'm starting to wonder, based on that post, if I'm echopraxic for singing. My coordination isn't bad, but my motor planning is crap, and I'm a horrible kinaesthetic learner. But (for vocal technique) I learn best by imitating the sound of someone doing it right, and it's really easy for me to start doing it wrong by listening to someone else. This is one of the reasons I hate large choirs, and shouting crowds. I can get hoarse in those environments even if I'm completely silent. My first singing teacher at uni hooked into that: she told me to listen to recordings of people who had good technique plus voices like mine.
*flapping with glee*
[see also: while my visuospatial stuff is kind of screwed up and i do things mirror-image a lot of the time, etc, i actually am quite good at visualising/feeling myself doing activities, and can mentally rehearse to good effect this way. Teachers and physios and whathaveyou are always wanting to show me ultrasounds or imagies of myself in the mirror or whatever, and i do very well without them and then immediately start doing *badly* with them. Apparently most people find this helpful. Hah.]
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Date: 2015-09-26 06:57 am (UTC)'m starting to wonder, based on that post, if I'm echopraxic for singing. My coordination isn't bad, but my motor planning is crap, and I'm a horrible kinaesthetic learner. But (for vocal technique) I learn best by imitating the sound of someone doing it right, and it's really easy for me to start doing it wrong by listening to someone else. This is one of the reasons I hate large choirs, and shouting crowds. I can get hoarse in those environments even if I'm completely silent. My first singing teacher at uni hooked into that: she told me to listen to recordings of people who had good technique plus voices like mine.
*flapping with glee*
[see also: while my visuospatial stuff is kind of screwed up and i do things mirror-image a lot of the time, etc, i actually am quite good at visualising/feeling myself doing activities, and can mentally rehearse to good effect this way. Teachers and physios and whathaveyou are always wanting to show me ultrasounds or imagies of myself in the mirror or whatever, and i do very well without them and then immediately start doing *badly* with them. Apparently most people find this helpful. Hah.]