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Liner Notes
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& Soul Vocal care with
Laryngologist MARTIN HOPP, MD
RANGE, RESONANCE, AND SOUND OF THE VOICE
MBADC: Do you think singers can safely expand their range, or do you
think it is what it is?
MH: With vocal training, you can absolutely expand your range. It’s
because people usually have more potential--more talent--than they realize, but they
don’t know how to extract it out of their vocal cords with proper technique.
That’s why it’s so important to have good singing technique. Because with good
singing techniques, you can produce any sound that you want, safely. You can sound
gravelly, you can sound like you’re screaming, and you should be able to do it safely
without hurting or damaging your vocal cords and be able to do it on a consistent
basis--all with proper technique. There isn’t a single sound that’s made out of
vocal cords that you can’t make properly. And no one should be harming their cords on
purpose in order to get a certain sound. Through training, you can always produce the type
of sound that you want.
MBADC: I heard about someone who actually surgically widened their nasal
passages to get better resonance in their voice.
What’s your opinion on this?
MH: The problem with surgery to increase your resonance is that you
don’t know what the outcome is going to be like. It’s dangerous to do. You
don’t know how this resonating structure is going to result. And the same thing for
having surgery when you already sing well. You [should try to] have no throat surgery
after you already have a good voice. You have to be very careful and be concerned about
the outcome, because it’s not necessarily completely predictable. A small change in
your resonating structures may have a fine effect on your voice that you may or may not
appreciate. Most of the time it’s the singer himself who notices the change and other
people don’t. But that can be a problem.
MBADC: What about a singer who gets a nose job for cosmetic reasons? I
would imagine that would affect things.
MH: It can affect their sound, and they have to be careful about it.
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