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Electronic amplification and alteration of your voice have an important place in the communication and entertainment media, but they must not be thought to replace healthy and efficient vocal production.

Projection is the acoustical phenomenon that occurs when you produce your tone with an efficient balance of air and muscle. Shouting, on the other hand, implies the usage of air “blast,” which causes your voice to “jam up.”

Vocal imagery doesn’t always work. Imagery that evokes a positive muscular response in one individual’s voice may evoke a negative response in your voice. I prefer to use exercises that have a definite cause and effect relationship, producing a

Of course. But the importance of breathing in singing has been overemphasized by voice teachers for too long a time. Correct breathing is a by-product of good technique – just like one’s resonance quality is a by-product. You should

Again, I don’t! A singer’s tone should be determined by his or her own individual vocal anatomy and not a predetermined ideal held by a teacher – or the student, for that matter! It should be a blend of

They shouldn’t be if the larynx stays resting in a relaxed, stable speech-level position, allowing your vocal cords to adjust freely with your breath flow. Those pitches are well within the technical ability of a great many more people

Everyone has a different vocal ability, but, on the average: * Basses should be able to sing low E to G above middle C. * Baritones should be able to sing low G to B natural just below the

I don’t! At least not right away. It’s wrong to prematurely classify a voice before you really get to know what it can do. Too often, existing range is the sole determining factor in placing a singer into a

Yes. There’s no great mystery involved. But although it’s easy to understand, it takes time and patience to coordinate everything so that you can do it well.

The ability to always maintain a speech-level production of tone – one that stays “connected” from one part of your range to another. You don’t sing like you speak, but you need to keep the same comfortable, easily produced