This must be my agree with Chris week, because I have to agree with this, too. (Actually, I don't often disagree with Chris - we mezzos have to stick together or something like that!). Seriously, I felt exactly the same way when I began practice teaching in college and then teaching for real in grad school. What happened to me was that as I taught more and more, I learned not only what I do know, but I also learned to teach. I had a friend who studied with me for a while when I was first starting out, then studied with me for a while again three or four years later and she commented on the improvement in my teaching. I hadn't thought of it before, but once she said it, I realized how much more I knew then about teaching than I had when I started. And it just keeps going on. So be a little easier on yourself and realize that you have to learn to teach, too.
Lee Morgan Mezzo-soprano
-----Original Message----- From: Mezzoid@a... [mailto: Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 3:14 PM To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [vocalist] Re: bell register
In a message dated 10/09/2001 1:20:06 PM Central Daylight Time, topsop@h... writes: topsop@h... writes:
<< I'm going to make an aweful voice teacher, because I can sing pretty well, but I don't know how to explain what I do to anyone else. >>
I was like that in my 20s - it took until a few years ago for me to realize that I DID know what I was talking about. Perhaps that is because there was a huge gap between finishing my undergrad and starting my masters. You're only an undergrad, aren't you Molly?
Christine Thomas Wauwatosa, WI <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/mezzoid/myhomepage/profile.html"> http://hometown.aol.com/mezzoid/myhomepage/profile.html</A>
"Pace, mio Dio, pace, mio Dio." -- La forza del destino, Giuseppe Verdi
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