Isabelle Bracamonte wrote :
<<Actually, I am advocating having a young singer spend
5 or 6 years in the studio, concentrating on NOTHING
but technique (...)
Once the technique is under control,
the singer can begin to study acting, movement,
diction, audition techniques, phrasing, musicality,
history, and all the other aspects of a successful
performing career.>>
John Alexander Blyth answered :
<<Your argument, if you will forgive the comparison, has the same sort of
idealism that one used to find in Communism or in Behaviourist psychology,
in that it states an unattainable position made unattainable by some
inalterable facts of human nature.>>
I too was horrified at the idea of spending 5 years learning only vocal
technique! Any real singer, any real musician would be disgusted before the
end of this period. And it is doubtful that a non-singer would become one
after such a training! It would be a kind of brainwash!
Certainly, a student that must study something else or earn his living, so
that he has only one hour to devote to singing every day, may be right to
choose to concentrate on vocal technique. But then, will he manage to become
a professional singer? If not, why not devote this practice time to music
(and not vocal technique) right from the start, and aim at the pleasure
experienced by an amateur singer?
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