{"id":121,"date":"2008-07-03T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2008-07-03T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T22:42:00","slug":"singing-lesson-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Singing Lesson #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not a typo! I&#8217;ve swapped the swimming lessons for singing lessons for July. As usual I left it to the last minute to check the location and time of the course: 7pm in South Great George&#8217;s Street. I wanted to be early and left the office with plenty of time to spare.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived in town over an hour early and took the opportunity to shop for a couple of life jackets for this weekend&#8217;s trip the Achill. Having found, bought and deposited the perfect jackets into the car I made my way to the music school with 10 minutes to spare. I made my way to the reception area and introduced myself only to be informed that the class had begun 20 minutes earlier! I pulled the printout from my pocket to double check&#8230; the web site was wrong, I though I was early and the class was way past warming up.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well&#8230; I found the room and slowly opened the door just enough to pop my head around. A very jolly, friendly voice welcomed me and quickly summarised what the class had covered; what a relief!<\/p>\n<p>I found a seat at the back and once I had settled in I quickly surveyed the class. There were 8 in the class; 7 women and me. I&#8217;m not sure if my arrival changed things for our teacher but it certainly lowered the tone.<\/p>\n<p>Having missed the group warm up exercises I started the class straight into singing. It turns out that my voice slots into the <em>Baritone<\/em> category; the type of male voice that lies between <em>Bass<\/em> and <em>Tenor<\/em>. I guess that&#8217;s a good thing; perhaps not the best but at least a bit of both worlds.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons I wanted to do this course was to answer the question <em>can I sing<\/em>?<br \/>Apparently I can, just not very well but with practise I could be up there with the average of them!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s new tunes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fly me to the moon.<\/li>\n<li>Edelweiss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Articulate when singing.<\/li>\n<li>Performance directions; legato, mezzo, adagio and the like&#8230; I&#8217;ll never remember all that, I can barely remember my name in the morning&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Pick a song to sing <em>A Capella<\/em> for next week&#8217;s class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not a typo! I&#8217;ve swapped the swimming lessons for singing lessons for July. As usual I left it to the last minute to check the location and time of the course: 7pm in South Great George&#8217;s Street. I wanted to be early and left the office with plenty of time to spare. I arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}