{"id":124,"date":"2008-07-10T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-07-10T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T22:01:00","slug":"singing-lesson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewtully.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Singing Lesson #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lesson #2 and I hadn’t done my homework! Not only that but I couldn’t remember what it was, but I did remember to pick a song to sing a cappella<\/span><\/em>: “Black Is The Colour<\/em>“, a lovely traditional song of Scottish origin that I hoped get through without killing it.<\/p>\n

The weather was appalling but this time I arrived in plenty of time, the first to arrive actually. The start time passed and I was still on my own but we gave it a few more minutes and thankfully a couple of my classmates arrived and the class started. We went through a lengthy warm-up session before revising last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s songs and before moving onto some more complex songs.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t long before it was time to sing our own songs. For some reason I was volunteered to sing first (note to self: never sit at the front). I stood up in front of the class, took a deep breath and promptly forgot the tune… I desperately tried to hum the chorus but nothing came to mind. I apologised and asked if anyone in the class knew the tune. Luckily someone did and very kindly hummed the tune to get me going. I’m not sure how it went, I was so nervous and focused so completely on the words in front of me that when I sang I didn’t really hear myself.<\/p>\n

As I rounded off the last note I quickly made for my seat to kind applause. My classmates stood up in turn and performed their chosen pieces, each one was as nervous as me but very impressive; there’s a lot of talent in that room!<\/p>\n

Tonight’s new tunes:<\/p>\n