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Jeannette LoVetri
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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....

Repeating The Wrong Things
Recently, I had occasion to listen to students being taught behind the closed doors of a studio in a building where there were many studios...

Taking Things For Granted
It is easy to take some kinds of information for granted. We all assume that “everybody knows that”. Of course, nowadays, even basic assumptions are...