Singing!

I was at the Maroon 5, One Republic, and Bruno Mars concert in San Diego on Saturday, Oct 16th. First off, I love Bruno Mars... His voice amazes me, and before Saturday night, I had only ever heard the recordings from youtube etc. But when he got on and sang, it sounded just as great! I was so excited about this especially with all the stylistic and/or correctional auto-tuning. He has a slight rasp, which seems like it is because he invokes a rasp for stylistic purposes, but has maybe done that improperly or not with the more appropriate technique with the false vocal folds. Other than that he sings fluidly/smoothly as we have been learning with our exercises. It is really noticeable when he breaks from the fluidity of phrases, and it serves a more stylistic purpose.
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and his dancing makes me happy.

hey all

After the class on last Thursday, I became so hesitant to use my voice. I went to the football game on Saturday and I tried not to scream even at the moment of touch down.

Anyway, I am so excited to practice the new song I pick.

See you guys on Thursday!

April

Postino for free!

Hey all,

I found a free offer for the Opera Postino. I heard there's a really famous vocalist.

Tickets are expensive, but they have a screening for free this weekend! Check it out!

http://www.laopera.com/offers/screening/

Kavinee

Sound vs. Diction

Hey everyone!

As I was practicing for our Midterm tomorrow, I kept running into a conflict between pronouncing the words the way I wanted to and getting the best sound out. Like we discussed in class, we should be focusing on the best sound, but I've had to break a habit of focusing on diction to do that. Thankfully, by the time I was done practicing today, I feel like I had achieved that to an extent. Hopefully that will show tomorrow.

See you all then!
Eric

P.S. in case any of you would be interested in hearing an acapella version of the song I'm singing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl9vqlnm84E