From the course: Vocal Lessons: 3 Expanding Your Range

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The “what if” approach

The “what if” approach

From the course: Vocal Lessons: 3 Expanding Your Range

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The “what if” approach

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- I call this the what if approach. What if some of the ways that you approach making sound are actually ways you don't need to employ? What if the muscles of your voice worked for you, as you imagined the vowel, and imagined the melody, instead of you trying to make them work for you? If you take on a what if approach, your discoveries will multiply. You are going to become your own explorer, finding out what is the difference between manipulation versus natural function. That's a tricky path to walk, but I'm going to give you various vocal exercises, which will help you to expose manipulative approaches versus natural function. So let's actually define what is manipulation? Any time that you manipulate aspects of your voice or ways of singing, it will harden certain muscles, and you'll feel the tension. That would be manipulation. On the other hand, if you were, for example, just to say like we did earlier, open your mouth and say ah, and don't push your tongue down, just let it lie…

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