Dear Mary Beth and list,
I think you certainly made a point, and the story about the poor guy who dislocated one of the cartileges in his larynx, because he was trying to increase his lung capacity by swimming under water and holding his breath for extended amounts of time, was very interesting. But I don't think it fits in here, because since a couple of months, I just changed from pushing to singing much more freely and light, more according to the lyrical character of my voice. I do use much less air and that is one of the reasons why my higher notes have become very easy. (Otherwise I think I would not have been able to sing the Mozart songs.) Where I have the feeling I really do need much support and much air, although not pushing, is when singing low notes pianissimo, and that is exactly what I have been doing before this feeling came up. As far as I remember from Miller's book, this is not wrong. It also did not hurt while singing, only afterwards I had the feeling Ian described, like having done too many push ups. This feeling also disappeared after lying down in the pause for ten minutes, and did not return. However, after the pause I sang much higher pieces, that were much more comfortable for me. I have to add to that, that the last song in the second part of the concert, was Schuberts Staendchen (Leise flehen), and the piano and passagio f's with which the song i.m.o. should begin and began, were very clean, no hoarseness or other sings of a voice that was tired (I have a technically very good recording of the concert, so I am sure). I hope Ian will write an asnwer to this as well, because since he asked how it hurted exactly, I am sure he will have had something in mind, that will be interesting for many of us.
Best greetings, Dre
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