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From:  buzzcen@a...
buzzcen@a...
Date:  Thu Oct 18, 2001  1:16 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Vocal Pedagogy direction? Long & Opinion


In a message dated 10/18/2001 2:14:50 AM Central Daylight Time,
lolipastor@a... writes:
lolipastor@a... writes:


> so what happens if you have a student who naturally speaks in their head
> voice? I have just such a student. How would speech level singing work on
> a
> person such as this? Even when I have her call out to her mother in the
> parking lot (imaginary situation) she barely reaches anything resembling a
> chest voice... it's strange. It's a very weak, crackly voice. Not from
> any
> abuse, but she's just a shy girl and has never had to speak much above a
> whisper... hmmm... it's a conundrum.
>

Well, first of all it sounds like there is a psychogenic voice disorder
involved (possibly puberphonia) and she may need counseling from a qualified
slp or psychologist. As far as SLS and this goes, there are some devices
used that stimulate chest lots of /ae/ using a rather nasty, aggressive
sound. However, this may not work because the student may be too hung up to
comply.

Randy Buescher




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