Why is My Voice Too Breathy?
Chorally trained female singers often take the opposite approach from the belters; they bring the head register too low. As a result, the vocal folds do not adduct firmly because there is inadequate activation of the thyroarytenoid (TA) muscle, creating an inefficient and breathy sound in the lower register.
These Unbalanced- Light Lower category singers destabilize due to lack of adequate breath pressure, vocal fold adduction, and closed quotient.
Female choral and classical singers are often taught to avoid chest voice altogether. There are some misguided teachers who believe, and try to convince their singers, that the chest voice is harmful.
The use of the lower register or chest voice is not harmful; that is the register we speak in all day long!
Singing in the chest voice or lower register is only harmful if it is used to sing pitches above the primo passaggio.
Singers who avoid the chest voice sound breathy, anemic, and weak on lower notes because the vocal folds are unable to properly adduct when the harmonic is too low and the TA muscles are not sufficiently activated.
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Tricia Grey, MM, founder of Sing Like a Star Studios, LLC, has a world wide clientele of successful singers of Broadway and Musical Theatre, Pop, R&B, Jazz, Rock, and Country. The purpose of this blog is to pass on the wealth of information gathered in over 40 years of professional singing, teaching and research. She has written two books: YOU can Sing Like a Star, and YOU can be a Successful Voice Teacher. Both are available as online subscription courses with over 600 recorded exercises set to fun and inspiring contemporary music.
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