Hi everyone, Happy New Year.
I haven't put in my $2 (inflation) worth in for quite a while. So here goes:
>I've heard there have been a number of people who believed you can sing anything you wanted (tenor, bass, baritone) provided you found the right attitude, which stems from a deep awareness of the mind-feeling-spirit world within each of us. It's like they say: "A register/color (ie. what we call tenor, bass, alto, etc.)is the result of an attitude (conscious or not) and since attitudes can be modified thru awareness so can registers/colors.<
That is the biggest load of crap I have ever read in my life. Who the hell said this originally? I can't wait to see what the voice teachers out there have to say. I am not a voice teacher, but I have been trained, and as far as my training, and my body, (especially my body) tells me, is that you are either a tenor, or a bass, or an alto, or a soprano, with possible elements of others in there.
I am a Tenor, but I can comfortably sing high Baritone, partly in that I was missdiagnosed as a Baritone in the first place, so that is where my initial training was. But to say that I can sing Soprano or Alto just because I find the right attitude is totally absurd. I have seen so many people on stage singing in the wrong voice range and killing their voices it is not funny. (Especially when you see them struggling with the notes and their whole face is turning red from the effort) But then whoever originally said this would probably say they hadn't achieved the right attitude.
Since becoming a member of Vocalist a couple of years ago I have become aware (thru all you wonderful people) of so much vocal misinformation it is not funny. Fortunatly there is always someone out there who puts it all straight again. But this one I thnk has to take the cake and possibly the award for the best missinformation of them all.
I will now anxiously sit back to read the comments on this subject from all you wonderful people who know what you are doing.
Bye for now and HAPPY 2002 and a belated MERRY CHRISTMAS from Santa Dale. HO HO HO.
--- Dale Gillespie - Tenor bigtenordale@a... Phone: 604-945-6273 Cell: 604-818-8427 Coquitlam, BC Canada
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