The Singers Thread

[Tessar]

Originally Posted by Voronwen

Ah, the tongue Does it help to think that the tip of your tongue should always fall (naturally, not in a forced way) behind the back of your bottom front teeth?

Unfortunately it doesn't. I have to think of the tongue from the back, not from the front.

I know what you mean. I used to get the same thing in those classes, where no one else was giving any criticism except the teacher. The other students are all "yeah, that was really good!", but that's not what we perfectionists want to hear - tell me what was WRONG with it, please? For the most part those classes are useless, except for the teacher/coach comments.

The annoying thing is that one of the studios I asked to get into (which, despite being 'full' accepted a number of freshmen students. ) has a seminar where the teacher insists that everyone have one positive and one negative critique for each singer. That's what annoys me. I could've gone to that studio and gotten some great feedback. Oh well.

I often found more good constructive criticism on my jury notes (at my school we always got to see them after grades were posted, i don't know about yours). At least these kinds of classes offer a chance to work on performance skills, performance nerves and things of that nature.

We do get those... but what annoyed me was that after singing TONS better than I ever had before even though I was sick, I got B's on my last jury sheet for things like vowels. Where as the semester before when I had sung not as well, had TERRIBLE vowels, and was sicker... I got some A's. To quote my old teacher, "Son, you can't give a damn because I know what your voice needs, and you know what your voice needs, and everyone else is just an armchair critic."