Hi everyone I am also a lurker (well mostly) and also have experienced this. I'd only been taking lessons for 4 months, and wow the change in my voice! I had to shop around for someone, I think it is important to find a teacher who you can relate too, because singing is a very private affair. Anyway, my sound is getting better, (I'm never happy though-I'm a perfect) and my teacher was really surprised at my development. I'd never taken lessons but my teacher (all the ones i tried as well) says it is very well developed, and I'd already moved in to fairly advanced technique etc. Anyway I really love this list, and thank you all; I'd learnt a lot. Bye Steph At 08:22 29/11/00 -0200, you wrote: >Hi, Sandra > >I know exactly what you're talking about! > >My former teacher emphasized breath support a lot. Any problem I had, he >blamed it on breath support. Because of that, I started to read all books >and files here and in the archives in order to understand what I was doing >wrong. Reg and I had a big discussion here and privately about that, and he >sent me a text by Lloyd from old Vocalist that clarified everything to me > you must be new to the list, so I'll give you a piece of advice: there are >many people here who know a lot, and I've learned many things from them, but >Lloyd KNOWS! :-) ). I can spare Lloyd from tendinitis and repost his files >about that. > >My problem, and it seems to be yours too, is that my teacher didn't think >like him ( and I guess like most people on this list ) and obliged me to do >something that was impossible to me. As a consequence, I was stuck in my >singing. > >Last Monday, I had my first class with a new teacher ( BTW, Thank you very, >very, very, very, very, ad infinitumLY much, Suki, for recommending your >teacher to me. Although she couldn't be my teacher, she referred me to that >one and it was the best class I've ever had ). I told her all my background >and she said she would start as if I had never had any classes. When she >checked my breathing, she said it was correct: the breath support I had been >doing eversince I read Lloyd's text was exactly what she wanted, and it is >extremely easy! My resonance ( which I had always considered to be >terrible ) was very good ( she doesn't agree with the placement concept, >either! ) so I sang very easily and well! She didn't understand why I had >such a bad impression about my singing. Of course I did: I tried to breathe >in an unnatural way and I tried to place my voice somwhere out of my mouth. >I was trying to run in armor! > >My former teacher is one of the best singers I've ever listened to, but that >didn't help me much. Here's another piece of advice, based upon everything >I've read here and elsewhere about singing: if your teacher is making breath >so difficult AND blaming all your problems on it, look for another one and >keep on looking until you find someone who can make things easier to you, >not more difficult. > >Bye, > >Caio Rossi > > > > >
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