> I've gone through a lot of mouth ideas
> -- I studied with a teacher at the Aspen Festival who
> was very into the "smile" position of the mouth, and
> although she had a lovely voice, it didn't work for me
> AT ALL. At times, dropping my jaw open for the top
> notes was simply pulling the tone into a "muffled"
> place, dulling the sound. So we adjusted with a lot
> of ideas, like closing the mouth up, or making a small
> "biting" motion as I ascended the scale (the
> ever-popular "biting into an apple" image), or showing
> my front teeth, or pulling the upper lip down, and all
> sorts of things. Biting worked the best, and the high
> notes felt free and forward again.
So, with your mouth position, you think vertically, with no corners of
the mouth going out at all, right? What about the cheeks... the
zygomatic arches of the face?
Gina
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