It is easy to get caught up within and impressed by complexity. Sometimes, though, we just need to keep things simple and reduce tasks to their most basic functions.
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It is easy to get caught up within and impressed by complexity. Sometimes, though, we just need to keep things simple and reduce tasks to their most basic functions. If you’re a singing glutton for punishment, then this scale pattern is for you. This is a challenging set of scale patterns running back to back with no chance to breathe. This vocalise is modeled on one that Placido Domingo demonstrated in Great Singers on Great Singing. “Here’s a to-do to die today” is a popular articulation warm-up. But do you know where it came from? Read on for notation and a little history. This is a tongue twister warm-up that my mother taught me back when I was a kid. A student of mine is working on “Tornami a vagheggiar” from Handel’s Alcina. So I designed this vocalise to work on the some of the challenges outside of the aria itself. This vocalise is based off of a phrase in the aria “O wie ängstlich” from Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail. This is a variation on the traditional messa di voce that utilizes alternating vowels. This is an effective vocalise for vigorously attacking your high notes. |
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