Great video, thank you for that. It addresses many points that have long concerned me in both practicing and recording, and on stage. When you do things over long periods of time, it's important to maintain focus, not to practice too much, but to practice the right things with the right goal. Thanks for the reminder.
Very good points \m/ I have not been practicing systematically for eh... 8 weeks or so and I realize now that lack of concrete new set of goals has been one of the drivers for not practicing.
Okay so I have All The Goals 😃 but the point about retrieval is super interesting and also makes me feel less bad when I can do a new thing one day but struggle the next, didn't really think of it like that as part of the learning process! And yeah for performances, I like to also plan little bits of choreography whether to go with the lyrics or for the non-singing bits in-between... and the best times to grab the water!! "Practice not bashing yourself..." so no vocal Fight Club then hey 😅😅 Omg yeah my violin teacher used to push me to practice a lot, but sometimes I wouldn't practice and I'd actually do better, other times I'd practice a lot and do worse and she'd accuse me of not practicing. Brain definitely needs space sometimes. Vocal rest is funny tho, now that speech to text is a thing. I did a livestream a few months back using Google Translate to talk for me, and shenanigans naturally ensued... 🤪 Whoops didn't mean to turn this into a running commentary. So much good stuff in this video!! Hardest part about practice for me is working around my mood. Singing tends to lift my mood, but getting started is tough when I'm in a funk, and knowing when the low energy is just mood or something more can be hard to untangle to decide whether it's physically worth trying to sing, or better to take the day off. Sometimes it's also better for me to just casually sing by chucking on some music, especially one of _those songs_ where it's almost impossible for me to _not_ find myself singing along. Sometimes that then turns into proper practice where I actually work on something instead of just mindlessly hollering along. I guess I'm kinda tricking myself into practice? Whatever works, right?? 😬 Sorry for another long comment, can't help myself omfg x_x
12:45 true. recording vocal takes with an engineer sitting there is.... weird. real weird. especially after being so accustomed to recording myself in reaper, and then in the studio there is no visual of the vocal waveform to look at while recording, no computer monitor, etc., just a soundproof room with a microphone and a bunch of glass windows.
Oh yes, I've had everything, from an isolated room with a window and the engineer staring straight at me, to an isolated room with no visual contact at all, to looking at the back of the engineer's head... it's wild XD and it's always beautifully awkward. I love your point about being able to look at the waveform while recording!! It's always interesting to me when being able to see the waveform helps and when it hinders...
Very helpful! Now I gotta steal some of my nephew’s plushies 😅
Yes - steal all the plushies XD
Very useful! THANKYOU for your advice and your thoughts on "Singing Practice". 🙏🏻
Great video, thank you for that. It addresses many points that have long concerned me in both practicing and recording, and on stage. When you do things over long periods of time, it's important to maintain focus, not to practice too much, but to practice the right things with the right goal. Thanks for the reminder.
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This was really helpful, thanks!
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Very good points \m/ I have not been practicing systematically for eh... 8 weeks or so and I realize now that lack of concrete new set of goals has been one of the drivers for not practicing.
Okay so I have All The Goals 😃 but the point about retrieval is super interesting and also makes me feel less bad when I can do a new thing one day but struggle the next, didn't really think of it like that as part of the learning process! And yeah for performances, I like to also plan little bits of choreography whether to go with the lyrics or for the non-singing bits in-between... and the best times to grab the water!!
"Practice not bashing yourself..." so no vocal Fight Club then hey 😅😅
Omg yeah my violin teacher used to push me to practice a lot, but sometimes I wouldn't practice and I'd actually do better, other times I'd practice a lot and do worse and she'd accuse me of not practicing. Brain definitely needs space sometimes. Vocal rest is funny tho, now that speech to text is a thing. I did a livestream a few months back using Google Translate to talk for me, and shenanigans naturally ensued... 🤪
Whoops didn't mean to turn this into a running commentary. So much good stuff in this video!!
Hardest part about practice for me is working around my mood. Singing tends to lift my mood, but getting started is tough when I'm in a funk, and knowing when the low energy is just mood or something more can be hard to untangle to decide whether it's physically worth trying to sing, or better to take the day off. Sometimes it's also better for me to just casually sing by chucking on some music, especially one of _those songs_ where it's almost impossible for me to _not_ find myself singing along. Sometimes that then turns into proper practice where I actually work on something instead of just mindlessly hollering along. I guess I'm kinda tricking myself into practice? Whatever works, right?? 😬
Sorry for another long comment, can't help myself omfg x_x
I love practicing to songs that just make you sing along, I think some of the best work gets done like that :)
@@AlikiKatriou I suppose it also helps remind me why I wanted to sing in the first place!
24 minutes? are you.... breaking bad 😂
12:45 true. recording vocal takes with an engineer sitting there is.... weird. real weird. especially after being so accustomed to recording myself in reaper, and then in the studio there is no visual of the vocal waveform to look at while recording, no computer monitor, etc., just a soundproof room with a microphone and a bunch of glass windows.
Oh yes, I've had everything, from an isolated room with a window and the engineer staring straight at me, to an isolated room with no visual contact at all, to looking at the back of the engineer's head... it's wild XD and it's always beautifully awkward. I love your point about being able to look at the waveform while recording!! It's always interesting to me when being able to see the waveform helps and when it hinders...