Term Two – Studio News

Posted on | April 28, 2009 | No Comments

I am very excited about term two. I have been finalising dates for the first small performances for students this week. Those involved will be getting their information about these invitation only events over the next week or so!

For those of you who are on Facebook you will have seen my excitement at the purchase of my new computer. I am still working my way around the imac from the old Dell laptop and should be 100% working on the MAC soon – just trying to adapt from my old slow set up to the new. I am so excited – and so are my kids! They are just waiting to get their hands on it when I stop working!

Thanks to my first student to turn up with their own recording equipment for lessons. Carissa and her dad arrived with a fabulous digital recorder for her own personal use. This saved about 5 minutes at the end of the lesson – precious time we can use to sing!

At the moment places are limited – I have Fridays at 11am for one hour on a fortnightly basis still available.  

Those students who are gearing up for Year 12 Extension Music – Singing Program are busy finalising songs and preparing for their performances – stay focused singers!

I had a great lesson today with a student who has been with me for a while now. We were talking about  what is the worst thing that could happen if you actually did give your best when you sing. If you did exactly what I asked (which sounded like a scary thing to her). My student's response was that the worst thing you could do was talk yourself out of even trying. To have this attitude is not helpful, and it is not going to help to change anything. So she was brave and had a go – she didn't try to justify or think it through or think about how she felt about what i was asking her to do – and there it was – a beautiful, open magnificent voice that we BOTH know is in there just longing to come out. As Yoda says, do or do not do, there is no try!

 Sometimes I suspect I have one of the best jobs in the world!

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