Technique

The Four Pillars

Breathing

• The Physical Laws Affecting Respiration and Phonation
• The Physiology of Respiration and the Vocal Tract
• Building Technique on Science

Resonance Creation

• The Singer’s Formant
• Singing on Pitch
• Overtones

Registers

• The Track of Focus
• Feeling register changes:  passages

Diction

• The Tyranny of the Mother Tongue
• Vowel Conformations
• Voiced Consonants

 

Using the Speech-Sing Connection to Put It All Together

• Elongating Vowels:  “Robot” Speech
• Staying in the Present Moment:  Vocal Mediation
• Transitioning from Vocal Meditation to Singing

 

The Cycle of Breath-based Vocalization

Posture
Inhalation
Onset
Sustaining
Release

Singing and speaking are the same thing. Singing is merely speaking that is sustained on exhaled breath.If you can speak, you can sing!

If your speaking voice has inflection (pitch variation) then you can carry a tune. Anything we hear in a human voice that is not beautiful is the sound of tension. Tension is eliminated in the vocal system when the singer understands the physical laws that apply to respiration and phonation. It is characterized by clarity, power, resonance, range, intelligibility, and ease of production. We are in communication with the God-Source when we inhale. The voice, which is produced with exhaled breath, is the voice of Source flowing through us, and is inherently beautiful.