Where does my "talent" come from?
I love to do research. I'm a visual learner, which means I read and absorb quickly.
Of course, being a visual (rather than aural or physical) learner has made learning to sing well somewhat more of a challenge than it might have been otherwise. I've had to LEARN how to learn physically and aurally.
An example: last week at a coaching, the coach asked if I'd brought a tape recorder. After years of taping lessons, and getting very little from playing back those tapes, I learned I did much better if I wrote down notes of all we'd gone over in lessons - ditto coachings. So I told him that I would retain much more by jotting notes down on the sheet music based on what we went over in the coaching than I ever would trying to pick out those messages again by listening to a tape. I know this sounds counterintuitive, but it's something I learned early on about how I learn: a two word reminder scrawled in the margins will bring on immediate recall of everything we went over in the coaching at least as effectively as listening to the entire coaching again on tape. Go figure.
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + In all thy ways acknowledge him, + + and he shall direct thy paths. + + - Proverbs 3:6 + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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