Yanik Giroux - Stage & Studio

One of the reasons I wanted to start writing a Blog was to share funny stories from the studio. I think this one is one of the best and it happened a few weeks ago.

I had a student coming in for his lesson on a late Friday afternoon. He walked in mentioning his new glasses, but didn't seem too excited about them (who is ever excited about wearing glasses!?!?). Anyway, we started warming-up and in between 2 scales, I simply said "Nice specs by the way" to which I had no answer from my student, but just him looking at the floor. There was an awckward silence and I wasn't sure why. We kept going on with the scales.

Suddenly, in between 2 breaths, my student says "oh, I spent my summer in the woods, doing physical activity and all...". Thanks for sharing, but now I was the one very confused. Why was he saying that to me? I didn't get it.

After an awckward feeling, I finally asked him "Why did you tell me about your summer stuff, when all I had said was nice s..." And then I got it! While I had said to him "nice specs", he had heard "nice pecs"!!!!!!! Needless to say, we laughed so hard at this very strange and uncomfortable situation, just couldn't sing for like 5 minutes!

Well, all I have to say is that I am sooooo happy I asked him what that was all about, cause I can just imagine my poor student going home telling his mom about his teacher telling him he had "nice pecs". Now that is just wrong, and I could have been in sooo much trouble...

Nice one Yanik, nice one... So remember kids, DICTION is always VERY important!