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Do singing teachers lie?
So I just began singing with a professional teacher. She said that even though my voice is untrained she has taught several hundred students and that she can hear that my voice is a rare gift and that shes really excited that shes found it [the voice]
I’ve never met her before, and I don’t know any other singing teachers and I really want to know if she is just trying to boost my confidence or if you guys think she would mean it… Wouldn’t it be unprofessional to lie?
… She knows I’m not ‘loaded’ because she knows that I am paying for the lessons by working at a grocery store and I’m only 15…
It’s hard to say. there are a lot of gifted young voices around, and it’s certainly gratifying when we meet up with one, and have the opportunity to work with one! But, I’ve found that over-enthusiasm does just as much harm as under-enthusiasm and lack of praise.
either you are that good, or this person has some ego issues at stake. ( granted, singing teachers are also only human, with as many bumps and warts as anyone else, and the ability to lie does not disappear) I would give this person a crack at it, say a couple of months worth. If you do not feel you have made any progress in that time, then leave. If it becomes obvious before that time, leave that much sooner.
Most singers have gone through the experience of having had at least one bad teacher. No one has ever had just one teacher in the course of their singing career, although many
teachers would love to have it so out of ego. I see no reason to have to lie to a pupil. I find it professionally as well as humanly unethical. But tell that to the politicians!!
Best wishes to you, and keep on singing
Vocal Lessons Mississauga
singing lessons Mississauga – www.MusicSchoolMississauga.com – Four Vocal teachers, National Academy of Music, Open till 9pm, All ages welcome, beginners welcome, Eglinton location: 905.502.8989
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Should I switch singing teachers?
I’ve always liked singing, especially musical songs. I had a trial singing lesson with a teacher I really liked, we did colours of the wind and he was really nice. He wanted to try and teach me "You’ve got a friend" from Toy Story and some musical numbers. My sister hated him and stormed out though. So we go to a new one now. But my sister’s stopped having singing lessons.
My teacher I’ve had for about 6 months now is good and has taught me a lot, but now when I sing the songs she does with me I sound like a middle aged woman and my family agrees. All we do is classical and it’s BORING. But she’s taught me a lot and I’ve improved-in classical.
I have my singing lessons at school, and miss half of a different lesson each week, it’s really convenient and doesn’t use my spare time. The other teacher I can walk to from home.
I don’t dislike my lessons at school, but I sing so differently with her to how I do naturally at home. My mum always says she prefers my natural singing to how I sing when I practise the songs we do. I always thought I had a deep singing voice, now she’s told me I have a really high soprano voice and can hit high notes. I started flute lessons about 10 weeks ago and am taking my grade 3, so I’m ok with theory. I started the singing lessons so that I could take music GCSE. My sister got a C on her performances. I sang the ensemble piece with her and it terrified me, I had tonsillitis and could only squeak the high notes. I sang to my music teacher on my own to see if I could take the GCSE and use that as my performance and she said I could. But now I should reach grade 5 in time for it on flute
I just wondered, is it better to learn classically then move onto other styles of music? Or can I learn with more fun songs just as well? I want to keep singing, but don’t know whether I should be taught by a classical teacher, or a fun teacher who asks which songs I’d like to do.
classical is not fun, but once you learn classical you can learn anything. have you seen the movie school of rock? they were originally classical and switched to rock. singing jazz is okay fun, but singing swing(a type of jazz) is fun and fast and jumpy. and fun songs arent always good for your learning. have you played the recorder? the first song you played was HOT CROSS BUNS and what if that was a fun song? would you of played it then? probably not because you know that you can not learn anything from that. your teacher knows whats best for you, even though you may not like it, but once you get a little farther into classical singing, you may be ready to start singing different types of music. good luck.
Nicole Brown interviews Kru Rodj, Voice Teacher from Thailand
Kru Rodj comes to the United States at least once a year to visit Speech Level singing teachers and find new ways to teach his students in Thailand. Kru Rodj is opening a new school in Thailand for the SLS technique with GMM Grammy so that the mass public can learn how to sing like the stars.
Some of Kru Rodj’s students include Bird and Ta Ta Young, very famous singers in Thailand. Kru Rodj is also the lead singer in the HotChilli Band.
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Singing teachers please help – what can I do about this voice student?
Hello teachers, can you please assist. I am a qualified singing teacher but am baffled by one pupil who has problems I can’t work out. She is in her early 50s, used to sing solo a lot as a child and teenager with some good amateur stage success. She hasn’t sung since then and has been coming for lessons for a few months. In lessons, she sings a couple of notes of each scale or song and stops immediately in tears, saying it sounds horrible, like an old woman. The exercises I give her are really extremely basic but she says they are too advanced. She refuses to join a local choir as she says she is too good for group singing, but she can’t sing without crying. She refuses to practice, saying she doesn’t have time.
Should I give up – I’m not a psychiatrist?
If you have heard enough to think there is some potential there, try recording her so she can hear it objectively. I am not a singing teacher, but have done this with children who can’t hear they aren’t keeping to the same tempo, or dynamic changes or other errors on piano. So far as they are concerned they are doing it right, it takes a recording for them to hear it as I do, and once they are aware, that usually fixes the problem. I suggest you excuse yourself from the room for a couple of minutes under some pretext (to fetch something from another room?) and ask her to practice while you are gone. Leave the recorder on, she will be less inhibited if she thinks nobody is listening, and play it back later.
If that doesn’t help, tell her you’d love to help her get back to her former standard, but it does need practice. She can surely manage 10 minutes now and then? Even when her dinner is on waiting to cook, or when she is in the shower (aren’t we all shower singers?) … Little and often each day will do better than a single marathon session. If she is not willing to do even that, there is really no more you can do – she is actually wasting her money, not to mention your time.
