In a message dated 3/5/2002 8:52:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, sopran@a... writes:
> Whose results are they, really? I'm an excellent student. I pay attention, > listen well, and apply what I've learned creatively. The results are mine, > not my teacher's. She has shown me how to get where I am, but I produced > the >
I agree with you 100%, completely! It is actually not so much that a voice teacher teaches, as guides each student to find the answers to their own vocal issues for themselves, and encourages, and in some cases, steers those discoveries to what sounds right to the teacher's (hopefully) knowledgeable ear. The student is the ultimate teacher of themselves, as they are the ones who have to be the diagnostician under the circumstances of practice and performance. The teacher is not out there singing for them, ever. How scary it is for the student if they don't take this ownership for their technique! TinaO
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