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Jeannette LoVetri
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More About Context
If you learn a sport, one of the first things you are taught is the rules of the game. Smart. You learn that there are...
How We Think About Singing
Everyone organizes the physical world through their five senses. We take in sight, sound, touch, taste and smell and calibrate the world around us. Each...
Learning by Doing
The only way to learn something physical in this world is through trial and error. The way to make the trial and error period shorter...
"For The Good Of The Profession"
I have written here in the past about things that are “for the good of the profession” (of teaching singing and of singing itself). I...
Not Authentic
Each style has its own set of parameters that people who are expert in that style know. They have a kind of “feel” for what’s...
Simple Answers to Complex Problems and the Opposite
If you have a simple vocal issue and you apply a complex solution to the problem you are violating the principle in science called Occam’s...
The Purpose of Competitions
Many organizations have vocal competitions. They offer prizes, fame, concert dates and other perks. There are small competitions (just a few dollars or a small...
The Voice Is Reflexive
Most people teach “the ends” as if it was “the means”. Most people do not understand that what is a result cannot also be a...
Vocal Pathology
What happens when someone gets a “nodule”? What is a “polyp”? How can your voice be “ruined”? What happens when someone’s voice gets “damaged”? There...
You Sound "Too Broadway"
Recently Betty Buckley, great diva of much Broadway fame, slammed Randy Jackson of Idol about his use of “you sound too Broadway” as a putdown....