In a message dated 02/15/2002 9:56:39 AM Central Standard Time, mimthurn@y... writes:
<< > Why do you think you are teaching them to fake it? > The belt IS somewhat of > a nasal chest mix. (Listen to Streisand.) Try > calling a taxi like a New > Yorker, and you will have it! :-) > > Thanks, Diane! Sounds like the "correct" belting is what I've already been teaching. That knocks one thing off of my to do list!
I guess I (and others I know) have always called it a "fake" belt because our impression of "real" belting was using only chest voice in the middle range. >>
Well, that's what I was doing and when I tried it at a master class at the first NATS belt voice workshop, I was greeted with a horrified "You're not belting!" from the clinician, who then told me I should have picked something like "The Rose" to start with. He then dropped the key of what I was singing ("All that jazz") by 2 steps (it was already low!) and had me say the first line over and over, trying to find my "emotional center." No technical instructions whatsoever. Just that. When I couldn't produce whatever it was he was looking for, he told me "You're obviously not in touch with your emotions. I think you should sit down."
Therefore, I do not know how to belt, I guess... not do I try to teach belt. I can recognize it in other people and I applaud it but I can't find it in myself and I don't want to hurt anyone by trying to impose it on them. If there are teachers who can teach it, I encourage my students to find them.
Christine Thomas Wauwatosa, WI <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/mezzoid/myhomepage/profile.html"> http://hometown.aol.com/mezzoid/myhomepage/profile.html</A>
"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"
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