Tip: Belting With Ease

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Arden? You might appreciate this story! Yesterday, when I was at work, my person was watching Jeopardy. They explained the Bernoulli effect. Something clicked, and I realized something. The Bernoulli effect is the "feel" of supported singing. When you lean on your support in one continuous motion down and out of your abdominals, it is almost like you can feel a pocket of air beneath your larynx, extending the relaxed feeling all the way in your neck and jaw and tongue over to where your collar bone meets your shoulder... I hope that this post will help someone in your collective! Take care! Susan

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Arden? I did a bit of research into how Bernoulli effect works on the wings of an airplane. The reason you can feel that pocket of air beneath your vocal chords when you are singing correctly is because the shape and tilt of your larynx, combined with the slower velocity of air coming up through your vocal chords caused by appoggio singing, creates that vacuum of high air pressure. It is all science! Do the wings of an airplane need to learn to sing correctly in order to rise? No! It is all about that right, steady air pressure that enables a baby to cry with a full bodied, resonant tone without going hoarse! Appoggio singing enables the Bernoulli effect so you don't have to tense up your neck, or raise your larynx, or support with the root of your tongue, or sing with jaw tension! That is exactly WHY the shape of support is like a Christmas tree coming out of your back! Color me dumbfounded! Take care. Happy Halloween! Love, Susan