I pay my deepest respects to Coast Salish elders past and present and extend this acknowledgment to all Indigenous, Inuit, and Metis People visiting this page or accessing my work. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge that I live, work, and base this business on the traditional territory of the Tsawwassen and Musqueam First Nations and of all the Hun’qumi’num speaking people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. It’s an honor to help!Īcknowledgment of the Ancestral Lands of the First Nations Peoples of Canada It is her sincere wish that any teacher who may not be able to pinpoint things by ear, or who needs a printed guide in order to help their students excel at musicianship and aural skills will find use in these digital resources. She also serves on the vocal faculty at the Vancouver Academy of Music and as an adjudicator at music festivals and competitions all over Canada. Joslin holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music and is currently the owner and lead teacher at JRD Voice Studio in British Columbia, Canada. Learning that this resource she created out of her own needs and limitations in order to serve her students could be useful and necessary to other teachers is a wonderful feeling! Working to help students demystify the aural skills they require to be successful is a highlight of her career as a teacher. Joslin has had the pleasure of working with many students pursuing their singing goals and had several who have achieved the Gold Medal in their grade/region/nationally for their RCM Exams in the last 10 years. I know you are a great teacher, so you cobble together a bunch of piano/violin/theory examples, scour texts, and other resources to find level-appropriate drills for each of your singers, but it’s hit or miss at best. So now what? Because there is no comprehensive collection to test/drill SINGERS on their unique musicianship and ear training skills, you have to invent examples to test them on. It also seems to be something many students are actively apprehensive about, so demystifying this skill set is an important part of what you teach. You want the singers in your studio to develop their ear training in a comprehensive way, because training well-rounded musicians is important, and so often “aural skills” are treated like dirty words. They need to be able to do melodic singbacks, rhythmic clapbacks, and interval/chord recall - how do you prepare them for this? ![]() Still doin’ ok, the student seems to be getting the hang of it, you’re doing the thing! Then the 3rd week rolls around, and your student says something like “I remember this/it goes like this/we’ve done this before…” and then they rattle off your example verbatim because they’ve memorized it. They do ok…and so you use them again next week. You dutifully test your student with those examples. As you’re going through the syllabus, you see the musicianship requirements laid out, with a few examples provided. You are prepping your student for their practical voice exam.
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