Bought the book Strengthen Your Singing Voice

I ordered this book from Amazon a while ago and it arrived yesterday, called Strengthen Your Singing Voice by Sabine someone. Or is it someone Sabine? Meh, anyway, I read it all (wasn’t overly long), and hmm.

Basically it’s about how to sing how I think I want to be able to…strong, belt-y, etc. Not always soft and blah like I do. I wasn’t hugely impressed by it, but I’m gonna do the online exercises (when I’m alone at home next week) and see how it goes. A big thing about it is you need to always tighten your stomach muscles when you want to sing like this…and I kind of remembered something I always said that was when I’m tickled I am SO loud when I cry out and yelp and stuff…and my muscles are always tight in my stomach at that time…and I wondered why I couldn’t get the same effortless volume when singing / talking / shouting normally. Hmm. Something to think about. Maybe. Maybe not. Lol.

yes, it's all about breath support. it's a lot of work. singing sure as hell ain't effortless.

Lol, it always has been for me.

i will tell you something. the deeper I get into this singing stuff, the more I realize that the voice is just as much as instrument as my guitar is. this is both a blessing and a curse. it's a blessing because it means that over time you can develop a good voice with good pitch and all that. it's a curse because it's not simple like talking is. it's {censored}ing hard and demands a lot of concentration and thinking and practice.

I find 80% of what I do in terms of singing easy and enjoyable. I'm so lazy, if it wasn't, I wouldn't do it! lol

But that other 20% of what I can do, I find harder. And then there's the stuff I actually CAN'T do, which is where the real effort lies.

its 98% work for me 2% easy. i have to think about every {censored}ing thing like pitch, breath support, middle voice, chest resonance, head stuff.

Me too

...and vowels, and leaving all consonant sounds until the very end of the word, etc. vowel tones and pitch are the hardest.

See, I get that. I understand it makes it difficult having to always think about these things. But the reason I don't find singing so hard is cause I DON'T think about these things while I'm singing!! I read about 'em (though I only started learning last year even though I've been singing since I was 12), take it in, and then if I remember, I'll try and maybe incorporate some of them while actually singing. But usually I don't.