Trilling is a laryngeal event. But not necessarily during the learning process.
Some students with formidable neck and shoulder tension will only strain more if our teaching cues have only one mode, as in “the truth”. This will only cause a mechanical micro-managing of a technique that is actually about letting go.
“The truth” is nowhere near as important as the moment-to-moment truth of the student.
For these students one other approach is, at first, turning trills into a costal event: shake the shoulders, wiggle the head, bounce up and down from the knees and move, move move.
I call them “The Bouncer”, “Shimmy Girl”, and “Cat Twist”. 🦋
Also, The Method Breath Ball myo-fascial massage throughout the upper body. This therapy is included in my free eight-Page user manual the comes with a set of my Breath Balls. 😁
Eventually the traps, lats, scm, platysma, tongue, soft palate, inter-aryteniods and swallowing muscles will release enough that trills will turn into what we want, a laryngeal event.
Ps: also start with wider intervals: 4th, 3rd, 2nd, semitone. 👍
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On the Singer's Art: Trilling
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