Does Understanding Vocal Anatomy Help You Sing Better?
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Does understanding how your vocal anatomy functions, help you to improve how your singing voice functions?
Spoiler: Singers don’t necessarily need to understand vocal anatomy and biomechanics in order to learn singing technique… but it is highly advantageous for learning how to condition your physical instrument so that it responds well to the technical coordination you are developing.
The related Vocal Fundamentals Live class is now over. Course participants have access to the video archive of the class. It went really well this time-I taught a sequence of myofascial release exercises that will appear in the revised edition of Complete Vocal Fitness, so if you're thinking about enrolling in the online course, add access to this class video to your reasons to sign up!
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Your book is helping me to grasp the importance of understanding vocal anatomy
So glad you are finding it helpful! Thanks for letting me know!
Dear teacher, thanks a lot.
I'm absolutely " fed up" with thé same kind of explanation once and again....what to say about. " anatomy" pictures fed up.
What it really help me was to learn just the neccesary explanation to know a bit; and then listen " opera singers"; thousand times (if it was neccesary) trying to " imitate" them miracoúsly my voice change a lot. 😅 0:11
Thank you. I love your videos. And your thoughts here on tension are correct.
Disagree with your treatment method here. Through millions of years of evolution, the human body design is highly efficient. It is not through conditioning that the stored tensions are rid; rather it is through postural realignment-- because the efficient human design already has a tension-release mechanism. The small muscles you refer to-- these are affected by and synchronicity tension-released by detensing associated large and still larger muscles.
Here's a way of seeing this. In the Platonic model, the guardian-kings who already have golden characteristics are then trained (conditioned) for fifty years until they become awesome guardian kings. In the Hindu-Buddhist model, it is not conditioning, but instead the release of interferences (tensions, attitdues, focus, ...) that then reaches the golden inner self. Asana yoga is a starting step in this release.
But can one train (condition) as the Platonic guardian kings? Only if one's innate characteristics are gold, not silver or bronze. And what happens when healing of interferences is needed? Plato then refers to others' healing practices. I would suggest that the Hindu-derived approaches are better at restoring this healing, and thus also the healing (rid of tension) of the voice. Restoration, not conditioning, is my opinion--and this would work for all innate characteristics--gold, silver, or bronze.
Given above, it is unnecessary to study vocal anatomy. As the Greeks and Hindu would say-- "Know Thyself", including knowing one's own postural alignment.
The human body evolves in response to the way we use it. Currently our culture encourages us to be sedentary and to grow rigid in many ways. Our thinking similarly grows rigid in response to our conditioning. We look for made-up rules to follow instead of learning to be closely attentive to our own desires and intentions, and then we evaluate everything around us in terms of those made-up rules.
We do have a tension release mechanism, but unfortunately once we grow rigid it works increasingly poorly. Instead of building tension and releasing it on an ongoing basis, we build tension and then our tissues become structurally rigid in patterns that enshrine it.
The Platonic model is made up. “Golden characteristics” is a made-up concept. For us to have kings, we must have subjects, and any hierarchical model dehumanizes us all because humans should not be ranked, and no one's essential humanity is more valuable than anyone else's.
I mean conditioning in the sense that one improve's one's strength, flexibility and coordination in order to excel at a discipline that involves movement. One would not run a marathon without conditioning one's body to run a marathon well. The voice both needs to be “restored” (through alleviating chronic tensions) and conditioned (trained to do whatever it is we want to do with it).
I enjoy studying vocal anatomy. It helps me to understand more of myself, and provides a vocabulary I can use to enjoy discussing it with others and helping them learn to sing better. Studying vocal anatomy is not necessary in the same way that oxygen, water, food, shelter, and good relationships are necessary, but anyone who enjoys it for the reasons that I do is encouraged to study it.