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Body
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Voice Care with David M. Alessi, M.D
BOGART-BACALL SYNDROME AND SINGING IN THE WRONG
PITCH
MABDC: What is Bogart-Bacall syndrome?
DA: What it is basically—You see it more commonly with women, very
commonly with career women, not even singers--where women want to have a lower, sexier
voice, so what they do is, they’re basically just putting their voice in a lower
register than what it’s really designed for. And basically they’re either
singing or speaking with their voice in the wrong pitch. And that’s what a lot of
vocal coaches will actually do, is they will be able to pick
up for somebody that they’re actually singing in the wrong pitch and then keep that
from happening. For example if you’re soprano and you’re singing alto very low,
you can actually damage your vocal cords; you develop muscle strain that will completely
corrupt your vocal range. The key thing to do is to find out what your vocal range is, and
stick to it, and there are other things you can do style-wise or technique-wise to
basically embellish the voice and make it sound better. For example, if the normal person
sings middle C, it sounds very, very thin and strained. If someone puts some power behind
it and sings middle C, it sounds about two octaves lower, because you’re putting so
much power into it. So you can actually make your voice sound lower and richer without
having to actually force it down to a lower frequency, which can be very injurious.
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