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  • repertoire

Picking meaningful repertoire

  • Posted on July 27, 2015December 19, 2018
  • by Brian Lee

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,…

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  • singing ability

How can a good voice teacher not be a good singer?

  • Posted on October 18, 2013October 18, 2013
  • by Brian Lee

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.…

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  • registration

Female Voice Teachers and Men’s Voices – Big Mystery?

  • Posted on October 3, 2013
  • by Brian Lee

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…

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  • teaching

The Problem of Vocabulary – Spiral Learning, Part 3

  • Posted on August 14, 2013March 4, 2021
  • by Brian Lee

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…

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  • teaching

What do you do in lessons?

  • Posted on April 19, 2013April 19, 2013
  • by Brian Lee

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…

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  • repertoire teens teaching

GOOD songs for beginning classical voice students?

  • Posted on March 15, 2013April 13, 2013
  • by Brian Lee

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…

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  • professionalism

Teachers Learning from Teachers

  • Posted on November 12, 2012November 26, 2012
  • by Brian Lee

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…

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  • teaching

No one has all the answers

  • Posted on March 12, 2012June 10, 2012
  • by Brian Lee

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…

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  • teaching

The pace and flow of a voice lesson

  • Posted on December 13, 2011February 17, 2012
  • by Brian Lee

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…

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  • teaching

Training with reasonable extremes, or the pendulum effect

  • Posted on November 11, 2010November 1, 2011
  • by Brian Lee

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,…

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  • teaching

Ego and Competition

  • Posted on May 20, 2010August 19, 2012
  • by Brian Lee

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…

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  • pitch matching

How to teach someone to match pitch

  • Posted on April 26, 2010February 21, 2017
  • by Brian Lee

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…

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