I'm a 23 year old lyric tenor. I'm noticing more and more that practicing
singing - i.e., in voice lessons, coaching sessions, practicing by myself,
etc. - makes me vocally tired fairly quickly, but when I sing onstage in
front of an audience, there's no problem, I've got stamina, range, and ring
to spare. Anybody able to relate to this and/or explain why this might be?
It's alternately frustrating and gratifying.
In addition, I'm noticing that I have two very frustrating bad habits. I
have not been taught them, in fact I've been taught to not do them, but
evidently what I've been taught to do doesn't totally connect with me,
otherwise I wouldn't do these things. 1) When attempting a decrescendo,
particularly on high notes, the method I'm instinctively using to
decrescendo is laryngeal tightening. 2) When stopping a tone, I do so
glottally, cutting it off with the throat rather than just stopping the
breath. The second one I know what to do about, and simply stopping the
breath is actually the easier way to do it, it's just going to take a lot of
practice to get used to doing it the "easier" way. The first one is stumping
me, however. I'm intellectually able to understand that I need to keep the
throat open and relaxed, but when trying to sing softer than a mezzo-forte,
tightening up is just what my particular instrument *does*. (This likely
explains why I would get vocally tired quickly when I practice, but it
doesn't explain why I don't when I perform.) Anybody have any insight or
suggestions that could help this?
Thanks,
Richard
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