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It’s interesting how through deep practice that people can start to discover the correct way to do things, and this connects to develop skill in singing very well. I liked the idea of transfering skills considering that I also play a lot of wind instruments, such as the flute and the trumpet, which require the same type of breath support as singing. I did not know that people can naturally gain more myelin than others through healthy habits, like eating seafood, and that is something I’d like to consider. In my high brass techniques class, we talked about finding the correct stimuli in order to fire the right circuits while playing, and I think that is equally important for singing. One example that we talked about, which I think relates to the Brontes story pretty well, is listening to good musicians even if they play a different instrument. That is also something my own voice teacher has me do, and I find it incredibly useful when I’m practicing, and I sometimes really enjoy listening to them—Sutton Foster, in the meantime, is my favorite singer to listen to when I’m looking to hear good musical theatre technique.

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I really enjoyed this chapter, and I remember hearing Cindy and Laurie talk about it with me in patrticular, because I was looking for a better practice strategy. Often, I discover chunks in my music automatically from practicing this technique, and I use different strategies that my teachers have helped me with that allow me to break a song into chunks and smaller chunks without realizing it. In fact, when I am in piano lessons, we have use some of these strategies often, and it helped me play chunks of the music much better. Of course, I’m not perfect at deep practice yet, but I do hope to continually improve my strategy and teach my students how to do the same. Each step discussed in this chapter does bring out very significant points about singing: you have to get a feel for what is wrong and how to fix it, and you have to think strrategically about what you’re doing, unless you want to fool around with it and thus waste time in the practice room. Of course, that is not the goal, but I say no matter what there is always room for improvement in anything.