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"Starr... please stop using the term \"grip\" in your talk track.  We don't \"grip\" anything in singing unless you are throat choking chest puller.  Getting the talk track right is part of getting this learned... the mind programs the body. See Psychosomatics in your book. \n \nPsychosomatics refers to bodily symptoms caused by mental or emotional disturbance. The â€œmission criticalâ€ issue of managing body tension, controlling physical \"ticks\" for singers as they ascend higher in range  (for example, singing a particular difficult passage of music or a siren in your training), is mostly brought on by Psychosomatic barriers, especially for singers that have a little bit of experience trianing. Fortunately, practicing good visualization habits can eliminate such â€œticks.â€ \n \nOk, I listened to your audio files:  \n \nSample one... nice onset!... then something \"burped\" and your onset got off balance for a moment and then you recovered... overall, ok keeping the 'phonation package\" together.  Now your top note G4 was shallow Starr.  See \"shallow placements\" in your book and see \"The Geometry of Vocal Technique\" intercept graph ... your placement is shallow.  You are on the right pitch and your in the head voice, but your holding onto it with constriction... its just a little left over residue from the belt/shout instincts you are trying to train out of... thats all... solution?  DEEPER!!!  Get deeper into the head voice... find a deeper placement and let go... like jumping off the high dive the first time, let go of the belt and constriction, go to a full head tone and then... engage the intrinsic anchoring... I agree, this sample was a bit shouty and grippy... because your placement is not good enough...  BTW... this is not lift up / pull back at all... it it was... you would of had the proper head placement and it would NOT of been shallow. \n \nSample two... At 0:04... your vowel on the phonation package crapped out... do you hear it?  It collapses to what I call a \"non-vowel\",, some kind of windy \"uh-ish\" thing... You did not maintain the \"Eh\" vowel... and that was the beginning of your problems. (kinda did on the sample 1 as well...)... so in TVS talk-track, \"the vowel component of your phonation package collapsed\".  Continuing on into this \"lift up / pull back\" siren... you never lifted up, nor pulled back really... you just kinda charged straight into the vocal break on a shallow phonation package trajectory (see the dotted line on \"the geometry of vocal technique\") and didn't ever get to the head voice. In essence, on sample two, you just ran head long into your passaggio, never bridged and shouted a G4. \n \nYour are either not bridging at all , or when you do, its shallow.  Both are symptomatic of not pulling back to the head voice enough, your phonation package collapsing and generally speaking, your sirens are a little too fast as well. Lastly, there is no intrinsic anchoring at all in this sound. You need to push your tongue against your bottom teeth and modify the laryngeal configuration to a dampening , or dumped position as you pass through the vocal break. \n \nTo fix this, I would start by cleaning up your phonation package and working on applying the intrinsic anchoring as you approach your vocal break... while at the same time... I know its hard... pulling back to heady placements... its a balancing trick.  It has several issues in it that are all contributing to your challenge... We could clean it up in about 30 minutes over a skype call... \n \nwork on the intrinsic anchoring, get deeper to the head voice and then upload another sample. \n \nHope this is helping... \n"
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