And on the subject of vocal stamina. . .
I spend three hours being sociable and chatting with my family and my dad's childhood friend, and my voice is sore afterwards. I take two hours off and decide that I feel fine to sing, so I warm up well. Of course, I go straight to my new book and start singing through music I don't really know with the accompaniments.
My throat begins to hurt in a tense way within about five minutes.
I realize that I've been undersinging because I didn't know the stuff and singing with a dropped soft palate to try to temper my operatic sound for the music. I put away the musical theatre, get out some opera. I raise my soft palate and, predictably, the sound gets all round and full.
Also, within about two minutes, my throat is feeling fine and dandy again.
I figure that this is probably why my voice doesn't like CHOIR (or, to a lesser extent, musical theatre). If anybody finds out how to produce a blendy sound without killing a voice like mine, please let me know. I really do love choral music, but I feel doomed to have a voice that lasts only through about ten minutes of choir for the rest of my life, and it's not worth the stress it puts on my voice
But now I remember how I'll be in NU choirs next year, and not PCDS, so I probably won't have to devise endless nasty ways to sound young.
Cheers!
<3 CE
P.S. Tomorrow is the last day of work! Yes!
My throat begins to hurt in a tense way within about five minutes.
I realize that I've been undersinging because I didn't know the stuff and singing with a dropped soft palate to try to temper my operatic sound for the music. I put away the musical theatre, get out some opera. I raise my soft palate and, predictably, the sound gets all round and full.
Also, within about two minutes, my throat is feeling fine and dandy again.
I figure that this is probably why my voice doesn't like CHOIR (or, to a lesser extent, musical theatre). If anybody finds out how to produce a blendy sound without killing a voice like mine, please let me know. I really do love choral music, but I feel doomed to have a voice that lasts only through about ten minutes of choir for the rest of my life, and it's not worth the stress it puts on my voice
But now I remember how I'll be in NU choirs next year, and not PCDS, so I probably won't have to devise endless nasty ways to sound young.
Cheers!
<3 CE
P.S. Tomorrow is the last day of work! Yes!