caio wrote:
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Mike, what you found out by yourself about your soft palate and now teach to
your students is empirical: you tested it, it worked, then they tried that,
and it worked too ( at least with your remaining students ). Another teacher
may try something different ( if several of your former teachers taught you
the 'yawn approach' it was because it worked with them and must have worked
with most of their remaining students too ).>>
caio,
i understood your original post to suggest that before voice science,
teachers got good results out of the luck of having students with good
voices. the above approach does not work on students with obviously good
voices and obviously inferior minds. (i doubt showing these morons a
spectral analysis of their singing would do anything other than roll their
eyes back into their heads and cause them to pass out.) the real point is
that i am sure that voice teachers, before voice technologies, probably used
an empirical approach in learning how to sing better as well as learning how
to teach better. it was not just their luck in which students they ended up
with.
<< The aim of voice science is to find 'universals' AND explain why
'partials' may 'partially' work. Brazil started to make better wines only
when German immigrants and their descendents stopped trying to grow grapes
like they did in cold Germany and used what Agronomy had to offer to adapt
and develop new techniques for
growing grapes in a tropical country. That's what science is for. >>
so far the only 'universal' benefit i have seen in spectral analyses,
from those who would swear by them, is that the analyses confirm what they
already knew (i already know what i already know and i already know i know
it. perhaps if i got alzheimer's disease, spectral analysis would help me
remember what i, formerly, already knew).
if any one of these people already knew something contrary to the rest, it is
not universal and has confirmed nothing. i am not opposed to voice
technologies but, in the case of spectral analysis, i am unimpressed, so far,
with their supposed benefits.
i was impressed by seeing my own vocal folds. unfortunately, while viewing
them, i found out more about the 'gag reflex'. (even if i hadn't gagged, i
could never afford the equipment.)
(could it be that winemakers in brazil improved their product when they
just realized the only people who like german wine are germans and high
school cheerleaders?)
mike
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