Picking and Singing

Words cannot express how eager I am to resume my voice lessons. I spoke with my teacher the other day. I can't get up to her house for that extra lesson so we'll probably just tack the time onto another lesson. That'll be tricky since my lesson coincides with Alex's music class. His is an hour, mine is 45 minute. But WAIT! My lessons start two weeks before his class starts, so maybe we can do it then.

See, once again blogging solves a problem.

I'm thinking I might try to teach myself one of the songs from the songbook. The book comes with a CD with the pronunciation for non-English songs and piano accompaniment, and I can probably find someone singing it on YouTube. Although I am very careful about that - I don't want to end up imitating anyone, incorporating someone else's style or mistakes. However it's a good way to learn the melody since I don't have a piano. So I listen for just the melody and then make it my own. Or at least that's the theory...

So first I have to go through the book and pick something. Wish me luck.

Vacation Transport

Normally I'd make some sort of "saddle" type joke here, like maybe something about riding sidesaddle, or a caption asking where the saddle is. But seriously, does anyone ride a motorcycle in the desert in a suit? Risking a burn with a hand so close to the tail pipe? "Here, perch on this, and please don't knock it over. You break it, you buy it."

Don't know when this was taken. Found it here. Do people really buy this stuff?



Going on vacation this week so I won't be able to post for a few days. I will be able to moderate comments. No, I'm not going via motorcycle. Yes, I will try to button my shirt correctly. I will take my music with me so I can memorize the parts I still haven't drilled into my brain. Not sure what the rush is. I think I just like to pretend that I'm professional and have to memorize music before some deadline. Hopefully by actually looking at the music I won't learn it incorrectly and practice it with a mistake, as I've been known to do in the past.

ps not putting any names in the tags this time, which means, of course, that ... well, never mind.