Hey Reg,
Sorry not to reply sooner...........I don't have much time now either. But basically if you are encouraging, or giving preference to, one mode of production over another the voice is going be out of balance. Allowing the voice to transition as it wants to is not always an accurate or healthy thing. Case in point is a new student that was in my studio this week........if I let his voice do what it wanted, he would have been in terrible shape. His "lighter-head-voice" was actually falsetto, and when he carried that tone down, right below middle c, his voice would actually abruptly pop into a heavier production and drop an octave. Now obviously, you are not encouraging this, but it is an extreme example of allowing the voice to do what it wants.
There are some defineable boundaries for where chest, mix, head voice occurs for all voices. The point of reference for all voices should be to maintain the quality and identity they have in their speaking voice. If they use a different voice for singing, they are inevitably setting themselves up for vocal difficulties. Developing that transition point between chest/head voice is difficult for all of us, however, the transition happens at the same place irregardless of ascending/descending scale or style.
Hope this helps......
Mary Beth F.
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