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Tension is a no-go in singing. It can sabotage your vocal health and freedom and it brings you lots of frustration. Starting with discomfort or even pain during singing (or speaking) and ending with less range, less resonance and overall poor sound production, one fundamental principle when working on your voice development should be releasing…

Having necessary twang in your voice when singing or speaking is vital for healthy voice use and projection. _________________________________ “The area above the vocal cords forms a funnel; this is called the ‘epiglottic funnel’. When twanging, the opening of the epiglottic funnel is made smaller by bringing the arytenoid cartilages closer to the lower part…

Types of breathing Breath fuels the voice. Without air passing through the vocal folds allowing them to vibrate, we couldn’t make sounds the way we are used to. Nevertheless, not any type of breathing is best-suited for vocal demanding activities such as singing, especially if a resonant and balanced tone is desired. Here are some…

What exactly is support?   The concept of support may be used to describe airflow and breath management, or it can mean working muscles in the body to assist work in the larynx (voice box); sometimes it means both. In my point of view, the goal of support is to engage the body in a…

Chest voice and head voice. Myth or fact? Chest voice and head voice are ancient terms that go back hundreds of years when there was little understanding of how the voice works. Without knowing the facts of sound production, description of the voice relied solely upon the sound and physical sensations that singers heard and…

The term vocal onset (or vocal attack) is used in singing to describe how the breath and vocal folds come together to start a note. Similarly, a vocal offset describes the manner of finishing a note. Every onset can be used as an offset as well. The varying between the two is a vital part…

Vocal resonance. The vocal tract Resonance represents the tendency of an object or system (like the air contained by the vocal tract) to respond (oscillate) more strongly to particular frequencies introduced into it. The vocal tract is essentially an airspace resonator made up of a series of interconnected ‘chambers’, each with its own resonance bandwidth….

Our voice is capable of making lots of different sounds which share acoustic similarities and laryngeal gestures, voice specialists discovered (see CVT Research Site). After further research, the Complete Vocal Institute came up with for different vocal modes that show different characters, different limitation and different settings. Learning about these vocal modes and mastering them…

“Effects are sounds that are not connected to melody or text but are sounds that underline the expression or style of a singer. All effects are produced in the vocal tract. Besides controlling the technique for the effects singers have to take into account her/his fitness, energy level, and temperament. Before you start working with…

Vocal dynamics is the quality of singing from soft to loud and vice-versa with smoothness and control. It gives ebb and flow to your song. It is a skill not that hard to master; an exercise to learn or improve this craft is ‘mesa di voce’.