Can anyone possibly match tones on all the notes of the piano? Who would possibly have that kind of range.
The singing required of a vocalist, despite L-I-w's contempt for their craft, requires the same effort and dedication as learning piano, violin, or any other instrument.
You're an imbecile timothy, you like to OVER EXAGGERATE things all the time golly gosh, you sure you don't wear a skirt?
A chauvinist as well
Yeah outin we all need your little kibitzes on the sideline, so helpful. Why be politically correct when someone accuses you of things irrationally? It's not only in this thread every time I disagree with him lol. If he don't wanna tip toe around it I wont either.
There's a nice rest home near me, timothy42b, where that cello exercise would fit right in...
Just learned a new word, thanks!
Goody, now maybe you can be wary of doing it.
But why should I, it sounds cool!
I'm close to needing it!Here's why I do exercises like that. I'm primarily a trombone player, and when we play any note we have basically three choices of pitch: equal temperament, choral (just intonation), or melodic. It depends on what we're playing and what other instruments are included. The instrument will obey us, but it won't give us the right pitch on its own, unlike a piano.
What are you doing? Just tuning to a drone pitch?
I was writing fast, and if the original poster doesn't sing... It's not critical to me. It dawned on me they not breathe with enough power for sining. So a step below singing is breath. Deep, relaxed breath in, leading with the abs. Push the air out, leading with the abs. The lips could buzz, lap, whatever, as a measurement for that air stream. If the air support isn't there, singing is going to be a lot more difficult. It's building on crappy support. There's also posture below that, not squeezing with the chest....
Good points, Bob -- to which I will add this: if one learns to breathe properly -- from the abdomen or diaphragm or abs or however you want to put it, and not use the chest muscles for all that work, it frees one's shoulders -- and voila! Much less tension while you are playing piano!
I can't. There's probably an eight year old on youtube who can though.
But there is no genre that requires singing! ...
I wondered about that. I'm a bassoon player, and our ear is also our source of pitch. The holes on the wood body just deliver an approximation. Every note needs some adjustment in mouth tension by ear. I've in retrospec wondered what tuning the high school band I played in used? I mean the C was set to the Conn strobotune, but what were the other notes? Probably equal temperment since cornets and clarinets dominated the sound, but I wonder. We were always wonderfully in tune with each other. By contrast I was loaned out to the high school orchestra on Tuesdays, which was always painfully random in tuning.