Repetition…But Each Time Better

OK…I am practicing singing a couple of runs from Sam Cooke’s gospel standard Wonderful.

As I am singing however, sometimes I notice that all of the notes are not clearly hit.

Cooke often does very fast runs that is easy to gloss over when attempting to sing them. But doing that gives you a muddled sound that sounds less professional and as if you don’t really know what you are doing.

What is really helping however is this micro focused approach of singing the run. Singing it multiple times. And making sure that each note is clearly sung.
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