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0:00 all right, testing so we'll have a brief delay at some spot in the near future because I have to take a picture of my hourmeter for my blog when it hit 500, that's a bit of there um did you get I sent over a link to the ...
2:43 it's actually sort of funny, a very long time ago I was in a band that and sold out warehouses you probably can't believe that but uh... we did live jam
2:52 electronica, kind of like fish meets Paul Van Dyke and that that was a lot of fun Then, you know, one of the members got into drugs and another of the members got, you know, relationship problems it's usual stuff that ha...
3:35 build these warehouses with 500 kids.
3:38 It's a pain just to hear us do this thing.
3:43 And some of the stuff we did was just wacky.
3:47 we would take a kazoo that had had a guitar pickup added to it and run it through a bunch of effects pedals and there was a guy, guy who would do solos that way sometimes, but you prolly don't think of it as an electric ...
4:16 kind of one of the corollaries of any tool as a weapon if you hold it right is Any tool is a musical instrument if you hold it right
4:25 So did you, did you have any thoughts about anything in particular from the the driver? You probably didn't get a chance to even look at it. Yes. That I think is the top of my range right there in my head voice....
5:16 ooh... and that's where I break into my um more of kind of my mid voice ooh... and then... er eh haa
5:34 Uh... Let me see what... o butcher
5:55 flute music Only by changing the shape of my mouth so by restricting the airflow more I can go more into my head voice whereas allowing more flute times Probably, probably, there's some way to learn to do it with
6:20 restricting the airflow just have to That's a C. That's one octave up. Yeah. Yeah. if anybody's looking for me, if I go to the edge, I'll throw it at anybody. So I follow all of those wooden steps guys. And if I go to th...
8:28 I've hit the point at which I have enough neurological skill attached
8:32 what I'm doing with my voice to start messing with it, so that that's part of what I've been doing. Yes, so like....
8:52 Well, a certain amount of doing things like holding notes and then bending them, so like that kind of stuff. Only, you know, figuring out stylistically, what do I like, basically?
9:11 Yeah, well, I mean, I do do that- I mean, I use-
9:15 Well, it-it's good to have a- it-it's good to have a lot of tools in your toolkit for sure.
9:50 I've taken another plateau in vocals. Not that I'm not going to claim to be great, but I've gained the ability to use my voice as a musical instrument rather than just a way to deliver information.
10:05 So, that's, that's, you know, that's where it starts, right.
10:12 And I'm starting to figure out, OK, what do I like?
10:17 Um, So, that's, that is-
10:20 Primarily what I've been working on. And also, as I said, holding notes and oooooooooooo trying to not let
10:29 The pitch waiver, you know, being able to, to do that becauseI think that's an important
10:37 And it'll be interesting to see, the next time I fire off ELD, multi-track recorder over there, and lay down some harmony, what happens. Um... But, but um...
10:47 that's um not yet I'm actually all the way sure sure um so
11:08 that's C3 right there...um...I'm having right there is where i'm having trouble holding the pitch controlled the way I want to. Now, definitely in head voice there. And that is
11:47 Uhh... it looks like A3...
11:50 uh there's a middle C right there trying, trying to find the switch there with a pitch control
12:30 hmm
12:42 Om
12:53 oooh aa
13:00 oooooooooo
13:04 Oohh. Yeah, it- it sounds a little under-supported. P interface
13:11 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
13:15 Well, part of what's going on there is as I move more air, the pitch control gets likeier.
13:26 Like here, how much waver there is probably like almost 4 or 5 cents there. With ooh, that's more like 1 or 2. And I guess I just got to keep doing it. That was awful. And I guess I just got to keep doing that. Ahh...
13:53 It is really open.
13:56 OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
14:00 HUH
14:16 Ooooooooo... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
14:21 Oh uh
14:39 A-ah-o-oh! Yeah, I see what you mean. Like more back pressure means that it's
14:55 it requires more precision to maintain the same note yeah
15:10 Nyaa! We are the Knights Who Say Nyaaaaaa! Nyya nyya maya ny Productively into the And I'm starting to
15:33 lose the muscles there. That's probably about as much of that as we can do right now. Do you have an idea what I should American thought you of? For sure, yeah, I'm glad we did it. I'm just warning you that...
15:50 I don't have the muscles on my vocal cords that you do yet.
15:54 uh... probably uh... yeah well i thinks you know you get that you gather pay your dues and earn the stuff the home and it's one of very uh... You know, that is, there's only probably, well, we'll find out, but,
16:43 COVID at least is temporarily on the retreat, and hopefully your blown marrow is...
16:48 Implanting well. At least to the two people that I know of who've done it, had fatigue for a good year after that oh but now are are you know completely back to to what they were before it's you do get a hundred percent ...
18:07 Not a little bit of delay, then.
18:10 Um, like 200 milliseconds of delay is what I'm hearing here. You. Yeah, but then you start working on your your rounds, right. Well, so.
18:44 Well, I'm going to just go ahead and start out here with something easy.
18:49 I don't know if I've done this song with you or not before, but probably. Let me see, why do I have? Counting crows, shame. Okay, why do I not have any foot pedals? Oh, I,
19:04 Murder of One
22:24 Yeah.
