Im shy and scared of taking vocal lessons!!!!!!?
Hey im 15 year old girl from Denmark, and i wanna take vocal lessons, because i wanna be actor/singer in usa. I have few things to ask about. 1. i dont know what i should start taking vocal or singing lessons my friends say i should take vocal because i never take singing lessons or somthing 2. im scared about taking theese lessons because im still a little bit shy cause i dont know what i gonna do there when i start theese lessons, im scared and shy about the teacher gonna say i need to sing in front of many kids or other teachers or people at the first lessons times 3. i also still a little bit shy about when the teacher gonna ask me to sing in front of him/her and that i just not gonna do that because im gonna be shy and i bad to sing, but my family and some friends say that i have a good voice but that i really need to training and take lessons, and i think they are just nice and say that i have a good voice and talent, but they always say that i have a good voice and talent and even when i humming they say that since i was little girl to me. but i really dont know and im shy. 3.my last question is that i dont know if the teachers gonna learn me to sing in danish or english cause i really wanna in english cause i wanna make this career in usa and not in denmark and i think thats not gonna be good for me to sing in danish when i wanna make a career in usa hope you can help me.
I'm scared of taking voice lessons because of not being good enough?
I've sung my whle life, but always to myself. My parents didn't even know I sang until I came home one day during my senior year and told them ''hey you know what, I got one of the leads in this year's musical!'' and they went ''uhh...wut??'' :P two years before that, I had asked them to pay for voice lessons, and they said no since I had ''no extraordinary talent, and it would be a waste of time'', As you may understand this didn't do much to help me believe in myself and my voice. I'm 19 years old now, and my passion for singing is stronger than ever. I said clearly to my parents that I wanted to take voice lessons, and they said ok. But still, deep inside of me lays this huge doubt about my voice, that comes from years and years of singing to myself only, and from what my parents said. So I'm scared to take voice lessons out of fear of proving to be really, really bad. I mean, I know I can sing well, and I was told so by people in the audience of our musical last year, but that is when I'm not thinking about who is going to hear me. And as strange as it may seem, on stage I do feel like I'm on my own, which is why I could do the musical. Now during rehearsals, when we were rehearsing one on one our songs, I went through some pretty painful moments of singing in the middle of the room while everyone was just staring at me (and I thought I sounded TERRIBLE). The whole point of voice lessons is this one-on-one, singing for someone who just stares at you, which is why I'm afraid I'm going to fail. Also I have another issue. If a note is sung, I can sing it back perfectly. But when it's played on the piano, I just can't seem to get the pitch right. Again, singing notes played on the piano is one of the fundamentals of voice lessons, so I fear my teacher will think I'm a terrible singer because I won't be able to match my voice to the piano. I'm terribly sorry for coming across as overly sensitive and insecure, but it's the only place where I feel I can express myself freely, talking to strangers :) So please, if you can advise me on how to overcome this deep insecurity I have about my voice and tell me what voice lessons could be like, I'd be really grateful.
Political blues songs?
Let's expand this to include any genre. Here's another one that seems particularly apropos: Banks Of Marble I've traveled 'round this country from shore to shining shore It really made me wonder the things I heard and saw I saw the weary farmer plowing sod and loam l heard the auction hammer just a-knocking down his home But the banks are made of marble with a guard at every door and the vaults are stuffed with silver that the farmer sweated for I've seen the weary miner scrubbing coal dust from his back I heard his children cryin' "Got no coal to heat the shack" But the banks are made of marble with a guard at every door and the vaults are stuffed with silver that the miner sweated for I've seen my brothers working throughout this mighty land l prayed we'd get together and together make a stand Then we might own those banks of marble with a guard at every door and we might share those vaults of silver that we have sweated for