Here is a quote from Randy Buescher, a speech pathologist in Chicago and former SLS teacher.

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In a message dated 4/30/2003 10:31:29 PM Central Standard Time,
sally.collyer@... writes:

> Dear Randy
>
> >If that were the case, amateur classical singers would not be the leading
> group of singers with mucosal lesions.
>
> Could I have the references for the studies? I'd be very interested to
> know more on this.
>
> Cheers
>
> Sally
>

That comes out of the loyola voice clinic in chicago and if i'm not mistaken,
ron combs, a professore at niu, did extensive survey of vocal health related
to genres and found the percentage of voice disorders to be fairly evenly
distributed amongst genres.

randy buescher
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At Loyola where he was studying, amateur classical singers had the highest incidence of vocal damage, NOT rock singers, although those in rock weren't too far behind, lol. Singing rock is no more dangerous than singing other types of music.

BTW, here's the link for those that want it. http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/theVocalist/message/1104

It's only dangerous if not sing correctly and abusing your voice. Other than that, how can it be dangerous?

I suppose singing with grit/growl is potentially dangerous, because you CAN do it the wrong way and hurt yourself. Since classical singing doesn't require singing with grit, one could say that classical singing is potentially LESS dangerous.

Interesting statistic, though.

Classical singing is just as dangerous as Rock because classical singers NEED the volume. (For rock singers, it's not a requirement, but most have a decent amount of volume anyway.) Classical singers often go about getting that volume the wrong way, which is where the problem starts. Between that and just simply overusing the voice, you get vocal problems. I don't think one style is inherently more dangerous than the other. You just have to be careful with what you're doing with both of them.

some of the classical singing lesson is about
expelling all the air from your belly. maybe is
because that.. not all teachers act this way though.