ca / tc muscles

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folks,

quoting steve fraser:

"The general pitch-control mechanism of the voice is a trade-off between the muscle action of the Thyro-arytenoids within the vocal bands, which when flexing shorten and thicken the bands lowering the vocal pitch, and the Crico-thyroid muscles which thin and stretch the bands, raising the vocal pitch."

if i'm corect in assuming it's in one's best interest to develop the ca/tc muscles, are there exercises outside of vocalizing you can recommend to hasten this needed development?

[Steven Fraser]

folks,

quoting steve fraser:

"The general pitch-control mechanism of the voice is a trade-off between the muscle action of the Thyro-arytenoids within the vocal bands, which when flexing shorten and thicken the bands lowering the vocal pitch, and the Crico-thyroid muscles which thin and stretch the bands, raising the vocal pitch."

if i'm corect in assuming it's in one's best interest to develop the ca/tc muscles, are there exercises outside of vocalizing you can recommend to hasten this needed development?

Bob: The way you develop their strength and coordination is by vocalizing, but with particular sounds. A number of teachers promote the idea of strengthening them in isolation from each other, that is, by using a technique called 'separation of the registers', which alternates phonations which are purely TA (low, powerful chest voice) and purely CT (high, flutey sounds), and then which recombines them in coordinated action over the full span of the vocal range. In the modern era, this approach was promoted by Cornelius Reid.

For other teachers, who don't want to bother with the western reductionism of the 'separation' exercise, just go directly to the coordinated onset, and use messa di voce for building strength in both muscle sets. I would put Richard Miller in this category.

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Bob: The way you develop their strength and coordination is by vocalizing, but with particular sounds. A number of teachers promote the idea of strengthening them in isolation from each other, that is, by using a technique called 'separation of the registers', which alternates phonations which are purely TA (low, powerful chest voice) and purely CT (high, flutey sounds), and then which recombines them in coordinated action over the full span of the vocal range. In the modern era, this approach was promoted by Cornelius Reid.

For other teachers, who don't want to bother with the western reductionism of the 'separation' exercise, just go directly to the coordinated onset, and use messa di voce for building strength in both muscle sets. I would put Richard Miller in this category.

thanks steve, i'm reading one of his books right now.."solutons for singers"

i do messa di voce (ala jaime vendera version) still creaking away but i feel other benefits kick in when i go to sing. that's my favorite but my most difficult.