Introduction
HELP PLEASE
I would like to improve my vocal technique and hope through your comments I may do so. I would like to meet others with a similar desire. I have included voice samples of the various ways I sing and speak and I will try to explain the technique involved, and the problems I have. I will also post my diary notes that I have kept over the years.
Sometimes in life when I truly relax and feel wonderfully rested, and refreshed…well, it is just a great feeling. This is what I sometimes feel when I sing. I firmly believe a good vocal technique is healthy as it releases tensions and a free open sound is itself relaxing. For me there really is a great joy and pleasure in singing…when I do it in a certain way. Trouble is that it does not always work like that. Sometimes I feel soreness in the throat no matter what I do. I think the following sums it up for me. This is from my Janurary 12, 2008 diary.
“But I also found that I have to get this sensation that I am “letting go” of holding anything, before I can feel I am able to sing completely free. That is when it really is a joy to sing and I do not want to stop. I just feel like singing forever. It is what makes me most proud of all the work I have put in. To feel such freedom in the body is like flying or running like the wind. Then there is no longer any thought of “trying” or “competing” but just the wonderful pleasure of singing or speaking. I feel then I really do have a beautiful voice and one I have a complete mastery of.”
