Date sent: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:13:26 EST
Subject: Re: TECH: singing "ah"
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

jerry lewis doesn't do much for the voice, if anything. it was the vowel i
was thinking of. most people who have a chronic difficulty, where nothing
seems to work, have a tendency to stay inside their own parameters when the
solution lies outside them. jerry lewis' ah is about as far out of a dark ah
as you can get. 'chiarascuro' would be somewhere in between. in order to
combine light and dark you have to have both. dr. tomatis (see tomatis.com)
has suggested that, unless the ear knows the sound, the voice will not
produce it.

mike