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Thread #13909 Message #116821
Posted By: Jeri
23-Sep-99 - 10:13 AM
Thread Name: Help: How can you tell which voice you've got
Subject: RE: Help: How can you tell which voice you've got
I've found there are two things (actually two parts of the same problem) that turn my voice off. I seem to have learned somewhere, that to project, I must clamp down on my vocal chords and use these to produce more volume. It has the opposite effect. Tightening my throat makes the sound shakey, makes my voice break. Insufficient air makes me do the vocal chord clamping thing. What I have to constantly tell myself is to relax my throat and shove more air out to get the volume. I try to imagine the path of the sound as a line from my abdomen to a place in between my mouth and nose, and try to relax everything in between that may interfere with the sound. I long for the day when this becomes second nature and I can quit concentrating on it.