reg,
you are correct about singing and speaking being different in what they
require from breath. i have found that singing requires less breath than
speech. the more legato the style, the less breath you actually need
because there are fewer gaps in the sound for air to seep out. a simple
experiment comparing how long you can continuously talk without a breath to
how long you can sing without a breath, will bear this out.
you are correct in assuming i am a slow talker (i often wake up from a
nap to find i'm still talking). rate of word production can be considered
seperately from continuity of tone. when i talk fast (usually when
answering a question for the ninth time), my tone is still as continuous.
as i have stated elsewhere, my approach to teaching singing is to
construct a student's singing out of what they already can do and that
potentially includes everything. in a wide range of usages of the voice,
the breath and anything to do with it, responds on an instinctive level so,
there are different levels of intensity available for use in singing.
i have never used a microphone and don't in my studio. the students
who use them in performance don't seem to do all that much different when
using them. the only problem i have ever seen with mics are when two very
different singers try to use the same one- ouch!
i hope i answered all you were asking.
mike
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