Tako,
Yes, that 'zone' is right, feels pretty exact actually!
It's odd that you should mention the downward crossing of the passaggio,
since I tend to think of it as something that I have to 'deal with' going
up! I do notice that in descending from a high head tone, if I allow too
much 'chest' too soon, it sounds and feels bad - there is a point,
inadequately explored by me so far, where it is safe for me to allow things
to open up and to exploit more of the 'chest' resonance.
I must say though: so much of what I try to do I just don't have words
for. Our language is completely inadequate to describe the subtlties of
kinaesthesia involved in singing, which is why I use quotes for 'chest'.
The best insights I've got from this list (and there have been many) have
come because I was ready to understand this or that little nuggett of
wisdom, and then someone has posted just the right thing to make the
connection for me.
john
At 02:34 PM 6/22/00 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, John Alexander Blyth wrote:
>
>> My absolute maximum head tone note is B4, so where should my
>> passagio lie?
>
>My mistake... my Miller book says a baritone should be in "the zone"
>from about b3 to e4. Is that right for you? I guess I should have said
>4th or 5th above the top note of the passagio...
>
>It's confusing for me, because I think of "starting" to cross my
>passagio as a downward act rather than an upward one, since most of my
>range lies above my passagio...
>
>-Tako
>
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John Blyth
Baritono robusto e lirico
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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