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I recently suggested something to a student that I think would benefit everyone.  It's up to you if you take it on.  The reasons will be made clear.

1. Shakespeare Monologue & two more classic audition songs.
2.  A dramatic monologue and two dramatic songs.
3.  A humorous monologue and two humorous songs.

NOTE:  A monologue does not have to be a page of text.  A few paragraphs can do wonders for your capacity to get inside the 'story'.  

Shakespeare will get you inside the language.  Drama inside the dramatics of the language (pick something VERY dramatic) and humour teaches you to have fun.  

For someone still working on their voice, it can take 3 to 6 months working on a song to get it to stabilize fully and sound so.  That’s a song that doesn’t over-reach.  If a student over-reaches, it never reaches full stability.  The struggle goes on forever.

So, that’s regular practice for that length of time.  With time, once the voice stabilizes, it can go down to 1 to 2 weeks, or maybe 4 with a very difficult song.  Also, under extreme situations where you get an assigned song for an audition, there are ways to fake-it-till-you-make-it stabilize a song in a day or two.    

As time goes by, we will change things up.  Once a song is stable, we will pick a slightly more difficult challenge until we have accessed the full range.

The message here is do not overreach.  You gain nothing but frustration and failures that you can't learn from because the physical capacity to be successful isn't available to you ... yet.   

Note: these are outside time estimations just to keep us safe — no expectations of overnight success.  However, you have to work at this material consistently.  I’d recommend practicing full (60+ minutes) every other day on this material only.  Not including the monologues.   

Why?

You’ll gain the consistency you lack.  It’s worth the trip.  

Thanks,

Tim