Sing with a band

Last night we had a friend of mine lead the vocal rehearsal; she’s a professional vocal coach, so it was pretty cool. Turns out that I have a bit more range than I thought – she was telling me not to “be afraid” of my chest voice (once I discovered what my “chest voice” was), on the idea that everyone knew I could sing high. (She accidentally hit a high G – which she’d been using to warm up the girls – as my first warm-up note. I hit it. “Oh, a contra-tenor,” she joked…)

But I will be singing on stage soon, as part of a show in the Capital Fringe Festival.

So I got “ranged” last night by someone in theatre who knew more or less what she was doing. My voice is no damn good right now; I have something grippish, I think, and it’s screwing with my vocal cords (I went to thank someone for opening a door for me today, but nothing came out!)...but I still managed my way through “Magic to Do” from Pippin for my audition before the ranging. I’m a tenor, no surprise, with about an octave and a half range – and I’m sure the bottom was cut short by whatever nasty stuff was strangling me. I was also told that my falsetto was “useful”, as I could project it almost as much as my regular range….I easily could have kept going higher, and I think if my voice wasn’t phlegmy, I could have hit maybe two notes lower.

Not sure exactly what this means, particularly if I’m doing rock ‘n’ roll, but perhaps I’ll find out sometime soon.

43T wouldn’t let me re-open my old goal…so I’ll just do it here. Finding interested people is going to be damned near impossible, but hey, stranger things have indeed happened.

I’m quite a good singer and have sung with a band on the odd occassion. I’d love to do it more and find a band to sing with. 60’s, 70’s and 80’s stuff is what I’m good at.

my asinine craigslist ad has introduced me to a great band with three awesome people who, for whatever reason, want me to sing for them.

I just posted an ad on craigslist telling people to make me their lead singer because apparently I am insane.

It Twas Quite funnnn.

Total rush.

I sing solo and play guitar…a band would be awesome!

When I was in high school I did a small set with a local band. I stood with the male lead singer and we sang a few Tom Petty songs (loved, loved, loved) together at a coffeehouse, while the band played. It was really fun!