Dear Les and Vocalisters:
I should at least mention what I use instead of lip trills. I ask the student to blow air through the lips which are loosely closed so that the cheeks puff out Once the can do this I ask them to add tone to this while maintaining the loose lip closure and the puffed out cheeks. Then I ask them to raise the pitch of the tone in a siren like manner and, rather quickly after a few attempts, to raise the siren sound to some of their very highest pitches. They almost always are able to make a smooth and continuous sound through all of the register changes both up and down. Once this is acheived, an octave arpeggio is tried singing on /a/ for notes 1, 3, 5, and going to the puffy cheeks/closed lips on 8. This is followed by the same exercise but with an /u/ vowel on 8 rather than the puffy heeks/closed lips.
-- Lloyd W. Hanson
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