Wednesday, March 06, 2002, 10:33:41 AM, TinaO wrote:
Oac> I agree with you 100%, completely! It is actually not so much that a voice Oac> teacher teaches, as guides each student to find the answers to their own Oac> vocal issues for themselves, and encourages, and in some cases, steers those Oac> discoveries to what sounds right to the teacher's (hopefully) knowledgeable
Oac> ear. The student is the ultimate teacher of themselves, as they are the ones Oac> who have to be the diagnostician under the circumstances of practice and Oac> performance. The teacher is not out there singing for them, ever. How scary
Oac> it is for the student if they don't take this ownership for their technique!
Absolutely! One of the first things I tell my students is "I can't teach you how to sing." After they look at me with a puzzled stare, I follow with "My job is not to teach you how to sing; my job is to teach you how to figure out for yourself how to sing." It has to be a cooperative effort with lots of two-way communication going on or, in my experience, very little progress is made.
Vicki Bryant mailto:MezzoNotte@e... Naperville, IL http://home.earthlink.net/~mbryantsprint/music_business.htm
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