Organization: Plainview-Rover Public Schools
To: vocalist
Date sent: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:48:04 -600
Subject: Re: Chin vibrato?
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

Good for you! You shouldn't. I have heard some vocal instructors
who teach vibrato this way. Take Charlotte Church for an example.
Not wanting to get on that kick again, but, my what a chin problem.
Shame on her vocal coach whomever it may be to introduce such a
"technique" to such a young child! And if it wasn't introduced, is
the instructor doing anything to stop it? I was flipping through
channels and ran across Charlotte Church on PBS. I could only
watch for a few minutes before having to turn the channel. I could
not enjoy the music she was making because of the distracting
chin movement and clenched jaw. Sorry to all of you Charlotte
Church fans out there. Yes, I think she has a very nice instrument
for such a young age. But, can we not all see the poor things she
has been taught?

Stepping off the soap box now.
Thank you for your indulgence.

Date sent: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:05:33 -0700
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
From: Katherine Craig
Subject: Chin vibrato?
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

> I have seen singers on tv and in performance (not classical ones but pop,
> gospel, soul, jazz) who, when they sing vibrato move their chins, that is
> they wiggle them up and down evidently to create the vibrato or else they
> are jiving to the inner vibrato maybe. How does this work? Can it cause
> problems such as tmj? Just curious. When I sing vibrato I do not feel the
> vibrations anywhere near my chin.
>


John Peoples
Music
Plainview-Rover School
Plainview, AR
jpeoples-at-prhs.afsc.k12.ar.us