Mike wrote:
> i have yet to check out alan greene's book but, i plan to. what is > his background? and why does he say lowering the palate is good?
He uses biofeedback principles to 'retrain' or rather establish, your control over the muscles involved in singing, like the diaphragm and abodminal muscles, the larynx ( to pull it down ), the tongue ( to make it concave and soft ) and the soft palate ( to make it hang low ). I like the book very much and I can hear even my speaking voice has changed since I started practicing the exercises.
Concerning the soft palate itself, he states:
"The structure for the maximum use of the upper horn is a low-hanging uvula, which automaticaly produces a low soft palate and helps enormously to billow out the pillars of the fauces."..."...the tone...will feel and sound quite nasal. It is not nasal at all. The sound is resonant. A breathy, non-resonant sound is the result of a high uvula, a tense soft palate and collapsed pillars of the fauces."
I thought a breathy, aspirated sound, was the result of on-set problems! Am I wrong?
"If the tongue is high, the sound becomes nasal and twangy." "If the uvula is high and the tongue, too, is high, the sound is both breathy and nasal. But as long as the tongue is low and"( he uses an icon plus the word shaped to mean the tongue is concave ) "and the uvula is low and relaxed, the sound- although it may feel nasal because it is a new experience- is resonant.."
Bye,
Caio Rossi
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