From: "DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTMENT)"
Subject: Re: Baritone Upper Register Hook
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

Ernie asked:

>By "gargle" - do you mean making singing sounds with a liquid
in the throat (I've got a feelng this isn't it, but after all this banter
regarding taking people literally...well, ya never know!) or
having the sound emanate from the back of the throat so that it
creates sensations over &/or under the soft palate on it's way through
to the mask?

No, I don't mean gargle with liquid, tho you might start out that way if your
muscles seem reluctant to work. I mean singing an an extended version of the
uvular R (used in German and French). We don't use this sound in English, so
those muscles are lazy.

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