Since two years back, I’ve been living in a con­stant high, almost like eupho­ria. I’ve been con­stantly facing and chal­leng­ing my fears. All except one: Public Singing. Now I’m having a go at it, and I’ll let you track my progress!

Boys don’t cry?
When I was a kid, I used to com­pete at dif­fer­ent danc­ing com­pe­ti­tions. I loved musi­cals and every­thing dance related. How­ever, I’ve always had issues with into­na­tion and fig­ur­ing out what it actu­ally means to sing. Like, what IS singing? How do I do it? And what is the tech­nique and short cuts that you should be aware of to increase your skills? What is a tone? What is a fre­quency? Can I hit the same tone using my light voice as well as using my dark voice? You get the idea .
Singing is a mys­tery unless you under­stand these basics.

All you need is love!
When I first met my love Amanda, we made a deal that basi­cally said that if I would teach her com­puter tech­ni­cal stuff, she would teach me singing tech­nique. The very night that we made that deal I asked her a lot of ques­tions regard­ing tones, fre­quen­cies and notes. She couldn’t answer them all, but she could answer some. Mostly regard­ing what “an octave” is and how notes work in regard to “dark voice” or “light voice”.

Then I started doing some research on my own. This Wikipedia arti­cle is a great read!

And guess what I received in Christ­mas gift from Amanda?
An ebook course called “The Singing Tutor“!
It was a great present, and I’ve read it through. It’s a detailed and good book, and I got a couple of warm-​up mp3′s in the package.

Now I work through them every other day, and I’m pretty con­fi­dent that even my speech is improv­ing.
Over­all, my under­stand­ing of how a sound takes shape using the voice is reach­ing a much higher level of aware­ness through these exer­cises. So far, so good! Look­ing for­ward to the upcom­ing weeks and more improvements.

Who else has the ambi­tion to improve their singing?