Therefore, nobody cares about singing technique. For male idol singers, dancing as well as their appearance is important. Then, some of the good back dancers gradually reach the front, and hopefully become new idol singers. However, for enka singers, there is a strongly traditional apprenticeship. The pupil usually lives in the master's house and does everything for him, including driving his car, cleaning his room, doing his laundry, even though such things have nothing to do with music.
Musical lessons take place whenever the master feels that it is a good time to teach.
The master usually plays piano and the pupil sings enka pieces. The master scolds all the time, teaching the correct techniques, the meaning of the texts, the soul of the pieces and enka in general. Sometimes, the singer has to sing the same piece more than ten times at once. The singer sometimes feel miserable because of obscurity and because of the severe nature of the lessons, wondering whether he can truly become a professional enka singer and whether what he is doing is right or not.