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From:  Greypins@a...
Greypins@a...
Date:  Fri Mar 9, 2001  9:18 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] just sing, dammit!!! was snowjob


In a message dated 3/9/2001 1:32:17 AM Eastern Standard Time,
bandb@n... writes:
bandb@n... writes:

<< Nah...Nah.. Nah Mike you can't get away with that.
You're saying to the virgin athlete..bugger the
training, just get out there and break the one minute
mile. Is training necessary in your opinion then
for anything? : ) >>

reg,

i wouldn't start the virgin athlete with a mile and i certainly wouldn't
promise them technique will allow them to break the one minute mile. but i
would tell them to 'just run' to start with. one day i would have them run
as far as they could and the next day i would have them run as fast as they
could. so many recreational golfers would be better off if they 'just hit
the damn thing' instead of watching the evil golf channel.

technique is good for getting people 'un-screwed up'. keeping the
larynx low, for example, is not so much a rocket science idea as it is the
ridding of misconceptions. pitch does not increase in height yet, quite a
few virgin singers think it does. vowels don't stay the same as pitch
changes. yes, usually the singers who are under the wrong impression of how
sound works have to be tricked out of their misconceptions but, that would
using technique or tricks to unscrew up these poor virgins, as opposed to
adding to their arsenals (similar to taking the banana out of one's ear to
improve hearing).

there is a golf book that has one exercise in it- club throwing. the
author suggests that if you can throw a club straight, you can hit a ball
straight. when most people try this for the first time, they throw the club
left. to throw it straight, they have to let go of it sooner. the error
in thinking is that most people think they throw in a straight line and they
are actually throwing in a circle. they don't need to understand tangent
release to correct this (although it wouldn't hurt), they just have to throw
the club straight which means doing something different as opposed to
learning some new body usage.

so much of singing instruction is spent on the construction of tone
rather than the action of singing. what i am suggesting is the focus needs
to be on the action not the appearance. singing should be what to do far
more than how to do.

mike

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