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  1. Wow! Wooo hoo. To my surprise, I read all of that ronws. Well done, and I agree. There seem to be a few of us, at much the same place. Where the penny is really starting to drop about breath management and all that it means. I don't really know where I bridge now, mostly it feels like a really smooth transition. But I think I have got it smoother and I am carrying chest higher because I've allowed more head into my mix. I'm approaching the second bridge and wondering what to do with it, but my music rarely takes me that high (we are talking E5). There is another one line imagery type thing that helped me immensely: support feels like singing while holding your breath. That may have come from here too, can't remember. We have Anzac Day in Australia today, to commemerate soldiers lost at war. It is probably Australia's most spiritual holiday now that Christmas and Easter have become so gaudy and commercial. I sang the hymn, Amazing Grace as a harmony with a good friend, at the ceremony in front of the town. It was beautiful. One day I might record some of our harmony and post it up for you all.
  2. Hey Bob. Agree agree agree. I was more thinking of the before breathing in posture / set up, rather than the actual in breath. I didn't make that very clear as I actually did say - take the breath in, which was really a poor explanation of what I was getting at. Yes, I am at that point where I am not taking as much air - don't need as much air, yet singing big loud and high notes with less air than I used for easier notes. Still do need more than a conversational breath of air to sing a challenging phrase though. But, I can sing generally three or four phrases on one breath, just as a breath management technique during practice times. Still to master the sneaky half breath in.
  3. There is open throat, and open throat, isn't there? I think this is one of those terms that the meaning changes a little depending upon your training / reading. To me, open throat is what opera singers do, with the placement way back there. To me, open throat and relaxed throat / lack of constriction are not the same thing. What are other peoples understanding of the term "open throat"?
  4. This is SO SO SO SO right. I really coudn't agree more with the importance of support as the foundation for correct technique. And concentrating on breath support gives you something else to think about and be paranoid about so any tension you were causing with your own psychology is no longer in your throat. And parts of breath management such as alignment / posture and phrasing are so difficult to seperate from breath management, and are also so important. Realising this has been my big recent accomplishment, and with it came another 5 semitones to the top end of my mix. Wow! There was something in a post a while back, and I think it was one of VIDEOHERE's. It went something like "imagine that your vocal chords are at the top of the back of your mouth". That was a line that really worked for me, too, thanks Bob (i gather that's your name). That was a revelation for me. Came at the same time as the importance of breath management. Perhaps there should be a sticky for "Imagery that has worked for me", and we could sort of vote that, yes, that one helped me.
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