Vocal knowledge
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j4Okay, this is a bit of a left-field question, but you lot are a fairly eclectic bunch, so some of you may be able to help...
If you wanted to teach someone to sing, how would you go about it?
No, I'm not entirely sure what I mean by "teach someone to sing", which is part of the problem... IME most people can sing (and when they say "I can't sing" what they usually mean is "someone told me when I was a child that I couldn't sing"); what they can't necessarily do is stay in tune (with others, or even with themselves). So let's say you want to get somebody to the point where they're able to do that well enough that they can join in confidently with 'community singing' (weddings, carol services, etc.), and eventually do simple part-singing. Where do you start? Am I asking the wrong questions?
Reading music is sort of orthogonal (and the sort of people I'm thinking of could probably teach themselves that fairly easily anyway, because they're bookish kind of people).
If you wanted to teach someone to sing, how would you go about it?
No, I'm not entirely sure what I mean by "teach someone to sing", which is part of the problem... IME most people can sing (and when they say "I can't sing" what they usually mean is "someone told me when I was a child that I couldn't sing"); what they can't necessarily do is stay in tune (with others, or even with themselves). So let's say you want to get somebody to the point where they're able to do that well enough that they can join in confidently with 'community singing' (weddings, carol services, etc.), and eventually do simple part-singing. Where do you start? Am I asking the wrong questions?
Reading music is sort of orthogonal (and the sort of people I'm thinking of could probably teach themselves that fairly easily anyway, because they're bookish kind of people).
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Date: 2008-01-29 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-29 12:32 pm (UTC)I am just a bit wary of doing the same thing as I do with languages / programming / etc., ie buying books as a substitute for actually doing things. If only learning by osmosis worked. Or maybe eating the books OM NOM NOM.
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Date: 2008-01-29 02:13 pm (UTC)A tutor would give you actual feedback, though the only one I know of (I don't have a contact but the Oxford Music Scene facebook could probably scare one up) taught local indie front-boys how to sing, so may not be ideal...