On Stuttering

Stuttering is a brain glitch in which the right side and left side get confused. Oddly enough, it often doesn't happen when singing. I had a student who had a slight stuttering problem. So we sang his words in pitches as close to what sounded like speaking as possible. This worked!

I find in teaching that brain tricks work. When the brain associate speaking with singing, it became less intimidating and more more doable. It wasn't noticable that what was supposed to be spoken was actually being sung. We were using tones that were fractions between actual detectable notes that you would able to identify on a piano.