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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:18 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 2:12 pm
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I've been taking private lessons since the fall to help prepare me for my audition (which was in February) and to help me keep up to speed with the choir group once I reach college.
We do have a specific routine. We start off with warm ups-- usually some easy ones to get my voice going. Then we move into others where I have to work more on focus, pitch, breathing, etc. Then we move into whatever piece I'm working on. If I sing through it well enough (after a few lessons and practice, of course), I earn new music. Usually, I get to sightread this and if I like it, it becomes another piece to work on.
"I can keep time with no metronome, no metronome, no metronome." No, but really. We don't use a metronome at my voice lesson. In orchestra we did, and in marching band we did, but not voice lessons.☮♥♫«ⓢⓐⓥⓔ+ⓣⓗⓔ+ⓓⓞⓛⓟⓗⓘⓝⓢ»Sign the Petition here or here!
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 7:59 pm
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Well, since I'm a voice major, I'm sure my lesson set up is going to be different from yours, but for what it's worth, I'll put it below anyway.
0-20min: Warm-ups, vocalises, etc. I'm usually warmed up before the lesson, so it's mostly just to hear where my voice is still having glaringly obvious problems.
20-30min: Talk about rep, what we'll be working on that day, what performances are coming up. Might work a bit on music.
30-60min: Accompanist comes in, run through music, critiqued.
Most of the legwork is done outside of lessons - my lesson has really just become a fine-tuning session, whether it's tuning my music or my technique or whatever. I never learn music in my lesson - it's my own responsibility to learn it once it's been assigned. I get most of my music assigned in bulk (we usually pick out the six required pieces at the beginning of the semester or the end, for next semester), and I usually have three or four mostly learned by the next lesson. Research and everything else is done outside of lessons; I also have coachings each week with my accompanist for a half hour, as additional time to work on music or ensemble issues.
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:09 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 8:09 pm
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 7:57 am
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I never play scales in lessons. My teacher gave me an exercise sheet with what I should start off with everyday (hanon, czerny, scales, 3rds, 6ths, 10ths, octaves, chromatic, arpeggios, some etudes, and the list goes on...) The only time we work on hanon or some type of exercise like that is if he is showing me a technique for a piece I am working on and we need to apply to an exercise I already have memorized.
At lessons it seems like we talk for almost half the time. He knows I can play so sometimes what I need is to learn about music history, theory (we spend quite a bit of time on this), or talk about how I feel while playing or performing...very different things there. But I usually start out playing through a piece and then he'll have his comments on either a technique I need to use and try different methods for what works for me. Or he'll give me a very interesting lecture on theory or history that is relevant to what I'm playing.
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 6:12 am
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 5:49 pm
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Okay, I have two different teachers. My bassoon instructor is a master, really. He explains the bassoon so quickly and so thoroughly, it gets confusing. I actually have to tell him to slow down and break it down sometimes. He's really laid back, though. Half the time we don't even have lessons, we just laugh about any new news or rumors or we'll exchange stupid videos on youtube!
My vocal instructor is a different story. Every time I get a new piece, I have to take it home, break it down into phrases and sections based on how the melody runs and corresponds, translate AND paraphrase, memorize the general meaning of the lyrics, determine the mood, and start learning the melody on an open constant vowel. It's expected that I have the entire melody down and start memorizing it by the second lesson on it. The most pieces I have had to learn in a semester has been six.
She's really demanding and pushy. The end of my first year, she also told me, "By the way, opera auditions are next week. What piece are you doing?" I stared at her like, "What?" "You are going to audition. Now, what are you doing?" Ugh. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate it because I have found out that doing the operas is a once-in-a-lifetime brilliant experience. But yeah... The worst lesson ever was when I showed up late, I was getting pneumonia, I got snappy at her demands, and she threw me into a wall. No joke. I am terrified of this woman.
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:05 pm
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