learn to sing

i’ve always loved singing, and would like to be good enough not to want to hide my voice. i’ve been in choirs for short periods, i’ve done some lessons, i’ve sung in bands, on stage, in public. i still don’t know if my voice is any good though. it sounds pretty awful when i record it, but i keep getting encouagement to continue. Ummmmm??

Decided not to go this week, I feel that the songs we are singing are above my range and trying to sing them is putting stress on my throat.
I have had a sore throat all this week and don’t want to strain my voice before my radio show tomorrow.
I will have to go back to class next week, as I have paid for the whole course.. so I will have to get better this week.
I’m going all hippy in my approach and have purchased a singing hypnosis CD from http://www.singinghypnotherapy.com/
I am looking into the alexander technique for singing.
And are going to do yoga EVERYDAY!!

I will not be defeated

I’ve taken a couple of voice classes over the years. My voice and range do improve with practice, but I don’t have the money for a class right now. I try just singing a bit when I practice guitar, but my range is so limited these days from lack of practice. I want to see if I can find some vocal exercise practice tapes or something for the car, where I won’t disturb anyone. I wish there were some pretty field around here, some isolated place I could sing as loud as I wanted to without worrying. I wish I could go camping again – by myself this time – and bring my guitar, and be out there in that beautiful empty nature alone for a week, and sing and fish and cook healthy food for myself and practice guitar and meditate and sleep under the stars.

A little serious privacy and freedom to sound bad would be great. The loneliness of a crowded apartment building full of people who might be disturbed is tough to sing around.

So I started my daytime course yesterday (saturday)
and today I feel terrible.

I had never sung infront of anyone other than my singing tutor, and to sing in front of five other people made me sooooo nervous… my hands were shaking, and my voice was shaking and quavering.

the course was from 11am – 6pm and by the end of the day I couldn’t sing, I was exhausted, embarrsed and my throat hurt.

I felt I had taken 3 big steps backward..

So in 6 months I have come a long way!!
My range has increased and there is no longer breaks in my voice. I feel very confident and are starting my Group singing class this Saturday…
Can’t wait.

I LOVEEE singing
but i’m tone deaf
and have low range
and it can get embarrassing!

... to sing, but usually off tone .. would be great to sing like an angel. I would stand with a good average though :)
Just good enough to not scare everybody away. I don’t know where to start. I do not have enough money for a personal trainer. Does anybody has experience in self-training??

Ok I have been taking voice lessons for a couple of month and my teacher made me sing in public for the first time in my life by my self. Now I have been on stage in front of a crowd several times in my life so the whole stage thing is no big deal. Good night was it terrifying to actaully have to sing. Mind you at the time that she had me sing I had a grand total of 4 lessons in which we actauly sang and one of them was learning the warm ups. I felt like sucked up the concert totally and but a few people from the audience told me I was really good. We’ll have to see about that.

I mean take classes, and be in a choir: the whole nine yards. So, long-term.

We finished our six months together with some simple exercises. In one we passed a sound around our small circle (just six of us by the end), supporting the person before and after us, but also enjoying our minute in the spotlight. In another we improvised sounds in turn before mixing it all up in a soundscape (the only word that fits!) at the end.

We all reflected on what we experience when singing now, how we have changed since the start, and how we feel about our voices. This last question challenged a few of us. Personally, it’s a see-saw. Some days I love the purity and flexibility of it. Other days I despair at it’s unpredictability and croakiness. But I do, quite quickly now, always appreciate whatever comes out is interesting and cool and me.

The next step in this journey is to (gently!) strengthen and train this wild animal of sound in me so we can work together :-)