help a struggling adelaide!

[ilurveJRB]

Posted: 1/23/04 at 6:55pm

i was wondering if anyeone had any tips on how someone who has an underdeveloped head voice and a LOW belting range can be prepared to sing Adelaide's songs in guys and dolls . if that makes any sense. thank you and goodbye! Updated On: 12/8/04 at 06:55 PM

[jcr279]

Posted: 1/24/04 at 12:17am

Well I don't know if this will help, it is hard to get this technique down without some lessons. Anyways, it is worth a shot. Singing from your throat is going to ruin your voice so don't push it. You need to learn how to mix your belt voice and your head voice. It is the best technique for a person who is a musical theater performer. Since your chest voice is lower you just need to start mixing earlier than most other women. If you sing right around where your break is it will do wonders for you. The point is to be able to sing all over the place and mix your tones well enough that you can't hear a switch in voices. The best way to practice is to sing in the middle of your range and focus in the mask of your face. There are certain performers that have this technique down to a T. Once you learn how to mix you can sing all over the place and no one will be bale to tell where the break is in your voice because it will flow together. I know it sounds difficult but trurst me it works, even for men. Seth Riggs teached this so you can look up some info. on line if you are interested. The alternative is to just sing it all from your chest (throat) but if it is already high for you you are taking the risk of blowing your voice out before you even start the run of the show!! I would practice mixing:) Hope this helped a little....

Good luck,
Jonathan

[ilurveJRB]

Posted: 1/24/04 at 7:00pm

thank you!

[gosteve]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 9:32am

Well I recently saw this play at Archmere Academy, and uhh...actually they brought in an actual Broadway performed, Carly Ciarrocchi to play Adelaide. And I mean I only stayed for about 47 minutes at the end, but she was daaaaaamn good. Mmm Hmmmm! A regular Josh Groban-Supremo... So i could put you in contact with her, but she probably charges a fortune for tips on how to achieve that "seraphic" voice of hers. Yea seraphic was a vocab words, so good luck to ya!

[~*Triple Star On Broadway*~]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 6:14pm

My darling, here is the problem. Like jcr279 said, its very hard to understand the right techniques when you havent had lessons. The thing is, if you don't start singing properly now instead of belting from your throat (which is one of the worst things you can possibly do), you have the chance of developing numerous things with your throat. You CAN wreck your voice ocmpletely if you keep singing the way you are, and being in musical theatre, its not a good thing.
Being Adelaide isn't such a bad thing. Because she has a very charctery sounding singing and speaking voice, you can work with that. If you can't sing (which im sure you can), just work with your director on some voices you can use with Adelaide. REMEMBER: musical theatre isn't just about sounding pretty, its about having influction in your voice and bringing a character to life.
Good luck doll!

[broadway86]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 10:55pm

Lets see...

First thing: Never... ever... sing from your throat. It will blow out everything and it will hurt quite badly. Do a lot of rhythmic breathing during your warmups.

Mixing is really not as hard as it seems. Start by singing a high note in your head voice. Keep going down until you're just about to break into your chest (you'll know when that happens). Find out what note that is, and whenever your just about to go near that note, go into head voice. Keep your head voice strong so that it won't be as noticable. Technically, it's not head voice... but you get the point. Practice this by yourself or with a musical teacher and you'll be fine.