vintageconnection wrote:
When I work with her during lessons, after about > 10 - 20 minutes she gets her placement correct and this glorious > sound escapes her throat... But every time she comes to the next > lesson, she's back at her nasally singing. It's not that she doesn't > practice at home; she's actually a very dedicated student and > religiously works on the techniques and "tricks" I've given her. But > for some reason, it isn't clicking for her.
I don't know anything about correcting nasally singing - but I do know about making and not making vocal progress with plenty of difficult issues in my own singing. It sounds to me from what you've written is that it is very likely the way your student practices at home is reinforcing the wrong vocal habits rather than the right vocal habits. Of course, this is not what your student intends, or even thinks she's doing. But I know from my own lack of progress in the past on some issues that this is exactly what I was doing.
So perhaps you can work on the issue from having your student show you how she practices at home, and don't correct anything, but listen and watch what she's doing that may be reinforcing wrong things. Perhaps, (I know this is heresy to some) she needs to practice less but better. For a very short period of time while she's got the right coordination, but then stop and do something different non-vocal (like memorizing music without singing, working on vowels and consonants, or whatever). Or perhaps she needs to get more in touch with the way the right way feels in her body, so she can recognize on her own when it's not working, and stop if she can't fix it herself.
Peggy
-- Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA "Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile" mailto:peggyh@i...
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