I often tell a student “If you don’t like this song, tell me. There are a few hundred other songs that would be perfectly fine to sing instead.” In singing,…
Category: teaching
There are several possible answers. 1. The teacher may have injured her voice. Many people are motivated to become better teachers when looking for answers as they recover from setbacks.…
My studio is a little over half male, and always has been. I have worked with prepubescent boys, adolescents, and many adults up to the senior years. I see many…
Are these pairs of words all talking about the same thing? bright/dark simply speaking/free-flowing air reed tone/flute tone chest/falsetto chiaroscuro ee/oo brilliant/somber Either “yes” or “no” is correct depending on…
This is a question I sometimes get from people who have never taken music lessons before. It’s a reasonable question, and perhaps people who have taken lessons before should be…
I was asked about this recently in an online forum where I was expressing my opinion that most voice teachers, especially at university level, are not familiar enough with easy…
Yesterday I attended a master class with a friend of mine who is also a teacher. The four students were all age 16 or 17, the two boys singing musical…
Many singers are extremely loyal to their voice teachers and coaches. Many of us in the business search long and hard for people we can trust to be part of…
This is a topic more for teachers than students, perhaps, but it’s important for both. I frequently hear or watch snippets of voice lessons. Some of these are clips that…
When trying to get something to change, you need to do something different than you have been doing before. Obvious, right? Singing is training of the mind and the body,…
When I was playing flute more, it was an important status symbol for me to have an orchestra position. Regardless of the other performing outlets in my life, being in…
This topic comes up a few times a year on the various forums that I belong to. It’s time for me to write a fairly “permanent” piece on it that…
