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From:  "mjmoody2000 <mjmoody@c...
Date:  Thu Jan 16, 2003  5:18 pm
Subject:  Re: Head voice from falsetto.(Some more questions).

--- In vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com, "katherine94040
<modulate58@a...>" <modulate58@a...> wrote:
> With all due respect to all of you, and most especially to Mr
Hanson,
> for whom I have had great regard back to the old Vocalist,
Cornelius
> Reid does not teach that falsetto is "between" head and chest. I
> think you need to read again. I studied with Cornelius for nearly
12
> years. Although I should be smart enough not to try to speak for
> the "guru", I will take this on anyway.
>
> Cornelius teaches two registers, lower (chest) and upper (falsetto).

I meant to post yesterday that, indeed, both Frisell and Reid only
talk about TWO registers - falsetto and Chest. Anything else is a
mixture between the two. I think both also suggest that the falsetto
is positioned above the chest voice - at least to begin with.

Frisell suggests that the range of the falsetto can be increased -
especially going down.

I don't think either teachers suggest that falsetto is inbetween the
chest voice and the head voice.

I think Manuel Garcia did - but I can't verify it from anywhere. I
was noting that sometimes a "false" voice seems to appear to me when
I am trying to keep my upper register engaged in the lower part of my
voice and it doesn't "connect" right. This seems to happen around an
F3 to a D4 sometimes. Anyway, neither Frisell nor Reid ever states
that the falsetto is lower than the head voice. The reason I
mentioned it in the first place was that Michael Gordon mentioned
that his low falsetto notes are truly false and useless sounding, and
I wondered whether we might actually be talking about the same
phenomenon.

John





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