Comments on: How To Sing On Key: It’s Not Your Ear http://www.perbristow.com/88/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear/ Tips, Advice, News on Voice, Communication & Performance Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:49:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Canga http://www.perbristow.com/88/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-3750 David Canga Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:09:20 +0000 http://www.perbristow.com/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear.htm#comment-3750 I´d like to study this course,but I´d like to know if I can send hte money by western union or by money transfer. Thanks. David Canga davidcanga73@yahoo.com.br I´d like to study this course,but I´d like to know if I can send hte money by western union or by money transfer.

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]]> By: Ditas http://www.perbristow.com/88/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-3675 Ditas Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:42:41 +0000 http://www.perbristow.com/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear.htm#comment-3675 Hi Per! I'm probably a perfect example of what you've been saying about vocal freedom. I've been singing since i was a child, but have always felt shy because my voice wasn't what people who heard it thought was beautiful, even if i was actually singing on pitch. It was voice teachers who liked my voice, and that appreciation set me free. I still have some inhibitions, but i'm learning to appreciate my voice instead of comparing it with my idea of a good voice. I did study music, although thankfully, my teachers made me sing songs more than vocalize, and were always getting me to relax, enjoy the singing, and think about what i'm saying. I'm doing my best to pass it on to the people I train now. Your book and your statement that our physical voice is inseparable from our inner voice has put into words the problem i've encountered with myself and with my students. And it explains why my approach of encouragement and freedom to make mistakes has been helping them. Now i know why, thanks to you. I just need to always remember it for myself.^_^ Thank you, Per. I'll be saving up for the lessons. I echo Boogie's request for making Paypal a payment option. We're doing our best to avoid "plastic temptations." gratefully, Ditas Hi Per! I’m probably a perfect example of what you’ve been saying about vocal freedom. I’ve been singing since i was a child, but have always felt shy because my voice wasn’t what people who heard it thought was beautiful, even if i was actually singing on pitch. It was voice teachers who liked my voice, and that appreciation set me free. I still have some inhibitions, but i’m learning to appreciate my voice instead of comparing it with my idea of a good voice.

I did study music, although thankfully, my teachers made me sing songs more than vocalize, and were always getting me to relax, enjoy the singing, and think about what i’m saying. I’m doing my best to pass it on to the people I train now.

Your book and your statement that our physical voice is inseparable from our inner voice has put into words the problem i’ve encountered with myself and with my students. And it explains why my approach of encouragement and freedom to make mistakes has been helping them. Now i know why, thanks to you.

I just need to always remember it for myself.^_^

Thank you, Per. I’ll be saving up for the lessons. I echo Boogie’s request for making Paypal a payment option. We’re doing our best to avoid “plastic temptations.”

gratefully,
Ditas

]]> By: audrey http://www.perbristow.com/88/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-3587 audrey Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:27:31 +0000 http://www.perbristow.com/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear.htm#comment-3587 why is it easier for me to sing without the music? why is it easier for me to sing without the music?

]]> By: Chia http://www.perbristow.com/88/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-3544 Chia Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:16:25 +0000 http://www.perbristow.com/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear.htm#comment-3544 Dear Per I have followed your advice on not imitating how others sing but to sing to my own style and it has helped me a lot because i dont go off tune so much for now. However I still have problems as to my facial expressions while singing. I still think my face contorts while singing and I dont know how to deal with it. Hope you can help. Yours Sincerely Chia Dear Per

I have followed your advice on not imitating how others sing but to sing to my own style and it has helped me a lot because i dont go off tune so much for now. However I still have problems as to my facial expressions while singing. I still think my face contorts while singing and I dont know how to deal with it. Hope you can help.

Yours Sincerely
Chia

]]> By: Boogie http://www.perbristow.com/88/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-3471 Boogie Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:58:49 +0000 http://www.perbristow.com/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear.htm#comment-3471 Hi Per, another beautifull article, thanks for your great work. On another note, would it be possible for you to add paypal as a payment-option, i finally got the money for the course and come to realize, i don't have a credit-card (and neither do any of my friends, we don't do plastic, only organics, lol) anyway, keep it up! Hi Per,

another beautifull article, thanks for your great work.
On another note, would it be possible for you to add paypal as a payment-option, i finally got the money for the course and come to realize, i don’t have a credit-card (and neither do any of my friends, we don’t do plastic, only organics, lol)
anyway, keep it up!

]]> By: Pia http://www.perbristow.com/88/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-3373 Pia Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:03:52 +0000 http://www.perbristow.com/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear.htm#comment-3373 Per, what can I do if I sing in a choir and cannot hold my melody (soprano 2), because i'm irritated by the soprano 1? Per, what can I do if I sing in a choir and cannot hold my melody (soprano 2), because i’m irritated by the soprano 1?

]]> By: Jon Jacoby http://www.perbristow.com/88/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-3371 Jon Jacoby Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:00:52 +0000 http://www.perbristow.com/how-to-sing-on-key-its-not-your-ear.htm#comment-3371 What do you call the sonic equivalent of visualization? Aural imagination? Any way with my own ear training I learned to do scales, intervals and chord arpeggios silently. Each time your brain generates a pitch it sends a signal to the muscles that will ultimately create that pitch. You are practicing singing in pitch by thinking of pitches. You also learn note and tonal relationships better. Then you can listen to music and identify the notes, intervals and chords without having to hunt and peck around on an instrument. You format a section of you brain to think music. We all have gotten a song stuck in our heads. It's the same thing except you practice it and develop it as a skill. As Per said experiencing a free voice is what voice training is for. In all the years that I've struggled I have learned that forcing and straining the voice will make you sing off pitch. Yawning exercises may actually make it worse if you are forcing things. When the vocal cords can vibrate freely and the brain has a clear picture of what it wants to do the result is an expressive performance. What do you call the sonic equivalent of visualization? Aural imagination? Any way with my own ear training I learned to do scales, intervals and chord arpeggios silently. Each time your brain generates a pitch it sends a signal to the muscles that will ultimately create that pitch. You are practicing singing in pitch by thinking of pitches. You also learn note and tonal relationships better. Then you can listen to music and identify the notes, intervals and chords without having to hunt and peck around on an instrument. You format a section of you brain to think music. We all have gotten a song stuck in our heads. It’s the same thing except you practice it and develop it as a skill.

As Per said experiencing a free voice is what voice training is for. In all the years that I’ve struggled I have learned that forcing and straining the voice will make you sing off pitch. Yawning exercises may actually make it worse if you are forcing things. When the vocal cords can vibrate freely and the brain has a clear picture of what it wants to do the result is an expressive performance.

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