Physical ease and a pleasing sound are not necessary for clear and effective spoken communication. Similarly, when using a microphone, singing can be minimally functional but artistically successful. The advent…
Tag: resonance
Is “creating space” something you need? If so, how and how much? Let’s say you think you do need more “space”. The Holy Grail for years has been “lowered larynx”,…
People frequently say that when they hear their voice on a recording it is a little shocking. Singers have to learn to make peace with this. Listening to a recording…
Once registration is working reasonably well, one can start trying to maximize one’s vowels, also called “optimizing resonance”, among other things. I’m defining “maximized” as: a vowel that has a…
Maximizing resonance is a worthwhile endeavor, if resonance is an important value for you. But can it, should it, and must it have a cost? Let’s say that you have…
In a Facebook forum recently a “teacher” (looking at her page I saw no qualifications) asked the question: “Can someone give me examples of popular commercially successful male singers that…
What does “resonance” mean? You can look up different dictionary definitions as well as I can, but today let’s call it “maximum sound output per energy unit expended”. Let’s assume…
“Drink in the tone.” “Place the voice in your _____ (hard palate, mask, sinuses, top of your head, etc.).” “Feel the tone as a narrow beam coming out of the…
Some classical singers are using audio spectrogram programs to see if they are producing the “singer’s formant”, which is a band of harmonics in roughly the 3000 Hz range. In…
There is an awful lot of woofy singing in modern classical music schools and in opera houses at all levels. Larynxes are forced down in the effort to sound ever…
What is a mature vocal sound? In resonance-based styles such as those related to most classical singing, singers sometimes try to sound “more mature”. Some teachers encourage this. It is…
