Miguel de Maria -> RE: How often do you practise? (Dec. 7 2004 20:11:51)
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I have been practicing singing every day for about 45 min. I got a book called "Set Your Voice Free" by Roger Love (vocal coach to the stars!!). It's cheesy... but effective, and includes a CD with vocal exercises to sing along with. Quite easy to do, just singing along with the scales and such. It seems that proper breathing is quite key to singing well. Now I have trained with an opera singer as well, and he certainly had a different approach. The main problem I had is, his high notes sounded very light and delicate, and you know even in flamenco the high notes are fairly powerful. So that seemed a bit of a problem. But the main difference, apparently, is placement, or I guess where you choose to have your voice reverbate the most. So I guess flamenco singing isn't necessarily different from "normal" technique, there is just a twist here or there. Also, the raspy sound, you get that sound when you let too much air get through, like if you have excess phlegm or nodes on your cords. Smoking can cause this too. Apparently this is something that can be developed, because Pepe de Lucia got a good rajo going, eventually. Although in Spain a lot of people talk with a rasp naturally.
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