Chapter Summary: An interval called the wobble is described in this chapter, which allows for more flexibility of the voice. During the wobble, the singer has to be vulnerable and give up any control over their voice, or the pitches will not come out right. The singer starts on an 'a' vowel on a lower-mid voice pitch and jumps up a fourth. At first you alternate the pitches slowly to establish the pitch, and then quickly at a sixteenth-note pace. You also alternate starting on a low pitch and going up a fourth between starting high and going down a fourth after each round of exercises and move up a half-step as you do so. If you began on the low note then you end on the low note after the quicker pace. The quicker pace enables the wobble, which a requires a loose and free voice to sing the sixteenth notes correctly. The fourth interval is important because it is just wide enough that it is almost impossible to hold the voice and still get the pitches out. The goal of the wobble is to have air flowing consistently and freely through your range. Air should be active while phonation should be passive. This requires relaxed vocal folds. The wobble will also make singing fioratura passages, or passages with rapid pitches in scales, more possible.
Key Concept: It is almost impossible to control the voice when singing the wobble correctly.
Key Terms: wobble, flexibility, vulnerability, fourth interval, sixteenth notes, fioratura
Making Connections: I am definitely going to try this out, because I have the hardest time with trying to control my vocal chords. It's nice to think that this invention won't even work if I'm controlling at all.
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