To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist>
Subject: Re: Exercises for Breathy Singers
Date sent: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:25:08 -0500
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Thank you all for your suggestions. Diane, I particularly like the
cackle/crow/duck stuff - I do something similar, but I've never done those
animal sounds.

Let me clarify that this student's challenge is NOT the common teenaged
breathiness, but one that has been drilled into her as a member of a choir
where that hooty sort of white sound was considered desirable and she has
taken it to a painful extreme. Young girls are my bread and butter and I am
familiar with working with breathy girls. But I have never worked with one
who has already worked soooo hard and diligently since childhood, and been
praised so well by her choir director, for "acquiring" that sound.

Thanks again for your help,

Laura Sharp
lasharp-at-nycap.rr.com




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Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Exercises for Breathy Singers


> i disagree with ascertion that breathiness is a 'trapping' of youth. most
> young girls (who generally seem to be the ones afflicted with breathiness)
> are very capable of making all sorts of clear noises when talking,
giggling,
> squealing,etc.. however, when it comes to singing, they want to make it
> 'pretty' so, they use breath the way my late uncle jim used to use
ketchup-
> they dump it on everything!
>