Thanks buddy!

Thanks!!

Completely agree, he’s my teacher too

Hello there, I would like to contact Craig to get one of his awesome lessons, but the phone numbers that are shown on his page don't work for me, do you have his number or some way I can contact him? I would very much appreciate your help bro

Hello there, I also would like to have Craig as my vocal teacher but I couldn't contact him, since the phone numbers shown on his page don't seem to work for me. Do you have his current contact data so I can book a class with him? I would very much appreciate the help

BOBBY!!!

Here is one of his students - I don't know for what time span, with somewhat more recent clips posted. (he says it in _some_ older video somewhere upon someone asking, that JS is indeed his teacher, but don't remember which one) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZmefNqCs6ncpoU.html Now that's not "done" yet I'd say. Seems to form nicely, that voice, though. And you _do_ frickin hear resamblances to the technique of Hadley in his better years.

I personally think the teachers that are able to demonstrate the difficulties in singing like covering the voice etc are going to be better teachers in my opinion most of the teachers that haven’t had a career of any sorts lack that knowledge. They tell you how to cover the voice but actually fail to demonstrate. I know the so called teacher you are referring to and listened to him on many occasions but never heard the quality that craig has. Whether or not he studied with lomanaco I could care less but demonstrating what the student needs to understand has to happen. If a teacher can do that that’s all that matters. As far a Bocelli goes he has a nice voice and is very musically hence his success . Would the voice fill an opera house no. Corelli helped him sound nice I’m sure but he was in piano bars not opera houses. So we can’t even look at that if we are talking opera. But if we look at a long career because of the tech well Bocelli did that. Anyway thanks for the comments and if you ever want to discuss this stuff I love it let’s Skype or zoom . Peace

