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Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com. We are going to be talking about vocal performance.
Now I just want to say again the thing about new techniques, remember when we started I
said that the voice is… you do not see your voice it is based on habit. So I want you
to realize that this is very important I see many students fail because they won’t accept
or they won’t embrace or understand that. Somebody tells you do something new it is
going to feel unusual, it is going to feel uncomfortable. I suppose mostly you just feel
unnatural just because you have a habit, I have a habit of speaking. I do not want to
talk like this, but if I did, somebody said just why do you do need to talk, well I will
not feel uncomfortable doing it for a while but I’ll get in the habit of doing it and
this way as well. I have to work on it, a new habit has to come and the voice is a mass
and an album of habits and so I just want you to realize that whether it is from something
I say or a teacher or book or CD you’ve got, if something is in there and you are
trying to do it, especially if it is useful, it is probably going to feel uncomfortable
and unnatural. The issue is whether it sounds good, not whether it feels good and I am not
telling you there is definitely a lot of weird ideas out there about the voice. I mean you
know if you are in pain or after you try something for three months or something it still does
not, you don’t see any kind of progress, then you could start wondering about it but
just realize it a new good thing is going to feel unusual because your voice is not
like I said you know playing the flute. If we talked about how to change something in
your flute playing we would look at your hands and say “oh! I see it” but in the voice
it is all in head.