For the Record.
If I say it, I'll do it: I'm going to start calling around about voice lessons.
I'm sick of having a great voice but not always being able to sing on key, and I think part of my ennui is because I'm fucking bored. I'm not learning anything new. I meant to get on this months and months ago, and stalled out because I'm deeply concerned about finding a teacher that I can stand. Most teachers around here have a very strong churchy background, and as unflattering as this probably is to my character, that makes me about as uncomfortable as a Christian would be taking lessons from a Satanist. There's really no way to avoid it, though. I figure if I can suck it up and adhere to a strict "don't ask, don't tell" policy, I can probably deal.
I'd love to go back to dancing, but I'm not ready yet. I did the performing thing, and I got burnt out because there was too much pressure. With private lessons, there wouldn't be that sort of pressure to perform, and I could just do my own thing. I just want to be able to sing at holidays when my friends bring out the guitars and the mandolins. I want to be able to sing to my cats without being terrified that someone will hear me yowling atonally and be struck dead on the spot.
Huh.
It just occurred to me that howling would probably be a pretty good voice warmup.
I'm sick of having a great voice but not always being able to sing on key, and I think part of my ennui is because I'm fucking bored. I'm not learning anything new. I meant to get on this months and months ago, and stalled out because I'm deeply concerned about finding a teacher that I can stand. Most teachers around here have a very strong churchy background, and as unflattering as this probably is to my character, that makes me about as uncomfortable as a Christian would be taking lessons from a Satanist. There's really no way to avoid it, though. I figure if I can suck it up and adhere to a strict "don't ask, don't tell" policy, I can probably deal.
I'd love to go back to dancing, but I'm not ready yet. I did the performing thing, and I got burnt out because there was too much pressure. With private lessons, there wouldn't be that sort of pressure to perform, and I could just do my own thing. I just want to be able to sing at holidays when my friends bring out the guitars and the mandolins. I want to be able to sing to my cats without being terrified that someone will hear me yowling atonally and be struck dead on the spot.
Huh.
It just occurred to me that howling would probably be a pretty good voice warmup.