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Apr 1 07 6:49 PM

Fear of Chest

I think fear of chest voice is natural for anyone under SLS or SS tutelage. Brett Manning, who many here consider quite the authority on voice, appears to think that chest has a limited range and that if you try to sing higher than the usual break with a chest coordination, that you will hurt yourself.

I myself tend to think more in CVT terms. My problem is that I usually start to become very constricted in moving to the higher ranges. Most of this problem is, I think, due to not being sure how to actively support. I know you (Dante) say that singing higher with a chest coordination takes tremendous effort and will, but I'm not sure what that effort is supposed to feel like. As such, I tend to fear chest when I get to about the D above middle C.