Monday, September 26, 2011
First Lesson with Curt!
I thought our first lesson went really good! We worked on alot with posture, breathing and tongue position this first week. We did alot of warm up fixed on the tongue and bringing it forward. We also worked on sirens to be able to get in the head voice and falsetto. Curt did a really great job with that. At first he had is tongue far back in the throat but as the lesson progressed and I told him about the tongue and we worked on an i vowell it became more natural. I also told him singing is like speaking you do not want to make it unatural when you sing. Next week I hope we can work on some new excercizes and start working on diction and other attributes for good singing.
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Hooray, Will!
ReplyDeleteDid you get any feedback from him on how he perceived the lesson to be? I am really glad you noticed the retracted tongue...that is usually the most common mistake people make when singing, and it can be the easiest to correct if caught early on. It sounds like you did a great job of observing, troubleshooting, and communicating technique with your student! How did you do in terms of talk/sing time? Did the student sing more than you talked? Keep this at the forefront of your teaching---the most effective teachers will get the student singing as much as possible!
Go Will! I hope you are having fun and I can't wait to read more of your blog.
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