> Yes, and, Isabel, isn't it something like > biofeedback when you make the > proper sound and your teacher indicates when you've > got it right, and you > remember the way that felt?
Yes, exactly. And I find a "feeling/sensation" approach to correcting and approving than talking about a bunch of physiology which, while interesting to know, doesn't translate into how it feels to sing very directly.
"Placement" teachers will often say things like: "That A was too far back in the throat. Think forward, like the tone is bouncing off your teeth. No, that wasn't quite it. Concentrate on the tone moving out from your upper lip and travelling very far away, to the end of the balcony seats. That's it! Tell me what that felt like, tell me what you were thinking." And then you OWN the feeling of an A; that sensation is something you can drill into your voice and come back to in any context and on any vowel. That frees your brain up; while your body sings on "feel," your mind is free to work with interpretation and all other aspects of singing other than tone correctness.
(and, from another post)
> Sensations- YES, they are an important part of the > vocal process. Can we literally "place" a sound > somewhere- highly unlikely!
But all the "placement" theory means is that a student learns what a particular type of singing FEELS like and learns to recreate it based on that feeling. Everybody knows that the larynx does not produce sound in the front of the mouth -- the term "placement" refers to the sensations, not of course to the physiology.
Perhaps we should rename it... because I am aware that there are teachers of the school that Lloyd decries, who teach particular manipulations of the face (such as the "smile" position) and call that "placing" the voice -- as there are teachers of the "scientific" technique who talk about Grey's Anatomy and produce horrible singers as well (bad apples in every tree). Perhaps the "placement" technique should more properly be called the "sensationalist" technique?
Isabelle B.
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