Just got back from my first lesson, I loved it. My teacher is so eccentric, fantastic!! I was so bad at some points, but we just laughed. She’d asked me to prep a song to sing after a warm-up so she could assess my ability, so I downloaded the backing track for ‘Iris’ by the Goo Goo Dolls. She said that I had a really unique voice and that there wasn’t really that much wrong with it (wow, good feedback for the first time I’ve ever properly sung to anyone, right?!)

Problems to work on:

• I am too tense in my throat when I sing which messes up the sound coming out
• I don’t use my diaphragm enough and so I’m not singing anywhere near as powerfully as I could.

All in all, it was a great experience. I am looking forward to the next lesson which I hope to have at some point next week. 10 mins minimum practice every day!