Summary
-These chapters focus on having a healthy and vibrant onset in whenever we start singing or when we are navigating through melismatic passages, having consistent vowels and loose vocal fold contact, and keeping consistent vowels from low to high notes and vice versa. It uses exercices to accomplish this called "spontaneous combustion" for onset, "wobble" for relaxed phonation, and "getting high" for consistent vowels from register to register.
Application
-These exercises are really great for creating a healthy and relaxed natural sound in the singer. I actually used the "spontaneous combustion" exercise with one of my students a couple of weeks ago. She was having a difficult time with the onset of the last few notes of the song she was working on. To be specific is was the line "my honey bun" from the song "Honey Bun" from the musical South Pacific. The last few notes all occured on a Bb4 right in her passagio. So we just isolated the note from the text and sang it seperately following the exercise on that particular note. After doing that she was able to hit that note with ease and with a healthier onset that didn't require her to push for the note. I use the "getting high" warm-upm all the time in my own practice and lessons. It really helps me to navigate through my passagio a lot easier and with a more consistent vowel and resonance.
No comments:
Post a Comment