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How to help students who are REALLY struggling with tuning? (Singing Teachers)
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Wow, Wes! What a great idea! I’d been pondering over the use of technology for something like this for a while, but found my tuners at home too sensitive, so if the voice would shake slightly, or there would be ay background noise, the thing would go haywire! I’ll definitely check out that app.
On a similar note I’ve been wondering if something like that sing-star game could have application in something like this? I’ve only played it once, but I remember it being all about tuning the notes and not much else. Something like this could be cool potentially, I’m not sure.
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Anyone used Erol Singers Studio yet? Sadly only for Apple users. But brilliant for tuning: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/erol-singers-studio-voice/id502780186?mt=8
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Very true. I try and get mine to stop guessing, listen, take their time… as they get more flustered when they keep hitting it wrong, then rush to correct then it’s still wrong..!
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I know it might sound incredibly simple, but most students (but not all) will nearly always hit the right note if they listen to the note, take a slow breath and then sing – I find most students seem to make a wild stab in the dark with notes, just trying to fire one out to get the exercise over and done with rather than actually using their ears!
(This of course doesn’t work all the time, but gets students actually listening, which I think is a very common problem with a lot of people ‘new’ to singing) -
Change the word tuning to technical “placing”There are many reasons why a student has this problem.E.N.T Ear nose and throat,any of these factors could in fact play a part.So I trust you have the ability to teach place through pure air stream,using headvoice and sinus structure.
The bottom line is you can guide but you yourself as a tutor cannot complete the job for the student.They themselves must be able through a placing, when the sound is correct.In time this works.The methodology is actually vibration.
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