In a message dated 10/5/2001 9:05:15 PM Central Daylight Time, LeaAnn@k... writes: LeaAnn@k... writes:
> I have always sung with chest tone...and I never thought it sounded > breathy...when my teacher mimics the sound I make she makes it very > breathy...but quite frankly it isn't as breathy as the majority of > "unschooled" singers I have heard. I know this head tone thing is a > must...and I am determined to learn the technique. >
I'm going out on a limb here, but it could just be that your teacher isn't used to a tone coming out of chest in a connected way. He/she associates a voice that can do this as being all chest when in fact the voice may be entering a mix much higher than he/she is used to hearing. This a real typical response by a teacher who is used to hearing a voice only produced with a low mix, or no mix at all in that head is being brought down abnormally low. To a teacher like this, he/she would listen to Streisand sing and think that's all chest. Ask your teacher what he/she thinks of a singer like Streisand or Natalie Cole and how they produce their voice. I think the answer will give you great isnsight as to how he/she perceives vocal production and the role of head and chest in that production.
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