Membership Expired Kat Hunter
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What I would probably do is say something along the lines of “I’m a singing teacher not a screaming teacher so I can’t teach you to scream . There are people out there who specialise in that kind of thing, but unfortunately I’m not one of them. What I can say for sure though, is, that no matter who you go to, overly distorted vocals will never be the sign of a very balanced voice, and thus should be treated as a “sometimes food” kind of thing. If you have to do distorted vocals on stage, then it’s important that you do fully balanced vocal exercises in between that will keep your vocal folds well conditioned and healthy so that you can aim to avoid losing your voice and general fatigue. These are the things I can teach you.” And leave it at that. If that’s not what they’re looking for, it’s better that they find someone else anyway I think…
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Birmingham sounds great to me!
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Absolutely. Every hour lesson that we do is a full hour straight of unabridged concentration and support for the students. In other jobs you can get up for a stretch or a coffee break, but with this every lesson is a serious intensity of work. Also it’s easy to forget how many hours a week we spend on enquiries or admin or accounting etc.
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But on a more serious note, if any of you have some magical work/life balance (not going insane balance) tricks, I’d be very up for hearing them. I tend to find that 6 hours is the max hours I can teach in a day before I start to become a vegetable. Anyone else?
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How do you guys all have so many students? I have about 25 hours of students a week at the moment, and find it makes me go insane. Matt Pocock, I seriously don’t know how you do it. And time to write the blog as well?? For me I teach roughly 11am or noon till evenings most week days, although I’m trying to have easier days on wednesdays and fridays because otherwise I burn out big time. Almost all of my students are adults (only a couple are under 18), and about 65% are male. I tend to teach quite a few uni students (as you’d imagine in leeds), and also a lot of young dads surprisingly.
