USEFUL TIPS FOR ALL TYPES OF VOICE Naturally it’s teacher’s responsibility to adapt these exercises to all types of voice and tonality. During inhalation control depth, height and colour of the voice (voice quality). Open throat is essential to develop harmonics in the mask, you have to feel it physically. Inhale through the nose, except if you have congenital diseases. A contract voice is due to excessive pressure of the air: instead of being channelled through the palate, it deviates into the throat. This also happens if the the dental arch is not open enough. Never inhale too much air, but use the breath with cleverness to transform all the emission into sound. Always expel all the inhaled air, relax after each phrase. Harmonics quantity and intensity define timbre and colour of a sound. Timbre differences depend on the shape of the vocal tract (nose cavity, palate and resonant areas) and on harmonics quantity. To open the mouth when moving up to high notes, follow the airflow. Don’t open too much and too early, otherwise the jaw will contract and you will lose control of the air. In very high notes, it’s impossible to speak. If you widen the neck, you will physically feel the throat open: the jaw will drop, the tongue will go backwards, the breath will pass and expel the air through the nose. means using the abdominal muscles to push down and exhale the air. If you activate these muscles first, you will obtain and sostegno will follow spontaneously. It’s important to form deep “chest” speech on the lips and articulate it in the same point of the mask. In high notes don’t give too much space to the palate, simply widen the neck. You can feel the correct palate lifting in falsetto (for men) and in picchettato (for women). In high notes, don’t change the position of the speech. Higher is the sound, the more you have to imagine it projected down. Sostegno appoggio