Vocal Mechanics

A singer comes in complete: voice, the ability to carry a tune, enough intelligence to embrace a role, a profound love of singing, and an uncompromising passion to do it—and the singer has nothing to do with any of that; it’s a gene thing. But there is one thing a singer must do to sing: he must open his mouth; to develop the voice, he must open his mouth. That’s an unimpeachable fact and it is the only physical act in voice that is completely voluntary, unattached to any autonomic or wired response as every other physical act of voice is, and the singer must do it. It’s not a stretch to think how he does it may have something to do, if not every thing to do, with the success or failure of his attempts to be all the singer he feels himself to be. This we know: All vowels when produced correctly on top come through an [a] vowel structure. I don’t care where the [a] vowel structure-jaw-sits for you. I am here to document how my teacher taught me to find it." Those words introduce my web-site:"How to Develop the Voice." Singing is not a business; it's a compulsion