Dear Jonas:
I'll quit responding to this thread with this post...maybe someone
else can help you out. In my opinion, you are finding a form
of "head" voice, albeit a strained one at the moment.
As far as sensations in your throat or mouth etc. - everyone feels
things differently and I am not comfortable discussing "place the
tone so it vibrates in your x." What you can feel, for what it's
worth, is whether your larynx is remaining stable. You can lightly
place a finger on your adam's apple and monitor whether you are
tensing/raising your larynx. Some teachers think monitoring the
larynx is helpful, some violently object - go figure.
If you are raising your larynx, the temporary way to deal with that
is to use the "dumb" and "hollow" sounds as I tried to suggest via
the Count Chocula. Also realize you may have a perception problem -
raising the larynx is a way of continuing to excite certain overtone
frequencies as the pitch is raised, and keeping the larynx relaxed
can sound "dull." Said another way, one reason for a difficult
entrance into an upper voice is a raised larynx, and one reason for a
raised larynx is that we like the sound - we do not want to give up
hearing certain overtones.
Best of luck,
Michael Gordon
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