Trevor Allen wrote:
>
> ...In the recital I gave a few weeks ago, I did mostly
> classical and then threw in some jazz standards at the
> end and lightened up my voice some so that it wouldn't
> sound like a classical singer trying to show he's
> "versatile". When I was practicing, my teacher would
> say that I needed to raise the pitch, that I wasn't in
> the core of the tone, but rather hanging toward the
> bottom, that I wasn't completely flat, but what I was
> sining wasn't completely right...
Its similar to what happens when choirs are asked to sing without vibrato or
even just softly. Whole choirs can sound flat and dull. (...shudder...)
I continue to struggle with this issue. I find that when I try to sing with
out any vibrato and/or the vibrancy that I do this by cutting off a the ping
and most the upper partials of a tone. What else is left, but the bottom
portion of tone? I also seem to sound pressed (pressed forward.) Since I
have a small voice (lyric soprano) and a narrow vibrato, I have discovered
that I can mostly ignore the request to sing with out vibrato or ping. I
just don't over do it. (I don't sing in a choir that prohibits vibrato, just
at certain points, usually when we are all in unison, are we asked to
refrain.) So that is my current solution, not very helpful to you, I'm
afraid. However the choir that I'm in has one soprano with a wider vibrato
that can utilize a belt (jazz) technique that allows her to "lighten up"
and sing without vibrato when need arises. It is a different technique to
master. Singing by lightning up classical technique doesn't seem to work.
At least not for me.
Barbara Roberts
mikebarb@netrox,com
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