I have an adult female private voice student who is an experience choral
singer. She is a soprano, but was moved to alto a few years ago because
her voice was not blending well. Her vowel tone was "way off" and the
upper range was getting brittle and tight. We have worked out many of her
problems, but now the challenge is strengthening her lower head voice
(anything below G above middle C) while she sings alto in the choir. She
had been using her chest voice and tightening up for anything she couldn't
push upwards. Now that she has a more free and flexible upper range, her
lower head voice is weak and inconsistent. We work to keep the soft palate
raised and the larynx relaxed, but the strength is just not there.
Here is my question: Should I keep stressing that she continue using her
lower head voice in choir rehearsals in order to strengthen it, or should
we work on blending the chest voice into the head tone?
Tina Harris
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