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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (20782)	4/8/1999 2:51:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Worse --- far worse-- I was preparing for a recital. WHere in front of a couple of hundred people I would stand alone and warble, accompanied only by a harpsichord, for an hour. And my children cried every time I practiced, begging me not to sing until they were somewhere else. I can not tell you how confident I felt about that performance.

To: Ilaine who wrote (20782)	4/8/1999 3:31:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Though you didn't ax me, I've been singing professionally since I was 13, and have an opinion on why some people can, and others can't, sing. Just as some folk have good eye-hand coordination, others have good ear-voice coordination, with the ability to modulate and control their voices relative to aural feedback. I believe this is an inherited trait, as over the years I've given voice lessons (including some to professionals) and have found that people either "get it" or don't. Even among professionals, the finer points of singing are very difficult to teach as so much technique can only be communicated with verbal abstractions. Aside from proper breathing, posture, and mouth formation, the largest part of making pleasing vocal sounds is highly dependent on intraperception, and perception is very difficult to cultivate. Some singers were also born with "better" physical equipment than non-singers (vocal cords, diaphragms, sinus structures . . .) And there exists an entire spectrum of musicality among singers. What separates the best from the rest,IMO, in addition to their technical ability, is their musical emotion quotient: good singers make you feel the lyric--they know (if only on a preconscious level) that each note, word, breath, and rest has meaning. Plus there is a certain amount of abandon required to "sell" a lyric, and some people become too self-conscious about their performances to ever allow themselves to surrender to the music they're singing. Audiences seem to respond to singers who are "inside" their songs. I could go on and on, but won't because, though I make a living singing and writing, I still can't tell others how I do what I do. Sometimes I can demonstrate, and get others to echo certain techniques, but teaching others how to find their own voice, is a very rare skill I don't appear to have. [lucky grub]