[nabs-l] voice lessons help needed

Mon Oct 14 22:40:05 UTC 2013

Hi Kelsey.  I have never taken voice lessons before, but your
situation is interesting.  I am a guitar player so, if I wanted to
take voice lessons, I wouldn't want to use backing tracks at all.  I
would go to a voice teacher, so I could improve my singing technique
and that's all.  Personally, I don't like backing tracks at all.  If I
learn a song on the guitar to sing at church, I play along with the
original song which includes vocals, and not just music.  For a lot of
the kind of old country and bluegrass songs I play along with, there
wouldn't be any backing tracks to use even if I wanted them.  So if a
voice teacher told me, they wanted me to bring along a backing track,
to some bluegrass song, I'd have to tell that person the track doesn't
exist.  Good luck.  I use express burn if I need to make cd's, and it
is a very very good program for burning cd's.  I'd highly recommend
it.  Good luck.

On 10/14/13, Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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