hi again
yesterday's post was a success -- thanks for saying hi!
The CD release concert went well. I was incredibly nervous about my voice because my throat felt so raw. So one of my musician friends was like, take your guitar and sing some quiet songs at the beginning. So I did that, and I played four of my originals, which was fun and yet, as usual, weird. My originals come out very slowly, and, ahem, many of them are fannish, so that means I have a hard time putting an album together. I sang a vampire song and three old love songs. An album of my originals is my next goal! So I closed my guitar set with House of the Rising Sun, which is a big showy vocal performance for me, and it went very well and got my chi up, so then I sailed on for the rest of the evening and did two 45 minutes sets after the initial guitar set. thanks for all your well wishes! don't forget to PM me for the url if you'd like to hear the album!
To a classically trained singer, the ballad style might sound dangerous to the voice, being so loud and powerful. The ballad style is not bel canto, the classical voice technique that you learn in a music degree for quality tone, and also as a method to train and protect the voice. For me though, the ballad style is a "power" style that I access from a different place in the voice, but still with the posture, breath control and relaxation that I've internalized from my classical training, so it feels perfectly easy and not harsh in the throat. Witness to this fact is that I sang full out for two 45 minute sets while sick and with a sore throat, and felt perfectly fine today, whereas, with my normal busking gigs I do sometimes fatigue my throat by singing too "naturally" (that is, without taking care to set up the voice with proper technique).
also, I do in fact write songs to order. For example, I'm performing a song at church next week that was written to order, and I've written two specially commissioned wedding songs, and I'm pretty sure I could write a specially commissioned song that would go with a fandom theme. So don't be shy if you ever need a song!
In other news, I'm having trouble getting started with my Jo/Three fic, because, FOR SOME REASON, my mind keeps going straight to the ahem, good parts. So I guess I'll just have to write the PWP first and figure out any supporting plot later. :P
The CD release concert went well. I was incredibly nervous about my voice because my throat felt so raw. So one of my musician friends was like, take your guitar and sing some quiet songs at the beginning. So I did that, and I played four of my originals, which was fun and yet, as usual, weird. My originals come out very slowly, and, ahem, many of them are fannish, so that means I have a hard time putting an album together. I sang a vampire song and three old love songs. An album of my originals is my next goal! So I closed my guitar set with House of the Rising Sun, which is a big showy vocal performance for me, and it went very well and got my chi up, so then I sailed on for the rest of the evening and did two 45 minutes sets after the initial guitar set. thanks for all your well wishes! don't forget to PM me for the url if you'd like to hear the album!
To a classically trained singer, the ballad style might sound dangerous to the voice, being so loud and powerful. The ballad style is not bel canto, the classical voice technique that you learn in a music degree for quality tone, and also as a method to train and protect the voice. For me though, the ballad style is a "power" style that I access from a different place in the voice, but still with the posture, breath control and relaxation that I've internalized from my classical training, so it feels perfectly easy and not harsh in the throat. Witness to this fact is that I sang full out for two 45 minute sets while sick and with a sore throat, and felt perfectly fine today, whereas, with my normal busking gigs I do sometimes fatigue my throat by singing too "naturally" (that is, without taking care to set up the voice with proper technique).
also, I do in fact write songs to order. For example, I'm performing a song at church next week that was written to order, and I've written two specially commissioned wedding songs, and I'm pretty sure I could write a specially commissioned song that would go with a fandom theme. So don't be shy if you ever need a song!
In other news, I'm having trouble getting started with my Jo/Three fic, because, FOR SOME REASON, my mind keeps going straight to the ahem, good parts. So I guess I'll just have to write the PWP first and figure out any supporting plot later. :P