learn to whistle

I feel like I’m really getting to know something new and nice about my body that I never noticed before…something new about the way that I produce sound. I wish I could find this same joy in vocal lessons, but I tend to feel so attacked.

I couldn’t even get the tiniest sound to come out.

but i did practice a bit anyhow. yeaaaaaaay, me! ciao!

...this has given me a HUGE sense of accomplishment, really…I know it’s silly, maybe, since it’s such a small thing, but it has inspired me. Once I can do this strongly, I want to learn to do a cartwheel. That’s another one of those things I couldn’t do when I was small…

...while blowing air OUT! Usually, I could just get it while sucking in, so this is a huge huge achievement pour moi…now if I can just keep it going until I can consistently whistle strongly at will, then I can remove this goal from my list!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Writing down my goals here and knowing that other people can read my progress makes me try harder, so as not to be embarrassed (sp?)...new goal: learn how to spell that word.

Okay, so it was a crappy, breathy sound, but it WAS a sound! And I shouldn’t insult it by calling it “crappy,” since maybe then it won’t come back again…no, it will. I tried to make my tongue point down sharply, after the middle of it was at the top of my mouth, and that helped. At least it gave me SOMETHING! I might practice this more later on tonight…right now, it’s about dinnertime here, and I’m over the whistling thing for today.

So far, no luck. Perhaps I should try to find out if there are classes or books or something. I can sort-of whistle sucking in, and have been able to do that for a long time. But now I want to whistle while blowing out, like in that now-banned Disney song I forget the name of. Not “whistle while you work”...that wasn’t banned…the other one. Zippity doo da? Wasn’t that banned or am I mis-remembering things?