tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495622859323058834.post490397677676918650..comments2022-12-23T02:21:31.320-05:00Comments on ONCE MORE WITH FEELING: So What Do I Sing? Vocal Physicality...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399266373570613570noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495622859323058834.post-4424555084419865462009-10-15T10:44:22.114-04:002009-10-15T10:44:22.114-04:00thanks so much Shaun! Discovering and claiming on...thanks so much Shaun! Discovering and claiming one's voice has so many elements and facets and incarnations - it is a life-long journey! As we journey, we discover! And in the discovery, we claim! Take your time, take baby steps when you need to...you'll get where you need to be!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00399266373570613570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3495622859323058834.post-71121985670115301272009-10-14T23:28:12.719-04:002009-10-14T23:28:12.719-04:00I enjoy your enthusiasm.
The road you suggest is ...I enjoy your enthusiasm.<br /><br />The road you suggest is probably the true best path and the path everyone should ultimately follow but as a beginner, it is a path that I find hard as I am sure many do.<br /><br />I guess I am blessed and cursed. I have one of those strange voices that really doesn't fit into one of the regular fachs. I am an unusually high tenor. So, I don't have any real idea what I will come out sounding like. I have places I would love to take my voice but no real idea what I can do with it. Starting out, I have no idea whether I will be the person who can't sing a full two octaves or the rare male who has more than two and half. I also have absolutely no idea where my tessitura will lie. I might have a really high voice and enjoy singing in the same tessitura as a regular high tenor or my tessitura might be really high. It is hard to say and it is a learning process. <br /><br />However, the more you talk to people, the more you realize that everyone in small ways deviates from the standard definitions of fach and everyone's voice is special. I might have a rare voice but that does not make my voice any better sounding than someone else's. Honestly, it probably just makes me a very acquired taste. Beauty is not in the range or type of the voice but in the quality of the voice and the way it is utilized. <br /><br />Learning to sing properly is painful. It is having to learn not to care what you sound like and just let the instrument be. It is about knowing that in order to sound good to others you might have to sound aweful to yourself and be willing to try new things and let others guide you while you slowly come to understand what they are trying to show you. It is a lot of trust with something that should be profoundly important to everyone. It is very easy to note that singing in a certain range or weight is painful but as a beginner, you don't really know your sound yet and you can't say "that is not me".Shaunnoreply@blogger.com