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Show Page 14 AggieLite Monday, Oct. 29, 2007, Common: Rafting teaches [] continuedfrom page 13 while constantly being ready night and day if their help was needed. Our adventure passed without incident, and on Oct. 14, we loaded up the vans for the return drive to Logan. "Home," Eric said. "No Eric, we're going to Las Vegas," Jamal replied, chuckling. Rubbing his face, his personal signal for home, Eric repeated, "Home." Jamal laughed, and Eric remained stoic. There was no time for a jaunt to Vegas - there was laundry to do. Patrick Oden is a junior majoring in print journalism. Comments and questions can be sent to patrick. oden©aggiemail usu.edu rerject Get If D,one. 630 West 200 North 753-8875 rartner. •Business Forms •Thesis, Dissertations •Fast •Fair COMMON GROUND PARTICIPANT, JAMAL, plays in the mud during a lunch break. W sauare one p r i n T i ns We Fit Your Needs A GROUP OF COMMON GROUND PARTICIPANTS float the San Juan river against a red rock background. 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For voice teachers at USU, lessons consist of more than teaching students that a doe is a deer, a female deer. Lizzy smith, senior in vocal performance, said voice lessons are about being creative and having fun. "Singing is sometimes a big stress relief," said Smith, who currently has six students through the university and two private students, including a 13-year-old girl. "It really takes a lot of thought and a lot of energy. It makes students be creative and really create something. It's a really fun thing to create something beautiful, like putting on makeup or whatever." Smith becomes a doctor whenever she gets new students, she said, as she tries to make them musically better. "It's fun, I love it," she said. "Just picking out music that fits their voice and finding out what they like. It's kind of tricky playing the doctor at first; I have to find out what's wrong and diagnose it." Smith usually has her students fill out a questionnaire tofindout how much her students sing, what kind of style they like and past experience. She said she also discovers if they know basic music fundamentals, and if they don't, she does a lot of theory work with them. Brandtley Henderson, who also teaches voice lessons to nine USU students, does the same as well as a quick assessment each week with his students. "I find out what state they are in at that moment," said Henderson, senior in vocal performance and music therapy. "I find out if they are physically ill and what their week was like. Stress is going to affect their voice. Then we do some stretching and deep breathing to get the body expanding." Henderson then conducts warm-up exercises with his students, looks at pieces they have been working on and teaches them to use the warm-up techniques in their singing. He said the core elements and techniques students use to sing well, such as breathing and posture, are always the same, even though each voice is different. "Each student is very different. Some have had a lot of experience, some students are very beginning," he said. "It's fun being able to. teach new concepts to a person and see them slowly apply those concepts. The voice is a part of yourself. It's them, their personality. After just a few weeks, they may progress. It's very rewarding." For vocal performance majors to be able to teach lessons, they have to take vocal pedagogy courses 1 and 2, Henderson said. Mary-Jane Lee, senior in vocal performance said in the first course students learn all about the anatomy of the voice. "We learn about everything from the hips up," she said adding that includes the respiratory system, the throat, tongue, nasal cavity and each muscle and cartilage in between. The second course is comprised of applying all that knowledge, Lee said. 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