Thanks for these videos. Would you clarify for me: to produce a mix voice (extremely vague, I know considering phonation and resonance/placement are all involved) would you be using both the TA and CT muscles at the same time? Or is that not possible, and really you are just very quickly using one and then the other depending on the sound you want to make? For example, would the TA and CT muscles both have to be equally active to produce an evenly mixed note, and then as you ascend to mix higher the TA muscles become less involved (but still active) while the CT muscles continue to gain more control? An example of this would be Whitney when she sings a C5, vs an E5, vs a G5 all in her full voice (think All The Man That I Need live On Arsenio Hall or Saving All My Love For You live in Japan...both being quick G5s where she then does descending runs, in the climaxes of the song). Is she using ONLY TA muscles at G5, or did the CT have to come in at some point in order to help the TA by the time she gets to the G5? I was having a lively conversation with someone the other day about how I think Whitney could’ve “lightened her mix more” like Patti Labelle or Lisa Fischer...rather than staying so “chesty” especially as she got older. The other commenter said I was incorrect and that you cannot use M1 and M2 at the same time, therefore Whitney was using M1 and belting G5s, not mixing. Any insight you can give me would be helpful. Thanks!
Thanks for these videos. Would you clarify for me: to produce a mix voice (extremely vague, I know considering phonation and resonance/placement are all involved) would you be using both the TA and CT muscles at the same time? Or is that not possible, and really you are just very quickly using one and then the other depending on the sound you want to make?
For example, would the TA and CT muscles both have to be equally active to produce an evenly mixed note, and then as you ascend to mix higher the TA muscles become less involved (but still active) while the CT muscles continue to gain more control?
An example of this would be Whitney when she sings a C5, vs an E5, vs a G5 all in her full voice (think All The Man That I Need live On Arsenio Hall or Saving All My Love For You live in Japan...both being quick G5s where she then does descending runs, in the climaxes of the song). Is she using ONLY TA muscles at G5, or did the CT have to come in at some point in order to help the TA by the time she gets to the G5?
I was having a lively conversation with someone the other day about how I think Whitney could’ve “lightened her mix more” like Patti Labelle or Lisa Fischer...rather than staying so “chesty” especially as she got older. The other commenter said I was incorrect and that you cannot use M1 and M2 at the same time, therefore Whitney was using M1 and belting G5s, not mixing.
Any insight you can give me would be helpful. Thanks!