In a message dated 04/27/2000 10:27:46 AM Central Daylight Time,
DCLARK@r... writes:
<< Please help me understand the difference
between vocalizing a note and singing it. >>
Ah! Great question-one I asked teachers and directors for years before I got
a straight answer!!! Those of us with a morbid fear of high notes operate
under the delusion that vocalising on an "ah" or some other easy open vowel
is one thing , but singing them using words is quite another. I have always
been able to vocalize a LOT higher than I was comfortable singing using
words. Only after learning to modify vowels and RELAX has this gotten
better! I actually had a choir director (who needed me to be a 2nd soprano)
tell me that even though I could vocalize above C6 that I would never be
able to sing above F5 or maybe a G5 in public. Of course this is wrong. If
you can vocalize it, you can sing it-I am living proof of that! However, us
"fear of heights" sopranos need to have proper instruction in order to learn
how to do it. Just because one is a soprano doesn't mean that the high notes
are always a piece of cake! Learning to sing correctly has been an amazing,
though sometimes very frustrating journey for me. We are truly "fearfully
and wonderfully made!"
Leslie-who knocked out a B5 at the 8:30 service on Easter!!
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