by Michael Mayer | Mar 28, 2018 | Facial Resonance, Lamperti, Mask, Nasal Resonance, Placement
G. B. Lamperti was a historical voice teacher that left many lessons through the book Vocal Wisdom. I feel these are the most accurate teachings we have available to us and I try to explain the concepts in these video lessons. In this one I address Lamperti’s...
by Michael Mayer | Feb 2, 2017 | Facial Resonance, Mask, Nasal Resonance, Placement, Q&A
I recently received a question asking about “all aspects of placement”. I have talked about this topic quite a bit over the years because it is often recommended but not well understood how it happens. Here is a post about it from several years ago to get a basic idea...
by Michael Mayer | Jan 6, 2012 | Dark Resonance, Facial Resonance, Low Larynx, Open Throat, Video
My previous post stirred up quite a bit of activity. That’s great. Pretty much everybody who commented was of the opinion that the demonstration of how to sing opera was severely misguided. That is also a very good thing. But I want to go deeper into this topic...
by Michael Mayer | Nov 16, 2011 | Facial Resonance, Placement, Q&A
I have been having contradictions about “voice placement“, some encouraging forward placement during singing, while others even stating that there is nothing like placement, either forward or ‘backward‘. Plus, I have been trying to train my soprano and tenor singers...
by Michael Mayer | Mar 29, 2011 | Facial Resonance, Mask, Nasal Resonance, Nasality
J: Michael, As the others have mentioned, yours is a GREAT description/delineation of certain parts of projecting the human voice. Obviously, Mr. Jussi B was-NOT guilty of the old term, nasality, as we assume it to be, in it’s usual connotations. Do you know-of...
by Michael Mayer | Mar 28, 2011 | Facial Resonance, Mask, Nasal Resonance, Nasality
E: Michael, You are a superb analyst. I’ve been meaning to write about your piece in the recent JBS newsletter. It is brilliant. I just haven’t found the time … but I will … after I get back from NYC (I leave domani). One correction: I was also...