The upside to lockdown for Hastings singing teacher Jill Tobin is that her students' rehearsing has definitely improved.
Tobin, who has been teaching for 45 years and is a long-time NZ Singing School teacher, said her students had all been keen for the online classes.
The lockdown has pushed many music teachers to online teaching.
"However it's not as easy to teach singing online as it is to teach an instrument.
"We need to be in the same room to hear what's really going on with the student's voice, so online teaching is only as good as it can be depending on the computer equipment people can use," Tobin said.