> From: leskayc@a...
> Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:34:27 EDT
> To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Avoid Frustration While Starting Out
I know that Dr. Hanson says there should be no conscious pulling in
> of these muscles. Are there 2 (or more) schools of thought here?
Let's put it this way: there are roughly as many schools of thought on this
(AND everything else) as there are voice teachers. Which one is right or
wrong? This will sound like heresy, but I'll say it anyway - the one that is
right is the one that you find makes you sing easily and freely. I've found
*that* to be the hardest lesson in singing - i.e., figuring out which way is
best for your voice. Once you've got that figured out, the rest will come.
For me, singing and learning to sing was a very painful process until I
figured out what I needed, and stuck with the teacher who could teach it to
me.
Another post described the three basic ideas as "appoggio," "down and out,"
and "in and up." "Appoggio", for example, doesn't help me at all; I find
myself straining a lot on top notes when I try to breathe that way. With the
"down and out" concept, I find myself locking up the chest and the ribcage,
as well as not inhaling fully enough. "In and up" is sort of what I do, but
I concentrate on the "up" and keep the "in" from happening as long as I
possibly can. Perhaps what I have been taught could be called a combination
of "down and out" and "in and up".
In general, the notion of any two voice teachers agreeing more than, say,
40% of the time, is pretty fantastic - and the scary thing is, by and large,
they're *all* right. One just has to remember that not every teacher (or
technique) is going to work for every student.
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