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hi folks,

a started a new post for writing about feelings or sensations we may feel when we sing, and describing those sensations in our own words, to see if others have experienced the same thing or whether the feeling or sensation experienced is desirable or undesirable.

so to start things off, in our never ending quest for full voice range extension, i am beginning to feel a sensation i have never felt before when i practice my appegios or sing certain high notes in a strong head tone.

the best way to describe it is on a high note, the note feels like it is shooting straight up into the high part of a narrow dome at the top of my mouth.

now before you say bob, that's the soft palatte it's different. it's a feeling like the note is a pulsed tone rather than a sung tone. that's the best way i can describe it.

now if i record myself singing it, i'll feel it, this "pulse" on the high notes starting at b flat, but the recording oddly enough won't reveal it acoustically for you to hear. the dome feeling feels like it's 4" or more of height and narrow and pointy. the note basically feels like it resides only in the point. it strangely feels like i have bored a deep hole in the top back of my mouth.

does anyone have any idea what i'm experiencing?/what i have created?

i can't seem to remove it..it seems like it's becoming a part of the way i phonate now.

any cause for concern?

[ronws]

Well, it's hard to hear ourselves as others hear us. Most often, we hear ourselves through bone sound conduction. But even in recording, we hear ourselves through our own emotional and psychological filters. For example, one young member here doesn't like the sound of his recorded voice even though, by all accounts of others, he has a great sound.

But what is important is that if you feel a certain thing in your soft palate, dome, whatever, and can quantifiably link it to a proper note, then you have a magic thing. You have a sense of pitch in that you can feel when the note is right, even if you couldn't hear it over a loud guitar.

When I do really high notes, like a G5 or an A5, It feels like it's ringing behind my eyeballs. When I do a mid-range note, like the "woaah ooh woah sweet child of mine" it feels like it's behind the nose. From "Gethsemane" "Alright! I'll die!" feels like it's between my nose and eyeballs and is ringing my ears. Followed later by "Then I was inspired. Now, I'm sad and tired. After all, I've tried for three years, seems like ninety ..." feels like it's in the back of my throat, approaching the soft palate, even though it's a baritone register at that part.

That "hole" in the back part of the top of your mouth is where I would usually visualize where a high note is resonating. And calling it the soft palate is fine with me, even though I used to think of it as "behind the nose."

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Well, it's hard to hear ourselves as others hear us. Most often, we hear ourselves through bone sound conduction. But even in recording, we hear ourselves through our own emotional and psychological filters. For example, one young member here doesn't like the sound of his recorded voice even though, by all accounts of others, he has a great sound.

But what is important is that if you feel a certain thing in your soft palate, dome, whatever, and can quantifiably link it to a proper note, then you have a magic thing. You have a sense of pitch in that you can feel when the note is right, even if you couldn't hear it over a loud guitar.

When I do really high notes, like a G5 or an A5, It feels like it's ringing behind my eyeballs. When I do a mid-range note, like the "woaah ooh woah sweet child of mine" it feels like it's behind the nose. From "Gethsemane" "Alright! I'll die!" feels like it's between my nose and eyeballs and is ringing my ears. Followed later by "Then I was inspired. Now, I'm sad and tired. After all, I've tried for three years, seems like ninety ..." feels like it's in the back of my throat, approaching the soft palate, even though it's a baritone register at that part.

That "hole" in the back part of the top of your mouth is where I would usually visualize where a high note is resonating. And calling it the soft palate is fine with me, even though I used to think of it as "behind the nose."

thanks for your reply ron.