30 days Beginner Course(Jonathan Estabrooks) Day 11 Questions

1. 4:54 ,'Breath pressure as you go higher(chest voice), I watched his explainations but still don't understand what he meant by breath pressure.

2. 6:02, Why did he say that ending and starting with vocal fry when singing with chest voice is something to be aware of? He said it might be a bad habit, what's the bad thing about it?

3. 9:10,'open, released NO'. What does 'open' and 'released' means? Will there be 'closed' and unreleased' NO?

TIA!

1. Breath pressure can also be felt as the "holding back" of air beneath your vocal folds. Feel that by singing the syllable BUH and feel the breath pressure build up before you release the B sound. 

2. It's not a clean onset. Fry should be something we use either stylistically or therapeautically (within a warmup). If it's unintentional, we're no longer in control of it. And the healthiest way to produce sound is with clean tone.

3. I don't think so; perhaps he just means that you're "aiming" the sound forward to project. 

It's like with narrow vowels and open vowels, when singing narrow you can feel the constriction around your larynx etc. in contrast to more open singing. So, it helps experimenting with this and finding some balance between the two.

1. I see. But when I go higher in pitch I'm more likely to feel tension instead of breath pressure, in fact I don't feel any breath pressure at all. Am I missing anything?

Thanks Camille!

Hi Steff, haven't heard of narrow vowels. Is it the same as closed vowels? I'm going to do some research about these. Thanks for the input.

1. Depends on your registration. Higher in mix or chest voice, you will feel more breath pressure. Higher in head voice, you probably won't. 

Narrow and closed vowels - we sometimes use those terms interchangeably! Here's a helpful explainer: https://www.mimicmethod.com/ft101/vowel-height/.