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Episode 253 - The Role of the Tongue and Twanging with Kerrie Obert

The Intelligent Vocalist

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How Much Twang Do We Need?

When we pull the root of the tongue back, we get sounds that are bit a ringer, richer. And sometimes at some point, depending on how much we're narrowing, we would then begin to perceive it as twang. It's not all twang, right? If we use a little bit of narrowing, i don't think the audience member would say, that's twang. We can add a lot of l m n in certain voices and make them more cartoonish. This is where singers get worried because they often find these extreme locations,. They don't realize that they have all sorts of locations along the to nopun intended there.

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