Exercise 3 may be timed 76 on your metronome. It is a study to give freedom and flexibility to your voice. None of the notes should be forced, and the upper notes should be rendered with the mouth well open, and with a quality of tone as similar as possible to that of the lower notes. Breath should be taken (without losing time) at the rest-marks. There should be no break or jump in the tone, but rather it should be one unbroken stream of melody, as marked in the first phrase. The voice, in this exercise, should be constantly moving: no sooner should you be sounding the first note of the phrase than you should be moving to the second, from the second to the next, and so on. Be careful to sing the intervals exactly in time, and in descending to notes satisfy yourself that you are singing the exact tone, and that with certainty. Indecision is a grave fault in singing.
Do Re Mi Re Do Re Mi Fa Mi Re
Mi Fa Sol Fa Mi &c.
