 and my mom who was near said it actually sounded good and I was like really? so I recorded myself and it actually sounded nice, at least nice to me so I was like is my mind deceiving me? Why does this feel so easy and light to sing but actually has that engagement in it? I find lots of improvement almost every day with every practice but this weird feeling of not feeling that voice as a part of me lingers still. I'm feeling good about it and I will continue my hard work on it, Yesterday I went to the park and sang "Long Gone" by Cornell, my voice worked fine, and It had a lot of engagement in it, so it kind of feels like that "screaming in M2" sensation. That engagement thing feels good but I will rather practice to get control in a completely effortless M2 because that's my goal right now. The more I get balance to my range by practicing and staying in M2 it starts feeling less like something else and more like something that is always there.
The difference in perception of the M2 voice in the mind vs real life
Recently Marc encouraged us to discuss about this stuff and I find it very interesting. I was used to sing mainly in M1, used it every time for the “main singing”, I admit I was actually kind of practicing my m2 a long time ago (very sporadically) but never incorporated it to the “true” part of me, you know those flageolet kind of stuff and some Dimash songs and honestly I always had this sense of “ok this is just cool sound but it’s not complete” and I would just leave it there and I usually never showed my M2 voice to anyone else but me. A few days ago I decided to play on the piano bohemian rhapsody and don’t stop believing by journey, I sang through that only in M2 and my mom who was near said it actually sounded good and I was like really? so I recorded myself and it actually sounded nice, at least nice to me so I was like is my mind deceiving me? Why does this feel so easy and light to sing but actually has that engagement in it? I find lots of improvement almost every day with every practice but this weird feeling of not feeling that voice as a part of me lingers still. I’m feeling good about it and I will continue my hard work on it, Yesterday I went to the park and sang “Long Gone” by Cornell, my voice worked fine, and It had a lot of engagement in it, so it kind of feels like that “screaming in M2” sensation. That engagement thing feels good but I will rather practice to get control in a completely effortless M2 because that’s my goal right now. The more I get balance to my range by practicing and staying in M2 it starts feeling less like something else and more like something that is always there.
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I'm at a point where I consider it just my voice but higher and it sounds like me now, maybe with the exception of the last notes of my range that almost sound feminine. good thing I listen to a lot of power metal so I don't feel weird sounding like this.
I should try to incorporate the softer "effortless" M2 into my normal volume M1
cause right now I give more volume to my M1 to match it with my stupidly loud M2
I don't use distortion so my only way of sounding chesty is by compressing a lot of air
however it's good to finally hear my "two voices" connected
richard friend Verified M2 Academy Method Owner 1 year ago
"I find lots of improvement almost every day with every practice but this weird feeling of not feeling that voice as a part of me lingers still." what did you mean here. Like a sense of guilt it was too easy this can't be it? Or that your "real" voice was always there but it was easier to start using than trying to muscle it.
For me the last band I was in before I took a break from music I started to get an M2 which at the time I thought was a connection (I didn't use terminology but I thought "good stuff" was starting to happen"...there was an elasticity in my voice and I could sing notes around A#4 pretty effortlessly.....but lower I'd still get very tight and really have to "make" the note happen using probably constriction in my throat, or like just squeezing it to the pitch with my body and more likely some weird version of compression I'd stumbled upon. But I always felt like those easy high notes were going to be the key and to be honest...it's hard for me to even tell if they are "connected" they don't feel like falsetto but they also aren't hard at all to do.
The above isn't related to what I am working on now...but that's when my voice started to come together.
I am excited to really see if I can build an M2 that is literally impossible to detect. I want it to roar! hahaha
Marc Ajax 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing man 🥹 it was quite similar to me. It's a constant thinking of 'singing high can't be THIS easy' lmao but obviously it could be? Samuel and a lot of natural singers are proof of it. If it wasn't for all the brainwashing we were sadly subjected to hahaha. It's crazy to get used to it when I had struggled with the same G4 for 5 years lol.
That's really cool you got confirmation from someone else! It's way more powerful than recordings, although they helped me out a lot
