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From:  Greypins@a...
Date:  Fri Sep 28, 2001  12:24 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Re: Falsetto range

In a message dated 9/28/2001 1:47:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
lolipastor@a... writes:

<< now, what's the difference between adducted head voice, and the "head
voice"
that men go into in their upper (yet non-falsetto) range?>>

lauren,

i think if a male singer 'un' or, is it 'dis' adducts his 'head' voice,
it will probably pop into falsetto. i made the distinction between adducted
falsetto and unadducted falsetto which, is different.

<>

you mean his mind doesn't want to do much else. what he needs is
something different not something in the middle.

<< I figure the best place to start is with the falsetto, rather than with
the other, because at least it is a healthy sound. The next step seems
rather difficult, however. How to go from that falsetto to a nice, rich
supported sound? This is when I wish that i could go into his body and try
it for myself, because as a mezzo I have no idea what this might feel like...
>>

if you were able to 'haunt' him in such a manner, and do it for him, he
would end up sounding like a counter-tenor. it is probably closer to your
'belt' voice without using 'head' voice. but, as i have not heard you
'belt', i really hesitate to say that.
the place to start is the 'pushed chesty' upper register. you have to
change 'push' to 'stretch' (literally, that upper range has to be accessed by
tilting the thyroid cartilage thereby, stretching the vocal folds). it
would probably be necessary for him to make resonance adjustments by
modifying vowels and making sure his larynx doesn't rise.

men and women are different but, the mechanics of the larynx aren't.
there is a difference in size and guage but, those size differences don't
produce that much of a difference in pitch (maybe a P5th at the most,
generally speaking). if you compare the range of pop music for female to
classical music for female, you see that classical music for female is
written much higher. to accomodate this difference, women must sing
differently from men and from female pop singers, so too must counter-tenors.
both classical singing females and counter-tenors have to use some kind of
falsetto (and i don't mean that as a slur to anyone's fach) or, 'light'
mechanism, if you prefer.
just think of it, when classically trained women look at pop music, they
are horrified by how low it is. on the other hand, when 'normal' women look
at the same pop music, they worry about the high notes.

mike





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