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From:  "chenweijie81" <chenweijie81@y...>
Date:  Fri Nov 1, 2002  3:27 am
Subject:  [vocalist] Re: Are bass-baritones considered rare in terms of baritone vo...

Dear mike,
thanks for the information.Anyway one of my friend have heard
me sing before.And what she said to me is that I sounded like a 40yr
old young singer???!!!It was quite a shock to me since I am only
21.But I am already quite used to the "surprising" comments from
those who have heard my singing.Hm...frankly speaking,I feel the most
comfortable singing as the higher bass and lower tenor in the
choir.My most favorite choir section is of course singing in higher
bass as I don't have to sing so low (don't feel too comfortable
singing really too low notes) and strain for really high notes.One
thing is for sure,I am definitely a baritone since my comfortable
vocal zone seems to be somewhere in the middle.Right now to me,it
would be important to really get the correct technique in singing
before others can really heard my true color type.

From a baritone 21yr old guy who is happily singing his days


--- In vocalist-temporary@y..., Greypins@a... wrote:
> just as there is a wide range of tenors (everyone from
alfredo kraus
> to ramon vinay), there is a wide range of bass-baritones. on one
end are
> the bassier of bass baritones (hotter, tozzi, raimondi) while on
the other,
> are the more baritonal ones (fischer-dieskau, michael devlyn, bryn
terfel).
> some of these voices are very heavy and some rather light. so,
the
> designation of bass baritone almost means nothing (a little like
saying that
> a rolls royce and a ford focus are both cars).
>
> if you are a young singer exploring the possibilities of
your voice, i
> think the thing you want to identify first is your 'plain vanilla',
that
> which is undoubtedly possible for your voice the majority of the
time. if
> you have a solid core for your singing, it will be much easier for
you to
> attempt stretching yourself later.
>
> mike
>
>




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