| | From: Patricia M Smith <dgcsorcmgr@j...>
Patricia M Smith <dgcsorcmgr@j...>
Date: Sat Nov 18, 2000 6:05 pm
Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Voice teachers' aphorisms
|
Shall we add the "Think system" from the "Music Man" to these?
Pat
PS #34 sounds like something my voice teacher tells me!
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:33:44 EST sopran@a... writes:
>(Snip)
> 1. Sing through a hole in the back of your neck and imagine the
> audience to
> be at the back.
> 2. Sing down your spine for all your singing comes from there.
> 3. Sing high notes with a black snore.
> 4. You must waggle your ears and eyebrows when you produce high
> notes.
> 5. Put vaseline in your nose for the high notes and then imagine
> that you
> are frightened.
> 6. To sing like Caruso you must think like Caruso.
> 7. Think of stinking fish to produce the head voice.
> 8. Sing the words "MILANO-TORINO-BOLOGNA" on every note up the
> scale.
> 9. If you want to sing well you must bark up the scale, like Caruso
> did.
> 10. For the high notes put your tongue out as far as you can.
> 11. To take a good high note you must raise your cheeks and show
> your upper
> teeth.
> 12. Sing up the scale while walking backwards and time it so as to
> bang your
> back against the wall and knock out the high note.
> 13. The higher the note the more you must push with your stomach.
> 14. Take an umbrella in your hands and sing a scale opening the
> umbrella on
> the passaggio.
> 15. Pinch the nose with your finger and thumb and then sing the
> words "Ave
> Maria" slowly on every note up the scale; this brings the voice well
> forward
> on nose and lips.
> 16. You can only learn to sing properlyby imitating the purest of
> nature's
> noises, such as an animal in pain.
> 17. The secret of the Old Italian School lay in inflating the
> Eustachian
> tubes.
> 18. To sing right you must : "Pull back-Lift up-Round off".
> 19. Bend over a chair in order to place the voice in the nose.
> 20. To sing well you must grin like a Cheshire cat.
> 21. Remember to sing with and through your tongue all the time.
> 22. To sing piano think to pull an endless thread through the nose.
> 23. The nose is the singer's real mouth.
> 24. Imagine you are taking breath through a hole in the top of your
> head,
> then right down the spine, at the end of which imagine a curled
> tail; when
> this straighten out you have a full breath.
> 25. The voice is like a blanket: if you pull it up too much, your
> feet will
> be uncovered and vice-versa.
> 26. When you sing assume the facial expression of the village idiot.
> 27. Sing "cuckoo" an hour a day for placing the voice.
> 28. To get the high notes pinch the uvula with the tonsils.
> 29. Lift a heavy weight to take a high note.
> 30. Push your Piano with your stomach to take a high note.
> 31. Bring you voice up from your knees and project it into space.
> 32. To place the voice right you must think to have a saddle on the
> bridge of
> your nose.
> 33. To sing pianissimo you must think to smell a beautiful rose.
> 34. To open the throat think a big smile inside the throat.
> 35. Imagine a stream of water rising straight up from a fountain.
> Imagine
> that there is a little metal ball rolling at the top of the stream
> and only
> your voice can keep the ball spinning on top of the water stream.
________________________________________________________________
GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO!
Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less!
|
|  |
|
