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Jeannette LoVetri
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Teaching Beginners
If you teach beginners of any age, but most particularly youngsters, start with head register development. Make sure they have a head register, that it...

Out of Touch and Proud of It
Do you think that a Wagnarian sorpano is an expert at teaching or singing in a belt vocal quality? Do you think that being a...

Standardizing Mediocrity
Teaching in any kind of school system requires standardization. Standardization requires that things be put in a box, labeled, measured, codified, and remain fixed. Art...

Songs Don’t Teach Technique
There is a point of view that says you should use songs to teach vocal technique. I do not agree with this. Vocal exercises are...

Songs Don’t Teach Technique
There is a point of view that says you should use songs to teach vocal technique. I do not agree with this. Vocal exercises are...

Songs Don’t Teach Technique
There is a point of view that says you should use songs to teach vocal technique. I do not agree with this. Vocal exercises are...

Critiquing
I recently encountered both some truly wonderful and some truly awful singing. Neither of the people singing (a man, a woman) were my students. I...

Truth is Always Expressed as a Paradox
Two opposing things are always true when things are in balance. You need flexibility in order to sing well but you need strength and stability,...

Head Down, Chest Up
In order to create mix you have to have two equally strong registers that automatically cross in the middle. AUTOMATICALLY. If you do not develop...

I Listen To Myself Too Much
I have heard the comment “I think too much” many many times, coming from the mouths of singers, usually young. This comment makes no sense....