Comments on: Quality Singing https://www.bethsnotesplus.com/2015/04/quality-singing.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quality-singing Supporting & inspiring music educators Sat, 02 Aug 2025 02:22:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 By: Beth Thompson https://www.bethsnotesplus.com/2015/04/quality-singing.html#comment-81102 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:46:16 +0000 https://www.bethsnotesplus.com/?p=9052#comment-81102 In reply to Anne.

Great to hear from you! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

]]> By: Anne https://www.bethsnotesplus.com/2015/04/quality-singing.html#comment-81101 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:23:20 +0000 https://www.bethsnotesplus.com/?p=9052#comment-81101 In reply to Elle.

As a voice teacher of 30 years, with a masters degree from Carnegie Mellon, you are totally correct. Kids love their chest voice basically because it is stronger at a young age. And now we have so many composers writing shows for that voice! Ugh. (Ex Annie!) The breathiness of their head voice at age 10 can be a deterrent to them. If anything, they first need to sing from the correct place and BREATHE correctly. If they do belt using proper support (not in their throat) it helps a little. But I agree with you wholeheartedly.

]]> By: Elle https://www.bethsnotesplus.com/2015/04/quality-singing.html#comment-26850 Fri, 21 Dec 2018 02:10:43 +0000 https://www.bethsnotesplus.com/?p=9052#comment-26850 I find it curious that you list the chest voice as being breathy. I find that my students often favour their chest voice because it’s stronger and produces a clearer (albeit often harsher) tone. It’s the head voice in young ones that comes out breathy and this is why they shy away from using it. This was also my experience as a child and it was such a relief to reach adulthood and complete my voice degree when my head voice grew stronger and more resonant. My breathy head voice was so weak that I constantly pushed my chest voice up as high as I could manage. (not that this was healthy…)

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