First singing lesson

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  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    Jeanie wrote:
    :D Oh I've done that too! Woosed out when it's come time to practice coz there's people around.

    Do they give you all this info up front with Weekend Warriors? About the change of octave and stuff? I'd wanna know that before I started I reckon. I recall a truly humiliating night at Karaoke when I discovered they'd put Carly Simon's You're So Vain up into a higher key and I was so used to lower I went to the lower register and pretty much hoped to die there. :rolleyes: :o
    They recorded it too! My brother still asks me if I grew testicles for that song that night! :D

    Anyway, be good to hear how it went Luce. :)

    Nah, it's not that they change it, it's how Bono sings it. One phrase ends on an F#, then the next phrase starts on the next E which is 7 tones higher and then goes up to an A. The lowest note is a G a shade over 2 octaves away, so you need at least a 2.5 octave range to get all the notes in that song correctly. I can just squeeze out the A, but I can't stay up there for as long as the song demands, and the A is very shaky.

    I went to the WW last night, but there was no-one there. There must have been a change of time or venue or something, and I drove 3 hrs just to get the shits. Oh, well, maybe in my next life I won't turn into an idiot when I turn 40.
    Nasty trick on the Carly Simon. Key change always weirds me out because I am so used to hearing stuff in the original key.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I've never had a singing lesson, but I'd love to drop my range lower, not push it higher. Every wuss wants to be Jeff Buckley. I'd love to be that dude out of the Ink Spots. Hell, my balls are big enough. :D

    It's more about the fact that most music is recorded by girls and castrati, it seems, so balls are optional, or in fact, redundant to requirements. Which is why I like Ed, cos lots of his stuff is middle baritone, which is just me. Songs like Thumbing My Way are bang in the middle of my range.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    Up to lesson three yesterday, so time for an update
    Teach is starting toi get a bit more demanding with atention to pitch,and going straight to the correct pitch rather than wavering before locking on.
    Turns out my pitch sense is better than I always thought.
    More work on resonance and starting to focus on shaping vowels more.
    Seems it's more about the vowels sounds than the consonants. Get the vowels right and the consonants just follow, which is opposite to normal speech.
    The meaning of speech is in the consonants, and the vowels are just there to flow from one consonant to the next.
    No new song this week, just lots of areas to improve on in the ones I have.
    But I think I will start to work on Black as well. I was spending time on With or Without You, but it has notes that just hurt my voice, which is not helpful.
    Anyone else, consideringf vocal lessons yet ? I really can't say just how much fun it is and how no matter how hopeless you might think you are, if you love music, you can probably learn to sing.
    I had put myself in the totally lost case basket before this.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • pearljamgirl07
    pearljamgirl07 Posts: 792
    lucylespian wrote:
    HAd my first singing lesson yesterday.
    Pretty nerve-racking at first, having to demonstarte how complete crap I am, but luckily I seem to have found an excellent teacher, and soon i was working through some exercises and really enjoyed myself.
    I'm looking forward to beign able to bring songs more to life by having a workable vocal to tell the story.
    It's already got me reading a playing melody to accompany myself.
    Anyone else doing vocal lessons or considering it ?
    I thought I might blog my progress here so anyone else thinking about it can see how it goes.
    I took some PJ stuff to give her an idea of what I want to achieve, so should be working on some PJ soon.

    yes meee!!! I remembered my first lesson(years ago)it was frustrating ,I was so so nervous my body was shaking ,no horrible but then I felt really good and I can't explain it, was a great sensation:)
    "You're the eve of my destruction in the garden of fears"

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