Browsing Archive: October, 2010

Why voice class?

Posted by Patricia Callaway on Sunday, October 24, 2010, In : Voice students 
When voice students come into a studio, they expect to receive the traditional one-on-one voice lesson.  Of course, the reasons that most teachers teach one-on-one are very good ones: because each voice is different and because the process must be adapted to the singer, not the singer to the process.  Why, then, do some teachers also require students to come to a voice class?

Voice class is a very useful tool because singers do not hear themselves as their audiences hear them.  What the singer...
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The Thursday Morning Music Club

Posted by Patricia Callaway on Friday, October 15, 2010, In : Musician's Life 
Being a musican can be lonely.  You practice alone for the most part.  Maybe you teach one-on-one or rehearse with one other person.  When you're in larger groups, often it's a competitive situation, and it's certainly like that when you go up against other musicians in an audition.  When you talk about your work to non-musicians, sometimes they think you're bragging.  It can be lonely.  A few lucky musicians have a support group like the one I find in my music club.

I had always thought of mu...
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Warming Up is Not Hard to Do

Posted by Patricia Callaway on Sunday, October 3, 2010, In : Practice 

Why is it so important to warm up before singing?  For the same reasons that you would stretch before running or  engaging in other major muscular activity.

The muscles of the larynx are small.  The traditional description of the vocal folds is that they are the length of the pink part of your pinkie fingernail.  They exist inside three cartileges that all together are about the size of a walnut.  The muscles that move the larynx cartileges are probably shorter than their names. Everything abo...


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