Date sent: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:52:53 EST
Subject: Re: Renee Fleming, women's voices
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

In a message dated 2/4/00 10:42:24 AM Pacific Standard Time, ariley-at-ltp.org
writes:

<< My teacher is very
helpful --demonstrates, describes, dreams up metaphors and images, explains,
draws pictures -- but I'm still struggling with it. I know what "pingy,
ringy, pointed" sounds like in others' voices but haven't figured out how to
make it happen in my own. (Neither have I quite figured out what it feels
like and sounds like from the inside when I get it.) So, listers, any
thoughts? >>

Try singing your exercises on the eee vowel for a while.