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From: "DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTMENT)"
Subject: Re: Chin vibrato?
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KC wrote:

>>I have seen singers on tv and in performance (not classical ones but pop,
gospel, soul, jazz) who, when they sing vibrato move their chins, that is
they wiggle them up and down evidently to create the vibrato or else they
are jiving to the inner vibrato maybe. How does this work?

I can't apeak for any particular singer or type of singer, but I know from
personal experience that a vibrating jaw is a sign of tension. The singer is
not trying to make vibrato with the chin. The shaking chin is a symptom of
the tension. This tension is VERY difficult to eliminate...and some of us
never quite succeed 100%. However, the ideal is always the freeest (Can that
be spelled right?), easiest vocal production one can attain.

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