100x100/7: Kinaesthesia-A Transformative Sense.

Kinaesthetic skill crucial asset in improving singing. Also assists in achieving, and maintaining, elite performance.

Kinaesthesia, or proprioception, is sense of body’s movement and position: noticing feedback from body.

Can be developed; allows improvement of motor skills.

Yet, some young singers, and old pedagogues, perhaps reluctant to trust “feelings”, preferring “action instructions”-do this.

Kinaesthetic sense allows understanding, and stability, of resonant pharynx and buoyant torso (appoggio).

Try finding and noticing feel of lift at hard/soft palate boundary, throughout vowel row, to stabilise resonance.

Try noticing buoyant feeling in torso throughout long phrase to stabilise breath flow.

Noticing different from doing.