You can't be fake - you've got to be really mad! It changed everything for me. You don't scream, but you're using an angry tone - no-one ever has talking problems, only singing problems, because you're contriving something. It's pretty weird, but hey! When you're angry, you're in control, there's nothing blocked - you're opened up. If I'm in the studio, I'll yell at the tyres of my car. And Barry, our bass player, came up and asked: what in the world just happened? He said, I've been singing with the Osmond brothers for 45 minutes, warming up, and you've been yelling at a tree! And everything's fine! So if you're ever at a show and you see me backstage, that's what I'm doing. I kept having this one-sided conversation until it was time to play the show, and I was able to sing. I found a tree and starting pointing at it, and getting mad at it - some people started arriving for the show so that looked a bit strange! So I got my phone out and started pretending that I was having an argument on that. ![]() He gave me one exercise that everyone in the band used to make fun of but it really saved me: I was at a show in Portland, Oregon, and I could feel my throat closing up and I called him up in an emergency - help, what do I do? He said to find something with a one-sided angry conversation with. ![]() I sought out a vocal coach I had heard about for 20 years and he really saved me - his name is Ron Browning, and he gave me some exercises to do, but the most important was really a mental reworking of making sure I wasn't too bogged down with other responsibilities when I really needed to be focusing on nothing, and just be a storyteller. I started to see a voice coach during the making of this record, because I was developing all kinds of bad habits, and nastiness! I wasn't singing clearly, and I felt lost.
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