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5:38 improvements in singing but they did do a test of thirty singers and they all
5:42 added at least a note to their range. These are professional singers.
5:47 And it definitely, I mean, I feel healthier. I think, it's, it's interesting. You don't think of breathing as something you can really work out.
5:59 It's just this little... Yeah, the... Yeah, this is basically...
6:12 Basically, this is basically just that turned into something about the size of the scuba regulator. And then your phone is where you see how high the ball is floating or...
6:22 And it just has a bunch of different exercises where they teach you things like circular breathing and to maintain certain amounts of breathing in and what not, but it's
6:34 I'm hopeful. I mean, one of my big problems with my singing is my
6:38 the air so yep just keep doing And it's five minutes a day It's not hard.
7:04 So, I thought I would start out with one of the tricky songs I like to do.
7:08 here if that's okay and still trying to get all the consonants in the right place and you can tell me how I'm doing on that.
7:22 Have a great Monday.
7:25 Hang on, where am I? Sorry.
7:27 Blackbird — Beatles
9:28 Yeah, that's good. Good place to start. Now, are we talking about the black with the F going down, or with the G? Yeah, that's the F going down. No. So.
10:25 Blackbird fly Blackbird Um, I don't...
10:33 I think it's
10:36 Yeah, I think it was more that I haven't actually played this for a couple of months, and I think it was more just that I was thinking too hard about hitting the right notes. I don't think it was out of my range, I think...
10:52 for starting the call, but... Yeah. Yeah, I see what you're talking about.
11:16 Even when I don't want to, like, I've tried to be able to hold a note with no vibrato, you know, staring at an auto-
11:24 And I have a really hard time with it. And I don't know where I learned that. Yeah. Right.
12:30 an interesting thing I've never really analyzed before. When I'm thinking harder, I breathe out less, which doesn't make any sense. There's no reason other than just—you know, it's kind of like you ever do that thing w...
13:07 is what's going on there. Just…
13:10 Because of my natural, OK, we're running out of thumb.
13:13 So yeah Thank you, Truck, for including us.
13:55 I'm not convinced that's vibrato. I think you've actually, that is a change in amplitude.
14:00 Who's got a pitch? occuuuu- Okay that's more of a broadway I'm- I'm just- I'm- yeah i just. I I think you actually
14:30 But I'm like trying to do that while thinking about it I can Ya know I I can't do the change in amplitude thing just change in page black black Line I think I've lost the key Look Look Ah Blackbird Fly
15:05 Hi, that's better. um okay, um you will run through it again and see if with if I think about it if I can manage to do those correctly All right, let's see here Ok
15:47 Blackbird — Beatles
16:39 Hold on one second... Yeah, um, okay. Well let's try again and see... All right. All right.
17:41 Blackbird — Beatles
19:36 Yeah and most of what I was doing differently besides hitting the wrong notes there was concentrating on breathing in after every called pair of lines. And you probably could hear me even because I was doing the The big ...
19:50 of air thing. So yeah that definitely does make a big difference... Yeah, hopefully not.
20:10 ...yeah, well, and there are technological ways to remove it live too. I just, I don't usually worry about it, because ...I've actually even discovered on some recordings I put a little back in, because if you take too m...
20:37 as i do this i'll get better at breathing a lot of my...
20:57 My problem is that I need to open my mouth wider, I think. Rather than...
21:02 as I breathe in... And I don't think...
21:19 I don't think the sound is coming from my throat, I think it's coming from my lips, and as I think about it, I think I do tend to breathe in with my lips more pursed as opposed to a... wide open mouth.
21:31 and that that's something I'll just have to work on that habit too, but but yeah that that's a good observation thank you. Let's see if I have anything else tricky that I want to uh take a stab at here Right. So here's o...
22:47 It might be better if you don't know it, because then you'll be able to tell whether you're actually hearing it.
22:51 Well, the words are not.
22:56 Democracy — Leonard Cohen
24:16 from the fires of the homeless
24:30 Oh, from the wars against disorder from the sirens night
24:33 the from the so from them
24:44 Wars against disorder, From the sirens night and day, From the fires of the homeless, From the ashes of the gay,Intelligi- So, is that, was that more intelligible? I, I think, I wasn't stressing the consonants enough on ...
25:01 and Sirens which yeah you can just you can just stop me after every verse that's fine All right.
25:35 Blue, it's coming from a crack in the wall On a visionary flood of alcohol From the staggering account of the sermon on the mount Which I don't pretend to understand at all It's coming from the silence on the dock of the...
26:06 heart of chevrolet all right probably not
26:11 Democracy — Leonard Cohen
28:07 Alright, so…
28:12 It's here they've got the spiritual unrest. It's here the family's broken. Did you get that?
