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Created By: Brett Manning
introduction:
What
is this?
You have all seen or
heard
of "Super Size Me," a documentary about a man who eats nothing but
McDonald's for 30 days in hope to prove the facts about the health
risks. Well I am here to prove whether or not anybody can learn
how to sing. I am 20 years old and have NO singing
experience what-so-ever. NONE! So... For the next 6 months, I will be working with Brett Manning and Singing Success to see if they can take the average person with no experience and turn them into a good singer. You will be able to track my monthly progress with audio clips and journal entries.
Brett works with singers every single day, but those singers have been singing for years or at least have some experience. So... what can he do with a singer from complete "scratch"?
Lets find out...
Who Am I?
I am a 20 year old college student that cannot sing! I have never attempted to sing because I knew I just couldn't do it, I was too embarrassed to even try. So after 20 years, I finally decided to give it a shot. I have NO singing experience and my voice is horrible (as of the beginning of this study). Your vocal cords are a set of muscles, and like all muscles they need to be exercised to maintain themselves. Can you imagine never using a muscle your entire life and then deciding to finally use it at the age of 20?!? How weak do you think it would be? Well I mean I talk every day, but my vocal cords have never done the stretching and "zipping up" that they do while singing. They are very, very weak.
I came into this knowing nothing about the human voice or the coordinations required for singing. I never knew there was a chest voice, mix voice, head voice, etc. I thought you had one voice for everything and I would tense up, squeeze, and shout for high notes. It was BAD. It is a good thing I never sang until now, or else I would have damaged my voice long ago. I had no idea what I was doing. I hope all of this will change in the next 6 months as I discover if it is really true... Can anybody learn how to sing?
Why Am I Doing This? How Did it Start?
I went to Nashville, TN
to volunteer
at a Singer's Showcase event with Singing Success. While
I was there, I thought, "why not see what Brett can do with my
voice..." At this point, I had never ever sang infront of ANYBODY. I was really
nervous and that wasn't much help since I already had zero confidence
in my voice! So Brett and I sat down and went through a couple of
exercises before coming to the conclusion that I was the most "from
scratch" singer he has worked with in 8-10 years; I was BAD (or
should I say, inexperienced). He made a recording of me singing
acapella and anybody who listens to it will think I am tone deaf.
So then he did some pitch evaluation exercises and we discovered I am
not tone deaf at all; I just didn't know how to sing! So it made
me think... what if I could sing??? I had to find
out... So here I am.
After vocalizing with Brett, I realized I only had a puny 1 octave range, and my vocal cords were very, very weak. They were not used to the stretching for high notes and I also had horrible intonation. Intonation is the sense of creating tone. I had such bad intonation because my brain had never sent those signals to my cords before. It was a new experience for everybody!
At the end of the day, Brett tried to boost my confidence by telling me the potential I had, but I was still very upset with myself; I was so embarrassed with my voice. When I got home, I started working with his at-home training program: Singing Success. Then I thought to myself, "this could be a great opportunity for Brett to prove to everybody what he can do with the average untrained, inexperienced rookie." He works with singers that have been singing for years and he "polishes up" their voices. Well what can he do from complete scratch?
You are about to find out.....
Let me share the
journey of becoming a singer!