Tag: confusion
Hello, friends and others. I wish to acknowledge the current American Zeitgeist. Since mid-March I have had plenty of upheaval, including the death of my father, the cancellation of my…
If you are an experienced singer who has studied voice with a private teacher, and you go to a new teacher, it can be quite a jolt. The following is…
For singing to begin, the vocal folds vibrate against each other. The sounds are amplified and changed as they pass through the vocal tract, out of the mouth (and/or sometimes…
Some people defer to one master for all knowledge on a topic. This is really common with religion and singing. People have a need to follow a leader, and a…
Definition of Gestalt: “…something that is made of many parts and yet is somehow more than or different from the combination of its parts” (retrieved from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gestalt) Someone asked me…
I have a suggestion for judges at every level, from middle school festivals to the Met auditions: You are on the best ground if you report on what you hear,…
[This is an excerpt from Chapter 3 “The Confusions”.] Long ago I thought of the human voice as an instrument, just in a different family than brasses and woodwinds and…
In baseball and track and tennis, they call mechanics “form”. Think about how that is different from controlling your body muscle by muscle. When I am being coached in weightlifting,…
People frequently say that when they hear their voice on a recording it is a little shocking. Singers have to learn to make peace with this. Listening to a recording…
Voice teachers, please get over yourselves. The people who get certified in Method A say that Method B is bad while those devoted to Method C laugh at both of…