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I have been working very diligently on Non so piu and O del mio dolce.  Wednesday in Studio I sang Non so piu for the first time and it went well but I still have problems with putting a "schwa" in cosa and some other words in the lyrics.  I am also working on not holding back because as you and other people have pointed out, I will approach a note with power and intensity and then back off quite noticeably.  I am also trying not to push so hard because I dont want to hurt myself.  I get very fatigued after I sing Non so Piu or O del mio Dolce and I want to sing more efficiently and more healthily.  So as I am practicing my repertoire this weekend, I am trying to sing lighter.  Does that make sense?  I feel like the reason I am getting so fatigued is because I push to hard and sing to heavy.  So I am trying to sing lighter and more effortlessly.  I also got the comment that the words sound too harsh for Italian... I'm not exactly sure what that means, but maybe I am enunciating too harshly?  Or am I overdoing the accents and the vowels?

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btw... I sang Aus Meinen Grossen in recital yesterday and I aced it!!!! woohoo!!!! Thankyou so much Dr.H.  I am thinkin about you and hope that you are filled with peace:)

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Why is memorizing a foreign language so hard??? I can memorize any English song with no problem...I will spend over a month working on a foreign language song that is less that half the length of the English song and still mess up every single word.  And what's more frustrating??? I can even speak all the foreign lyrics out in rhythm correctly, but when I get up to sing it...Phhhttt! it all goes out the window like I don't even know what I'm doing! Like I've never even sang it before!! What is my problem??!! I am tired of this...lets move on...
I have been working on the last verse of O Del Mio Dolce Ardor.  I never fail to mess up this one note and its so easy, I just cant get myself to hear it.  The first tone starts on a fifth and goes directly down to the third and then there is some ornamentation.  After the ornamentation it goes back up to the fifth where I originally started.  I have no problem finding that pitch, but for some reason (and it baffles me) I cannot for the life of me find the third again! I always go to the fourth.  I've been pounding it into my brain I have been telling myself over and over...Chelsey it is the same interval! this is not that hard! but I continue to miss it every time :(