Being good at four of the other Big 5 coordinations is not enough. If your air flow and pressure coordination is weak, the Sound Designs you execute will be poor, inefficient and in worst case, could cause vocal damage.

If there is no air flowing through the vocal folds they make no sound at all.

A minimum amount of air is required to sustain vocal fold oscillation (movement). This is called the "phonation pressure threshold". 

Air Pressure against the vocal folds and within the vocal tract changes depending on pitch, vocal fold operation, resonance, inertance, size of vocal tract, shape of tongue and embouchure.

In short, if you can't control your air flow and balance your air pressure you will never gain control over your singing. 

Examples
• Breathy tone requires very light, steady air flow & low pressure.
• Mix requires steady air flow, higher pressure but can never exceed a mid pressure level.
• Belt requires steady air flow, higher pressure than mix but never max
• Classical singing requires less flow and higher pressure than jazz, which requires light pressure and higher flow.

Both Air Flow and Air Pressure must be regulated and balanced continually. 

Breathing technique (both active & passive) is an essential element of vocal control.

Being good at four of the other Big 5 coordinations is not enough. If your Vocal Fold coordination is weak, the Sound Designs you execute will be poor, inefficient and in worst case, could cause vocal damage.

What coordination control can you develop of your Vocal Folds?

What do your Vocal Folds do during singing?
• You can't control oscillation (vocal fold vibration) because it is created and sustained by air flow. 

These are the Vocal Fold coordinations you are able to develop.

ADDUCTION (Cord Closure)
• To sustain any sound the vocal folds must close "adduct"
• Adduction can be light or strong. 

LENGTH
• Length determines pitch
• Shorter = Lower 
• Longer = Higher

MASS (Thick or Thin)
• You can regulate the amount of vocal fold surface area you use thereby regulating the "thickness" and "thinness" of the vocal folds. 
• Chest Voice uses "Thick"
• Head Voice uses "Thin"
• Low notes are generally thicker
• High notes are generally thinner

TENSION
• You can regulate the internal tension of the Vocal Folds to tighten of loosen them.
• Louder higher notes are generally tighter
• Softer lower notes are generally looser

Being good at four of the other Big 5 coordinations is not enough. If your pharyngeal coordination is weak, the Sound Designs you execute will be poor, inefficient and in worst case, could cause vocal damage.

What is the Pharynx and what can it do?

The Pharynx is the inside of your throat - the tube that connects your nose to your throat and larynx. Food and water also travel down this tube and slide down the back into the esophagus. Air travels via your pharynx through your larynx and into your lungs. 

The top of the Pharynx is the Soft Palate. 
• Raises to change height
• Closes & Opens the Nasal Port
• Changes Vocal Timbre, Sound Color & Nasality

The Pharynx is made up of three muscles stacked one on top of the other. Naso-, Oro-, and Laryngo- Pharynx.
• Change the internal shape of your throat.
• Create commercial twang sound through narrowing in a specific shape
• Create classical ring sound by narrowing in a specific shape

The Larynx
• Regulates the length of the pharynx
• Raises to shorten pharynx
• Lowers to lengthen pharynx 

The Tongue
• Builds the moveable front wall of the pharynx
• Changes shape to create a variety of "vowel" resonances
• Inseparable element of pharyngeal resonance

A low pitch, dark, round, louder volume sound generally has a closed nasal port, relaxed soft palate, slightly narrowed pharynx and a lower larynx.

A high pitch, bright, soft, medium volume sound generally uses a raised soft palate, closed nasal port, moderately narrowed pharynx and a higher larynx.

Being good at four of the other Big 5 coordinations is not enough. If your Tongue coordination is weak, the Sound Designs you execute will be poor, inefficient and in worst case, could cause vocal damage.

What is the Tongue and what does it do in singing?

The tongue is the largest moving part inside of your vocal tract. 

The tongue acts as a moveable front wall to your pharynx. As such it plays an essential role in resonance and sound color.

Highly moveable - being able to move in multiple directions simultaneously - the tongue is a true acrobat.

All consonants and vowels are created through movement or shapes of the tongue.

Compared with the trained tongue of a singer, the "every day" tongue is slow and awkward. 

The agility and flexibility of your tongue keeps it in motion and allows for more precise vowel shaping. 

Resonance, sound color, vocal timbre, volume, amplification, harmonics, air flow, air pressure, and even the operation of the vocal folds are ALL influenced by the shape and position of the tongue. 

A tight tongue pulls on the hyoid bone disrupting the larynx position.

A low back tongue invades the pharynx and depresses the epiglottis.

In short tongue coordination, agility and tension make or break your singing.

Being good at four of the other Big 5 coordinations is not enough. If your Embouchure coordination is weak, the Sound Designs you execute will be poor, inefficient and in worst case, could cause vocal damage.

What is the Embouchure and what does it do in singing?

The embouchure refers to the shape of your mouth opening. 

The embouchure is controlled by the 43 muscles of facial expression as well as the 6 muscles of jaw coordination. 

That's a lot of small "fine tuning" muscles.

Because we shape our face into expressions that reflect our emotions, these "emotional facial expressions" also color our vocal sound. 

In other words emotions are expressed both visibly and audibly. You can see and hear a persons emotional state.

The embouchure is the "exit" of our vocal instrument. All wind instruments (flute, trumpet, tuba) have various sizes of bell (the part sound exits through). Some are flared enormously, like the tuba, while the bell of a clarinet is much smaller. 

The opening of your mouth - your embouchure - allows you to change color, vowel, brightness, and volume.

Singing embouchure is always impactful and can be extremely fine tuned. 

• A Horizontal, rectangularly shaped embouchure will produce a lighter, brighter, shallower sound.
• A vertical, rounded ovally shaped embouchure with protruded lips will produce a deeper, darker, richer sound. 
• Embouchure adjusts laryngeal height
• Embouchure changes vocal timbre.

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After graduating with my BFA, Music Dance Theater from BYU, I started to work in Germany as a professional artist. From there, I've performed non-stop for 30 years in 28 different countries, as a professional singer, actor, dancer, voice-over recording artist. Continuous education has always been a priority, so I earned 2 more degrees from 2 other different countries: A Master of Music in Voice Performance Opera from Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany, and Master Voice Pedagogy in Contemporary Singing Styles from CVI in Denmark. 

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Former and current students have performed on American Idol, Broadway, off-Broadway, on national and international tours, on national television, cruise ships, at theme parks and in bands touring throughout the United States. He has written articles for the Journal of Singing, Journal of Voice, VoicePrints, American Music Teacher, The Voice, Southern Theatre, and has been a Vocal Coach in Residence for Voice Council magazine. He has contributed to books including “A Dictionary for the Modern Singer” by Dr. Matthew Hoch, “Vocal Athlete” by Dr. Wendy LeBorgne and Marci Rosenberg, The “Manual of Singing Voice Rehabilitation” by Leda Scearce, “Get the Callback, 2nd edition” by Jonathan Flom, and the Sacred Music, Gospel, and Country editions of the “So You Want to Sing” book series. His book “So You Want to Sing Rock ‘N’ Roll?” is published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishing and was called “an authoritative text on rock ‘n’ roll singing” by Classical Singer magazine.

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