Singing Out!

I had a very productive voice lesson today - even though I actually didn't do a whole lot of singing. I view my teacher as a co-conspirator in my plans to take on the theater world. Now that it's a brand new year - it's time for some new game plans.

The first order of the day was adding a few more songs to my book...funny ones! Not necessarily haha poop-your-pants funny, but, nice light-hearted, good ol' "that's amusing" kinds of songs. I want to spice things up a bit - enough with the sweet and sappy ingenue crap - I want to do some fun charactery stuff!

My teacher handed me a pile of new music - both legit and "chesty" to work on for next time. We also discussed the possibility of composing some original pieces. My teacher is big on original compositions and arrangements so, he told me that if I had some ideas that I wanted to bring into him, he would be more than happy to aid me in fully realizing the ideas. How cool would it be to bring in an original composition of my own for an audition? I would love that! Anything to set myself apart from the pack, ya know? But hopefully in a good way.

At the end of the lesson, we worked on "A Way Back to Then" and ironed out some trouble spots and I had a bit of a vocal breakthrough! My teacher ran me through a small section of the song on my nasal twang "Neeeooo, neeeeoooo, neeeoooooos" to help me override an area that was filling my chords with uncertainty. Happily the trick worked! Hopefully after running through this section of the song as a vocal exercise every day, it will strengthen some weaker parts of my vocal anatomy and help me stretch my range over this coming year.

2009 is gonna be a great year for singing. Can you feel it?