Alice -- I agree. Maybe we can meet in the middle somewhere!

As I"ve read this thread I've been trying to think how I would tell someone how I stay on key, how I find my pitch and match my voice to it. I've done it so long, it's hard to break down the how's. But I think actually feeling the pitch has a great deal to do with it. I sometimes imagine a musical staff, too, with my voice honing in on that inky black dot of the note and just drilling down into it. I also imagine my voice dancing, touching down lightly on the staff.

As I think about singing and pitch and all these related ideas, I can *feel* the part of my brain where the musical concentration is located -- behind my right ear and up about two-1/2 inches. I wonder if that sensation has anything at all to do with the portion of the brain that actually relates to music. Does anyone out there know?

WW