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timmyo

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  1. Any tips or favoured remedies? It's been hanging around for a week or so. I have that "Barry White after a night on the booze" thing going on in my speaking voice (not in a good way either) and singing is just a joke. Doesn't seem to want to shift either.
  2. No polite way to put this : but it's not uncommon for me to feel the need to belch when singing. I'm presuming it means there is some breathing issue (too much air being taken in?) anyone familiar with this, or is it just me?
  3. imo, bottled water is already a huge scam industry : for most up us in the developed world tap water is perfectly adequate. If someone prefers the taste of bottled water then go right ahead and use that. But the notion that our tap water isn't healthy or adequate : pure marketing. then we go up another degree in quack-ology : Singers' water ? Make water wetter ? while we're at it, I have a million dollars I need to get out of Nigeria if you'd be so kind as to help me... :)
  4. :lol: Wow. Snake oil has come a long way ;)
  5. Wow - some very interesting and informative responses there : thanks to all concerned for taking so much time to reply and take the conversation on. Reflecting on the responses, it seems there is plenty to come in terms of cataloguing this body of knowledge, which sounds like a huge and worthwhile undertaking. I suppose my initial query is a less academic one: Are there generally accepted to be a smaller number of broad-brush approaches to teaching singing, upon which the myriad of contemporary (and not so contemporary) systems/approaches/brands are based upon? And if so, where would the systems and teachers who get name-checked both here and elsewhere (either in scholarly discussion of advertising - the latter being where the majority of students will come across them I'd wager) be pigeon-holed according to those overarching approaches? I appreciate this is a blunt instrument in terms of cataloguing or starting to understand the approaches, but only if taken at face value. I suspect that for the relatively inexperienced singer a discussion that drew this information out would be both interesting and useful, by encouraging exploration of alternatives (right now I couldn't tell you which teachers or systems overlap and which are genuinely philosophically different) as well as giving insight as to whether one teacher's positive comments about another might be genuine professional admiration despite them being proponents of differing, perhaps even opposing points of view. I hope I'm putting this across right : this comes from a genuine desire to understand some of the things which seem to underpin other discussions here and elsewhere which I think less experienced folks miss out on the relevance of. cheers, T
  6. As an inexperienced student of singing it's becoming clear to me that there are these various systems out there, and that some share a common basis in technical approach or vocal 'ideology' but that to the uninitiated those with initially similar or contradictory approaches aren't entirely obvious. The teachers and more experienced folks use the various teachers' names and systems as a kind of conversational shorthand and us "noobs" are therefore perhaps left in the margins of those discussions, unintentionally. So how would people go about cataloguing or comparing a various approaches that get discussed around these parts?
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