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From:  "EdgewoodVoiceStudio" <EdgewoodVoiceStudio@a...>
Date:  Tue Mar 26, 2002  5:54 am
Subject:  RE: [vocalist] bone conduction & students

Randy B. wrote:>>What do you mean by more breath pressure? More airflow
up top is one of the
major reasons singer's engage extrinsic laryngeal muscles.>>



I don’t think I mean more airflow up top, although I don’t know what you
mean exactly by “up top”. I talk to students about feeling pressure
low…… , and around the bottom and the back of the rib cage. (upper and
lower intercostals muscles) I’m not properly articulate in vocal
pedagogy, but when I ask students relax their lower abdominal muscles to
allow the diaphragm to descend and then feel a sensation of a flex low
and around the rib cage (after the expansion)when engaging in singing,
then most appear and sound like they are relaxing the extrinsic
laryngeal muscles, at least the bread baker student who wanted to sing
rock and roll did and his sound was much clearer and tension free.

Deanna






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