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There is no number that can be placed on the value of Robert Dick's teachings

Your best teachers are your ears, your eyes, your body feeling, your Intuition snd your BRAIN

I remember my first lesson with Robert over 2 decades ago. It was at Penny Kemler’s house after the LFS convention.  I remember being introduced to 1. Throat tuning (which changed my life) and 2. Having “An Actor Prepares” recommended to add to my reading list (which was purchased on the way home) and 3. Spending a few minutes on circular breathing and thinking “I don’t see this one happening”. BUT…. 20+ years later, with growth and maturity and experience and several more lessons with Robert, I can say that throat tuning is still just as epic, I recently found that copy of Stanislavsky and who knows about circular breathing? 🤷🏼

Realized some time ago that I really play by reading the notes to guide my fingers, hearing the "tune" that way and internalizing it, and finally playing what my fingers learned from the music by hearing it in my head. Probably too involved, but it works for me. Never thought of actually vocalizing the "tune" as I played it. Need to try it.
Used to do an intonation demo to students with a tuner, to show them the pitch you play is actually in your imagination more than in your instrument. First I would put the head joint in my preferred position, play the note and stop the tuner dead on. Then I would push the head joint all the way in and again stop the tuner dead on.  Then I would pull the head out @ 3/8" and do the same thing. Not sure if they all got the point, but I do think it was a good demo of the concept.

This is such a dangerous technique for beginners, that it should come with a label warning. This is how I got a blocked throat in my first year. And boy, was I proud of my oboe sound, haha. Zero support, zero projection, all throat. Sounded great, until I heard my teacher on our first lesson play with a completely different color, twice as loud, twice as long and without any effort at all. On my flute! It took us a whole year to fix this problem, strangely also by "singing and playing", but in the correct way for a beginner. So, if you're a beginner, especially one that self-teaches from videos, run away. Come back in a few years when you can slur up to the 6th harmonic and down again without any variation or effort. Then you WILL actually benefit from this technique, because it does indeed work.

I can’t sing above f above middle c due to a parathyroidectomy which nicked my superior laryngeal nerve. I almost lost my voice and I was a speech/language pathologist as well as a flutist. I’ll try.

Imitating is a great, versatile and artistic and sensible way of studying music....this is, who children learn to spaß ( muscle, tongue, laguage placement.....phrasing etc)...BUT it is also important to have the knowledge about what you d and how to use your Tools...otherwise you start to develop unhealthy techniques

What is the music/composer he refers to in this video? Please and thank you 🙏 😊