A Toolbox for Better Singing.
This is really informative! I think I posted an MRI of the vocal mechanism once before, but this in a way is even more instructive. Watch where the tongue strikes, and also the soft palate lifting and lowering, and what sounds are being made throughout these movements. Make sure your sound is up!
I think this is a really interesting way to think about this. I do wish the camera angle had been better for us, though.
I obtained the Vatican recordings of Alessandro Moreschi through Trunk Records recently, and thought some of you might be interested to hear what a true castrato singer sounded like. It’s quite extraordinary, and I confess I’ve never heard anything like it. Moreschi was the only castrato known to have made recordings, and these survive from … Read more
A few of you have been asking for these, so I’m putting the 4 of them in one place. These are a series of short voice tutorials that I did some time ago for some of my students and for anyone else who might find them useful. I’ve since been contacted by several singers from … Read more
Here is the Ralph Kramden chest resonance demonstration that I mentioned at the last session. For those of you who missed out, this is what happens when you use low abdominal support and keep a fine chest resonance. This is a clip I created and uploaded from an episode of The Honeymooners called The Bensonhurst … Read more
Wonderful stuff. Not to be taken seriously. 😉