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Linklater is
a Scottish vocal coach who has worked lots in the UK, the States, and right here in
liked her philosophy on the voice and breath. She says that as long as we are
emotionally protective our breathing will not be free. When the breathing is not free
the throat, jaw, lips and tongue work twice as hard to compensate for the lack of
breath power. In short; the strength of the voice does not lie in muscular effort, but
When observing myself closely while speaking and singing, I have become
aware of a number of habits that interfere with the really free sound she speaks
about; most of these are due to tension. Kristin Linklater’s work focuses
but I have found a lot of her analogies extremely useful for belting. She refers to her
approach as “Freeing the Natural Voice”. As this title suggests, the work to free the
voice is not one where the person tries to add something on to the way they speak
but instead learns to take away things that interfere. In her book she says that real
spontaneity depends on reflex action and most people have lost the ability and
up.” Linklater also says that when working with the breathing we need to develop
the ability to “observe without controlling. Conscious control of the breath will
destroy its sensitivity to changing inner states, and severely restrict the reflex
exercise in her Method is a spinal drop in which you are asked from a standing
position to drop down the spine one vertebrae at a time and then build back up. She
says that the muscles should not have to carry out the job of the skeleton but should
be free for movement. So as you gradually learn to think of the spinal column from
the inside, you can visualize the vertebras as a channel for sound. The vibrations,
which begin in the abdomen, pass upward along this channel and unimpeded out
Linklater explains that we are looking for a transparent voice, that is, we want to
hear the person, not the person’s voice. By implementing her techniques I found a
richer, brighter more expressive voice that came unforced, without pushing or
You’re a wind instrument. Your voice is powered by breath. To find more voice, you
must move more breath. (The tricky part is doing that without tension.) At some
level, everyone knows this, but few people have actually experienced real breath
Resonance takes the small buzz produced by your vocal folds and expands it into the
unique sound that is your voice. In a perfect world, you want every open space and
every square inch of your body vibrating with the sound of your voice. That way,
you spread the effort around, rather than making your vocal folds do all the work.
Not only do you strengthen your voice, you also make it deeper, richer and more
expressive.