Thanks for taking the time to post your exercises. It was very brave and generous of you. I understand, of course, that adjustments must be made for individual voices and that in most cases a demonstration is worth a thousand words. I find it interesting that where you use an "F", I use a "V". Most of the time I restrict the vowel to a schwa but for the sake of variety will go with an "oo" or "oh". Although the interval is not quite the same, I too use what I call the "Wisard of Oz" exercise "oh-ee-oh". You can't beat lip trills, voiced and unvoiced for just about anything, including dealing with the passaggi. I have noticed that in the upper transition area, the partials just seem to go nuts, in fact they often overwhelm the fundamental. Many of my students tell me that they experience this too (and no I wait for them to tell me). I try not to contaminate their experiences with mine. Again, thanks for sharing those. These are the kinds of things we can share that can help us all. Regards, Les Les
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