Jim Carroll,

I have had good success adding emulative singing to remembered classical vocal training. Then I look for what's not working smoothly, and apply more classical training to the spot.

Example: I'll hear a must-sing song sung well on a recording, try to sing alongs as if I'd perform it-- then analyze which notes or phrasing aren't working. (I remember oOne year working on an item from Seamus Kennedy's reperoire and hearing how much more voice training bed glad than I'd had then!)

From there I might shift to a more comfortable key, and try again, and look for what vocal technique is getting
stressed.

Do I need to breathe that line differently?

Do I need to /shape use my mouth differently?

Do I need to smooth that spotit where my current "natural full voice" breaks to falsetto?

Do I need to relax?

Rethink my neck/head position?

Sing more softly? Ad infinitum.

Then-- do I need to pay a voice coach through this?
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I can only do "all that" and more for a song that's worth it. Then-- maybe-- someday
--there it is, in MY repertoire.


~Susan