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  1. Originally posted by drewhiggins:About six months. I couldn't sustain a note before and then I started learning breath control, vibrato and all that kind of technical stuff and putting it all together to see what I could do.

    I also found out recently, as obvious as it sounds is, for those bigger and longer songs, you need to stand rather than sit.


    I've gone from totally terribly horrible from where I am now where people actually say I can sing... I think I may just have earned the right to be proud.

    I sang without any technique for maybe 9 months and lately I've used the internet to find out more about technique and learned so much... Now I have the Breaking the Chains Vocal Course from Kevin Richards (the youtube guy I linked to).
  2. Exactly, and you do feel proud when you finally achieve where you're trying to get to.

    ''It's a journey not a destination, and I just can't tell what tomorrow brings''. Perfectly describes it.

    I'll have to check out his videos too. Any advice is good advice.
  3. Originally posted by drewhiggins:Exactly, and you do feel proud when you finally achieve where you're trying to get to.

    ''It's a journey not a destination, and I just can't tell what tomorrow brings''. Perfectly describes it.

    I'll have to check out his videos too. Any advice is good advice.


    Some of them helped me a lot... I actually bought his vocal course

    I wouldn't say I've achieved it yet, KR says it takes about 5 years of really good practice to get as good as it can... There's hope
  4. Have starting to sing changed your normal speech?
  5. The head voice one is great. I'll look into that a little further. Five years isn't that long either but yeah, constant practice is key.

    I'm about to head off anyway as I have to get up in like three hours. I've enjoyed this far more than sleeping though. We gotta chat again too!
  6. Nope, still same mid-range speech as before. With age and other factors - I'm 23 - it's probably because of that.
  7. Originally posted by drewhiggins:The head voice one is great. I'll look into that a little further. Five years isn't that long either but yeah, constant practice is key.

    I'm about to head off anyway as I have to get up in like three hours. I've enjoyed this far more than sleeping though. We gotta chat again too!


    Agreed! See ya 'round the forum!

    And about speaking voice, it changed mine, and mine was already matured. Singing has made me speak in a more relaxed lower register. Before I kinda tensed up into my high chest voice when talking. Singing made me stop doing that. Sometimes I start talking in such a low tone one of my "lady" friends actually complained about not being able to hear me.

    G'night!
  8. Ha, it's morning now but anyway. Good night and we'll flood general chat again!!!


  9. Good morning then! It's almost goodnight here on the other side of the planet actually

    Sleep well, and we sure will!
  10. Originally posted by jofice:6 weeks?! That's pretty good, my mate is just about back into contact but he's been doing sprinting for ages now. He hurt in a few more times by coming back too early, the muppet

    Yeah, I went for a review at our local hospital in Norwich 2 weeks after I did it, and the doctor said then it could be up to 8 weeks before I'm ready to play football. However, I took a risk and went to play 5 weeks on, or maybe 4 - I dislocated the knee-cap in week 4 of the semester, saw the doctor at the beginning of week 7? Sounds about right, I spent best part of two weeks at home with my knee propped up, and at that time the outlook was playing again in week 12 (last week of the semester before the Easter break) at best. I played in week 10, 11 and 12. We don't play on proper pitches, we play on hockey pitch astro turf at the UEA Sportspark - we don't have enough for 11 a side but we play 2 hours a time, and it's fairly physical but I held up all three times (although I'm still not actually sure if I played week 10 lol, memory fails). The problem was, the week I busted it, we were playing on new 3G pitches, the fake turf like they have at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, and it's awful. I don't know how FIFA allow it, quite frankly, it's bloody dangerous in my opinion and I won't play on it again. But yeah, I felt like I could give it a go, had been running up and down Norwich streets whilst perhaps a bit inebriated and not done anything bad to it so I decided to take the plunge, and luckily nothing happened. Yet to go back and play Touch Rugby yet though - I know it's not full contact per se, but I still end up with bashes and bumps every time I play
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