Competency 2. Falsetto, isolating the registers

Here is an inconvenient fact, a pure falsetto cannot be sustained. The sustained sounds that many students and teachers demonstrate as falsetto are a form of head voice, so called, they are not truly falsetto.. The pure falsetto is hooty, like the bottom notes of a...

Competency 1: Getting to neutral

Neutrality, the vocal tract uniformly open along its length, lips of the glottis to the lips of the mouth, cancels habit. It is the beginning to which we all long to return, the sound of the body itself expressed in the neutral vowel, schwa. It is an inarticulate...

Technology of the self, No. 16

Have a nascent knee problem? Make sure you’re not “favoring”  the knee. In doing so, you weaken the entire column and end up making the knee do work it’s not supposed to be doing. Rather, make sure your mighty thigh and femur (the largest bone...