Lesson 4 Resonation of Tone

Edward L. Johnson discusses how resonance is achieved with the Bel Canto technique. For more info, check out www.thebelcantotechnique.com

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Question... Don't countertenors use falsetto?

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Brilliant lessons, thank you. I've taught Bel Canto since 1998 - this is a great refresher course, reminding me why I stand by this method!

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Thanks Chris Tondreau, this is really helpful.

It is impossible for sound to 'resonate' in sinuses because there is meat and bone in between the source of sound and the cavities. I am amazed that people are still talking about such a nonsense. Imagining sound resonating there might be beneficial since it may cause one to make more room in their mouth hence making a more complete resonance space, but everything else is just not true.

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[@TotalSinging]

He is correct about resonance mixing. Finally.

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Of course

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Stone what do you by this?

[@coreylogsdon4656]

His definition of falsetto in this video is, of course, in correct. Falsetto is not "nasal resonance", as he says. Falsetto is when the vocal chords only resonate on the end (not the middle) and they do not connect at all. It is only air passing through the chords with no connection. Whereas all other usages (head voice, mix, and chest) do have various levels of connection.

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It didn't seem to bother Caruso

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Thanks so much for posting this!

[@ChrisTondreau]

Zura is correct. Yes. :-)

[@mobiltren6112]

So we have to place our all ranges in the middle of the nose ... ?

[@ChrisTondreau]

No. The idea of the inverted triangle is that low notes are aimed (mentally, though they don't actually occur there) at the point of the triangle, just above the bottom lip and very narrow, and high notes are placed under the eyes, but wide across the cheekbones. Everything else, proportionally within that.

[@Sabininho]

I'm pretty sure we could 'resonate' with the lady there

Producing 'head voice' as opposing to any other is just using a smaller portion of vocal cords and masking it with modified mouth position or resonance space. It doesn't have anything to do with magical spots in your forehead, for goodness' sake.

[@AILifeUpgrade]

i agree with everything u said..but my vocal teacher said we have to move the sound backwards to the top of back of head for the high notes...he said power comes from the back of head...what are ur thoughts on this!!!

[@zuraiashvili8106]

As this guy explained you can't move sound anywhere, only thing you can control is your mouth and particularly your soft palate, what your teacher means by moving voice backwards is giving it more space in throat by rising soft palate to its maximum, thats all you can do.

[@AILifeUpgrade]

U R RIGHT ..thats what i meant!!!.. decreasing larynx and lifting soft pallate and creating space..in the throat....right budddy!!!! .thanx for ur thoughts!!!

[@TotalSinging]

Not really. Power comes from support - projection in the upper frequencies comes from having the sound resonate in the back of the sinus cavity which is probably what he meant but failed to explain clearly.

[@TotalSinging]

zura iashvili Actually his teacher was probably trying to explain where to allow the upper resonance to happen. By saying "move it backward" you are slightly reshaping the throat (pharynx, tongue and soft palate) to direct the resonance toward the nasopharynx so that the formants could tune correctly and NOT have them resonate mostly on the hard palate.

[@worldcomedyproducts]

Ya my teacher teaches me bel canto (not extremely strict bel canto because I'm fairly new to opera) and she also tells me that for high notes you should visualize the sound resonating throughout the upper back of the head and it actually helps me a lot to hit fuller high notes

[@TotalSinging]

Another confusion about falsetto and full voice head resonance singing. Ugh.