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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
FROM ELIN - I THINK THIS MIGHT BE OF ITEREST TO ALL - I WILL COMMENT ON IT....AND SO CAN YOU
Hi dear...firstly , lets clear up the "stick" for everyone who is going to read this...I do have a beautiful hand engraved stick which one of my students gave me nay years ago - We call it the Rod of Moses. It is leaning close to the piano always and when a student is not working enough, they know that the magical stick will be used to "whip" them back into shape...in a loving way of course...
That having been said....the best thing you can do for the voice is to get out of the way - and that is and always will be the most difficult thing to do. Since it is human nature to want to control, leaving the voice in it's own place, where it is comfortable and knows where to go, is difficult, but has to be achieved.
After having put a piece of music into the voice (meaning, having sung it in the proper place many times) the mind must be free to take over - you think interpretation, you think artistry, but you do NOT think placement. and movement of sound. If you don't know it by now, this is not the time to worry about it.
A word to the wise: DO NOT sing pieces that are not put into the voice properly at the beginning of a concert. Allow the voice to really be warmed up and free, then if you have to sing a piece that is not IN the way it should be, it will generally follow you as to what you have previously done. However, it is preferable in all cases, to present yourself ONLY with pieces that you are sure of and that have been worked properly. The price you will pay for not having put the voice into place is too high - Another caution:
Once you are used to working with the egg, make absolutely sure that you record yourself. Keep your lips almost covering the egg and produce your vowels only being the spheres. Where you listen to the recording and if you hear the vowel like an egg sound...stop and do it again. It is extremely dangerous to use the egg and make vowel sounds behind it...please check yourself constantly. You own discipline in this is most important.
I hope this answers your question. Without a doubt if you had not been worried, the voice would have performed even better than before...so let go as much as you can. Onward and upward. Basically the voice is telling you that under all circumstances "IT" is OK and you need to trust "IT" more than you trust yourself.
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Hi dear...firstly , lets clear up the "stick" for everyone who is going to read this...I do have a beautiful hand engraved stick which one of my students gave me nay years ago - We call it the Rod of Moses. It is leaning close to the piano always and when a student is not working enough, they know that the magical stick will be used to "whip" them back into shape...in a loving way of course...
That having been said....the best thing you can do for the voice is to get out of the way - and that is and always will be the most difficult thing to do. Since it is human nature to want to control, leaving the voice in it's own place, where it is comfortable and knows where to go, is difficult, but has to be achieved.
After having put a piece of music into the voice (meaning, having sung it in the proper place many times) the mind must be free to take over - you think interpretation, you think artistry, but you do NOT think placement. and movement of sound. If you don't know it by now, this is not the time to worry about it.
A word to the wise: DO NOT sing pieces that are not put into the voice properly at the beginning of a concert. Allow the voice to really be warmed up and free, then if you have to sing a piece that is not IN the way it should be, it will generally follow you as to what you have previously done. However, it is preferable in all cases, to present yourself ONLY with pieces that you are sure of and that have been worked properly. The price you will pay for not having put the voice into place is too high -
Another caution:
Once you are used to working with the egg, make absolutely sure that you record yourself. Keep your lips almost covering the egg and produce your vowels only being the spheres. Where you listen to the recording and if you hear the vowel like an egg sound...stop and do it again. It is extremely dangerous to use the egg and make vowel sounds behind it...please check yourself constantly. You own discipline in this is most important.
I hope this answers your question. Without a doubt if you had not been worried, the voice would have performed even better than before...so let go as much as you can. Onward and upward. Basically the voice is telling you that under all circumstances "IT" is OK and you need to trust "IT" more than you trust yourself.
thank you so much for these words of insight...you are right and the voice knows it. Therefore, I know it. :-)
Elin
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