[nabs-l] voice lessons help needed

[Sophie Trist]

Kelsey, I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've 
recently discovered a website called www.musescore.com. It's 
designed to be a source of music for people who play instruments 
such as piano or violin or whatever. People can go to the website 
and listen to songs for free. I don't use JAWS, so I'm not sure 
how accessible it is.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Aikens <gpaikens at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:04:21 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] voice lessons help needed

Your question made me curious so I did a couple of quick searches 
in the iTunes store.  I found several tracks when I searched for 
"performance track" and "accompaniment track."  There may be 
other phrases that will get you more results.  Most of what I saw 
was pop music, musicals, and christian music.  I'm sure if you 
had something specific you were looking for, you could try that 
search and find something better.

As to burning CDs with JAWS, this used to work well with Windows 
Media Player.  I don't use iTunes on a windows machine much so 
can't speak to that.  But, why not just load the track on your 
iPod and take it to your lesson?  Your teacher likely has a way 
to connect an mp3 player to his stereo, unless he has already 
told you that you need a CD.

The amazon mp3 store is also very accessible.  You could try 
searching there too.

Best of luck,

Greg


On Oct 14, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Kelsey Nicolay 
<piano.girl0299 at gmail.com> wrote:

 Hello,
 I am currently shopping around for a voice teacher.  I have 
found a couple.  However, one teacher has a requirement that I am 
not sure I can to meet.  The teacher is a vocal coach who teaches 
his lessons based on his performance experience.  He teaches all 
styles of music.  However, he does not play an instrument.  So he 
requests that his students obtain backing tracks for the songs 
they want to sing.  Since I use JAWS, I don't know if there is a 
way I can do this.  Most of the web sites that have these are not 
very accessible.  I could use itunes, but I have not found a 
reliable method for burning CD's without using the mouse.  So I 
have no idea how this could be done.  I would think that walking 
into a lesson carrying a laptop is not practical.  I play piano, 
so do you think I could avoid this by saying that I could play 
the chords on the piano? Someone who has gone through this, 
please help.  I would like to study with him since his rate is 
reasonable, at $10 per half hour.  He does know that I am 
visually impaired and is fine with that issue.  However, I just 
don't know how to deal with this issue.  If you have ever burned 
a CD using JAWS, how do you do it? Itunes is what I normally use, 
but if I have to do it with Windows Media player, I could do it.  
The only reason I prefer itunes is because I use an ipod.  Or is 
there another free source where I can find backing tracks which 
would be more accessible? Is youtube good? I've used it for other 
things, but I have found that JAWS tends to interfere with the 
video a lot.  So, fellow JAWS users, what do you recommend? Can I 
use the excuse that I cannot get a backing track because of the 
issues I described above?
 Thanks,
 Kelsey Nicolay

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