These three exercises constitute the first step in the first stage of vocal training, and that step is called Learning to Support the Tone.
The huge tomes on the physiology of the voice which are of vital interest to the student of anatomy are not only of no use, but are apt to be a positive hindrance to the student of vocal training.
To learn instinctively to refer this tension for registration not to the throat, but to the diaphragm, is a part of vocal training.
Why is it that actors and singers do not prepare themselves by as prolonged and thorough a vocal training as in a past time?
It is impossible," continued Mr. Duval, "to put the whole method of vocal training into a few sentences.
In fact I believe the lack of this part of vocal training is one of the greatest faults of the day, and that the singer should depend more upon hearing the sound he makes than upon feeling the sound.
This exercise implies some understanding of the fundamental elements of vocal training.
Vocal training consists in the use of such simple exercises as will establish all these conditions that have been mentioned, especially the last.
Sir Morell Mackenzie examined a large number of people with the aid of the laryngoscope; of these, some were trained singers, others, while possessed of good natural voices, had had no vocal training whatever.
Only in one way do they fall short of fully realizing the value of ear training and of practice guided by the ear;--they do not see that these two topics sum up the whole material of vocal training.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vocal training" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
