Vocal Tip: Don’t Be A Back-Up Singer

Inevitably, I’ll assign a song for a student to learn for the next lesson.  They get to the next lesson, we sing through the song once and they can’t remember the melody.  It’s not because they didn’t listen to it or try to learn it.  It’s because they learned the song by singing along with the original singer.  They can sing it perfectly with the recording. That is not a...