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From:  "Rocio Guitard" <rocioguitard@h...>
"Rocio Guitard" <rocioguitard@h...>
Date:  Sun Oct 1, 2000  2:31 am
Subject:  Re: Church (Caio's question about her technique)

Hi all,
 
Caio wrote:
>>I'm asking those with a clear opinion about the girl to share a technical evaluation of Church's technique. I know she drops her jaw too low and that she can't be heard over an orchestra. But is that all? Why are there so many 'non-believers' in that Church? :-)
 
Church's "technique" consists of singing in her falsetto, not her head and chest voice. Hence the lack in power and everything else. Her vibrato results from shaking her jaw, and not from proper cord adduction and balance in the larynx, and since she doesn't get the right balance and overtones in her voice, things like dropping her jaw, singing in a half smile and lifting her eyebrows for higher notes (for example) are attempts to compensate. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
 
She does have a lovely voice for her age, but probably a lousy teacher. It'd be really curious to hear what she'd sound like after a few years with a good teacher of Bel Canto or similar.
 
Regards,
Rocio Guitard
Seth Riggs Associate


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