Dear Suki,
I have a student with the "goat bleat" vibrato. She has been with me since before I took Richard Miller's workshop last summer. In his class he gave us an exercise which I passed on to my student and it has helped her quite a bit. Her vibrato is still a little too fast, but I hear differences in the stability of the tone. I'll try to describe it: he uses the syllables "ye, ye, ye," on one note at a time, coming down on the following scale tones. The exact sol-feg syllables are: do, do ti; te, te, la; le, le, sol; fa, fa mi.
Some of you listers will recognize this one, I'm sure. By using the appoggio technique with strongly supported tones, my student can now produce a tone with a lot less throatiness and tongue tension, and she can now continue the support until the end of the third note in each set.
I hope this helps some.
Musically Yours, Marcia McCarry
> Hi! I always considered a billy-goat vibrato to be caused by some kind of > tension somewhere. Someone, recently, tried to convince me it was natural, > and that there was nothing wrong, which I still sincerely doubt. > > Have any of the other teachers on the list encountered this type of problem > in a student or elsewhere? And what did you do to help it, if not cure it? > > Thanks for any ideas. > > A ponderous Suki T.
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