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From:  "Diane M. Clark" <DCLARK@r...>
Date:  Thu Feb 14, 2002  4:24 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] re: classical and then belting

on 2/14/02 11:40 AM, Lea Ann Martin at LeaAnn@k... wrote:

> I was told by my first teacher who was really focused on musical theater that
> anything above an A (above middle C) should be in head voice...she actually
> end up making me use head tone for anything above an F (above middle C) she
> HATED belting and said she could barely stand to hear the local civic theater
> group musicals because if the chest tone singing, she was VERY anti chest
> tone...when I first came to her it was all I had and she was really bothered
> by it. She often said that the people who did local musical theater always
> complained of being hoarse and having sore throats after a night of belting
> and that it was a shame they didn't know how to sing properly. To her mind
> belting was just bad...period. She would site a who's who of belters with
> nodes anytime you fell out of head tone above an A (above middle C)

This is the attitude that many teachers have who don't really understand
belting. The singers who use a healthy belt technique don't have these
problems. Those who use too much chest voice too high do have problems.
The NATS workshops on belting have helped many of us to have a better
understanding of this technique and style of singing.






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