In order to avoid waste of time in learning exercises they should be short, so that they can be caught up at once.
To get boys to sing in the register below (the Lower Thin) is the next step, the exercises now being confined between
I have to acknowledge a debt of gratitude to one of our best and most painstaking teachers for giving me this hint. The reading will at first be weak, and in a monotone, and there being no flexibility, the boys will have difficulty in forming the usual cadence at the end of sentences, but practice will soon strengthen the weakness, and make this register as strong as the one below it. Between the one above and the one below, this "middle" one is apt to be overlooked altogether, and I have heard some fairly pleasing singing where it has not been recognised at all.
The third register (Upper Thick) should now receive attention, and in order to find it the pupils should cultivate it upwards with such exercises as—
Within the limits of a short paper, it is impossible to give more fully all the needful directions for training the voices to cover up breaks, and to change from one register to another.