Susi & Isabelle
I recently started studying with a teacher who for the first time asked me to
use my chest voice. What a revalation. I had always had a strong chest voice
and my speaking voice is quite low, but my new teacher always starts out our
lessons with chest-voice excercises, and I love the octave leaps. He
discovered that I have a low C (below middle C), and believes that any soprano
with that much of a low range has more drama in her voice than I was ever
using. I'm finding out (FINALLY) that I don't really have a "small" voice, but
I was always using my voice in a "small" way. The chest-voice excercises
really help to relax my throat and keep my larynx from raising, although
sometimes the big sounds I make now are sometimes shocking to me and I want to
pull back.
I'm whole-heartedly in agreement!
Lisa-Marie
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On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 16:31:51
Peter Louis van Dijk wrote:
>
>Isabelle wrote:
>
>> A strong and healthy chest voice will strengthen the
>> head voice -- I don't know why, but it works. I
>> generally do these exercises once a week:
>
>I was taught this approach by my grandmother, who learnt very similar
>exercises to those you describe from a certain Dr Albrecht Thausing in
>Hamburg +/- 1925. He actually called these exercises "Voice Strengthening
>Exercises" or "Stimmkraft|bungen", and also found these exercises very
>helpful in the cure of asthma and bronchitis and also stuttering and vocal
>cord paralysis.He also taught something which I call a GROWL.(an extended
>throat-clearing type of sound.)Many Americans with vocal problems came to
>him at the time, and I am trying to establish some kind of a link into the
>present day.
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