Mike wrote:
> i was experimenting with a fake cockney accent while singing today
and
> noticed (not for the first time) that singing up around F above middle C
was
> easier. now, i've done this exercise before and have always found that
it,
> while loosening up holds in my mouth and jaw, made singing easier.
> (imitating anthony newley has the same effect.)
>
> an application for classical singing would be to use fake accents
when
> singing in foreign languages rather than trying to do it for 'real'.
calm
> down now, i am just suggesting it as an experiment.
>
> i think in singing and acting, as we become more and more serious
about
> the profundity of our expression, we become more and more 'stuck'. think
of
> times you have played character roles where your acting was more like play
> rather than psychotherapy. wouldn't it be nice to sing in a foreign
> language and make it 'make believe' as opposed to trying to convince
people
> you are more at home in that language than you really are? just for a
> change?
>
> i'd much rather play army than to go to war.
I had a similar experience. About a year ago, ny speech pathologist assigned
me lip trills ( "vibrating Bs") because I couldn't sustain tongue trills
Spanish Rs ).
Once, while listening to Dulce Pontes, a Portuguese singer, I started
singing along and imitating her accent ( European Portuguese Rs sound as
overly-pronounced as the Spanish ones ) and I could do that. All I had to do
was sing the word with that European accent and sustain the Rs. My speech
pathologist was amazed!
Bye,
Caio Rossi
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