{"id":483,"date":"2011-05-28T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2017-10-18T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:56:57","slug":"the-craft-of-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"The craft of singing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m restoring my iphone right now and realizing how dependent many of my morning activities are on my phone and my computer.\u00a0 If I want to practice singing, the music is on both the iphone and the computer.\u00a0 If I want to check the weather, it’s there too.\u00a0 I even have a\u00a0 series of yoga class podcasts I practice with most mornings.\u00a0 I am used to immediate gratification.\u00a0\u00a0 When I was in my twenties I remember people always\u00a0saying\u00a0that ours was\u00a0the instant gratification generation.\u00a0 They were certainly right but I don’t think they\u00a0ever imagined what was to come.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Singing is very low tech.\u00a0 You breathe, open your mouth and sustain your speech.\u00a0 Singing is sustained speech.\u00a0 Singing is to speaking like poetry is to writing.\u00a0There is a craft to every art form, singing is no exception.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am\u00a0still working on the craft of singing.\u00a0 I have a lesson every other week and practice my songs when I can.\u00a0 I also work on memorizing the lyrics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The best way I’ve learned to memorize lyrics is to take a pen to paper and simply write out the words to the song ten times.\u00a0 The first few times I have to look at the lyric.\u00a0 After\u00a0two or three passes,\u00a0I start to remember parts of the lyrics and have to look back at what I’ve written\u00a0 to catch a few phrases or\u00a0 specific words.\u00a0 Dena De Rose suggested this exercise and suggested you vary the way you write out the lyrics some of the times.\u00a0 You might write\u00a0 in large print, in small print, in cursive and in\u00a0 caps, \u00a0in circles, slanting upward, slanting downward and into the margins of the page.\u00a0 It all has an effect on the way you memorize things.\u00a0 After writing out the song five or six times,\u00a0 underline the words that have images attached to them or impact\u00a0you in some way.\u00a0In this way not only are you memorizing the song but you are becoming intimately familiar with the story of the song.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Maleitzke recently taught me another way to memorize the lyrics to a song.\u00a0 You start at the end of the song and memorize the last line and work backwards.\u00a0 I’ve tried that and it works pretty well too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well\u00a0my phone is restoring, I’m here restoring my self in this moment by quietly sitting and writing this post.\u00a0 Now it’s on to the dishes.\u00a0 Sure wish I could find a way to have the iphone or the pc take care of those for me each morning!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m restoring my iphone right now and realizing how dependent many of my morning activities are on my phone and my computer.\u00a0 If I want to practice singing, the music is on both the iphone and the computer.\u00a0 If I want to check the weather, it’s there too.\u00a0 I even have a\u00a0 series of yoga […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-singing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debramugnani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}