I have a young, female student, just going through puberty. She came into the studio a year ago with a heavy belting low voice, a gap in the middle and no clue how to access her high voice. She loves to sing and has made good progress because she practices a lot at home on her own. Her low voice is now much less strident, the gap in the middle has closed, though the notes are still not very strong, and she has high notes now.
Sometimes, students make breakthroughs on their own, without realizing it. This young singer was singing Popular, from Wicked, today in her lesson. After we had gone through it a couple of times, I asked her to sing it like a cat. The sound was immediately strong & clear in the mid-range! She then divulged that she loved using character voices and had also tried singing Popular with a British accent at home. I asked her to show me and again, the mid-range voice was clear and strong. We spent the rest of the lesson trying out other "character" voices, coming up with Kermit, a plugged up nose and country. She's going to explore some more voices on her own this week, her only watch-for is that it shouldn't hurt at all.
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