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From:  RALUCOB@a...
RALUCOB@a...
Date:  Fri Oct 20, 2000  10:12 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] practical technology


craig wrote:

<< In
all of these instances students have been able to quickly rectify what had
been
chronic problems by first seeing and hearing the problem when played back and
then observing the results of changes in their technique on the spectrogram.
>>

craig,

i like your use of technology as one more way to show a student
something. i feel very strongly that, unless the student is on the right
track conceptually, nothing else will help. i often have students
stretching rubber bands while singing. they'll stretch the bands while
singing passages that have a lot of movement but will come to a dead stop on
a sustained pitch, sounding 'flat' as most of them put it. if i can get
them to keep stretching the band during the sustained note, the problem is
usually solved. it then becomes a matter of transferring the feeling of
stretching the band to the feel of singing. thanks for your answer.

mike

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