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Support is the Most Important Principle in Singing
Support is the most important principle in singing. Without it, everything else in the development of your voice is like painting a used car and calling it new. The major issues will still be present; they’ll just be covered up with a pretty veneer. I sang professionally for 10 years with absolutely no concept of support and it was very difficult for me to maintain my voice during that time. I got hoarse often, had serious trouble singing high notes; if I sang a song loudly and aggressively, I couldn’t come right back and sing one cleanly and gently. I often spent my days worrying about whether my voice would work that night. It wasn’t a lot of fun to have so little control over my voice but I believed that that was what singers had to go through.
Much of my troubles had to do with “singing from the throat” (more on that later) instead of using my support system. So what is support? I ask this question of all singers in their first lesson. Some singers have never heard the term, some have heard it and have no idea what it means, and others have answered that it has to do with posture, singing from the diaphragm, or tightening the abdomen. All of these concepts seem elusive to most singers, even though they know they’re “supposed” to be doing something with their abdominal area. Prior to singing, we expand the abdomen to draw air into the lungs. As we begin to make sound we lift in and up with the abdomen to create the air pressure that will start the phonation (creating sound). However, if there is no resistance to the lift, all the air would escape in a fraction of a second. We would have no way to sustain a note. What must occur is a resistance to the in and up lift.
Support is the Engine of Your Vocal Vehicle
If you put the palm of one hand on top of the other, lift with the lower and resist with the upper, you will reproduce what needs to be created in your torso. I will explain how we will create this resistance later. For now, let’s look at the concept, for this is what support truly is. Support is the control you have over the airflow coming out of your body when you sing by how you resist the in and up lift of the abdominal area. In other words, you can control the intensity of the air pressure against the vocal folds (cords) and the speed of the airflow by the opposition you create as you lift. This in turn will affect most of the elements of singing: volume, registration, vowel color, pitch, vibrato, breathiness, etc.
Support is the engine of your vocal vehicle−it is what drives the voice and allows you to control the mechanics of singing. This is the piece of the puzzle that is missing for most singers. You not only have to be aware of needing to create lift and opposition, this process has to be hooked up and functioning while you sing so that you are using the larger, stronger abdominal muscles to do more of the work than the smaller, more vulnerable focal folds. This isometric action can be felt when you try to lift an immovable object. It’s a great way to get in touch with how to engage the muscles that control the lift and opposition.
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Vocal Registration is like an Automatic or Manual Transmission in a Car
The heavy and light registers of every voice (sometimes called “chest” voice and “head” voice or falsetto) can operate automatically as you sing higher or lower pitches and you can learn to manually shift registers to get different sounds. This gives you the option of sounding the way you want to on any given word or line in a song. The Sing Free Now! Method helps you create many choices—not just one sound when you sing.
Singing in pure heavy register with dark vowel color to establish the strength of the voice. I teach you how to make a tone called “dark vowel color” that will allow you to sing higher notes with more ease and control that you ever thought possible. This teaches the body how to set up for high notes and will allow you to then sing them with whatever tone you want (yes, you can intentionally change the tone of your voice.)
Modifying vowels to “oo” as pitches get higher. This technique will help you to sing high notes easier by slightly changing the pronunciation of vowels. The effects of this are dramatic.
Modifying vowels to “ah” as pitches get lower. This technique will give you stronger and more present low notes.
Singing different ratios of balanced registration. You will be able to blend heavy and light register in whatever ratios you want to create more colors on your palette to paint with. Another way to have many options with which to sing—not just one “right” sound that most voice teachers demand you use.
Using Scales of 1-to-10 for the Bridge to Communicate to the Engine Room
If you think of your body as if it were the crew in the engine room of a ship and your mind as if it were the captain of the ship, you can learn to send commands to your body and get the vocal results you desire. I teach you how to assign a number on a scale of 1-to-10 to any vocal element so that the crew in the engine room knows exactly what your intention is. With the Sing Free Now! Method you’ll just have to picture the sound you want and your body will make that sound.
Tell the Story of the Song and Get Your Audience Rooting for You
Through song analysis and dynamics exercises I will show you how to introduce emotion and style to your singing. This allows you to connect the story of the song to your audience--your main job as a singer. If the audience is captivated by your story-telling, perfect delivery becomes less critical and you leave the audience wanting more.
Learning about The Vocal Defense Mechanism and How to Override it
We all have a Vocal Defense Mechanism (VDM) that is a subconscious system working to protect you from harming your voice, from embarrassing yourself, and from working too hard during singing. Singing a loud note, singing a high note, or singing anything that seems in the least bit threatening can trigger this mechanism. It often sabotages your singing, making it harder for you to do what you want with your voice. The Sing Free Now! Method shows you how to override the VDM so that you can sing what you want to sing the way you want to sing it.
Using Interim Sounds vs. Always Going for Performance Sounds
It is often easier and faster for you to develop a performance sound by practicing a sound you would not perform with. This sound may seem unmusical to you at first but it will develop the strength, coordination, and control you need to make the performance sound you want. It will get you to that point more quickly than banging your head against a performance sound that you cannot make at first.
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