Hi Rick, I'm a baritone who will, this evening, perform both the bass and tenor II solos in Schubert's Eb mass. In order to be able to do this I have been very strict with myself in allowing my practice of the tenor part to employ pure, unmixed head-tone as the core sound (warm -ups have included descending scales on 'nee' from fairly high up - starting note f# working up to the b at the top of my head-tone range). If I had indulged in any chest or falsetto mixtures it would have been too tiring, and would have sounded strained. Now that I have the part, know what's coming etc, I can cool it with a little falsetto mix here, warm it up a little with 'chest' there. Head-tone is the solution. Find out what you can about it, but since there is a lot of confusion in the literature on this subject, your own gentle experiments, especially with the help of a teacher who can produce this pure sound (rare), must be your recourse. A clue: it is surprisingly easy to get once it's established - no straining for notes: because you either have them or you don't. john
At 13:11 30/03/00 -0500, you wrote: >Hello to Everybody!! > >Thank god for Karen and Isabel. I really was beguining to miss Vocalist. > >Anyway, here's my dilemma: >I am interested in finding out some of the ways singers, tenors in >particular are able to reach high notes, particularly for dramatic or lyric >tessitura, such as in Tosca, or Manon, any other time when the Tenor has to >hit high notes in a manner that powerful, clear and beautiful. I am also >wondering if it's different for other voices, do sopranos do it differently >? or mezzos ? or baritones? I realize as a tenor who still hasn't completed >perfecting and stabilizing my vocal technique, this issue is always in my >mind as well as the minds of a lot of tenors that I know, whether they are >beguiners or advanced singers. I realize that for some people hitting the >high notes dramatically is a piece of cake and for others (like me) hitting >them correctly takes a lot of hard work. > >Any ideas? > >thank you, > >Rick > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Good friends, school spirit, hair-dos you'd like to forget. >Classmates.com has them all. And with 4.4 million alumni already >registered, there's a good chance you'll find your friends here: >http://click.egroups.com/1/2622/3/_/_/_/954439895/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >vocalist-temporary-unsubscribe@o... > > > > John Blyth Baritone, inter alia. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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