reg,
you are correct about singing and speaking being different in what they require from breath. i have found that singing requires less breath than speech. the more legato the style, the less breath you actually need because there are fewer gaps in the sound for air to seep out. a simple experiment comparing how long you can continuously talk without a breath to how long you can sing without a breath, will bear this out.
you are correct in assuming i am a slow talker (i often wake up from a nap to find i'm still talking). rate of word production can be considered seperately from continuity of tone. when i talk fast (usually when answering a question for the ninth time), my tone is still as continuous.
as i have stated elsewhere, my approach to teaching singing is to construct a student's singing out of what they already can do and that potentially includes everything. in a wide range of usages of the voice, the breath and anything to do with it, responds on an instinctive level so, there are different levels of intensity available for use in singing.
i have never used a microphone and don't in my studio. the students who use them in performance don't seem to do all that much different when using them. the only problem i have ever seen with mics are when two very different singers try to use the same one- ouch!
i hope i answered all you were asking.
mike
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