I'm going to try singing this week. I've always loved singing and it's always been an important part of my life. It would be impractical and too expensive for me to take private lessons every day this week, so I'm going to be working out of a book that I got a while back. It's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Singing. It's meant for a purpose just like this; you use the book to work on your singing and to help you decide if you want to invest in voice lessons.
For the lessons in the book, you listen to the exercise on a CD and then you record yourself performing the exercise. I thought about making little videos and posting them, but Mitchell and I decided against that. We figure that people really don't want to listen to me doing warm-ups and vocal exercises, so I won't post them and make you feel obligated to do that.
Chapter 2 is where things really get started in the book, Chapter 1 is mostly a history lesson. Today I did some exercises where I compare saying phrases to singing phrases. It's supposed to help me learn to recognize the physical difference between speaking and singing. I have a vocal background, so I really understand this pretty well. Instead, I am trying to learn to mimic what I hear in the recording and figure out the feeling of that.
Today, all I did was practice speaking and singing "Yoo-Hoo!" That's all I was able to do today, though.
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