On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Elizabeth Finkler wrote:
> time, 15 on exercises and 15 for material. If you're trying to learn arias > etc. and feel you need more practice time, try just reading through it, > picking it out on a keyboard, mentally noting what you want to do in each > phrase and/or where the hard parts are.
I've actually found that "marking" when I work on high-tessitura arias by singing them an octave low is very helpful to my technique overall, particularly when I'm spending a lot of time with high-tessitura repertoire and otherwise neglecting my low-middle and chest registers.
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