​@@danielformica-yourvocalteacher Hey, let me clarify my motivation for commenting & where I come from. I listened to all of these interviews - I like them a lot, great format! Your suggestion of skyping surprises me - I don't feel like I made it seem to be someone particular. I'm not JS nor otherwise known, just a guy who cares deeply about singing, "golden-age" opera in particular, and observing "the scene" for ~15y. If something seems off, I feel compelled to comment. To me you were "the interview guy", only now that CS mentioned your rock singing, I checked it out - I like it! I'm not just into opera. But do prefer less grit, although Dio etc were great. My favorite in the metal realm would be Ray Alder, Fates Warning of late 90s/early 00s. And Psychotic Waltz, Dream Theater etc - but those vocals always seemed less solid, esp. LaBrie's who always was weak live. Devon Graves IMO got better in Deadsoul Tribe, if tamer. But I do know how JS sounds, easily with the punch of CS - as much as one can tell over a communication line, which your perception of CS' current singing is also limited by. He doesn't put himself out there a lot, so I wonder what you have heard "on many occasions". If it's the lesson @ Bernard's channel - JS sounds ill, like me every morning, allergy crap. I have heard the higher, full voiced notes on U ("ooh") he makes, as a baritone, at a pitch where I, as a heavier tenor, can only dream of, lol. Here, he sounds better, despite no warmup (bummer it's so much staccato stuff in the piece), singing spontaneously, from the seats, in a large hall, his student on stage, compared to today's average singing ..., also is a testament to what he can do. He speaks in 3rd person in the description, but disclosed in a facebook post it's him. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j8CfocmHvNrSf5c.html I love how much chest is in her singing, esp. emotionally modulating, not common to hear anymore. Interesting what "so-called-teacher"s can do for singers. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ic6debN9mNjPhmg.html I didn't know there was any "beef" JS/CS. Only there were some general LoMonaco and big-voice-singing detractors out there, so I have an eye on that. What rubs me the wrong way is what seems like disingenuous communication, e.g. when CS said "never saw him (JS) there (LoMonaco studio), that's all I'm gonna say". Which insinuates "he wasn't there", but "lawyer-proof". It may be convincing to people who don't think it through - manipulative. I also did not see most of my last in-person teacher's students, other than those directly before or after me in schedule. Duh! And CS must have been with LoMonaco mostly 80s, early 90s. JS was with him for the last part of TLM's life. Also CS must be aware: CS appeared, advertizing as a LoMonaco teacher, only a couple years ago. But who actually put that name on the map, roughly since youtube exists, and generated interest in it, for CS to piggy-back onto? Right. That was JS. Next to Flaherty, probably the name associated with TLM, before CS annouced his "secrets" series. Some of JS' older students commented positively on CS' YT vids of recordings like 5..10 years ago, with not a huge number of comments. I'm pretty sure he was aware of the situation. "... in my opinion most of the teachers that haven’t had a career of any sorts lack that knowledge" Someone taught how to teach, will not gain any improvement in his ability to teach base technique to others by performing on stage. That doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. You might be viewing this in a low-res, correlative way: there are folks who may fit the saying: "those who can do, do, those who can't, teach". Sure, there's truth to that. But if someone can provide examples of students who sound the part (even though there are some gaslighters out there trying to even make that disappear before peoples ears), that smashes the correlation for the particular person. Not being able to "do the thing" is not the only motivation for choosing to be a teacher from the get go. Especially of a dying art, when realising you are being taught by one of the last ones who can teach that, and nobody seems to let him instruct them in the actual craft of teaching that successfully to all the different types of people, but only for singing themselves - and time is running out. The ability to teach it to a lot of differently able and "pre-damaged" (by professors etc) students is something that needs to be learned over a long period of time with many different students. Someone just coming from only singing themselves for 2+ decades and then starting to teach, clearly is a newbie teacher, who much more deserves your label of "so-called". Even if they understand the technique, they don't understand the multitude of ways in which students can be blocked from that understanding or feeling of it, and how to best resolve it for the individual. Decades of experience with _one_ voice, one's own, is only a good start. Perhaps, for yourself, as a stage performer, you can't imagine there exist people who can sing but don't enjoy all that's connected to "stage life". I can only say of myself I'd never have aimed for a pro career in singing, because of unpredictable immune "moodiness" of my mucosa, and I was always against drugging my way through it (not that that really works all that well). I can only sing "on good days" when it's not physically impossible with swollen folds, but I love singing nonetheless. Imagine LoMonaco had his illness earlier - then he'd not even have had his short stage career. Do you think he would not have produced a Hadley because of it? I also knew a self-taught baritone who sounded comparable to Piero Cappuccilli, but chose to remain a hobby singer, even though he could mop the floor with professionals of today at least technique-wise, and was reprimanded by some old guard pro singers for depriving the world of himself. He had a solid job in another field, and liked it that way. I guess being a teacher may also be less stressful than dealing with some of the BS at opera houses. Be it having to sell your soul to bugger one opera after the other, turning depictions of characters into something that's a mockery of what the composer and librettist envisioned, for some postmodern "intellectual" clown to force his degeneracy over those works. Not everybody is cut out for all aspects of that life.

@@tinkerwithstuff that’s so long I don’t know if I can read and put it all together all I’m saying is I took a few lessons from Js and cs and I can tell you first hand js doesn’t really have the tech down he can talk a good game but there is no comparison cs sings and understands the voice much better.

@@tinkerwithstuff Hi! I also interested in old school singing very much and found some channels here where people say they teach that way, but. JS, f.e. very very secretive, he has no videos with him, no videos where he teach or something else, so i can't even see is he a real person or at least not a fake/fraud. Especially situation getting worse when you see some bad reviews about him as a teacher and about his voice on other sites. So when a person like me should choose, what seems better - a person who shows his face and voice, or someone who have very closed teaching practice, seems to be abandoned site and a bit strange twitter and don't forget about bad reviews. We are in 2020's, I wish JS to be more open to the world if he is really a good teacher.