I certainly hope you’re not too busy to laugh or cry and if you do that a lot you’ll be pretty good at both. You have always thought that permission should come from others – but it can only come from you. The only reason I have a job is because people want to improve their ability to sing to a professional level – but I’ll be the first to say training is not necessary. Singing, laughing, crying, breathing, sucking, extracting the rules of language, flinching and grasping are all instincts we are equipped with at birth. That’s crazy! Does that mean we shouldn’t ever laugh or smile if we have less then super-model teeth? Unless we can let the tears roll on cue like a professional actor should we leave crying to the pros? If you can’t sing at a professional level then you should not even allow it into your life. This is what current culture has done to our very innate ability to sing. That friend would probably say the same thing if you shared that you wrote to a vocal coach about improving your voice. If you told a friend that you only allow yourself to laugh or cry when alone in the car – your friend would suggest you get emotional guidance form a professional. It’s only in recent human history (the last 500 years) that someone would refer to themselves as a non-singer.

Before there was the written word all history was passed down the generations via song. From those early musical sounds words were created and eventually the rules formed for languages. From the ugly sound when you stub your toe on a rock to the melodic hum when eating sweet berries, humans first used singing to convey information. Before there was speech as a form of communication there was only the musical sounds of our voices to express how we feel. You left one very important thing out of your lovely ode to singing - it came BEFORE language. I’d be willing to give a lesson a shot and would welcome any advice with open arms.Ī. Any thoughts, or is this just a pipe dream? And if it is, you can bet on the fact that I’m not going to belt to the radio any less. School is my priority, but potentially doing something I love this much could make my life even more wonderful than it already is. Singing is something–the only thing–that I would like to do for me and no one else. So I will not allow myself to expect a response, but I was just wondering your thoughts. I know you are a busy man (with your three convenient locations) and probably get emails like this all the time. And you and I both know who is backing up whom. To be quite honest, I have never had the balls to try it without GaGa or Simon and Garfunkel to back me up. Language in itself is beautiful in all forms, and singing exists to me as a serendipitous paradox the passion, the vulnerability, the quiet power that the two birth the mere thought of articulating that relationship makes my heart want to explode. Singing is something that makes my soul vibrate. I’m a full-time student and don’t have much time, but I am a firm believer in my schedule clearing up when I die, so I can go ahead and sleep then. Your online lessons intrigue me very much.

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