Student Ben Reeves
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Well that was interesting! He wasn’t in a wheelchair, but his short-term memory loss was actually more of an obstacle than his physical disability.
We worked on posture and introduced the idea of diaphragmatic breathing, but his biggest issue was that in trying to get a gravelly tone he was squeezing his voice into pretty much a hoarse whisper. We started trying to release the tension by introducing the ‘inside smile’ in search of a more open sound, but this could take some work methinks..
I told him we would come back to the gravelly thing once he had the fundamentals right, but that’s not something i can actually do very well! Lol -
It is tough, but it’s the best i could make of the situation. Sounds good, let me know when you’re available!
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Thanks Matt, things are moving slowly but surely. This guy is my first (paying) student on singing (I have one on bass), so it will be a toughie to start on! It has been frustrating as I just want to get on with it, but I am finally getting some traffic on my website so fingers crossed. I have plenty more questions though lol
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it’s a hoax then, she just wanted to see you naked..
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lol did you have the volume on?
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i’m thinking this guy will probably lack self confidence and need lots of encouragement.. my other issue is he wants to sing rock music with a gravelly tone, the deep end got deeper!
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lol that’s when you find out she’s only partially blind…
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Ooh that’s interesting! How do you work around her disability then?
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Yeah that’s what I was thinking, I find singing sitting down difficult at the best of times.. Posture will be very interesting!
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got first session with him tomorrow, just looking for any tips on working with disabled people! (talk about being thrown in the deep end lol)
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I think it is important to state upfront that payments are non-refundable, otherwise people seem to just assume they can get their money back. The ball is in your court though, so it depends whether or not you want to upset her…
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Interesting one to discuss! I really like to focus on stretching muscles across the whole body in order to ease any lingering muscle tension. I find that this also gets you feeling engaged and ready. After that it’s the usual run of lip trills, tongue trills, sirens, scales and arpeggios to get your vocal cords nice and ready; and finally a song to bring it all together and get you in the zone! I adapted this routine from a reputable source…
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Shure SM58 is the universal golden standard for live vocal mics, why would you want anything else? Shouldn’t make a difference re. male/female as far as I am aware.
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I actually tried it right at the start, and although it does have a ton of options I didn’t feel like I was using enough of the features to justify the expense. If you want to automate bookings then great, and the automatic reminder emails are really useful. There’s another one called 10to8 which is cheaper, but I’ve just been using iCloud for now:)
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Wear gloves, could injure yourself otherwise
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Good point – maybe try and dig up some examples of awesome male singers who use head voice, for inspiration!
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I teach a couple of teenaged boys who were really struggling to make any sound in head voice. I think it’s mostly a coordination thing for them though as they are slowly making progress – they have both gone from making virtually no sound at all to a half reasonable falsetto (still quite weak and breathy though), and I am hoping for even more once we do some proper work on closure We have had to battle a lot of constriction and tongue tension along the way though, so I guess those would be major pitfalls to watch out for? One of them seemed to be trying to actually make the sound with his false vocal folds, so I think it’s just a case of finding the right trigger – using sounds like a mouse squeaking, an owl hooting, or even quoting Monty Python sketches have all worked for me!
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peri-whatnow?
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I teach a young girl who has a naturally raspy voice, but one session she complained that her voice was hurting. I put it down to constriction and/or lack of closure, but I must admit that I really don’t know that much about rasp. It sounds like it could well be related though!
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feel my pain!
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tell that to this guy! http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ben+Reeves
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it does, it’s just shit!
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it’s fate
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you posted a thumbnail, he has to buy that one now!
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Click on mattpocock.com and see where it takes you, wtf even is that? Says it is due for renewal though. Otherwise maybe matthewpocock.com might be better. I’ve been working on benreeves.net – it’s not an ideal domain but I quite like it!
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depends how you want to bill yourself? i would go for the first one i think
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“So David thought to himself: vibration is something that is commonly used to break down muscle tension – what vibrates and is small enough to place on the front of the neck? That lightbulb moment and the subsequent purchase at the Canadian “love shop” grew into the Vibrant Voice Technique.”
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Yeah, i’m thinking short snippets and getting them to do the thinking!
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Yeah in terms of lessons, i don’t want to overload them with difficult stuff:)
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ove being special:)
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can anyone do it?
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What’s the deal with the judging work? Sounds like a hoot!
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As long as you can switch it on and off it sounds useful!
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Do you think maybe harsher tone is a natural result of a higher belt?
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Avoided this one so far… but would be interested to know!
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Too far?
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Lol synthesiser-liza
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Liz-the-Whizz
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Get wiser with Eliza?
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Have you considered Fyfe4Life?
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Lol the question is which 50% do i take seriously..?
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Music lessons or music tuition?
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Thing is i also teach bass so i didn’t want to exclude anything :/
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Haha like it, sound like a driving instructor though 😉
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Your company name sounds good btw, what i wasn’t sure about was if ‘music’ is specific enough
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Ben Reeves Music Lessons? I kind of have a longer tag line on my website but should probably keep it consistent
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Don’t know if anyone has encountered this, but on an analogue synthesiser (which I’ve always found to be a good image for acoustic aspects of the voice), there is a control for ‘resonance’ (clumsily named IMO) which can boost the frequencies around the low-pass filter cutoff frequency (set by a different control). WIth resonance at 0 (and with a dash of imagination), moving the filter cutoff changes the sound somewhat lazily from an ‘ooh’ to an ‘aah’. Boosting the resonance seems to exaggerate the perceived change in vowel, more like an ‘aaw’ to an ‘eee’ (presumably an important acoustic aspect of forming and perceiving vowels then). If this control is set high enough, individual harmonics become audible as the filter sweeps across them. That ties in exactly with what Matt said, but might provide a nice visualisation for this phenomenon! Here is a link to a demonstration of this on a synth (I have seen one with a better explanation but I couldn’t find it). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAoGvI3_Nzg
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Sorcery.
