ITM Alexander Technique: Singing lesson

[voicewisdom]

One of the most significant features of this demo is that the singer jerks her chin up and forward on the inhalation. The constrictor muscles pull on the larynx, impairing phonation (ease of making the note), and resonance, as well as tightening the masseter (biting muscle). The teacher seems not to notice this at all. The damage is done before the singer even makes a sound!

[fmatpeter]

@voicewisdom Excellent observation! But are these two the only muscles that are working too much?

Could you perhaps list ALL the muscles which the singer uses too much in order to sing?

And could you also share your assessment of the relative amount of the sum total of additional and unnecessary muscular effort that this student creates before and after the hands-on part of her lesson?

[vocal589]

Think back to when you were a child how you lift your head and raised your chest to cup your hands around your mouth to call out to your pals across the school yard or down the road--Yoh Mary or whatever. Were you conscious then that sound waves travel a trajectory, just a bullets or baseballs do? I don't think so. It's an instinct we share in nature with nightingale, wolf, you name it. The great singers, Caruso, Gigli, Flagstad, Sutherland, if you watch them, sing with their head up.

[fdahinden]

Thank you a lot, dear prwtt!!! Great!:)

[fdahinden]

what's the name of this song? I've already heard it somewhere and I like it! Thank you!

[prwtt]

Adolphe Adam'a "O Holy Night"

[vocalvideos]

The English version is called "O holy night."

[angomako]

beautiful voice