--- ODivaTina@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 10/11/2000 3:35:55 PM Pacific
> Yes. Your "placement" (pardon the term) is too far
> inward, and not frontal
> and out enough.
Dear Tina and co-vocalisters,
I am very sorry to disagree (partly), but I
experienced the same when my placement still was too
much in front. So I agree that it might very well be a
placement (resonance) problem, but whether it is too
much in front or too much back, or watever, is
difficult to say, without hearing somebody, and even
then.
In general, I benefitted enormously from the things
Lloyd D. Hanson has explained here several times.
You'll find his article on this issue at
http://www.chanteur.net/workshop.htm (thanks to
Alain). I understood his explication in that way, that
you should use your whole vocal tract as resonater and
should not concentrate on only one part of it.
The problem with this (and with many other all singing
issues) is, that people might feel completely
different things, while doing the same things. So
while one person tells you she places more frontal and
another he is placing more backward, they might very
well be doing the same thing! Since the larynx is an
important resonator, raising your larynx is i.m.o.
sure to destroy your resonance, but very few will
disagree on the importance of keeping your larynx low.
One very big problem with using a less efficient kind
of resonance, is that your voice can resonate inside
your head in such a way that you'll hear yourself loud
and beautiful, while the sound you are emitting is of
a complete different quality, sadly enough.
As I wrote a couple of days ago, my recording
experiments have taught me, that a well produced sound
seems to have a very special quality, that makes it
not only resonate well with(in) your vocal tract, but
also in a room or hall, causing a sound to be much
bigger or much more audible (in the case of p, pp or
ppp tones) than the actual volume (in db) suggests.
Making recordings with a microphone close, or very
close to not very well produced voices, will produce a
kind of sound that has much in common with the way
such singers will hear themselves. That is why many
popsingers with a technique that is very inadequate
for singing classical music, can make cd's that an
(also for other reasons) astonishing amount of people
want to buy (or copy). In other words: a recording is
not a reliable indicator of your volume, unless you
have very good equipment and know exactly what you're
doing. And I finally agree with Tina that a good
teacher should be able to help you with this.
Best greetings,
Dre
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