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Subject: RE: Re: Baritone Upper Register Hook
Date sent: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:20:11 -0600
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----Original Message-----
>From: DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTMENT)
>To: vocalist
>Cc:
>Subject: Re: Baritone Upper Register Hook
>Reply-To: vocalist
>Date: Friday, January 28, 2000 1:17 PM
>
>Hi, Jeremy! You wrote:
>
>>> #1 Is anyone else here familiar with
>this dilemma (I need my high notes but can't figure out how to get them
>out)? #2 Does anyone have any suggestions of vocal excercises that might
>help me strengthen/find my top?
>
>My students and I have had great success using the gargle to strengthen
high
>notes. Try gargling your songs, and you will see that many of the
aspects of
>good singing tone are built in -- good breath support, relaxed tongue,
open
>throat, good phonation. Just gargle away till it all feels secure; then
move
>from the gargle to a vowel and try to retain all that you had going for
you
>in the gargle! :)
>
> |\ Dr. Diane M. Clark, Assoc. Prof./Chair of Music Dept., Rhodes
College
> | 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112, 901-843-3782,
dclark-at-rhodes.edu
>() http://gray.music.rhodes.edu/musichtmls/faculty/dclark.html
>