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From:  Naomi Gurt Lind <omigurt@s...>
Date:  Fri Mar 31, 2000  1:58 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Learning to Trill


At 6:05 PM -0600 3/30/00, Rachel Hughes wrote:
> Hi everybody -- can't tell you how great it is to have the list alive
>again! Let me be the latest to extend my gratitude to Isabelle and Karen!
> I've just started learning how to trill, and wondering if any of you
>have any tips for mastering it. My teacher has me singing 1/2 step
>intervals, starting slowly, then gradually speeding up. Whenever I do
>this, it sounds clumsy and awful (kind of like a wimpy, uneven Tarzan
>sound), and I get really frustrated soon after I start practicing it. Am
>I doing something wrong, or is this something it takes years and years of
>practice to get right? Thanks in advance! Rachel despina@p...


A tip from a very successful countertenor: focus your mind more on the
upper note of the trill than the lower one. It works for me; I hope it
helps you!

Naomi



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