dear slsers,
for the past year, i have been using exercises i got from roger love's book 'your voice at its best'. using the octave and a half arpeggio exercise on 'gug', 'mum', 'bub' and various other syllables, coupled with the low larynx exercises, i have gone from vocalizing to just G or Ab above middle C to vocalizing to F above tenor high C. there is no break and there is a gradual change in timbre as i go from one end of my range to the other.
the problem is, i'm having a hard time putting this new found range to any use in singing. i have had some success with 'ev'ry valley' from the 'messiah', and it is easier doing it on 'mum' than the words but, that's about as far as i've gotten with it. when ever i try to use that range for something slow like 'open arms' by journey or 'all by myself' by eric carmen, that range seems to break down into falsetto or, what i think is falsetto. (i should add, i mostly have been considered a low baritone.)
i have experimented with the 'squeaky door' thing some. i would sing in falsetto and add the squeaky door thing to it and that would connect to my regular voice however, it still feels like falsetto and sounds like something that will never go any further. the squeaky door thing seems somewhat similar in sound to what i'm gettting in my vocalizing but it doesn't feel the same, it feels more like what i would call falsetto.
i'd appreciate any thoughts from anyone on this.
thanks much, mike
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