Cross posted in fleen

Things that I think have helped me lose a crapload of inhibitions in the past year or so:

1. Max. Nothing like a baby in the house to make you feel comfortable running around, exaggerating, making silly faces, using absurd comedic and ridiculous movement devices to get a response :-)

2. Teaching. Absolutely. I can't believe how ( Read more... )

Recital Thoughts. I was absolutely exhausted. And for some reason, I felt like it was damn hard work from the very beginning. While overall my voice has improved a lot in the last few months, I felt the pressure of nerves (and someone in the audience I wasn't expecting to show up) and I copped out/fell into a lot of bad habits. Surely it wasn't as ( Read more... )

( Long 'I suck' rant )

Well, anskiere has just brought it to my attention that my laptop has a Mic Input and if I get a good microphone I can just record music in wav format straight to my computer. That is certainly a temporary solution to my recording problem... as for recording my lessons, it might be a pain in the ass and it'll use up all my space, but then I can always burn ( Read more... )

I just did a crapload of research on recording stuff, because I think I'm going to buy an Ipod and record stuff ( Read more... )

Was really impressed and inspired by some of the performances from the Women in Voice. I'm so pissed off I had to leave the performance early, but I managed to see Kate Miller Heidke, Alison St. Ledger, a bit of Kristin Berardi, Carera (I forget her last name), and Pearlie someone. I was really impressed by Pearlie (the flamenco/Bulgarian singer ( Read more... )

Some things were crap about today - a lot of kids didn't show up for their singing lessons because of exams etc. But I'm over being pissed off about that and just thought I'd share a few things about teaching younguns that I've discovered ( Read more... )

Getting quite excited about upcoming Sleep & Dreams concert. Yeah I finally decided on a theme - sleep and dreams. In honour of many things

1. Sleep Deprivation studies by snowcanwait2. Sleep Deprivation discoveries by pregnant and newly babied sister and general household ( Read more... )

Feeling much more.... busy. Got stuff to work towards now ( Read more... )

Have had a great time up the coast this week. I really do love this job, it's very exciting. And some nice things happened to me throughout the day - I had a lot of fun and laughed a lot, got talking about really interesting stuff, they understood a difficult concept, we had a fascinating conversation, someone told me some exciting news that they ( Read more... )