Hi,I don't know how this got to my box but I'm happy it did so I'll just go
ahead and answer the questions. my name is mena
1)20yrs
2)medium female voice
3)Nigeria
4)i just began practising to vocalize in falsetto so I m not good at it
5)i don't understand lip trills
how do I get to lenghten, thicken, shorten and thin my vocal folds?
"Michael <chosdad@y... wrote:Nicolas:
A few questions:
1) How old are you?
2) Roughly, do you consider yourself a low, medium, or high male
voice? What range do you vocalize in for your "chest" or non-"head"
voice?
3) What country are you in?
4) Are you able to vocalise in falsetto? Tell us more about that -
range/pitches.
5) What difficulties did you have with the lip trills?
I would quickly add a few brief thoughts...
1) Without getting all complicated about anatomy and muscles, all
of "voice" is just the vocal folds vibrating - in chest voice the
folds are short and thick, in head voice long and thin. If the vocal
folds don't lengthen and thin, one will strain on higher notes.
2) Register "breaks" occur when we try to take maintain a certain
configuration beyond where it functions well - a "thick"
configuration up too high, or a "thin" configuration down too low.
When one has a problem with a break, the tendancy is to focus on the
break pitch itself - but likely the problem is several pitches above
(if descending) or below (if ascending). If on ascending you "crack"
say at e4, you have brought up too much vocal weight and you need to
lighten (but not breathy) the production before you get to e4.
3) In "falsetto" the vocal folds are lengthened, but there is a
breathiness to the tone because the folds are apart. For young
students and those who have difficulty with "head" voice, some
teachers feel falsetto is at least initally useful as a way to
experience lengthening and an easy feeling up high. However, "head
voice" is different from falsetto since the folds are together, and
practicing falsetto does not directly lead to "head voice".
Cheers,
Michael Gordon
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