In a message dated 10/18/2001 12:51:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ibracamonte@y... writes:
ibracamonte@y... writes:
<< All you vocal gurus, what do you tell a student who
refuses to use ANY effort to support? >>
isabelle,
unless you can explain to her clearly what exactly 'support' does and how
the method you suggest will do that, there will be little reason for her to
do it. in reading jerome hines' book 'great singers on great singing', one
could easily get the impression that not too many of them have any idea what
they are talking about (cornell macneil's warning seems most appropriate).
obviously, they all have a feel for what they are talking about but can't put
it into any useful explaination (unless the reader is used to even vaguer
descriptions). so, unless you can explain 'support' clearly or, somehow
trick her into feeling it, she won't.
<< I've tried asking her to do a variety of things, but
her main problem is that she relaxes all of her
abdominal muscles and refuses to use any muscular
energy at all. She says that singing should be as
natural as speaking >>
frankly, i'm more inclined to agree with her. the only non-horoscope
sounding explaination of 'support' that i have ever heard is that it is
intended to keep excess breath pressure away from the larynx. quite a few
singers are convinced that, in order to sing, they must suck all the air out
of the room when they inhale. by having more than enough air in their
lungs, they create unnecessary breath pressure. if they didn't try to fit
ten pounds in a five pound bag in the first place, they wouldn't have to work
so hard to solve the problems that creates.
mike
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