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From:  Reg Boyle <bandb@n...>
Date:  Fri Apr 14, 2000  5:53 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] I don't know what to call this(longish)


At 08:44 PM 13\4\2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi everyone!
>I heard somewhere that your voice doesn't fully develope until you're 30
>years...develope COMPLETELY. I also heard 18....16...type ages,and so on.
>Does anyone know the REAL age when your voice developes? Also, I would like
>to know, why, other than training a child too intensely or something, but,
>why don't voice teachers take children? Some do..but people say that you'll
>have to train ALLL over again when you're 18..or whatever the age is, to
>learn AGAIN.

Dear Danielle,
I'm sure it's not just age.
As your technique develops you'll find, as I have, that you'll
need to apply your 'newer' technique to the music you've already learned.
This takes some doing if you've been earnest about your work.
In other words a developing technique and a developing
body just compounds the learning process. As someone said somewhere else,
there's a lot expected of the student in learning to sing. The teacher advises,
guides and paces the process, but the student is the one who boldly or
tentatively incorporates the changes into the technique.
Five or six years flash by. Use them wisely. Reg.


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