In my experience of workshops there are some people who take full advantage of the suggestions/help offered (as well as making constructive suggestions of their own about other people's singing - a good workshop is a mutually supportive exercise).

On the other hand there are singers who never seem to improve, often because they are not really listening to the suggestions/help offered. They never seem to do any work outside of the workshop environment and present the same problems at session after session, often 'hogging' sessions in the process. It's hard to see why they come to the sessions in the first place - although I suspect that they're really looking for either uncritical praise or 'magic', work-free solutions to their problems.

The first type of workshop participant tend to develop into interesting performers (and occasionally brilliant ones) who are worth listening to. The second type invariably don't ...