singing and me
Sunday, January 13, 2008
yeah i can finally do lip trills!! (:
today i shan't blog about working but instead i shall tok about my 2nd lesson at music clinic. today's lesson is diaphragm training and i have been feeling quite excited about it. for ages i have been singing in this airy and powerless way which implies a lack of diaphragm usage! so anyway the teacher lynn taught us some breathing exercises today the 1st of which was belly breath which means we gotta inhale thr our mouths for 5 counts and exhale wif a hiss sound for 8 counts.
the next one was THE KILLER for me. you guys might be thinking its some chim stuff rite? but NO! any retard can do it! im serious. this exercise is called lip trills and u basically gotta pierce ur lips together and just let them vibrate. SOUNDS EASY RITE? indeed it is cos so far, everyone i have asked from my icc collegues to my brother can do it!( but i was confident my bro could since he had been known to do lots of stupid stuff in his early teens like moving his ears etc. haha) anyway, i couldnt believe i couldnt do smth tt made me look as retarded as this exercise! so after my lesson ended at 5 i have been practising till now..(yes as im blogging my lips are vibrating nonstop) SO! its true! i can finally do this!!hahaha i have never felt so happy and relieved to do smth silly looking man. oh well but im determined to get it right if it means improving my singing techniques.
lol i realised i blogged an entire paragraph about the lip trills. well for the rest of the lesson we had pitching and hearing exercises and we learnt a new song by jacky cheung called wo zhen de shou shang le. its a GREAT SONG. i love it also because the mtv stars JERRY YEN!!! woohoo wat can be better than that! :P so anyway the 4 of us students took turns to sing and lynn commented on our singing. her comments for me was tt my singing was totally straightforward and lacked feelings. i was shocked cos i really really tried imagining tt im a heartbroken soul pouring her heart out! i guess the image only stayed in my mind but did not register in my voice sadly):
anyway, its only been the 2nd singing lesson but im totally loving it! (= cant wait for the next lesson on sat. in the meantime sy and i will be going to kbox SOON to practise! CANT WAIT :P
