From: Isabelle Bracamonte
Subject: Re: teachers: your technique, in a nutshell
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

Hi, Mike --

One of my warm-up exercises is the commonly-practiced
"nyaa nyaa nyaa" arpeggios, with an "aa" as in "cat."
I find this position very similar to the forward [i]
position in terms of forward placement.

I tried a straigh "naa," but the "gn" sound (as in
"gnocci", or a ~ in Spanish) seems a tiny bit freer of
the throat for me. Of course, that could be because I
have been practicing the one for over five years, and
the other only today.

Isabelle B.

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Isabelle Bracamonte
San Francisco, CA
ibracamonte-at-yahoo.com



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