When we learn how to play the guitar or the piano or the clarinet, we have direct control of virtually all elements of sound-making and body use. We can feel…
Category: sensations
This is a follow-up to my previous post on “the valve”. If the glottis is not closed enough, then large volumes of air can escape without making sound. This…
A valve? What? Because we can’t control the vocal folds by feel very well (perhaps not at all), it can be hard to know how much air pressure is being…
It seems to make sense that we should get a “good breath” for singing a phrase. However, a good breath in one context can be bad in others. It is…
Paradoxes are related to the subject of a previous post of mine, “Training with reasonable extremes…“. Sometimes you have to think or do one thing, to get a seemingly dissimilar…
Singing requires considerable energy. It cannot be done if someone is relaxed in the way one is relaxed in a recliner with a beer in his hand at the end…
This is a troublesome word in vocal pedagogy and technique. Try to get several voice teachers or singers to agree what “placement” is and you will invoke semantic chaos. As…