| From: Cynthia S Donnell To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Subject: Re: Chin vibrato - Observations Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Hi, Barry,
In my experience the movement of the jaw in conjunction with either pitch change or vibrato is the visible manifestation of excess muscle tension. It usually is some combination of tongue/jaw tension and poor breath management. Additionally, I've never noted these problems in a singer whose body alignment is good - even though they may have minor problems with breath/jaw/tongue. The more coordinated the singer becomes the less chin wobble there will be.
Cindy Donnell
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Barry Bounous wrote:
> exams) to those singers who evidenced jaw movement during sustained > notes and vowels. I listened to around 200 singers and about 10% had > noticeable jaw movement (only 1 being male, the rest female) I noticed > that they tended to fall into two catagories: > 1) Those who couldn't seem to produce any vibrato without the > assistance of the jaw.> 2) Those who could but who periodically added jaw movement (usually on> loud and/or high pitches). > > In the former case, the vibrato sometimes had a 'normal' sound (when I > closed my eyes) and sometimes did not. (About 50/50) > In the latter case, I noticed a definite degradation in the periodicity > and balance of the vibrato as the singers "added" jaw movement to "help" > the vibrato or at least to help their sense of vocal freedom.
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