In a message dated 12/5/2001 6:36:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, sandra@b... writes: sandra@b... writes:
<< Sigh. My sensation is pretty much laryngeal (above the collar bone.) Just when I thought I was relating. To quote Homer S. "dote!". Actually, I also breath fairly low, thanks to years of yoga. >>
sandra,
don't worry about it. if things are working and that image works for you, even if it is totally different from how i view it, that's fine. the images voice teachers use are not singing, they are just a view of singing. where it wouldn't work is if you were trying to teach someone else how to do what you do using that same image, hoping the image would get the point across. if that student views things differently from you, they'll never get it. for example: i used to have students sing in head voice and chest voice on the same notes. i would then ask them where they 'sensed' both voices then, i would have them 'sing in both places at once'. the reports of where each student felt each voice were always different. of course, there were some common reports but, it was unpredictable what each student would come up with. i had one student who said she heard her head voice in her left ear and her chest voice in her right ear so, i told her to 'sing in both ears', getting the desired result. if i told every student i had to sing in both ears, i'd be working in a bookstore now, instead of teaching.
mike
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