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Jul 17 06 1:13 PM

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This recording is an overall great improvement from all the others! We are starting to find the music within you.

You might have realized that in order to do this you had to know the melody really well. If you didn't know the melody you were going to get stuck or sing the wrong melody. Now I am sure that you know the melody and you can sing the pitches. In this last recording though, the pitch that goes on "free" was under, and it was probably because you had to think a little bit too much about sitting, which wasn't the purpose, you still had to keep your mind on the singing. The singing is more of a physical freeing mechanism not a mental one. Oh and I don't want anyone to think that I separate the mind from the body, because they are completely connected. To say what I wanted to say better, actual distraction from singing is something we don't want.

Scott... what you need now is to get some life going in your singing. And what is life? breath! Let's not work on that directly yet though... let find what makes you excited and happy in life and use that for your singing. Right now you are underenergizing the singing and it is making it sound emotionally uninspired (although I'm sure the inspiration is in there). So let's find your inspiration.

Let me ask you, what are your favorite things in life? Whether you have done these things or not. Who are your favorite people in life? What makes you most happy in life? What is your favorite smell, color, animal, place...?