Making Progress

What a wonderful thing it is for me as a voice teacher to see the shine and delight in a students face upon making improvement and progress. Each student in my studio is uniquely different. And each struggles with different issues. Working through those issues can be tedious! But when you come out on the other side, what reward and what feeling!

Such was the case with my student yesterday. When she first came to me, she could not roll her "r"s at all. So we began from scratch to create a way for her to learn and train the muscles to do this. Rolling your "r"s is of utmost importance in singing. We have plugged away every week with these exercises for the last three months. I know she got frustrated at times. I saw it in her eyes. All I could do was gently encourage her that it would get easier and that she was doing a fantastic job.

Well, yesterday her hard work paid off! She did it! She rolled her "r"s. And the look in her eyes brought tears to mine. What an accomplishment for her! What progress.

I felt renewed energy and help well up within myself! It even improved my own practice later on! What joy to see the light in her eyes at having achieved her goal!