Chest, head, mix, belt, legit, falsetto, modes — Mary Saunders-Barton sorts the words we use from what the voice is really doing, then proves it on live singers.

Stop guessing what your colleagues mean. Mary Saunders-Barton walks through the terminology of registration, resonance and articulation — chest and head, TA and CT dominant, modes and mechanisms, thick and thin folds — and explains why "placement" misleads students. You'll get her working vocabulary: speech mix, head mix, stage mix, open and closed belt, high belt above E-flat 5, and her definition of belt as a TA-dominant mix above the F4 passaggio, used as an optional color rather than a whole song. She then coaches three singers live through musical theatre, jazz, rock and classical repertoire — vowel choreography, elevated speech, calling, and coming back down from the high belt. For teachers who want flexible, castable singers.