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Jacqueline Bobak, from the California Institute of the Arts, talks about teaching voice. Cal Arts faculty tends to focus on technique. They want to make the instrument and then learn how to play it. Bobak points out that students also work with a coach. The coach deals with repertoire and musical decisions. During lessons, students begin with scales and exercises and then use current repertoire broken apart as technical exercises. Also in this segment, Bobak explains that Cal Arts faculty is pretty traditional in teaching technical techniques. She covers how Cal Arts deals with the individual as well. Singers do not graduate from Cal Arts sounding the same. Instead, Cal Arts attempts to build on the individual voice.