Time Practiced: Hour and a half voice lesson today. Gotta love pre-scheduled practice time that you pay for. :)
My voice teacher informed me that I need to give myself a pat on the back today. I did a great job in my lesson, despite not "practicing" much at all since my last lesson three weeks ago. Apparently, spending time watching people sing arias on youtube and just doing random reading about my arias and not actually singing them did me well. Who knew that I didn't need to practice to progress! Victory!
Ok, so that being said, I guess I did learn something. Just because I'm not obsessively singing through my music doesn't mean I can't "practice" in other ways. In fact, my voice teacher is so in love with using youtube as a practice tool, when I got to his house today he was showing my accompanist a youtube video of Kristin Chenoweth singing "Glitter and Be Gay" (it's linked below as the song of the day for your listening/viewing pleasure). It was a fabulous performance, btw. All this time, I thought I was cheating when I used youtube to hear an aria or learn a new song and it turns out my voice teacher advocates it now! Ha!
In all seriousness though, it was a great lesson. We spent the lesson focusing on letting your body and mind be quiet while you perform so that only the most natural and real things happen and come out of you. It was great. Super hard for my scatterbrained self, but a neat experience to have- let's just hope I can duplicate it on my own. Plus, you always know it's a great lesson when you, your accompanist, and your teacher are all crying at the same time. At least, I think... ;)
I don't know. I might owe my teacher a coffee as it is our standing rule that there is "no crying in singing" (you have to say it like Tom Hanks did in A League of Their Own- "there's no crying in baseball!"). But you know what, I think since they were crying too, it negates my crying so I don't owe them coffee. At least that's the theory I'm going with.
Today's Recommendation: Give yourself a pat on the back. You deserve it.
No comments:
Post a Comment