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From:  Andrea Soto Véres <andreasotoveres@h...>
Date:  Wed Dec 18, 2002  3:51 pm
Subject:  [vocalist] Re: tone-deaf?

If I only knew how to send a recorded conversation via mail!! Could
you explain it to me? I'm completely useless on those things...

The recording would be in Dutch and English then... What I also
noticed, not only on him but also on me, is that we speak "different"
if we use our mother tonges and if we don't: in his case, he speaks
deeper if he speaks Dutch than if he speaks Spanish with me (he
speaks then higher and more "tense"...); in my case, I used to speak
Spanish higher, faster and tenser, but since I started with the
method, I speak deeper (well, not deeper: I used to speak too high,
and now I speak with my natural pitch, that is, deeper...), slowler
and more relaxed, mainly when I speak Dutch, that is the languaje in
which a learn to "speek" correctly... Now I breathe when I talk...

Just tell me how can I post a recording, or how can I get the info in
order to do it, because otherwise I would have to send it by normal
post...

Thanks for everything!!

Andrea.


--- In vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com, John Link <johnlink@n...>
wrote:
> >Yes, he can do that... He can also recognize veeeeeery known tunes
> >like Happy Birthday,
>
> Then he _does have at least some ability to recognize pitches, and
is
> therefore not tone-deaf, unless he is recognizing them fromm the
> rhythm. CAn he recognize Happy Birthday if you sing each note as a
> quarter? (I.e., with distorted rhythm, without words, but with the
> correct sequence of pitches.)
>
> > but if we go to something more "complicated"
> >that he, of course, knows, like tunes of songs of Bruce
Springsteen,
>
> Even though I like Bruce Springsteen, I would venture to guess that
> the problem may be the lack of sufficient melodic content in
Bruce's
> songs.
>
> >What I see is that what he cannot do is to "imitate" a note, that
is,
> >if I sing a note, whichever, he cannot repeat it. Not even an
> >approximation of half tone or so...
>
> As I've written before, _that does not show that he is tone-deaf.
>
> >I could send you a copy of une recorded conversation (in English, I
> >guess that would be better...),
>
> Actually I'd like to hear him speaking his first language as well
as English.
>
> > as I have no idea of how to post it
> >in the Internet... You can send me a private mail with your postal
> >address to my inbox, as I think my address is in my Yahoo
profile...
>
> Who's afraid of spammers? Send it to johnlink@n...
>
> >And, may I suggest you to have a look to www.wilfart.com? Is the
> >website of the singing method I follow, with Mr. Serge Wilfart and,
> >as I told you, is based, inter alia, in the Feldenkrais Method,
>
> I glanced at the site yesterday and will look at it more carefully.
> What an unfortunate name!
>
> John Link
>
> http://www.cdBaby.com/JohnLink
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