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Thursday Seeds | Lighten the Load
Remember the old adage, keep it simple? It helps with the idea of lightening the load. How much work do you actually have to do? Maybe if you make the goals simple, you would then realize that your time estimate is off by half because you have time to spare. Or if you don’t have time to spare, you could be doing three steps that aren’t needed. Would you be willing to change? So that your load was lighter, your time estimate more valid? These things seem simple in general terms. When you are in the midst of project tangles, sometimes it is hard to see the forest for the…
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Thursday Seeds | Rise up and over, light softly on top
The cure for a sliding pitch is to rise up and over, and then light softly on top of the pitch. You’ll nail the note for sure and bring confidence to the performance and joy to the song because you did it, you didn’t slide down into the dumps of off key or off pitch. Every good high soprano needs this skill. The reach required at the top of a voice range takes good energy without straining. No one likes to hear a straining soprano high note. It’s funny because many folks will call those sliding notes “off key” when in fact, it’s really just a note below which is…