| Date sent: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 01:40:41 EST Subject: Re: Speaking/Singing Voice (ranting about countertenors :) To: vocalist Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
tako, the 'little trick' i learned, and it certainly isn't new, is to use the sound of the yawn as a transition from my low range to my head/falsetto/'girl voice'/whatever the -at-#$% that is voice. it always amuses me to read articles written by singers and voice teachers on the yawn. they all speak of the shape of the throat and which part of the yawn to use and never about the sound of yawning. i don't know if that is the trick, or if that's just the one that i needed. although, using 'that sound', i have been able to get most of my male students up to tenor high C and half of them higher in what most called real voice. i also use it for female students around the A,Bb and B above middle C to get through their break so they don't have to sing everything in head voice.
speaking of other kinds of music, have you heard much of caetano veloso? or perhaps you may remember the norwegian new wave band A-HA. their singer would go from low to high, smoothly going from register to register without blurring the distinction.
mike
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