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In my last post, I showed you some of the issues we face as singers because there are parts of singing we don’t know how to talk about. A lot of our trouble comes from the fact that we use sheet music so much. I’m a big fan of music notation; being able to write music down makes it so much more accessible! But like any visual representation of a kinesthetic experience, sheet music is imperfect, and because we use it so often, we forget that it’s inherently incomplete...

Why are we so incapable of talking about how words and rhythm work together in song?