dear slsers,
for the past year, i have been using exercises i got from roger love's
book 'your voice at its best'. using the octave and a half arpeggio
exercise on 'gug', 'mum', 'bub' and various other syllables, coupled with the
low larynx exercises, i have gone from vocalizing to just G or Ab above
middle C to vocalizing to F above tenor high C. there is no break and
there is a gradual change in timbre as i go from one end of my range to the
other.
the problem is, i'm having a hard time putting this new found range to
any use in singing. i have had some success with 'ev'ry valley' from the
'messiah', and it is easier doing it on 'mum' than the words but, that's
about as far as i've gotten with it. when ever i try to use that range for
something slow like 'open arms' by journey or 'all by myself' by eric carmen,
that range seems to break down into falsetto or, what i think is falsetto.
(i should add, i mostly have been considered a low baritone.)
i have experimented with the 'squeaky door' thing some. i would sing
in falsetto and add the squeaky door thing to it and that would connect to my
regular voice however, it still feels like falsetto and sounds like something
that will never go any further. the squeaky door thing seems somewhat
similar in sound to what i'm gettting in my vocalizing but it doesn't feel
the same, it feels more like what i would call falsetto.
i'd appreciate any thoughts from anyone on this.
thanks much,
mike
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