martii,
a high larynx won't wear you out. baaba maal sings with a high larynx
(as do most of the senegalese pop singers) and he can go on for hours. i
think it is actually easier to sing with a high larynx, the only problem
being that kind of excessively bright and nasty sound.
if you are getting a high larynx and it is making a nasty sound (ala
jerry lewis), you may try to fix the sound by creating all sorts of weird
tensions (you wouldn't be the first to try that) and that will wear you out.
there are all sorts of misconceptions that cause people to have high
larynges: thinking that pitch goes up and down (in height) as opposed to
getting slower or faster, 'trying to get one's voice out', trying to direct
your voice would do it, pushing to get louder, pushing to get higher, overuse
of the muscles in the mouth to form vowels, etc.
the best way to solve the high larynx problem is to first find out that
it isn't that much of a problem. it results in a certain sound that may or
may not be desirable. i used to fight a high larynx. in one of my many
'screwball' experiments, i tried singing like a baby crying on 'waaa' (which
raised my larynx as i as it could go and i just let it go). i was
astonished how high i could sing (higher than my falsetto). it was loud and
easy and in an AC/DC kind of way, not too bad a sound. as i resigned myself
to this sound, my larynx would actually drop after a while.
when you are not concerned with how it sounds, it is astonishing how
easy it is to sing. changing the timbre of your voice (and that is the main
effect of larynx height) then becomes a matter of changing the vowel you
sing. to sing a vowel in any range other than the speaking range means
doing something other than your normal concept of the vowel. the trick to
singing high then becomes daring yourself to sing a vowel that sounds totally
idiotic to you but sounds good to everyone else.
you have to look at cause and effect. if you don't know what causes
an effect, stop trying. you'd probably guess wrong. i think you should go
for 'ugly but easy' first and proceed from there.
mike
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