Help! My singing voice is dying!

Subject: RE: Help! My singing voice is dying!
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jan 16 - 01:46 PM

for readers, like me, who are too impatient to look carefully through a long thread the first time.

Re-reading the thread more slowly, I found the OP. Wasn't easy. If you look carefully at the list of posts, the original post has a date but NO poster: no "Guest," no letters, no characters, no nothing. You have to read the original post to see who it was, as he put his name at the end.

About halfway down the present thread, a new member identifies himself as the OP. He goes by the member title GutBucketeer and his post is dated 7 November 2000. And yes, his story has a happy ending.

Subject: RE: Help! My singing voice is dying!
From: r.padgett
Date: 23 Jan 16 - 04:03 AM

Interesting:

The voice is a muscle ~ singing is a phsyical thing ~

temporary loss may be a matter of rest needing rest and treatment with medicine


Physical health is a way of life and personally food is a matter of choice ~ if something disagrees you will know!

Weight training, walking, voice training ?? weights I have used for over 40 years ~ I sing little as practice, prefer to sing out at sessions

Use of ones own speaking voice and an extension of to singing; knowing the words go through "in your minds eye" instead, when singing is not an option

Rest relation and physical activity take your time and recover steadily

Ray

Subject: RE: Help! My singing voice is dying!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 23 Jan 16 - 04:49 AM

I stopped singing regularly to take up collecting.
Over the last few years I have taken it up again.
I found I got hoarse very quickly, my range had decreased (I had lost a few rangey songs), and I ran out of breath in long lines.
I returned to the exercises we had been given in The Critics group, basically, relaxation, 4 vowel (sort of) sounds to help me find my natural voice and singing exercises designed to handle pitch, tone, breathing and projection, and finally work of tone and efforts in order that my shanties didn't sound like my lyrical love songs.
Can't claim that I'm singing as well as I was in the early seventies but, thanks to the additional 'Critics' work we did on interpretation and relating the songs to your own experiences, I'm certainly enjoying it a damn sight more
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Help! My singing voice is dying!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 23 Jan 16 - 06:57 AM

Meant to say - now singing Flying Could again like a good-un
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Help! My singing voice is dying!
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 24 Jan 16 - 06:33 AM

Flying Cloud is certainly a long 'un heard Dave Brady sing it once tok about 10 minutes (well seemed like!!)

Ray

Subject: RE: Help! My singing voice is dying!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 24 Jan 16 - 06:37 PM

"Flying Cloud is certainly a long 'un heard Dave Brady sing it once took about 10 minutes"
Too long, IMO - should take less than half that.
The longest song I ever heard in a public session was 'The True Lover's Discussion" - 15 minutes, by an 75 year old in a local bar.
He sang it the following year, decided to cut it short because he wasn't sure of the audience that night - they demanded he sing the rest of it, which he did.
The whole process on that occasion took 16 minutes .
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Help! My singing voice is dying!
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 25 Jan 16 - 11:37 AM

It can take as long as you like Jim.

After all, a soft beat intro, bring in the drums and bass after the first verse, bang a few verses out full pelt, then a lead guitar middle eight, a few more verses then a drum solo with electric mandolin coming in on the second go round, them finish off the song..

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If you want to connect with those of a high waistband in the audience, end with a few electric jigs and reels tagged onto the end.

Mind you, folk music has been delivered like that for almost fifty years so about time it transmogrified yet again eh?
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