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YOUR
REAL VOICE - the vocal ezine for real people
June 16,
2005 #5
FEATURE EDITORIAL
The Human Singing Lightening
Rod!
Let's pick up where we left off last time in our discussion and
experimentation with RESONANCE. The more you resonate, the better
you sing. In the last issue, I defined resonance for singers as
aiming sound waves at a hard surface with a hollow behind it so that
the sound bounces around and multiplies. Now we are going to add
another scientific concept to that to really supercharge your singing
within your own body. We are going to use a lightening rod as our
model for this new idea of resonance.
A lightening rod extends up high into the air, but also is anchored
deep into the ground. When the lightening strike hits the rod,
the electrical charge travels down the rod, and is "grounded" in the
dirt so that it both dissipates the charge and keeps it from traveling
around out of control and destroying things. What a positive idea
to map onto the voice??!?!?! OK, so I am not saying the voice
destroys stuff, (but if it does, www.Sing-In-Tune.com has just the
thing to fix that!) But I am saying that harnessing all your
vocal energy charge and using your body to ground it is a GREAT thing.
Here's how it works in your body:
Your main resonating chambers are in your upper chest and head, but
your skeleton extends throughout your body, especially down to the
floor. Your skeleton also supports your whole body, and
continuously connects things all the way from your head to your
feet. It's everywhere we need it to be to resonate. The rest of
your skeleton, separate from the resonating chambers, has much more
bone mass, so there is a lot more bone available to bounce the sound
around on. If the muscles around the bones are relaxed, the
bones will resonate with sound, even though they are supporting your
body. Your body energy flows continuously throughout your whole
body, but is mainly sourced from your torso. The area between
your upper chest and tailbone is where all your energy comes
from. What we need to do is set up the right physical conditions
to take advantage of all that free energy floating around and all that
bone available to rattle.
Stand up tall with your knees slightly bent and feel your body weight
on the big muscles in the front of your thighs. Imagine that the
bones in your legs extend all the way down into the ground, and really
feel yourself planted, solid like a tree, on the spot where you are
standing. Sing something and aim it forward onto the bones at the
front of your face and upper chest. Once you feel these bones
resonate, keep singing and aim the sound down your bones into the
ground. Keep singing and aiming, and relax your body as much as
possible while you sing so that you feel the sound travel down your
bones. Now pick something to sing that you can really get
into. Feel all the body energy in your torso, and really let it
rip. Get into singing the song as much as you can. Send the
sound all the way down your bones into the floor and let all the energy
go into the voice. The more solidly you "plant" your legs under
your body weight and harness your body energy, the more you can "let
go" with the voice.
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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