This whole voice lesson thing is getting crazy…my idea of what is going to occur when I walk in the door is usually mussed and annoying at the point I actually do so, and has involved a complete lack of readiness on his end to having other bodies in here rehearsing for different projects. It’s not that I don’t understand the aptitudes for having other projects, it’s just to me a complete lack of respect to have me sitting here writing in my journal while she and he practice guitars and singing. Whether it lasts five minutes or five hours, I suppose I kind of deserve it given my long lackluster history for not being on time. Of course now that I have changed, the karmic late wheel is kicking me in the pants.
I guess it is time for me to wail like PJ Harvey now. More soon.
February 3, 2005 at 7:43 am
Taking voice lessons IS ballsy.
And courageous.
That you are keeping up with them, and impressing people with your voice, is exciting.
I once did the same myself but instead met with a tiny old woman who gave voice lessons inside her suburban home; a home cluttered with old womanly musical nostalgia. Cluttered this way because she was some sort of mucial genius, in her time? I forget. Our lesson took place in a dusty room the size of a small walk-in closet.
She placed her finger on a piano key and asked that i match each key with the tone of my voice.
My voice singing, i guess.
Her hand pattering down each octave so she could test my natural range.
My voice needed quite a bit of work.
Except for what came out of my lungs on the lowest octave of bass notes she had tapped on.
Embarrassed, and somewhat content that my singing voice may just be deep and manly, i never returned.
February 3, 2005 at 9:41 am
Re: Taking voice lessons IS ballsy.
hahaah. Yeah. That is the exact same process that I am going through. However, my pitch is completely accurate for the high notes (shocking I know) but somewhat off on the low ones.
I attribute it to not having a lot of female or male singers that I listen to with voices in that range. This project involves me getting the low end voice, so it is a process.
I am doing this like 3 to 4 times a week these days. I am getting better, and the improvement is noticeable in the lessons at least.
God only knows if I have what it takes to do this little project but there will be others. Which reminds me…you do music as well.
If you are ever up for it, I would dig a collaboration. I have endless fucking time as it is right now, so the horizon is limitless.
rockkkkkk
February 4, 2005 at 10:04 am
Sweet.
You should set yourself up with a low cost home recording station, right on your computer desk.
I’m giving myself one year to record at least a cd’s worth of quality crap before i even began to think myself worthy of collaboration.
*still extremely withdrawn and shy about her capabilities
I still have so fucking much to learn.