Many teachers of classical singing assure me that breathing is the sine qua non for singing and it must be addressed very soon in vocal training. I'm told that I must actively and directly control, manage, and/or spin the breath, and it requires a lot of conscious breathing work to sing classical music. Unfortunately for my [...]
That's the term I use for Manuel Garcia's coup de glotte. The terminology and wording of Garcia's theory of glottal closure caused a firestorm of controversy in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. The misunderstanding of it as a glottal plosive frightened many teachers, theorists, and voice doctors from that time to the present day. Henry Holbrook [...]
In singing, the body gets the message to ‘help out’ when the cords lose their adducting strength. This appears to be a physiological law and the body kicks in to secure a firmer relation between itself and the throat. In any case, if, when we try to sing, the response from the voice is weak, [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI4E3qnFTtY Singers study breathing as though they were trying to learn how to push out the voice or pull it out by suction. By standing in a sensible position with the chest high (but not forced up) the lung capacity of the average individual is quite surprising. A good position can be secured through the [...]
