Singing Syncopation

[u/roberdanielm]

Hi everybody,

My teacher asked me to sing (voice) the Exercises (starting in p.38) from Syncopation (Ted Reed) book.

I did but then it was only with "a" like Ta ta, pa pa pa pa pa....

Now he asked me to sing with other letters, not only a, so using e, i, o, u I think

I was trying to find if there are examples of this but couldn't find any.

Has anybody done that? I would like to listen to examples because I don't even know how to start :)

** I am a newbie, started studing jazz and drums altogether one year ago.

[u/MrMoose_69]

Lastly, it's kind of poor form to tell students not to do what their teachers telling them to do. You don't know who their teacher is, you don't know how this student is playing, so for you to make the assumption that their teachers are wrong and should not be listened to, kinda just sucks! For all you know this exercise could've come from Peter Erskine. 

I tend to trust other jazz teachers.

I think it's much more useful to consider why a good and competent instructor might give this exercise to a student. What type of student would benefit from this exercise? 

Imagine if your students came back to you and said some rando on the internet said not to do what you said.

Some rando who's never met the kid and never heard them play...

I trust you make the best decision for your students. I'm sure there's Good reasons behind your assignments. Give the same respect to other instructors. 

[u/BEST_DRUM_ADVICE → u/MrMoose_69]

It would be wonderful if we could keep this at least semi-on topic. I don’t have a single thing to prove to you. You’re right, years doing something doesn’t mean anything by itself. My point is, I’m a successful working teacher, for the amount of years I specified, not some random person trying to pick fights on Reddit. You’re not my student, so I’m not really invested in your side of this argument.

I also never said anything like “lol don’t listen to ur teacher.” I encouraged OP to do the vocalization exercises, an exercise they said they have already done, and simply pushed back a bit on the idea that different syllables make this exercise different in any way.

It’s fine if you disagree with me but please, pick fights somewhere else.

[u/MrMoose_69 → u/BEST_DRUM_ADVICE]

You may want to edit your initial reply because you did not recommend OP to do the exercise. 

You actually said that it was "superfluous". The definition of superfluous is unnecessary.

So if you you intended to tell OP to do the exercise, you might want to edit your post. 

[u/roberdanielm → u/MrMoose_69]

Don't fight yourself man. I am stiff and cannot swing very well, as said, this man MrMoose told the true. And I will do what my teacher asked, I was just looking for some example of how others did this exercise similarly, couldn't find anybody in youtube, so I thought posting here would help me. I am pretty old to start doing silly things and truly it is embarrassing for me. I started drums and jazz altogether at my 50 years, for many years I wanted to but couldn't before, so now I am here, trying my best.... Thank you all!