"she just kind of peels the onion. she's doing wacky weird woo-woo shit, just to get you in touch with you. and increase your range. i don't know if you found this - i'd never sung before, and i had to increase my range *a lot*."
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"and as i was going up the scale, i would just sob in the middle of her workshop space. just me and her, with her, like, beatles posters and her purple glasses. and she's like, this is good. this means we're doing the work. this is great."
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"and i'm just, like, fully sobbing just because i've reached another octave or another note in my body. like there's a part of my body that had been shut off."
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"y'know, 'cause what she wants you to get to is ultimately that place when you're born and you're just screaming. and there's no tension. it's all, again, going back to total freedom, letting the unconscious come through, letting the dreams come through."
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"like, just being fully wholly completely in touch with the self, which we're never gonna get to until, if we're lucky, the last breath of our lives. and that's what keeps us in that divine dissatifaction place with our voice or otherwise with our craft."
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(some other guy) "sounds like therapy"
"oh yeah, it is. oh no, all of this, this is all therapy."
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this is wild to me. i've experienced exactly this shift from the other direction - unblocked some big tension, gained access to a part of my body i didn't have access to before, and found a *new resonance in my singing voice* that wasn't there before
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idk what exactly andrew garfield was doing with this woman but sounds like there's a chance they were doing it from the other direction - looking for blocks by starting from what notes he couldn't sing. which is fascinating and i might try it. hmm
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My wife is a vocal coach and this is very common. It’s wildly different from piano lessons because your instrument is your body - the WHOLE body.
Incidentally, her experience made her fantastic at coaching in general. She knows how to prod people in a productive way.
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Told her about this thread and she mentioned an interesting question: How can toddlers and babies scream for hours without becoming hoarse?
Pediatricians say it’s physical, singers say it’s technical - children lack the anxiety and constraint that adults have to unlearn to sing.
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