sing every day

I learnt Hindustani Classical singing for 3 years when I was 8, and no one knows better than me, perhaps, the importance of keeping the vocal chords working. Dad’s been telling me for ages, and this along with the guitar bit, is something I need to do everyday. Here’s hoping I do.

If my sinuses are really bad, I’ll sing one, maybe two songs and call it a day, but I try to shoot for somewhere between an hour or two of practice daily.

Once I start singing I find it hard to stop. :D

Well, I went through my songs today but I didn’t go down to the Gonk…bunch of excuses for it but really, it’s better that I’m here; since I got an appointment for a production of “My Fair Lady” and I want to do my homework…

So, I’m doing some more singing, although privately, not publicly – and getting my chops back up! Chop chop chop!

Went to two auditions this week…went well
but didn’t feel like either of them will yield
any results…but it honestly felt good to do
it again & I sang two songs that I truly love,
“Willing to Ride” from Steel Pier and “Things
in Cyprus,” written by two super-talented
friends for an as-of-yet unproduced show.

Today I sang through two songs I’d like to do
on Monday night at the Algonquin…and plan
to go to two more auditions this week. Looks
like I’m starting to meander my way out of the
post-wedding creative rut!

Now, on to the vacuum…

I’m starting to make some progress on my goal to sing every day. I sang twenty-five days of thirty-one for the month of March.

So I should work on it. I need to practice at least 4 times a week, sing every day, even if it’s in the car or the shower.

I got a lot of weird looks with this one. I got so used to singing, I’d actually sing my way through Wal-Mart when I went grocery shopping! It was tons of fun though, and I doubt I’ll stop singing any time soon. :)

I spent some time singing spontaneously this past week, something I’ve been neglecting for awhile. I may want to track this goal. I keep it on my top 20, but I do not have a separate graph for it to show that I’ve done it.

I sing spontaneously songs I make up myself while on my morning walk. I want to do it every day.

In high school, I was in the choir. We practiced every single day for at least half an hour, and I loved every minute of it. That wasn’t even a year ago, and it feels like it’s been an eternity. I stopped singing somewhere along the line. I’m not really sure when or why, though.

Yesterday, I was going through the music on my computer and I came across some gospel music. I decided to play one of the songs, and I was completely surprised when I found myself singing along about halfway through!

It felt so good to sing again! I found a few of my favorite songs (stuff by Alice in Chains, Clandestine, System of a Down, etc.) and just pressed play. I sang (and occasionally screamed) along with every last one of them, and even though I’d been having a horrible day, I found myself smiling.

So, I think it’s about time I started bringing music back into my life. I’m going to try to sing at least one song every day, either solo or singing along to the radio, for a month. In fact, I’m singing right now, and it’s great. :)