yes lloyd, randy, john, dre and don,
i am a new convert. i am using gram50 which i downloaded from the
internet (probably the best model for an adam smith ideal). since i learned
how to use it (like a toy, unfortunately), i've gone nuts making charts for
all kinds singing, various imitations of celebrities, bird calls and bathroom
noises (look for my upcoming article 'the farter's formant: a ring of its
own').
on to something not so sophomoric... in his book 'training tenor
voices', richard miller, in his discussion of tenorial resonance, gives
examples of five catagories of vocal registers, as he puts it, represented in
spectral analysis sung by a professioanl tenor. each example is sung on F4.
the different 'registers' are voce di petto, voce mista, voce finta, voce
di testa and falsetto. miller points out that the falsetto example fails to
register the fundamental.
my question is, is this absence of the fundamental peculiar to this
example of falsetto or, is it standard to readings of falsetto in general?
the readings i have gotten on my own falsetto or, what i have always thought
of as falsetto, exhibit a fundamental and in fact, don't read any differently
from the range i have recently accessed in the past year (G4-F5 vocalizing).
they do sound different in terms of strength and feel different in the same
manner. so, what i'm really wondering, is this thing i've always called
falsetto really head voice (at its lamest)?
thanks,
mike
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