All signs point to yes. That jaw-dropping thing is highly overrated
except when teaching junior high girls whose mouths don't open at all
(which I kindly refer to as '8th-grade hissing tire syndrome.) Opening
your jaw too widely makes for too much mouth resonance, rather than
finding the space you need in the pharynx. I would get an opinion from
another voice teacher at another school for whom you have respect. Moms
and the internet are not upon what I would base a career.
Best,
Mark Montgomery
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 nubian2@h... wrote:
> I have always been told by teachers to get a good opening when I sing
> by dropping my jaw. I think that this has been to my detrement, when
> I open it like they say, the sound feels trapped and very big in my
> head but not focused. Singing that way made me feel very tired. I
> feel like it made me swallow my sound back in my throat.
> feels when I sing this way. Even though it is very easy and small to
> me when I sing this way, my mother says it is EXTREMELY loud in the
> house. It sounds to me like this must be the right way to sing. It
> is easy and focused and sounds way louder outside than it does to me
> in my head. I just find it weird though, because I have always been
> told to open your mouth really wide, but when I am singing at my most
> relaxed, I look in the mirror and my mouth is not very wide (except
> when I go past the second G after middle C (I'm a mezzo........)
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