Dear Lloyd and List:
--- In vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com, "Lloyd W. Hanson"
<lloyd.hanson@n...> wrote:
> You make no mention of head voice in your suggested use of falsetto
> to, I assume, learn to sing well in the higher range of the male
> voice. How do you define falsetto as different from head voice or
do
> you consider the two as the same?
Lloyd - a young man of about 20 years old writes that he is unable to
find his head voice using lip trills and squeaky door sounds etc. and
is not working with a teacher. I responded saying, among other
things:
a) I doubt one can learn to sing well from reading a post on the
internet.
b) One should try to develop a
bit of a "mix" or lightened chest voice in the area below the top of
your chest range - so from say Bb3 (a whole step below middle C -
C4) to Eb4 is your "passagio" (I'm guessing).
c) In "falsetto" the vocal folds are lengthened, but there is a
breathiness to the tone because the folds are apart. For young
students and those who have difficulty with "head" voice, some
teachers feel falsetto is at least initally useful as a way to
experience lengthening and an easy feeling up high. I further
encouraged him to do some descending falsetto exercises and to
experiment with his voice.
Do you find disagreement with the above statements?
What advice would you give this young man?
Cheers,
Michael Gordon
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