Re: [Harp-L] Learning to Sing

["Alexander Savelyev" <Alexander.Savelyev@xxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for cross posting. I've got the audio lessons SingSing - 3 CDs, they are great for vocal workout especially for jazz fans (lot's of scales and arpeggios covered - with good explanation and nice playalongs). I enjoy them very much and recommend to anyone. And you can pre listen. 

You can check out the content here: 
http://www.singsing.co.uk/

Let me know if you like it.

Alex







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>>> Bill <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 11/01/2010 20:14 >>>
Thanks Roger
There's a vocal coach in town that a friend of mine goes to and recommends,
she teaches at the Guildhall in London and performs at Ronnie Scotts, so
bound to be good and apparantly not as expensive as you'd think with that
pedigree  - so i think booking some time in would be a really good idea.
Good to practice scales and arpeggios etc as a singer I think to get them in
your head a more and any work on breathing and posture is always good for
harmonica playing as well as having the extra string to the bow.  Been
thinking about percussion too - all good!

Thanks again

Bill
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Roger A Gonzales <gonz1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Bill,
> This very thing happened to me while I was an undergrad.  Because I knew
> going from a
> community college to a state university that as a harmonica player I didn't
> have a chance to
> be a music major.  So originally I began as a liberal arts major at CSU
> Fresno because I was
> going to be a classroom teacher who played music for his students...ALOT.
>  My first
> semester at CSU Fresno I took a music class for non-music majors and the
> professor noticed
> that everything came pretty easy for me.  This was because of all the
> theory I took at Comm.
> College.  I told her my predicament and she asked if I played any other
> instrument and at the
> time I didn't.  I told her I sang in a local band but at the time I wasn't
> singing that much.  She
> "suggested" that I audition for the Concert Choir.  I did and made it.  It
> gave me an
> opportunity to be a music major and to teach music instead of being a
> classroom teacher
> which was my second choice anyway.  I got to study opera man some other
> classical
> pieces.  It just got better because I was able to study all band
> instruments including
> percussion.
> You are absolutely right about finding your own voice.  If you are not able
> to study privately,
> audition for a community choir.  Start singing a lot but take some type of
> classes.   There are
> music classes at the community college and adult schools that will get you
> started.  It is so
> much better for a harmonica player to be able to do as much as he can to be
> "a part of the
> band" when your not playing lead or comping.  Otherwise you just stand
> there not having the
> right thing to add at the right time.  In my band I play harmonica, lead
> and back-up vocals,
> and percussion.  Since we already have a conga player in the band, most of
> my percussion
> work is shakers, tambourine, claves etc.  Everything you add to what you do
> makes you more
> marketable as a musician.  Just as if you begin to play jazz as well as
> blues you would be able
> to play different gigs with different musicians and use your skills as a
> vocalist and
> percussionist elsewhere.
> Singing is one of the most important things ANY musician can learn how to
> do.  I have many
> friends who even though they are instrumentalists, they ALL sing to a
> certain degree or
> another.  And they use their voice even if they are not singing in a band.
>  Learning to sing
> will add to your musicality as an instrumentalists.  You begin to play more
> like a singer and
> sing more like a player.  That's a good thing.  Cause when you need it, you
> got it.
>
> Roger Gonzales MA/Mus.Ed.
> Fresno,CA.
>
>
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