Music Teacher Eliza Fyfe
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Ok. I’m worried now
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No I don’t actually. Also, just a normal doctor?
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Well I warm up every day with the students as it is, but yeah, did consider doctor’s
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I find metronomes much harder actually (even for me!) – they’re very robotic and distracting – clapping is the same as it’s easy to be clumsy/clunky. It’s more about feeling the pulse within the student’s body – get her to lightly bounce or tap her thigh, or you can tap the pace on her arm if she doesn’t mind. Sing the melody against the arm-tapping / bounce and then with the music so she can actually feel how the melody and then music fits with the pulse. Don’t add music until it makes sense as just a melody against a pulse, or just the pulse against the music. Then show her the accents of the first beats of the bar in the music, and where the melody fits around it. She doesn’t have to count beats of the bar, but you can, so she is aware of the beats where you have to wait before coming in, for example.
I hope that makes sense? I find this the hardest to teach. But it can improve! Good luck🙂
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I’m just going to start saying: Clean only. Nothing dirty. Thanks.
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No. Not far enough. I think it’s time to write a song
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WOW I like it Ben.
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None the wiser than Eliza! With the Sennheiser
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Why, of course! That and Learn Synthesizer with Eliza
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That is the question..
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Aware that only 50% of what I say is helpful..
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Then the caption can be: “Learn Green Sleeves with Ben Reeves…”
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Mine’s Eliza Fyfe Music Tuition as I just thought Tuition sounded posher than lessons… but doesn’t matter really!
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Music then, that’s the winner!
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I would spend serious money on that. Means business
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Ben Reeves Vocal Tuition?
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Well, that was the idea. Means I can take on teachers who can teach everything in music!
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“Achieve with Reeves”
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You must say you teach it!
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Opinions on branding please: Eliza Fyfe Teaching is what it is now but it doesn’t say what I teach… shall I call it Eliza Fyfe Music Tuition (same as my company name..?) then I’m gonna get a cute logo!
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Witchcraft! Also, damn this woman is hot
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Once again, Matt’s on it!
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I feel sorry for my neighbours.
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Kat – do you mean the horrible twangy nasal sound? Nya nya nyaaa and miaow miaow miaaaoowww… I’m using this a lot at the moment and it’s a good ‘un!
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This makes me want to discuss the mixed voice actually.. There’s a couple of students where I can’t actually tell the difference between chest and head voice… They blend it so well, although the problem with this is that it can lack strength either end at times
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Get her to shout everything she sings first – I find this helps. Also, sorry to sound like such an amateur, but what is the bridge?!
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Bublé version of feeling good is happening as of yesterday funnily enough!
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I would just like to add that I was only joking (badly) about the rape thing. I get very over-excited on a Friday night and think I’m hilarious.
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Actually the Birmingham accent is my absolute favourite accent of all time, so I’m game
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Ok cool. I hope I don’t get raped😀
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Terrific! So yeah, I vote Bristol.
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P.S. We are going to get all the teachers together for a conference/karaoke piss up!
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Ruth is your woman here
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Well he just has to pay for all 3 missed lessons then!
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Well it all makes sense now! So wrong of the mother to not tell you about the Asperger’s! What sort of mother would do that… it’s unfair on the child…!
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What’s the latest with this??
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Lydia – perhaps this guy is “the one”!
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He is an adult, tell him straight that he needs to sort his shit out! No parents necessary for this age!!
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21??!??!?!?!?!??!?!!!?!?!?
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Sounds about right then! I don’t do more than 4 hours straight basically, so yeah! People should never underestimate this job though. They can say, wow 25 hours and you earn way more than my office job or whatever it is, but it’s a lot more work than 9-5 Mon-Fri I swear!!
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Saturday also may as well not exist for me socially – teaching all day then gigging in the evenings but I don’t mind too much atm
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This is all really interesting! Yes you need to balance your life best as poss – I just power through back to back 45 min lessons from 3-8 in the week and I don’t feel like it’s too much, 25 hours in the week is ample for teaching because of all the work around it… It’s hard to keep on top of though! Still trying to find time saving solutions without just getting a PA who wants to work for next to nothing… Lol!
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Oh yeah how many students does everyone have?! I’m up to 44 atm.. About 35 of which are weekly!
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I think it is paramount that this occurs. How to plan this? First of all, where? Will have to be central England to bring everyone together… can’t quite figure out where the centre of us all would be. Second of all, when? I think mid-Aug or something. But then loads of people might be away. I don’t know if I’ve helped.
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You can see it if you type it on YouTube… but I don’t mean to be a wimp as I’m usually not squeamish or anything, but I find that hard to watch hahaha
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Haha it’s all her not me! She’s training in Estill
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One of my teacher friends said she thinks it’s something to do with Trachea whistling, so yeah, similar to what you said? She says she has no idea how to do it but that there are some scope vids on youtube that show it such as ‘Mal Webbs vocal adventure’. She said it might also be a falsetto whistle on top of that?!
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6.12 to be specific
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What style of singing do you guys tend to teach?
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Kat you are so well read in this!!!!!
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Also, first I’ve heard of the Alexander Technique!
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I think a lot has to be said for the type of student, or whether the science is needed for students (particularly beginners) at all. Active singers probably benefit more from the in-depth science of it all – I know I would! Then like you said, Kat, the info is there if there’s a student who finds it easier to understand when they actually know what’s going on in there!!
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Wow this all sounds interesting and I am feeling like a know a lot less than I thought haha! Looking forward to hearing more 🙂
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Go for Estill definitely. I haven’t heard great things about speech level.. But that’s just me. Each to their own, and you can’t go wrong if you take a little of everything and find something that works for you
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I’ve heard Estill is great. I think I just have my own style really, but I have been starting to research and see different teachers so I can put a variation of techniques in the mix!
