Matthew wrote: <<Here's my problem. I started singing lessons my freshman year in college in 1994, and have been studying on and off ever since then, but I've never really seemed to get anywhere.>> <<So, it's getting impossible for me to not feel that the problem isn't the teachers I'm working with, but rather myself. >> <<Is there any way to actually move forward from where I am, or am I just sort of trapped here? If anyone has any idea how I might be able to conquer this particular problem, I would love to hear it.>>
It's difficult to say without knowing more about you. Since I know nothing about you, please don't take anything I write here to be about you personally.
To start with the general....learning to sing is an interactive process. The best teachers help the student tune into what they already know how to do that's effective, and it's the student's job to apply that knowledge/insight a larger portion of the time.
It's a hard process, because we're each unique, and what works for you probably won't work for me. So the teacher is helping you help yourself. The best teachers tune into your learning style and find ways to communicate with you that are effective. The best students are proactive, ask for explanations when they don't understand, so that they help the teacher help them.
As far as getting more specific help from this list, it might be good for you to write us more about your singing: What you think you do well, and what things you want to improve on. What things have you tried and tried and they just haven't worked for you? What things have you worked on that made you feel you were on the right track, but then they stopped working for you? What type of music do you like to sing? Which singers do you enjoy listening to the most, whose style you might want to emulate?
Welcome to the list - I look forward to hearing more from you!
Peggy
--- Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA "Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile" mailto:peggyh@i...
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