dear vocalchords,

i love it when someone takes issue with what i say. only two things i don't like---hypocracy and apathy---dissagreement--just fine!

yes, there are some that are good coaches that cannot sing---but you had a specific issue that needed to be corrected and it is obvious that you had the perception to determine that this person could indeed help you with your problem---

a less experienced singer can be "a lamb to the slaugter" and think that anyone who  says they are a vocal coach---is one. not the case, sadly.

i just think that it is best if a young and impressionable singer has a coach that has a good singing voice. my daughter is a fine singer/musician in her own right but i would never have had anyone coach her that couldn't sing extremely well.

if one wants a piano teacher and that piano teacher is not very good---hey---would you study with them? of course not!---isn't logical.

i just think it's only logical that anyone  who says they are good enough to teach something------oughta be able to show you they can do it and do it---well!

none of us would study with someone who wasn't good at piano, sax, flute, etc--- and yet the most delicate, and in my opinon, the greatest instrument of all, doesn't reqire someone who has excelled it it to teach?

anyone who can't do something better than i can do---i just won't pay any attention to them---butternut logic-- in my opinion.

i realize this is a radical attitude, but them i am often a radical woman----

i love it that you disagreed with me---fine---and for you the coach you had---worked. bravo!!

but this woman will stand her ground even though, noone will agree with me----that is how i am-----i can't see it any other way.

too many people hanging up a sign"singing lessons"( i don't give singing lessons. i can't give anyone a good instrument that doesn't have one but i can get it to go "great" if they do)

there are too many frustrated performers who are coaching and they will take that frustration with them when they are coaching.

my approach to coaching is to first "free up" the singer to believe in themselves"--have fun----no criticism---(some people have had nothing but negative input about their voice so i have to take it to "overnuturing"-----while i observe their voice).initially, i become sort of passive as they are often intimidated because i am a very good singer and i don't want that to happen.if they stay with me---the next step---the "lioness diva is about to take them on a journey" ---"take them to great"---- breathing correctly---phrasing(their own, not mine)and watch "who they are"reach confidence, and excellence and be able to express their own soul and "be oh so free to do that" --they become all they can be----i am very giving of my "spotlight"  and delight in seeing what i know can happen---happen.

i want anyone who is thinking about having a vocal coach----to be wary of the frustrated wannabees----they are forever swarming and looking for someone vulnerable to control because they  couldn't have a real career or the adulation they wanted so much.

what i am basically saying is-----you should "auditon" your coach unless you saw them perform and heard them sing -- the three that i coach all approached me to coach them

a shy singer is vulnerable and someone can tell them anything and they think it's right----i am coming from a very real fear of some control freak getting hold of some wonderful vocal instrument and ruining it-----it has happened----and it "scares" me.

i care so for the gifted singers and musicians.

i think "gifted" artists are more vulnerable---a lot of them end up in the hands or lives of a "collector"---their gifts will never reach where they could have gone ----if that happens. makes me cry to think of it.

i am still gonna stand with my belief that an ideal coach is one that can inspire and obviously knows what they are doing---because they are a professional singer or singer/musician.

hey, i hoped this would become a forum of exchange---not much---but then i don't have much time to be here.

thanks, vocalchords, you are a good writer and express yourself so clearly. i applaud you---would love to hear you sing sometime.

bev. redding
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