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About brotherthor
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brotherthor
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Chicago
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Oct 04 '00
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*The best way to fail is to try to please everyone*
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About brotherthor
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I can sing every song performed by the group Captain Beyond almost as well as Rod Evans. I cover some Robert Plant songs, but my vocal range only reaches about as high as Immigrant Song. When other Led Zeppelin songs call for high screaming, I let my backup singing buddy handle that task. I also perform Pearl Jam songs and Evenflow is easier to sing than you might think (challenging, but exhilarating).
My real life job is as a college instructor in the field of communications and media studies. I have a master's degree plus several graduate classes.
When one of my public speaking classes has behaved well, we all go out for Karaoke at a local establishment so they can see that there are things even scarier than public speaking - such as a drunken noisy audience and some of the inebriated singers. *IDs are checked, of course. I accidentally "discovered" a talented fireman in one of my evening classes who easily was better than most singers I have heard in local bands. He really wanted to try singing a few songs and I was wowed because he was fantastic - he sang classic rock songs, as I recall. He never tried to sing before and his confidence as a public speaking improved after this singing experience. Other students have tried singing in public but the experience was not always confidence building. But we never know until we try (sounds like a song lyric).
My main goal in an introductory public speaking class is to help the students manage their stage fright. The techniques and mechanics of public speaking are more easily learned AFTER your knees stop knocking and your hands stop shaking. I learned this from performing songs in public. I only wish that the experience of singing in public helped more of my students overcome stage fright.
I learned a lot about doing research in graduate school, but the best teacher is experience and doing the thing you fear. I am not hard or demanding of my students because, let's face it, an introductory class can't teach you to speak like Martin Luther King, Jr. I'd settle for George W. Bush, but without slaughtering the English language. Dubyah knows how to sound sincere and that apparently is all it takes for the general public, besides charisma, which can't be taught. I wonder who is coaching him?
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