Head and Neck & Torso Anchors
Learn about how anchoring your torso and your head and neck helps you as a singer. Also learn a common warmup and ways to extend your range.
Head and Neck
“When the skeletal structures of the Head and Neck are anchored, or “braced” the smaller muscles that control the vocal folds can fine-tune their adjustments within a stable external framework. The result is that these smaller muscles do not have to work so hard.” (from The Estill Voice Model: Theory and Translation) Thus, Head and Neck Anchoring will help keep your voice from fatiguing, especially during long services.
Anchoring the head and neck can provide an increase in dynamics, as well as allow the singer to use a given true vocal body cover outside of the pitch range that it is easiest in.
Anchoring the head and neck can provide an increase in dynamics, as well as allow the singer to use a given true vocal body cover outside of the pitch range that it is easiest in.
Positions
Torso
Anchoring the torso allows the rib cage to spread and the sternum to lift, which seems to stabilize the spine. It also helps control the release of air from the lungs so that the air is released more slowly and steadily.
Positions
