and BOTH are right up there with the top five most tenuous links to queen ever
1. taking a holiday in Holland because they used to have a Queen of their own
2. going to Vienna for A Night At The Opera
3. Buying a horse so to have A Day at The Races
4. Having the "Sunday Sun" newspaper delivered, because it used to be called "The News of The World"
5. Downloading loads of old Frankie Howerd videos - for all the Innuendo "oooer missus, now look ...shut yer face"
mooghead · Member since
I don't believe in Jebus and Jebus is a Queen song. Does that make me the best Queen fan in the world?
Yes, it does.
;-)
Brandon36 · Member since
It was sort of in jest, lol. Take it as you will ;)
Brandon36 · Member since
So piano and voice lessons have been going well.
I've studied theory of music on my own for a few months now, and I have steadily applied it to my lessons and such... I'm progressing at a faster rate with my vocals when compared to my piano lessons.
For piano I have a good understanding of theory but I need to just get in the habit of my hands going where they need to be.
When I started voice lessons I was carrying my chest voice way too high and had a noticeable vocal break around Eb3 or something around there.
Fast forward to now and there are no noticeable breaks, I have developed a decent blend and am gaining a lot more control over breathing, vibrato, and range. Right now the lowest note I've got is C2, B, and/or A (sort of) below that. Highest without falsetto is high tenor C (C5) but sometimes it's a little weak. Higher notes (Ab4, Bb4) are getting really easy now.
If I tried singing Bohemian Rhapsody's ballad section, starting on "Mama" (The note value here is D3), I used to struggle and generally just stayed an octave below. Now it is way more natural and takes much less effort. I credit that to my instructor, helping me realize the importance of proper breath control and support as well as the fact that I've been "exercising" my vocal cords for a bit now.
I have a high level of trust and confidence in my teacher. I'm also excited to start college soon, especially getting to study theory at the college level.
splicksplack · Member since
Good luck. I played tuba up to Grade 8 level (in England that's the highest you can do outside music college). You can only acheive it if you've done up to Grade 5 theory. So I taught myself piano in totally the wrong way. basically bashing out chords (block or arpeggio) with the left and melody with the right). Enough to get the party going but not to sight-read anything.
In fact, since I've tried to study piano properly I've found that playing a monophonic instrument first has been a drawback. That's because i was only reading one clef (treble - because thats how tuba's - or Eb basses - are written for in UK brass bands).
So it gets kinda difficult to make that shift to reading bass clef as well at the same time. How do you find it?
