The Training
Marietta Voice Training From Doug’s Derrickson Eliminates The Break Between Registers
Marietta Voice Training For All Ages
Doug Derrickson’s Marietta voice training offered through his Make A Joyful Noise organization is most effective in eliminating the gap between upper and lower registers allowing singers the ability to move up the scale seamlessly. His comprehensive voice makeover program targets the entire laryngeal and muscular relationship and reconstructs them. Early in the Marietta voice training program the preliminary work of separating and strengthening the upper and lower registers independently are done setting the stage for the second phase.
Once the registers begin to strengthen and balance, then the second phase of re-blending the registers and eliminating the break. It is difficult, if not impossible, to effectively perform repertoire at a high level of proficiency, with a break between the lower and upper registers.
To realize the full potential of your voice and enjoy the expanded range that results from exercising the lower register downward and the upper register upward, it is of great importance to realign or blend the registers first. This will help minimize the break and provide for a smooth transition from one register to the other. Notice I said “minimize”. Except in rare cases, there will always be a slight break between registers in as much as it is a mechanical function. However, if the technique is well advanced, the break should function without notice.
To achieve the separation of the registers, pitch, intensity and vowel are employed. To blend the registers successfully, the same means is utilized. When separating the registers, we began in and around the break and performed exercises singing down and away from the break in the lower register and up and away from the break in the upper register.
Skillfully re-blending the registers is done by reversing the process stated above. The mechanical action is facilitated by doing these kinds of vocal exercises. By using the correct intensity, vowel and pitch the upper register can be exercised successfully descending beneath the break and into the range of the lower register, which blends the two together.
The lower register can be exercised into the upper register by using dynamics or intensity, resulting in a well balanced registration. Students of Doug’s Marietta voice training are warned to not blend on their own prematurely. The registers must be advanced in separation, strengthening, and balance before beginning the register blending process.
Over time students in MAJN organization notice an enrichment of the tone, vocal flexibility, and improvement in pitch accuracy. However, the most noticeable effect it has on the students voices taking the Marietta voice training is their range has increased dramatically without the hindrance of a break between upper and lower registers.