It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.
Pavarotti's is the best male voice, and Joan Sutherland had a big voice but also acquired great coloratura notes.
I wouldn't be me if my repertoire wasn't bel canto.
As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.
My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.
You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.
Seriously, though, I think the only musical term that's ever put a bee in my bonnet is 'shred.' I tried to peddle the term 'Terrifying Guitar' to the world, but it just didn't stick. Now we've got 'shred.'
I never use pull-offs because I don't like the sort of 'meow' sound they make with the string being deflected sideways.
