Hey Reg,
Sorry not to reply sooner...........I don't have much time now either. But
basically if you are encouraging, or giving preference to, one mode of
production over another the voice is going be out of balance. Allowing the
voice to transition as it wants to is not always an accurate or healthy
thing. Case in point is a new student that was in my studio this
week........if I let his voice do what it wanted, he would have been in
terrible shape. His "lighter-head-voice" was actually falsetto, and when he
carried that tone down, right below middle c, his voice would actually
abruptly pop into a heavier production and drop an octave. Now obviously, you
are not encouraging this, but it is an extreme example of allowing the voice
to do what it wants.
There are some defineable boundaries for where chest, mix, head voice occurs
for all voices. The point of reference for all voices should be to maintain
the quality and identity they have in their speaking voice. If they use a
different voice for singing, they are inevitably setting themselves up for
vocal difficulties. Developing that transition point between chest/head voice
is difficult for all of us, however, the transition happens at the same place
irregardless of ascending/descending scale or style.
Hope this helps......
Mary Beth F.
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