Re: Conquering the Guitar

Lumpy:
This seems particularly noticeable with vocal
students. You can't FORCE your voice to do something
it doesn't know how to do. Instead, you have to figure
out how to ALLOW your voice to know how to do that
which you are trying to achieve.

Warren W. Gay wrote:
In addition to learning the guitar, that is another
challenge I face. I mean, I can't do much with my
limited range etc. and I am the only willing
vocalist I have for my own recordings at the moment.

But maybe I can learn from Bob Dylan's approach ;-)

As odd as it sounds for me to agree with anything
Dylan related, that seems like a good approach.

Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Tom Waits...the list of
"bad" singers is endless. Didn't stop any of them
from becoming successful.

The Bob never said "I don't sound as good as
Robert Goulet or Wayne Newton so I think I'll
become a motorcycle mechanic instead of a pop star".

We like a particular artist because we like THEM.
Not because they are "as good as" someone else.


Lumpy
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