Julz...
Thanks for the interest in the subjects and though I'm not a student exactly, I did buy a CD course last year from one of Seth's former pupils who now teaches his own method to Grammy Award winners among others.
As I am sure I have mentioned here more than once in the past, the classical 'training' I received actually destroyed my natural voice and ear for music.
I decided to teach myself and shunned further training following my own bad experience but bought this CD course in particular as the teacher was saying exactly the same things I had discovered for myself to be true - most of which goes against the mainstream teaching methods. I know some of his theories are completely wrong but overall, the course helped me immensely. It is so nice to now be able to sing in pitch again with relative ease after more than 10 years of hit and miss. I actually gave up singing twice in that time due to frustration but the need to do it was so strong that even though it was heartbreaking to sound so awful, I had to try to regain my voice of old. Sometimes it reappears and that is what keeps me going - the hope of regaining that former quality I once had. The breakthroughs take mere moments but overall, the road to recovery is long and painful. It's why I put so much pressure on myself at karaoke comps. Every fairly judged win is proof I have improved, every loss is proof I haven't improved enough. Only reason I got to dancing while singing was to distract audiences from hearing the flaws in my voice. Soon, it just became fun to do and effective in adding to the act.
Just for the record, my voice at 18 was a far cry from being good to my ear at that age. I couldn't understand why everyone always complimented me on it but after losing it and discovering years later a video recording of my 17 year old self just at home singing to the camera, I suddenly heard that quality everyone else had told me of many times over. That classical training is one of my biggest regrets. However, it led to my singing in musical theatre which in turn led me to karaoke which led to new friends and competitions through which I won the dosh to buy my musical instruments and get to song writing in earnest and the fact I had lost my voice at all led to finding probably the best singing training available with buying this course, so the cloud did have a silver lining. I often can't help wondering about the path not taken though. On that thoroughly depressing note, I shall leave it there.
Submitted by Johnny B on 17-06-2007

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