>Now for my question: Have any of you had any experience in what my teacher
>calls "warming" the tone of a voice that is too bright? My mid range is what
>she wants it to be--we have worked for the past 3 years to make the sound
>round and free--I have accomplished this by "rounding" the inside of my
>mouth, placing the sound very forward, vowel pronunciation, even rounding my
>mouth (sort of a pouty-mouth thing). I am pleased with my mid range and have
>had a lot of positive reinforcement from people I trust. NOW the task is to
>take this sound into my upper range. Even though I am a soprano, I have
>always had trouble with the top--partly because I spent the first 38 years of
>my life convinced that I was an alto, which wound up causing me untold misery
>that led to a polyp removal 4 years ago. That gave me a brand new voice
>which I am still learning how to use.
Some people find that as they go up into a higher range, the sound
starts to feel less forward. You might want to experiment with
letting the feeling go into different parts of your head as you go up
and seeing if anything feels right.
>I had a lesson today--we just worked technique and I get it sometimes and
>sometimes I don't. I am interested to know if any of you have run into this
>before and how you dealt with it. I have all kinds of high notes if I sing
>them like a very little child. Trouble is , I need to sound like a
>grownup......
Sigh. I know the feeling. Rome wasn't built in a day. If you've
added extra weight for the first thirty-some years of your life, it's
not going to disappear overnight.
I wonder (and I'm just musing now...) if the middle voice had less
weight & heft, whether you'd be able to make a different kind of
transition upwards and somehow incorporate that child voice... What
happens if you try to crescendo in that child voice?
Naomi Gurt Lind
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