22:37 That was plain old not enough air. I should've taken a big breath between the
22:46 goes up an octave and it really, really calls for a lot of air. That's good. I think there was one word I think your bow cleared on that was eye? Okay, like I wish you let me in, type stuff, or the I- I cleaned my eyes. ...
23:39 Open up your eyes?! You can see the flames, flames, flames...
23:44 That.
23:50 Earth!
23:53 Open up your eyes!
23:56 hiiiiiiiiiiiise
24:00 Eyes Eyes Eyes Eyes Open up your eyes. Yes.
24:51 –remind me to send you instructions on how to disable feedback detection, because every time you sing a constant, loud note it thinks it's feedback and...
25:00 attenuates you by like 20 db which get a little distracting. Yeah, no, you have to change the settings in Zoom. There's a…
25:13 place where you choose whether you're doing pro audio work
25:16 or meeting work, and if you tell it you're doing, there is like a check box to report, Um, yep. And, um.let me look and see here, OK. Meeting, so you
25:34 There should be a settings audio and in
25:39 there.
25:43 You should see a music and professional audio.
25:46 And you want to check the high-fidelity music mode, which I didn't actually have checked either. There we go. Maybe you're running it on phone, maybe it doesn't have the level of flexibility that computer client has. I'v...
26:40 Open up, open up your eyes Your eyes
26:46 Thanks
26:55 Your eyes
26:58 yeah, I mean okay um yeah, and
27:17 Could flip to the front-facing camera but the problem is I don't have a screen on that side so then we can't look at each other at the same time. I'm trying to find one of the... There's gotta be a gadget that lets you p...
27:40 one of those alright, well here...this is a little bit trickier
27:55 to put it mildly, but I know I've done this from before, and let me again adjust, because this is a-
28:05 a different
28:08 Ireland — Garth Brooks
31:52 OK, I love that feeling that theao the chorus is so good and so powerful, the first couple verses I am not quite sure about all the words I have to go for those and on the end a couple of lines like that who don't unders...
32:48 from they say mother earth is breathing with th...
32:55 okay ok
33:17 They say mother earth is breathing with the yeah
33:31 So if the piano was not hard on the PR then it is better.
33:38 Yeah, well I'm gonna slightly discount your opinion on that because you're listening, cause you're listening on an iPhone. But yeah, I get what you're saying, but at the same time I think you're already using... They say...
34:05 with with with with
34:28 Then with each wave that finds ashore, With each wave that finds ashore....
34:40 Yeah. All right. With
34:51 Ireland — Garth Brooks
36:46 And all right, so
36:51 Ireland — Garth Brooks
38:19 Yeah fear which is in fear is Which fear is a tricky one too because of that are ours don't ours that the ends of lines tend to suffer
38:40 Sorry. As we forge the dark and fear As we forge the dark and fear We can hear their voices breathing As in silence we draw near There are no words to be spoken to say goodbye. Draw a breath, the night is broken. As I sc...
39:21 you it's originally growth brooks
39:39 Yeah, I'm not sure if he wrote it or not. I'd have to look, but he is the artist who originally...
39:46 I haven't recorded it.
39:50 Which reminds me I don't know if I've ever done my modified version of another girl
39:56 for you... Song for you? I don't think so but we'll we'll see if we can get through...
40:02 We Shall Be Free — Garth Brooks
42:46 Yeah, well, he he likes to do stuff in G which, given my range, probably is-
42:50 a good key for me. So I wonder if we have similar ranges or if it's just that those are the chords that he knows? I'm sure at this point he's developed some as a musician. He's a great songwriter, and that's what I respe...
44:22 Not that the vocals aren't harder. It's that it has those... rapid repeats
44:31 the keyboard that he does, which are tricky to do because they happen so fast, and you're singing and at the same time you're keeping track of a very different rhythm in the keyboard part, which rhythm has always been an...
45:54 So I haven't played this very much at all.
45:59 we'll have the usual limitations in piano but uh this is a rock set song so this will be a you were just
46:07 Fading Like A Flower — Roxette
49:06 yes and so on, fading okay let's faded like a flower, let's see where is it? fading like a rose sorry it's the same word fading like a rose fading like earth let let me try it again from the the top this time I will at l...
49:38 Fading Like A Flower — Roxette
51:43 Fading... Okay. Now... I-I gave it some conscious effort. Yeah, well... The second run through, I don't have to think so much about what the chilling...
52:01 Chord marriage gives me more computing power as I said, I think I played that song twice
52:06 before in my life but
52:09 I do like to occasionally do these new ones with you because I think my limitations come out the most when I'm site reading, but I would like to be able to site read more just because it means that you can carry your big...
52:27 Okay, good point. Alright. Yeah, well, I mean.
52:50 I would probably have a very hard time reading sheet music at anywhere near real time.
52:55 It's this is the skill
52:58 set I have cultivated. You have the skill set, you have cultivated. Um. Mine is probably better suited to the Sing Our Songwriter gig. Um
53:07 it's much easier to write music when you can jot chords down while you're trying to figure out what you're doing all right well
53:19 I think that's about gonna wrap it up for me. Thanks. I will get your Venmo in the electronic mail to you and you have a good week. And I'll let you know if anything comes up, otherwise we'll do it again.
53:33 Next week. All right, thanks. Bye.