Simple, healthy, efficient, unpretentious, gracious way of approaching classical singing. Bravo and thanks!

The immediate impact with the Tenor was impressive indeed. Many voice teachers cannot and do not understand how to break down flow efficiency of the breath. Mr. Harrelson seems to break it down quite nicely.

omg, I had last Fall and he is awesome!! One of the sweetest professors you'll ever meet, Plus his hair is longer no and it looks AMAZING!!!

wow, the last note was fantastic! Perfectly placed.

Brilliant teacher, great video. 3:35-3:55 is genius.

Neal is Phenomenal!!!

I have left Neal Harrelson (NH) a comment on his website, but I want to make further comments here in public, as it were. I am a sometime amateur singer and voice enthusiast. Having watched this taster video, it seems to me that some of the things he is suggesting to students are very useful. I was particularly interested in his comments about vowel shape, resonance and support. I am right in saying that he was advocating not to think too much about support? When I was a lot younger than I am now, in my late teens, I had a young baritone voice and could sing with relative freedom from low F to about D forth line. After D I would start to have trouble. The first teacher I went to was constantly trying to make me sing E, F, G at the top of my voice. I could not do this without straining and pushing. Plus he was giving me songs that had too high a tessitura. He had a voluminous baritone voice himself and it might seem he was trying to make me sound like him?! Some of the aria antiche songs would have been better to allow my voice to sing, to nuture it and let it mature in a more organic way. I left him feeling battered. I went to a female teacher who just started to shout at me when I hesitated, with my confidence now very low. Over the next few years I tried one or two more, but without results. My activities went in other artistic directions, but I always retained a passion for singing and music and vocal technique. I have come back to sing more in my fifties and giving it another go, with no great ambitions, just an interest, essentially for my own pleasure. I personally wouldn't want to go to a teacher, but the highlights on this video give me some hope that there are some good teachers out there, who have, perhaps, a combination of love for the art, open mindedness, teaching ability and real knowledge..... I think for singers, the simpler the better-breathing, vowel formation, good diction-all these technical components need to be made as simple as possible and demystified. I have been impressed by the writings of Edgar Herbert-Caesari, who writes about the training of the "Old Italian School of Singing", by way of the investigation of the Completely Natural Voice. Best wishes.

Wow... GREAT SINGER!

Bravo Neal, it is very good to see your master classes. Hope we can meet againa at Düsseldorf or to make this master classes in Perú,eh?, I will write you soon my friend, BRAVO!!!!

I wish that he comes to the netherlands for a masterclass

Good stuff, Neal!

this man is spot on! BTW "friendsofdorothy" great username! paying homage to the age of "code-speak"

wish i could move to new york to take lessons from him :)

whats the song sang at 3:55?

by Donna Burdick?

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excellent teaching. So many grumpy,un enthusiastic teachers around with so much lack of knowledge. People like this guy are few and far between. f