Student Roster with Remote Teaching Guide (COVID-19)

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Before you read further, let this good family help you understand what we’re all dealing with . . .

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Spring 2019 brought about changes in our teaching approach from the need for remote learning. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 influenza, we are converting our teaching to a remote format. I am using my professional teaching blog, singerstickynotes.com, an established site that has served me well while teaching many courses, to meet the challenge of teaching private voice lessons online. This blog is open to the public and serves as a useful resource for our needs. No confidential information or copyrighted material will be presented on the class blog.

Challenges of Teaching Singing Online

Teaching singing online presents unique challenges, particularly due to the one-second sound delay on platforms like Skype, FaceTime, and Zoom. This means that, unlike during your in-person lessons, I am not able to accompany you while singing your songs. Instead, you will need recordings of your accompaniments available for you to play on your end of the Zoom lesson. That’s where your blog post comes in handy!

Customized Blog Posts

Each of you has been given your own individual blog post on singerstickynotes.com with all the materials you need: warm-up exercises, accompaniment recordings, and additional resources on basic musicianship. To maintain confidentiality, your post title consists only of your first name, the first initial of your last name, and your voice type. Warm-up vocaleses are a more flexible matter and can be performed simultaneously with me playing the piano accompaniment on my end while you sing. To take care of the lag time in the sound, you will click on a metronome recording included on your log post which is 85 bpm. That will help you control the cadence of your breathing while I play.

Using Blog Posts During Lessons

During the lesson, have your computer open to your blog post and be ready to click on the links for accompaniments for your songs when performing in the lesson. All soundtracks are sourced from YouTube and are of high quality. For more complex repertoire, such as from the 28 Italian Songs and Arias or The Singers Musical Theater Anthology, I’ve split the accompaniments into subsections with clear titles, allowing us to focus on specific segments for in-depth learning.

Your Feedback Matters

Your feedback is essential in refining this system. We are in this together, and together, we can make it work!
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UPDATE: February 2022

Please take a moment and listen to this very interesting YouTube video featuring a Yale sociologist who lays out in very clear terms his prediction on the course of the COVID-19 epidemic. I found him very compelling. With this information, we might be able to better plan around the epidemic by making some reasonable estimation about how long it will last and which phase we are in.

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Student Roster

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Here are the links to your blog posts, alphabetically by FIRST NAME:

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Warm-up Exercises

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These warmups will also appear on your individual posts, but I’m including them here, too, as a reference:


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Tips for Singing on Zoom

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Still not convinced? Here’s a very useful YouTube video I discovered that walks you through doing voice lessons by Skype. Apparently, this is done all the time and is quite workable. (By the way, there is no need for you to record your lesson unless you want to.)

Good luck and have fun!