Chris wrote: vtec> << If I were to try to push that much chest/speaking voice up vtec> there, I would hurt myself. I cannot go above F above middle C without vtec> switching. >>
I've been catching up on this thread while I've been snowed in (blizzard in Chicagoland). I think that when the voice is working right, most women will experience a similar experience but may describe that experience very differently because of imprecise terminology. (Like everything else in singing).
Here is how I describe the changes in my voice as pitch rises:
D4 and below: comfortable stage speech voice (chest voice) Eb4 to about Ab4: "compressed" stage speech or chest voice (this feels very different from ordinary chest voice; some people might call it a mix) A4 to C5: comfortable mixed voice. Very easy to sing these notes. Db5 to E5: "compressed" mixed voice F5 to Ab5: comfortable head voice A5 to C6: "compressed" head voice
Occasionally C6 comes out in another, higher register, but I'm not up there enough to make it consistent.
Each of the "compressed" areas are what people might refer to as passagio. To me, they feel exactly like the registration below them, only compressed.
I do not use this terminology with my students unless the student suggests it. I don't want people trying to physically compress anything! It's just the best word I can come up with for the sensation for me.
Anyway, I do feel I sing in a form of "chest" voice or "speech" voice up to about A4. It just mutates on the way.
Vicki Bryant Mezzo-soprano in snowy Naperville,IL
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