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- She mentioned the challenges experienced in her two musical groups are different.
- A cappella:
- Singers often find it difficult because there is no instrumental accompaniment.
- It is not useful to drill the notes in your head - it is more important to learn how to adapt once someone in the group goes slightly flat or sharp. Memorization takes away the ability to adapt.
- Musical theater:
- There are many ensemble pieces, and in those, because people have a hard time hearing themselves over everybody else, it is hard for people to improve via just attending rehearsal.
- As a director, it’s extremely difficult to deal with so many people all at once during rehearsal. Calling on a few people to drill their parts leaves everybody else bored, and it’s hard to pick out exactly who is struggling, because some people will “fake” singing if they don’t know their part very well.
- A cappella:
- The biggest problem with learning music is having the ear to hear where your part fits in. In the past, to get around this, she gave people a recording of someone else singing their part with everybody else singing their parts in the background.
- People have a lot of trouble with relative pitch and what things should sound like.
- As a director, she would like to give people feedback when they practice on their own, so she can know which parts need more work.
We felt that her responses gave us a lot to work with, and with that we were able to form a clearer picture of problems faced by musical groups.
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