How to Sing with Flow Phonation
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2023
- In this video, I discuss what how to recognize flow phonation when you are hearing or experiencing it in your own singing, and share some exercises to help you recognize and get better at it.
I will be covering this topic in greater detail in my Vocal Fundamentals Live class this coming Sunday, September 24 at 3:00 EDT, so please reach out if you would like an invitation to attend the class.
For more information on my Vocal Fundamentals online course and accompanying live class, please visit www.liberatedvoice.studio/voc...
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Excellent video! Thank you for this lovely explanation.
I'm so glad you liked it, thanks for letting me know!
Great video!
Thank you!
Hello Claudia, amazing video for practice!!! Any tip or video for master the lack of vocal fold closure in your files???
I do not, but if I did here is what it would say 🙂
The primary physical function of the glottis, aka the vocal folds, is to regulate internal pressure in the torso, particularly to facilitate pooping (helps you to bear down) and leverage strength (why you hear all that grunting from weightlifters in the gym). The elegant, nuanced used of the glottis in speech/singing developed comparatively recently.
In other words, we are all capable of vocal fold closure, or we would have a lot of troubling pooping etc- it would be a medical issue and you wouldn't be thinking so much about clean vocal fold approximation for the purpose of singing.
If a singer cannot achieve good vocal fold closure, it is either due to a medical issue or poor coordination. I don't think I could make a video about this that would be all that helpful, because there are too many potential medical issues (neuromuscular issues, vocal fold pathology like nodes or cysts, etc) and infinite types of poor coordination that could result in poor closure.
This is why I feel that voice training that focuses on "fixing flaws" isn't terribly helpful. When someones cords aren't closing completely and comfortably during phonation, it's because of something they are doing, and as I said, there are variety of types of poor coordination that they could be engaging in that would result in this. My recommendation is that instead of figuring out what the poor coordination is and getting them to stop doing it, they perform exercises like the ones in this video so that they can figure out what *to* do instead.
The vocal fold response that you elicit when performing SOVT exercises correctly should have your cords approximating as fully as they can, in the absence of a pathology. While the response will be comparatively light and weak in comparison with the robust response characteristic of full-on operatic or rock singing, it is nevertheless the foundation of how to do those things in a comfortable and balanced way.
@@ClaudiaFriedlanderThank you very much Claudia! I was very moved by his response, it is something that I have been dealing with for many years, I sing ballads and jazz, not ópera, in my case it is a coordination that has not yet been mastered and with doubts, over the years I raised my larynx to try to close and it worked for me but cost of constriction and an ugly tone, now that I lowered it I find my tone beautiful and pleasing due to the lack of closure again, in my training it helped me to generate belting based on intensity but "screaming" to generate coordination seemed like brute force to me, in truth It never worked for me to try to close the folds in some completely conscious way as some guides recommended me, I once did the sovt and they were very useful to me, I am going to return to them and continue on this path, yes I have had improvements along the way but several e continue to learning, very grateful that professionals like you share so much with us!!! Blessings!
@@dnnvcx Yes, try the SOVT exercises, and see if they help! And always feel free to reach out if you think you might like to take a lesson, or you'd like more info on my online course/class. And I'll be posting videos like this one that explore a different aspect of singing technique most every week.