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From:  stephanie <lovelord@i...>
stephanie <lovelord@i...>
Date:  Wed Nov 29, 2000  11:26 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Breathing question


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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>
>
>

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