Hello singing colleagues! I’m back from some time off and refreshed, ready for new beginnings after a nationally horrible first half of the winter. Powerful singing is a topic that…
Tag: resonance
You can. Nothing wrong with it. Many popular and successful performing artists stick with a natural sound; they sing like they speak in terms of resonance. But to do extraordinary…
I’d like to define and use a term here: maximally resonant efficient singing (MRES). Concise definition: Singing with the most dynamically varied, overtone-rich sound that still allows for flexibility, stamina,…
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…
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…
