The beauty of the voice and its tone quality is determined by its resonance. Your audience can hear the quality of your voice in a way that you can't as the singer, but you can know the difference in how it feels. People rarely argue that the most pleasing tone sounds very open, and this indeed implies that the throat is open and not constricted by tension. The best singers spend a lifetime perfecting the quality of their sound by paying attention to the physical positions and sensations in the vocal tract. This chapter will give you some technical information, but also the basic exercises necessary to create a more beautiful vocal tone quality.

