Date sent: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 07:56:23 EST
Subject: Re: teachers: your technique, in a nutshell. SLS.
To: vocalist
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In a message dated 2/9/00 5:14:32 AM Central Standard Time,
Laurence.l.Kubiak-at-IS.shell.com writes:

<< Very interesting. Do the SLS people have a view on placement or breathing?

Regards / vriendelijke groeten >>

For placement, SLS gives general guidelines as to where the singer feels the
voice as they connect through the registers, but a student is never
encouraged to place it there.

For breathing, basically appogio is used. Comfortably high position for the
sternum, don't let it collapse. However, very little time is spent on this
because SLS believes the state of adduction of the folds dictates how much
air will be used therefore the airflow rate is triggered from there. The
closer the folds prior to phonation the less air is needed to engage
Bernoulli.

Randy Buescher