BoyesComp1Teaching

My teaching experience is teaching my friend how to accurately sing a complicated piece of music for an audition. The styles used in this process were “Linguistic,” “Logical/Mathematical,” and “Musical.” The ways that it applied to Linguistic is that the pronunciation of the words in the song is key to be able to accurately express the meaning of the song. Pronunciation also counts for about half of the audition song. It applies to Logical/Mathematical because of the importance of keeping count and staying on time. If the singer misses a beat or is too slow, it can ruin the entire audition. It applies to Musical because it is a song audition. The problems he had with learning the song was the fact that it had to be done a capella (without instrument accompaniment). Before that, we had primarily worked on pieces with a piano. His strength was that he is a talented singer. It helped him when I demonstrated the sections that he had problems with. He clearly demonstrated that he learned his lesson when he successfully performed in the audition, and was selected to be in the concert. To teach him, I used demonstrations of the piece so he could follow.