Currently prepping a student for their Gold LAMDA exam! The student will be singing 'Stars and The Moon' from Songs From Another World and 'In His Eyes' from Jekyll and Hyde. Both are very challenging:
'Stars and The Moon' - The melody sits at the top of the chest voice (lower voice) where it is tempting to yell to the pitches.
TREATMENT: As we all know yelling hurts and sounds flat so we are working on numerous exercises to reduce muscular tension, reduce volume and therefore create a more balanced, natural singing sound.
'In His Eyes' - The melody here goes between the chest voice (lower voice) and head voice (higher voice) and alot of singers complain that, as they go from one to the other, there is a dramatic shift that sounds like a BREAK. Singers often also describe the lower voice as being a lot stronger than the higher voice or vice versa and this is what often causes said BREAK.
TREATMENT: We are using exercises that develop a mix (middle voice) which is a blend of the chest voice and the head voice so that, as we go from the bottom to the top of our range, there is a SMOOTH transition with no BREAKS. This is great for the performer because, if the voice breaks mid performance, it can be very embarrassing! This way the performer can focus on communicating the emotion they want to convey without the voice having a life of its own and doing things that we feel are out of our control!
...FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW SPEECH LEVEL SINGING WORKS, VISIT THE ABOUT SLS PAGE ON THE STUDIO WEBSITE:
http://www.singingteachercheshire.co.uk/
...FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW SPEECH LEVEL SINGING WORKS, VISIT THE ABOUT SLS PAGE ON THE STUDIO WEBSITE:
http://www.singingteachercheshire.co.uk/
