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Dec. 10th, 2007
Voice lesson progress
Dec. 10th, 2007 10:51 pmHad an amazing session tonight -- I sang an E full voice, not falsetto, and felt the top part of my face buzzing with the resonance. Wow! Now I understand what it means to get the "mask" involved. I just need to make it happen a few dozen more times so I can figure out how I did that.
Actually, what my teacher said shortly before that was that I should emphasize the lower partials. At some level, this makes no more sense than any of the various visualization techniques that I've heard over the years and mocked as ridiculous. But for me, this one worked -- I understood in what way she wanted me to produce a different sound, I made some changes that I thought would produce that sound, and it worked.
When my folks were visiting this weekend they listened to me rehearsing and commented that my voice sounded "lower", and I wonder if that was the same thing: producing more power in the lower overtones.
Actually, what my teacher said shortly before that was that I should emphasize the lower partials. At some level, this makes no more sense than any of the various visualization techniques that I've heard over the years and mocked as ridiculous. But for me, this one worked -- I understood in what way she wanted me to produce a different sound, I made some changes that I thought would produce that sound, and it worked.
When my folks were visiting this weekend they listened to me rehearsing and commented that my voice sounded "lower", and I wonder if that was the same thing: producing more power in the lower overtones.
Voice lesson progress
Dec. 10th, 2007 10:51 pmHad an amazing session tonight -- I sang an E full voice, not falsetto, and felt the top part of my face buzzing with the resonance. Wow! Now I understand what it means to get the "mask" involved. I just need to make it happen a few dozen more times so I can figure out how I did that.
Actually, what my teacher said shortly before that was that I should emphasize the lower partials. At some level, this makes no more sense than any of the various visualization techniques that I've heard over the years and mocked as ridiculous. But for me, this one worked -- I understood in what way she wanted me to produce a different sound, I made some changes that I thought would produce that sound, and it worked.
When my folks were visiting this weekend they listened to me rehearsing and commented that my voice sounded "lower", and I wonder if that was the same thing: producing more power in the lower overtones.
Actually, what my teacher said shortly before that was that I should emphasize the lower partials. At some level, this makes no more sense than any of the various visualization techniques that I've heard over the years and mocked as ridiculous. But for me, this one worked -- I understood in what way she wanted me to produce a different sound, I made some changes that I thought would produce that sound, and it worked.
When my folks were visiting this weekend they listened to me rehearsing and commented that my voice sounded "lower", and I wonder if that was the same thing: producing more power in the lower overtones.