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At the Listening Centre I have worked with many singers both amatuer and professional; popular and classical, and have constantly been bowled over by the common denominator of what untangling the listening patterns of the ear can do.

Isn't it strange that apart from some aural tests to assess apptitude for music, that the singer's receivers and perceivers are never tested? This is because of the wide spread belief that the ears either hear or they don't.

This was far too little for Alfred A Tomatis who actually analysed and studied the listening responses of great musicians and singers, to be able to say definitively what constitutes "a musical ear". He determined that a person's ability to perceive frequencies accurately and quickly, that is using the most efficient route to the language centre of the brain, determined the result of a clear core sound resonating evenly in all octaves of the range and the ability to use it to make pleasing phrases and heart felt music. Sounds a bit too simple? Well we are talking about the instrument, that is your voice, a fundamental component of your persona. Why not iron out and strengthen this core first before undertaking any tuition, so that knowledge and vocation can be utilised to it's full without reaching blocks and insummountable plateauxs.

In my practical experience as a listening therapist and opera singer, without exception all singers have gained:

Greater ease in sound production
Expansion of range in both lower and upper registers
More body awareness and better understanding of their instrument
Better air flow
Improved intonation and brillance of sound
Clarity over voice category and aptitude for certain roles
More resonance
Increased overtones
Improved posture
Undoing of compensatory artifice and habits resulting from faulty listening
Release of the temporal bones and jaw allowing the tongue and the larynx to relax into a lower postion
Freeing of the diaphragm into a dynamic tonus
Increased self confidence
Feeling more connectedness to oneself and audience.

These attributes are our birth right! When listening patterns become distorted due to the rigors of life and long term unresloved emotional turmoil and stress our receivers suffer, the muscles of the middle ear become weakened and we are literally out of sync. This can be attended to and brought back to a glowing shine by simply undergoing a course in Listening Therapy. Simple as that. The ears are the tuning pegs of your instrument, crank the peg and the body will respond with vibrant appreciation and sing forth from it's heart's centre.

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