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Subject: Re: Male pupil with female teacher (Was 'Sensations')
Date sent: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:49:38 +0100
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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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