Michael wrote: > Lloyd, thank you for this post. > I have found it most confusing to find that the pitch for my "break" > seems to vary, and your post goes a long way towards explaining the > mystery. >
Yes it sounds like the same as the female lower passaggio - i can certainly take "i" in head voice lower than "a". I think it also depends on where you are coming from and going to - if singing something in low range (mainly below the break), then i would take say an E above middle C in chest, whereas if descending from head an E would most likely be in 'head' whatever the vowel. It also seems to depend on whether you are breathing properly. I suppose you need to develop a flexible dynamic approach which allows you to match the sounds above and below the break taking into consideration all these different factors and also style. However, my burning question still remaining is, if you have to descend or ascend legato step-wise across the break, whereabouts to introduce/leave off chest (and how to do it so that nobody can tell!) Thanks for all the contributions to this topic Delia
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