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June 1,
2005 #4
FEATURE EDITORIAL
Get More Sound for Less Work
Let's talk about something that will instantly make all of your singing
easier! RESONANCE is the magic word here, and if you master this
skill in your singing, everything you sing will get easier, meaning
less physical work on your throat and body.
My definition of resonance for singers is aiming sound waves at a hard
surface with a hollow behind it so that they bounce around and
MULTIPLY. Think of knocking on a door and hearing the knock sound
reverberate. The sound waves hit the hard surface and bounce
around in the empty space in front of and behind the door. If you
were to hit the same hard surface, but it had a bunch of blankets and
pillows stuffed up against it, you would not hear near as much
sound. It would be muffled and pretty quiet.
You have these exact same conditions in your body, just like the door
with the hollow space behind it. There are three simple areas we
are going to experiment with for this issue. They are:
1) your upper front teeth
2) your upper chest bone
3) the hard bone right between your eyes
All three of these areas are great spots to aim sound at because
they are easy to target and have big hollows on both sides of
them. Here's how you can learn to aim your voice. Try
this: Pucker your lips and say “Ooh.” Do this continuously
for a few seconds. Aim the sound directly at the back of your top
front teeth. You will feel a slight tingle, or vibration on the
back of your front teeth as the sound waves pass. This is
resonance! If you sing straight into your front teeth all the
time, you will create resonance. You will sing more easily with less
physical effort required to make the sound. There are many more
areas that singers use to resonate, and they each can be learned
quickly and easily.
Now do the same experiment in aiming with the area between your eyes
and your upper chest bone. To aim onto your chest bone, place
your hand on the bone and sing a note somewhere in the lower range of
your voice. If you are aiming onto the bone, you will feel a
slight vibration from the bone onto your hand. To aim the sound
onto the bone between your eyes, try an easy note anywhere in your
middle to high range (not too high, or it's hard to get it to
work). I sometimes call this effect "boiling your eyeballs"
because that's a little bit how it feels if you resonate on that bone
enough. But if works GREAT for the voice, so it's worth feeling
goofy to get the effect. You may feel strange, but the audience
will love it!
I'd love to hear some of your results from these resonance
experiments. Send me an email of your success
stories! If this is something you are trying for the first
time and have questions or are unclear about any part of it,
please email us at info@sing-in-tune.com
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