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From:  "David Grogan" <dgrogan@e...>
"David Grogan" <dgrogan@e...>
Date:  Sat Mar 10, 2001  1:27 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] students with pitch problems


I have a student this year who has tremendous difficulty staying on pitch.
Most of the time, he doesn't realize he is off. When I have gotten him to
brighten up the sound (his larynx was almost on the floor) his intonation
improved vastly. Trouble is, he doesn't buy into the sound, because anytime
we have gotten anything close to 'ring', he feels that it is nasal. Oh
well, we will keep working...

David Grogan
East Texas Baptist University
Marshall, Texas



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Subject: Re: [vocalist] students with pitch problems


> i have had the experience of working with people to correct notions
of
> how pitch works. many singers, without any difficulty in matching or
> reproducing pitch, have the goofball idea that high notes are up higher
> rather than faster vibrating (as if a soprano would become a bass if she
fell
> down a well istead of a dead soprano. if you throw a piano down a
> mineshaft, you get Ab minor.). this usually leads to an elevated larynx,
> the jerry lewis sound and the singer appears to be looking over a fence.
in
> some singers, they will actually sing a lower octave and some just lower
(and
> not even close to the right pitch) when managing not to raise their
larynx.
> and, oddly enough, their tone improves while doing so. so, here is a
> situation where the tone gets better but the pitch sense proves to be
> incorrect after all.
>
> mike
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