Dear Vocalists,
first: many many thanks to Isabelle and Karen for setting this up. I was thinking I was the only one that was cut off and that I just hit the 'block adress' button by mistake. I also must say I was really missing the postings: partly because it is like some kind of a family, but much more because I learn so much from them. Especially the recent discussion about placement really improved my singing: it finally let me understand how things work, and that is something my singing teachers never achieved. I don't want to start up the debate again, but I must say that especially the mails of Lloyd W. Hanson were some kind of a revelation to me. His comments really convinced me, in the first place because I got the strong impression that his knowledge is based on the laws of physics, instead of on ideologics and scholasticism and in the second place because when I brought his ideas into practice, it improved my singing enormously. At the end, singing 'non- placed or backward placed' made me sound with a constant ping and 'placed'. (So maybe some people who disagree heavily on placement, may be singing in the same way!) And I can really say I know that my sound improved a lot, because I record every minute I sing and I monitor it using the same speakers EMI used to monitor their recording for many years. But I should not forget all the other people who wrote very interesting things. From the 'pro-placement or forward placement'-posters I also learned a lot, I even do use their concept, but now to colour my tone sometimes!
Anyway: thanks again and happy singing,
Dre de Man, who may not be less lyrical, but surely is much more tenor now and most of all a happier tenor, thanks to many vocalist mails
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