We obviously want a huge dynamic range available in our voices. This is not to say a given singer is incapable of singing louder/quieter. In the same way, if we want to sing softer/quieter that will also take a similar level of control and regulation of effort applied, which at the beginning of vocal development we just donвЂ™t have. If we want to sing louder than our natural calibration, this will take greater control and effort than that вЂњzeroвЂќ point of speech levelвЂ¦ and at the beginning of vocal development we simply donвЂ™t have enough vocal control or the ability to regulate our expenditure of effort to do this correctly without departing from good technique. We do need a little bit of preliminary technique built into the voice to achieve even this, but to build the bulk of the technique we need to establish this. ItвЂ™s like finding our вЂњzeroвЂќ point, the point of least energy and effort required to sustain our voice. Hopefully from even this brief discussion, you can see that finding our speech level in exercises and singing (for development purposes at least) is extremely beneficial and important. It takes control and sustained effort to increase your volume from there, and it takes control and sustained effort to decrease your volume from there.

Thirdly, to summarise this, you can imagine this natural speaking volume is like a base-line that the voice naturally wants to sit at in a comfortable manner whenever you speak. In both cases, departing from your natural speech level leads to fatigue and strain in the voice. whispering in a library, trying to keep hushed tones in a public space, etc) you also experience that kind of wear and tear on your voice. Similarly, you may also notice when you try to reduce your speaking volume for long periods (e.g. This is because you are departing from your optimal calibration or вЂspeech levelвЂ™. noisy environments, to be heard over others, etc), how quickly your voice fatigues.

Think about how when you try to constantly speak louder than normal (e.g. Secondly, this natural calibration represents the most strain-free version of our voices. If we assume that a voice in question has no serious pathological issues or speaking disorders, this means that the way we speak represents and reflects the manner in which our instrument operates. The point is, we all have different instruments with different calibrations. We also have different вЂњsizesвЂќ of instrument, some of us speaking at a naturally louder level than others, and some who speak at a naturally quieter/softer level than others.

We have different tonal characteristics to boot. Some of us speak with an average pitch that is relatively high, and others at a pitch that is relatively low. What is the optimal volume for singing at, how loud/soft should one sing etc? While that is far too broad a topic to cover in one post, one aspect I do want to cover is the appropriate volume for the BEGINNING of vocal development, and this leads to the idea of вЂњspeech level singingвЂќ.ДЇirstly, we all have unique instruments. One of the comments that comes up a lot in voice training is the discussion of volume. LetвЂ™s talk about something important вЂ“ speech level singing.

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