Being a male and teaching voices

   Being a man has certain disadvantage, if one wants to be a singer. One of such disadvantage is of course “voice change.” He really has to relearn how to use his voice and it takes time.

   However, this disadvantage became advantage when he is to teach voices, because he now have vocal experience in both male range and female (or kid) range. Female singers will never be able to produce the male range and to know what voice change really is. I found that this is one of the big issues for female music teachers.

   Needless to say, even for the male singers, in order to use this advantage, he has to remember how he felt and sang when he was a kid. Fortunately, I remember how I sang clearly when I was a kid, and there are a lot of tapes that recorded my performances and practices when I was a kid and adolescent. These are wonderful personal resources.

   By the way, my performances as a boy soprano are pretty good, if I may say so. But it just makes me shoot myself to listen to practice recordings from my junior high and high school time. :)