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Voice Lessons. Learning to sing.
superhappypanda
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Zug Island Sport FishingSeattleRegistered User regular
So, I was thinking about taking some singing lessons. Wondering if anyone on here has had any voice lessons in the past and what their experiences were like. I'm currently teaching myself guitar from using justinguitar.com and have been wanting to work on training my voice as right now I'm not confident enough to try singing other than in the car. It'd be nice to actually know what I'm doing when it comes to using my voice. What kinds of things should I look for in a teacher or look at in terms of practice?
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The teacher would help me warm up my voice by directing me through scales, giving me starting notes on the piano. We did a number of different exercises, I can't remember them clearly, but basically just working on getting a mastery of my voice. I'm a soprano, so we would work on extending my high range but also strengthening the awkward area where you go from your 'head voice' to your lower voice on the scale.
While I was singing she would watch my posture - from how I stood, to how my arms were held, head placement, and shape of my mouth. I can remember her making me sing scales with three fingers of my in my mouth to really demonstrate just how wide open your mouth needs to be
Additionally, we would work on particular music; sometimes music for auditions if I had one coming up, other times she'd have me pick a random aria to work on.
And one thing that was very helpful, is that she would have me bring in blank cassettes to record every lesson so I could practice on my own in between sessions (I saw her once a week).
The teacher would help me warm up my voice by directing me through scales, giving me starting notes on the piano. We did a number of different exercises, I can't remember them clearly, but basically just working on getting a mastery of my voice. I'm a soprano, so we would work on extending my high range but also strengthening the awkward area where you go from your 'head voice' to your lower voice on the scale.
While I was singing she would watch my posture - from how I stood, to how my arms were held, head placement, and shape of my mouth. I can remember her making me sing scales with three fingers of my in my mouth to really demonstrate just how wide open your mouth needs to be
Additionally, we would work on particular music; sometimes music for auditions if I had one coming up, other times she'd have me pick a random aria to work on.
And one thing that was very helpful, is that she would have me bring in blank cassettes to record every lesson so I could practice on my own in between sessions (I saw her once a week).
The students there will be highly trained, looking for money, and often reluctant to charge a lot because they usually aren't experienced teachers. They have the knowledge, though, and often very interesting ways of trying to get it across. I say this as a recent music school grad who is loving teaching and charging about $20-30/hr less than my former teacher (but stealing a lot of her techniques...)