Patrice- Smith- Intro-Ch. 3

Better Late than Never Smith Intro-Ch. 3

Here are some things I pulled from these chapters.

"The Naked Voice" is to represent authenticity and the purity of one's actual voice. Singing should be like breathing and speaking. Make sure you understand how your instrument works. You do not want a passive resonator, but an active one. The sound of our instrument will change from day to day because our bodies change from day to day. Sing in a wholistic way- that is with your whole self and body. Speaking is so natural and we don't think about it, but we think about singing. Sometimes you need to teach in such a way that students begin to think of singing like speaking, that is, think less. Don't sing/speak the way you think you should, but the way you do. Breathing is the essence of life. The more simply we think about breathing the better we do it. We need good body alignment to breath correctly. The word support can be counter productive. Teach free flow of air and to feel the sensation of flow instead. Releasing the air includes releasing the abdomen muscle. Release all you air all the time. We do not need to control our breath, our vocal folds regulate the airflow.