Contemporary Voice: How Motor Learning Impacts How You Learn to Sing | Berklee Online

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Learning voice is more than learning to coordinate muscles. In this video from Berklee Online’s Essentials of Teaching Contemporary Voice course, instructor Clare McLeod discusses motor learning and how that impacts voice learning. Energy may be thought of as physical, but it is also psychological; mental (cognitive), including attention, analysis, and decision; and perceptual, including sensory factors. To master an instrument you must not only understand the ins and outs of the instrument theoretically but also be comfortable with it physically/tactically. If you try to play a barre chord on a guitar for the first time, you will likely struggle to find the right position for your fingers. Even if you understand how the barre chord functions, you still haven’t developed the motor skills required to accomplish that task. Since the body is the singer’s instrument, motor learning is crucial in order to be able to use it most effectively and comfortably.
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ABOUT CLARE McLEOD:
Clare McLeod, Harvard EdM, is an Associate Professor in the Voice Department at Berklee College of Music, where she is the principal author of the Minor in Teaching Contemporary Voice. A certified Estill Master Teacher, Clare also trained at the National Center for Voice and Speech, and is a member of the Voice Foundation, the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Pan American Vocology Association. In addition to teaching at Berklee, she presents voice clinics regularly around the world and continues to contribute to developments in voice research.
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