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[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:35am

thanks for the karaoke info..

i love colony too - always have... and you're right - they overprice but it's cause they know they can... when you can't find it anywhere else - they have it!!!

what's with all this vocal trouble?- shubert is correct immediate and TOTAL vocal rest - lots of liquid (non carbonated and non caffinated - dries you out...)

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:35am

Alanis...

Jagged little pill...I remember the year...I was like in 5th grade or something and I still enjoyed it. Haha good stuff.

~Steven

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:36am

*groans*

5th grade?

my daughter's in 5th grade....

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[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:37am

Haha, very true, Fredi.

I don't need vocal rest, I'm in vocal withdrawal! I need to sing! But I know I can't because everyone else in my house is sleeping. Ugh.

~Steven

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:37am

Seriously. I've been resting my voice all this weekend in preparation to get back to rehearsal, and I feel so much better. Don't talk, and don't even mouth words!

Jagged Little Pill is one of those few albums where I'll listen to almost every song.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:38am

Haha, well, in 5th grade, I just listened to what my older brother listened to, and I guess he listened to Alanis a lot, therefore so did I.

~Steven

[camerangel]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:38am

Yes I know total vocal rest.. I'm trying I really am.. I've been drinking lots of herbal teas, mainly throat coat, which has helped a lot. The funny thing is that I have missed my last three chior rehearsals because of Suessical and now I wont be able to sing tomorrow.. The best part is that I'm the only first soprano in the chior.. Oh well, they will just have to live.. I couldn't sing right now if I had to.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:40am

HeyMrMusic- Thanks, and I love your avatar.


Colony does overprice, but they know that they have everything and people want it so they'll buy it anyway. And I have to say it's generally worth it.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:40am

The only first soprano? How big is your choir?

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:42am

I'm trying total vocal rest. I haven't been singing lately, which has been driving me insane especially since I really want to work on my audition song.Mainly I'm trying to motivate myself to shut up by telling myself I'll have no voice FOR the audition if I don't. And so far that's working. :)

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:43am

Ugh, I miss being in a choir. My college doesn't really have a real choir. It makes me upset haha.

I sing baritone, but in my high school choir, we had no good tenors, so I had to sing tenor all the time. Singing higher than you're supposed to is not very good, ah! Haha. I don't do it anymore. I've learned my lesson.

Why are tenors asked to sing all of those ungodly notes? Heh.

~Steven

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:45am

glad to know your voice is better shubert...

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE ALL YOU SINGERS... your voice should carry you your entire career and only get stronger as you get older.

It's a muscle like any other in the body and should be trained (and rested) in very similar ways.....

train the voice gradually - make sure your warmups include exercises that stretch your range in both directions...

on the "off times" (non-show times) sing new stuff that makes you hit new notes and learn new placement

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "head voice" vs. "chest voice" YOU ONLY HAVE ONE VOICE..... which is why when you can't talk - you can't sing...

PLACEMENT is the key - learn to place pitches and sounds comfortably on your voice muscles (like lifters learn to press more and more weight - or dancers learn to balance longer or get in extra turns on the standing leg....)

make sense?

Updated On: 11/28/04 at 01:45 AM

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:47am

Let.

Me.

Tell.

You.

About.

The.

Date.

From.

Hell.

Why isn't there a F*CKing evil-eye-twitch emoticon when you need one? Grrr....

(And before you think I'm really pathetic since the first thing I do when I get home is hop on here, keep in mind that it's because all my "real life" friend have heard about this---while I was hiding in the restaurant bathroom with my cell phone DURING the date.)

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:48am

Makes sense to me.

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:48am

ooooohhh

sweetie - I'm so sorry

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:49am

Sorry Tiff

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:49am

My voice teacher and I have been working on trying to combine my head and chest registers so I do, indeed, have one voice. It's very hard to tell what I'm supposed to be doing sometimes, though. For instance, I was singing "The Worst Pies in London" awhile ago and always find myself switching between a belty, chesty sound to a mixy head sound that's more in my throat. Very weird. I need to work on it.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:49am

The best thing is I've got to face the little bastard in lecture on Tuesday. FABULOUS. It was comically bad, although at the time, it was just plain bad. I mean, I was looking around for hidden cameras, thinking I was on Blind Date or something.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:49am

Oh crap, Tiff. What happened??

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:50am

Thanks Fredi. It's good to be told that every once in a while. To keep in healthy vocal shape and stuff.

~Steven

[insomniak]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:50am

Oh Tiff.

[AnotherJK]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:50am

"THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "head voice" vs. "chest voice" YOU ONLY HAVE ONE VOICE..... which is why when you can't talk - you can't sing..."

It's interesting to hear you (well read) that because I'm taking voice lessons for the first time (I'm 20 and just wanted to improve --I'll never be a performer) but we talk a lot about head voice vs. chest voice. We talk about how to feel the difference between them, and how it's harder for me personally to know where I am pitch-wise in my head voice--it's much easier in my chest voice (ie--lower).

I'm not trying to be argumentative--just sort of trying to get clairification??

[VivaBohemia]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:51am

::Explicit Language Deleted::

I leave on page...oh 23 or so and come back and its past 40. I refuse to read 20 pages worth of stuff lol. So I apologize if I repeat anything. If I do, smack me.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:52am

VivaBohemia: I misse dthe whole thread. I read mos tof it, too. (Im up to page 40)

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/28/04 at 1:52am

okay - we'll resume vocal health when I come back in a few days...

let's close out the nite giving tiff our ear and support

I've been there doll....

my shoulder is yours

edit...
MOST teachers do that whole "head" vs. "chest" voice thing... it is, unfortunately, a gross misconception.

The genius that helped me tap into the voice I have today... taught me all about placement. I teach it to those who come to me...

note - I was one of the few who was NEVER out for "vocal problems". since I truly understood the placement technique - I haven't had a real vocal problem since 1988. my voice will tire (like any) but not really "go out" (unless I smell perfume to which I am hightly allergic)

Updated On: 11/28/04 at 01:52 AM