I’ve been out of voice lessons for about three years now, and it seems like every year is worse than the one before it because I want to sing, and I need to sing, but I have no way of doing so in the apartment we’re in. I don’t want to be as rude as our neighbor is by singing at all hours of the day and night. Besides, my voice is woefully out of shape, and if I’m going to get it back into shape, I’d rather our entire building not be witnesses to that effort.
I know I’ll never be a professional singer and I am okay with that. When I was in the Portland Symphonic Choir a few years ago, I found it very satisfying. I am still quite disappointed that I ended up having to quit due to a very, very bad cold.
So, my main goal is to get my voice back into shape enough to join a choir. The sub-goal to that is to find a voice teacher and start lessons again. Once I’m more stable financially (should be in a month or so), I will find a teacher and get started on that uphill battle toward regained voice agility.
I know it will be a lot of work; it always is, no matter how much I think I’m good at it. I’m really excited for it. I’ve missed that as much as I would miss my left foot, were it suddenly to vanish.
The hardest part will be finding a voice teacher out here. I don’t know a lot of people here, and I know even less who are musicians, so I can’t depend on getting advice from others. I guess I’m just going to have to go out on a limb and just pick someone from an advertisement that I see.
Anyhow, I think this is one of my more tangible goals. It won’t sit on my list for a long time because it’s something that costs relatively little to achieve in the very near future as opposed to the others which will cost more.
