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Tag: Breath Management

Breathing for Singing as First Cause

July 21, 2014December 2, 2016 Justin PetersenLeave a comment

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 [...]

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Posted in UncategorizedTagged Breath Management, classical singers, Reinhold Ludwig Herman, vocal training

“Friendly Compression”

July 13, 2014 Justin Petersen3 Comments

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 [...]

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Posted in UncategorizedTagged Breath Management, breathing, coup de glotte, Garcia

Breath Management as a Compensatory Tension

June 2, 2014June 3, 2014 Justin PetersenLeave a comment

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, [...]

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Evan Williams Discussing Posture’s Relationship to Efficient Breathing

May 29, 2014June 3, 2014 Justin PetersenLeave a comment

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 [...]

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