28:19 Yes spiritual is kind of a tricky...
28:23 Democracy — Leonard Cohen
30:25 It's definitely a lot better than it was a month ago. I can tell that I'm getting more of the consonants. I think the T on HAART is the most important one. I have to make sure I nail that. yeah yeah that's good did you g...
31:53 as a result, but yeah there's a lot of stuff going on
31:58 Lot of shady stuff going on Yeah Yeah, and there's no way to get a lot of them out Yeah, I worry about how long we're going to survive this kind of meltdown we're experiencing, but I'm trying to find— there's another s...
33:29 As I think I've told you, I want to get paid to do this...
33:32 I have to get to a certain skill level before anyone will be willing to do that. So I work at it every day when my wrist isn't being too much of a problem. But, hopefully. Okay, here's another. This is, ah, some Annie De...
33:54 Tis Of Thee — Ani Difranco
36:30 Yeah 50s television. Yeah, so, how was it though? Yeah, so we have they could
37:04 They cuffed him, and they confiscated his stuff They dragged his black ass down to the station and said okay the streets are safe now All you pretty white children can come out and see spot front They came out of their h...
37:18 What was that? Spot run. Again, reference to the fifties Yes, OK, let me try playing with the, let me try. Okay. Let me see.
37:52 Why, you Soccer Cow Ch Why, you Soccer Cow Ch Why, you Career Why, you Career Why, you Career Why, you Career Why, youonna Why, you Rubber Why, you Rubber Why, youokes Why, you Why, you Why, you Why, you Why, you Why, yo...
37:56 There's just, there's not a lot of space, because it's a lot, I mean, as so often happens with Annie DeFranco songs, it's a lot of syllables in not a lot of time—
38:09 Pretty white children can come out and see Spot run.
38:14 Yeah... Yeah. Hang on a second. Let me find a pen. Ummm.... There was a bit there where I actually thought you were being sarcastic of the comment about organization cause I don't, I don't always feel that organized. oka...
38:59 That's probably the word in the sentence that's most likely to not
39:03 sense to people unless, you know, they're already thinking them in the 50's. Which that actually reminds me of a song I should add to my collection of songs I do that I've never done, but Barlow's um married by Elvis bec...
40:08 And actually, I'm gonna do one from memory here, and I can't remember if we've done this one
40:14 before are not so you know the Indigo Girls closer to fine so you'll you can tell me how if we're getting getting better or not yeah I thought I thought I had looked at a video on that from you yeah yeah you you did. Yea...
40:47 Closer To Fine — Indigo Girls
44:19 Yeah, um, and some of that may also be, I think it's easier for me to do more of the chorus voice with more air, which I definitely noticed. It's so weird. My driveway is a 9% grade and the difference in walking to get t...
44:59 A week ago where I would feel a little out of breath at the top.
45:03 for watching.
45:08 I originally stopped vaping in hopes that I would get more air and it didn't really do that, but this is definitely this is giving me more air, so I'm also curious whether that will make scuba diving
45:19 Try that! Oh I did that a long time ago. That was like 2019 at this point. And I haven't missed it. Yes. Although, then there's the other thing where if you want that sound, I I don't know if there's another way to get t...
45:58 It's not really the sound I'm looking for, but I do understand that people are like
46:02 Like, this month because I want that voice." It's generally, you know, your blues singers from 1963. It's Hugh Van Halen? Yeah. And he was like for the right.. the For Unlawful Kernel Knowledge album, that was Sammy Haga...
50:22 Just down the street from your hotel, Baby, I stand home with my disease Ain't this position familiar? Darling, us monkeys do what we see I don't need a stairwell to get fallin' Down on Virginia and messenger independenc...
50:57 Yes?
51:03 Well, I've got friends who care for me You've got an attitude of everything I ever wanted I've got an attitude of me Help me to stay awake, I'm falling I sleep in burftly blue buildings Inside the green apple sea Gonna g...
51:42 what? yes? perfect asleep in perfect so
51:57 I sleep in perfect blue buildings, beside the green apple sea.
52:07 Yes. Yes. B-side... Cs. Yes, that's the words. Yes, as in... All right. Yeah, no, C... I get... All right, let me try with... GONG!
52:36 (unidentified song) unidentified
53:22 The End
53:26 In beds, in little rooms, in buildings in the middle of.
53:29 So yeah, from.
53:47 (unidentified song) unidentified
54:39 Yes. Okay... Uhm... Okay. music
54:58 Perfect Blue Buildings — Counting Crows
55:51 Yeah. right. So I need to take off and go to hopefully, a different doctor, maybe they will have better ideas about what's going on with my wrist. tentatively, Monday at 3 next week I'll work for you. Alright, I will tal...