The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #112368   Message #2379638
Posted By: Don Firth
02-Jul-08 - 09:08 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
WAV, playing the line on the recorder first and then singing it as a way of trying to stay on pitch I'm afraid isn't working for you. What you need to do is practice. If you don't already have the tune solidly in your "mind's ear," without having to play it on the recorder immediately before you sing it, then you don't know the tune! And if you don't know the tune, you're not even close to being ready to put your singing before the public.

Record youself, then listen to yourself critically. And if it sounds fine to you, have someone else--not a friend or relative, but someone objective--listen to it and give you an honest opinion. And listen to what they say.

Unless you want to be an object if pity and ridicule, for cryin' out loud, don't put your singing on the internet until you can at least sing on pitch and hold a steady, firm tone that doesn't wobble all over the place!

I'm not trying to put you down. This is just very good advice. If you have any ambitions as a singer, what you've already posted on MySpace can come back to haunt you!

Don Firth