My friend, John Joon is a professional vocal coach and he specializes in teaching students how to sing high notes. He told me one of his unforgotten stories.
When he was young, he was not as good in singing high notes. Once upon a time, during his regular singing lesson with an old vocal professor, the professor wanted him to hold a sharpened pencil vertically, with his palms on the bottom and the top of the pencil respectively. In order to explain how to utilize the breath effectively for singing high notes, the professor held his hands and pressed them against my friend’s palms and with the pencil in between, and explained to him the relationship between the breath and the voice. During that time, the professor didn’t seem conscious of what he did and that he had made the sharpened tip of the pencil inserted into my friend’s palm. My friend was in pain and almost burst into tears.
And now, when John Joon is teaching his students on how to hit high notes effectively, he will always remember on this incident and emphasize the relationship between breath and voice to his students.
May be this is the old professor’s intention to express such an important message overwhelmed his care for the injury he caused my friend?
More interesting stories about my friend, John Joon on singing high notes, please visiting his website, Learn to sing better.
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