What is an attack in the mask?
To be honest, Im really not quite sure. This is an idea promoted by some quite well-known teachers, mostly in the US. If you know a little bit about the voice, it is strange for the following reasons. The mask they are referring to are your nasal and sinus cavities located in the front of your face behind your nose, cheek bones, and forehead. These are resonating chambers, not muscles. Alternately, an attack in singing is quite simply how you initiate the sound or initiate the vibrations coming from the vocal cords. Vocal cords are small muscles located in your throat behind the ‘Adams apple’. All attacks therefore occur in the throat and cannot occur anywhere else. Phonation (vocal cord vibration) and resonance are two separate issues that, I believe, have been inter-mixed by the advocates of attack in the mask. Sinuses and nasal cavities are resonating chambers which colour the sound of your voice, both in speech and in singing. You cannot manipulate them in any way as they are empty
