Singing Lesson #2

2PM, every other Saturday. This is one of the most important
times in this project, because I have a vocal lesson at this time. Although I should’ve
wakened up 5 hours before I’m supposed to sing, I woke up and 1 because of my
laziness and undisciplined life… and managed to get on a TCAT bus (barely). We
start off our lesson by doing some vocal exercises, where I focus on getting
the best sound possible. She kept telling me to release the sound out of my
mouth so that it could go straight, and far away. Yes, this sounds quite easy,
but it’s really tricky because one tiny mistake messes up everything and causes
me to produce ‘bad’ sounds.  My teacher
told me that singing is all about thinking, so I should look up the sky and
implies myself that I’m singing all the way to that piece of cloud I see. And surprisingly,
when I try this way, I seemed to get better sounds, which is really
interesting.

The lesson was similar to the first one. I sang the first
part of the song along with the melody of piano. But I still had problems
during the part where it has most of the high notes. I knew that the answer to that
part lies in controlling breathing. But while I’m singing, I tend to use up the
breath before I get there and end up making a cacophonous sound. In order to
solve this problem, I need to sing a lot so that I could be enlightened. In
here, ‘enlightenment’ means that after I practice many times, there will be one
time that I could manage the high notes that I couldn’t have otherwise. It
means the feeling I had during that process. Besides singing lots of times, my
teacher made me to do some vocal practice regularly. That is, I sing ‘Ah’ along
a simple progression, such as CDEFG. After that, I go up one note and sing
DEFGA and so on, until I hit 2^nd octave A. This is something that I
really haven’t tried at my house so far, and I hope I could do this steadily to
get good results.