leskayc@a... wrote:
> > This comment gave me this thought-do you tape your lessons?
> Leslie
Leslie,
Yes, I do tape my lessons, and I, too, have found it to be very beneficial. One thing my instructor tells me is it is important for a singer to learn to hear and critique their own voice objectively. It always surprises me when I hear of singers who can't stand to hear or see themselves taped. I have learned to be careful about going back too far into my past lesson tapes. Generally, I don't go back any further than my last lesson or the one before it to practice things. I find that if I go back further, I'm inclined to move backwards in my progress, not forward.
Also, a caution with taping lessons is that if I rely on the listening to tapes too much for practicing, I end focusing on trying to duplicate the sound on the tape, as opposed to duplicating the sensations I felt during the lesson while I was producing the desirable sound. I don't know how to describe the distinction articulately, but it is an important distinction in my mind. The first (trying to duplicate the sound) has me focused on hearing sound come back to me and tends to direct my awareness outside of my own body. The second (duplicating the physical sensations) keeps me more connected with body and seems to be a quicker and more reliable path to learning to duplicate a desirable sound consistently. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone else, but I had to stop trying to exclusively "hear" my way to better singing.
Sandra
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