Dear Lloyd and List:
Thanks for your input Lloyd. Some comments below.
--- In vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com, "Lloyd W. Hanson"
<lloyd.hanson@n...> wrote:
> Michale and Vocalisters:
>
> Children should be taught to sing with their "singing" voice, not
> their "play" voice in classroom singing. Once the child is shown
the
> difference he/she understands completely how to do both.
Here is the situation - we have an adult male music teacher with
presumably an untrained voice - how does this teacher go about
showing the children the difference between their "play"
and "singing" voices? Should the teacher work alone with a selected
student and use that student as a model? Pitch the songs up higher
and tell the children not to yell?
Just as an example, I have been working a little bit with my son - he
tends to either sing in fairly low in his "talking" (play?) voice or
he gets silly and sings way up high in head voice. He can sing in
this "singing" (middle?) voice but doesn't seem to do so naturally,
and demonstrations in my voice seem to confuse him.
Perhaps I should have my wife work with him, since her natural range
matches my son's voice better...
Thanks for the advice,
Michael
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