Dear GWendel and List:
--- In vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com, GWendel Yee <gwyee@r...>
wrote:
>The choral praise book is written with the tenor part very low,
probably more suitable for baritone. There's
> also a lot of SAB work. Our basses love it;
>I find myself singing in pure chest through most of the service.
> Try as I might I can't maintain a mixed voice
> down that low.
Why would you want to maintain mixed voice for the lower part of your
range? Shouldn't the lower range of a tenor (or any singer) be in
chest?
It is interesting that we are all different...I'm just guessing, but
if your voice is about a half-step below a lyric tenor, than our
voices are not dissimilar at the low end, and I love singing choral
bass despite a light voice that is often assumed to be tenor.
Nonetheless, I do recall one of my teachers saying that a singer has
to choose how to "weight" their voice, and he felt that tenors in
particular have to work to maintain a lighter vocal weight to
facilitate the upper range - perhaps that is what you meant by trying
to maintain a mixed voice in your lower range.
Cheers,
Michael
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