| To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist> Subject: Re: Male pupil with female teacher (Was 'Sensations') Date sent: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:49:38 +0100 Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Daniel Sumner wrote :
<< I would be very interested to hear the informed opinions of teachers and scientists on this matter - my own feeling is that the sensations and necessary descriptions of those sensations are similar or identical for both male and female singers.>>
I never had a problem teaching female singers as far as resonance etc is concerned, but I have been puzzled by a few points regarding the breathing and the breathing support: - even when a beginning female singer doesn't have a "clavicular", too hig= h breathing, I often notice that when exhaling, the clavicular area and the base of the neck will "inflate", which I have never noticed on men yet... maybe because their clothes go higher ;-) - I have found several female pupils to have depressed epigastric area. Th= ey don't seem to be able to "bounce" on this area, but will rather articulate quick breathing exercises or ["diaphragmatic"] staccato from lower. Is tha= t because of the internal organs that we, as men, don't have?
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