Wow... I agree wholeheartedly! Including the LaBrie part!
Caio
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From: Andrea K <ipiggy7@y...>
To: <vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 6:25 AM
Subject: [vocalist] special ears and listeners
Hi, my use of the term "specialized listeners"
or "specialized ears" was in response to a person
who used the term "non-specialized listeners" to
mean people who haven't had vocal training. If
it is ignorant to lump opera and pseudo opera
together; it's just as ignorant to refer to all
non-classical music as "pop".
Vocal training to me is like the famous Zen
quote:
Before Zen a rose is a rose.
While learning Zen a rose transforms into
something else. After Zen (or learning a
significant amount) a rose is again a rose.
So it is with vocal training. Before training
most rock and some popular music is great, alot
of Opera really seems to suck big time.
During Vocal training - some singers on favorite
albums sound nasal, flat and strained among other
things. Opera sounds incredibly clear and well
executed.
After a good 5 years or more of vocal training,
you can hear it all, and when you really listen
you understand why you liked a rock song in the
first place, and you can appreciate some cool
stuff that Opera singers would never do. You
appreciate each song or dislike each song and
singer for different reasons. It's an informed
choice. Sure some stuff that is exceptionally
poorly done is just ruined forever. Opera is
mostly still great, but you can hear some of the
thin tones, the strain, the overuse etc. and you
realize that people are just people; and you
spend money on what you prefer, not what other
people think you "should" listen to. You can
listen to James Labrie sing "Another Day" and
realize it just doesn't get any better than that.
-Andrea
That is what
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Although we're using the term "specialized"
listeners, this is not
necesssarily the same thing as "otherwise
ignorant." By nurturing
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