Evil Practices
Before I begin, I would like to point out that Josh Groban's songs are a bit hellish to sing, especially the songs in foreign languages. Seriously.
First off, at the moment I am finding it very hard to hit his higher notes, and that is on top of not being able to pronounce the lyrics themselves. When I try to practice, I sound like Mr. Bean in the Christmas choir.
" mumble mumble..... Si Volvieras a Mi!.... mumble mumble......"
So, yeah. Hard.
I have been practicing every day. I even have an entire CD made up of nothing but vocal warm-ups to work with. I wish that they would do ALL of the work, especially the voice cracking part. And math.
The CD is very good. I swear by The Zen of Screaming now.
(And at it, occasionally)
The audition instructions suggest that I prepare at least two songs. Keep in mind that my first song will be by Josh Groban, a man with a beautiful, lyrical, baritenor voice... which I (at the moment) don't have. My high notes are about as solid as the Italian government. My voice is... well, I like to describe it as "better than Larry the Cable Guy." Or perhaps more generously, "manly."
My possible choices for first (Josh Groban) song:
"Si Volvieras a Mi" (which, if you didn't notice, is in Spanish. A language which I never studied and which I do not speak. Why doesn't Josh do a couple songs in French? I could SO show off in French. I changed my mind. Josh Groban sucks)
or
"Remember When It Rained" (which is in English, but unfortunately it's in an octave which is too high for me, but which sounds boring and stupid in the next lower register. Did I mention that Josh Groban sucks? But dang, impressive...)
My choice for second song is between:
"Everybody's Fool" by Evanescence, a rock song sung by a female vocalist. Totally makes sense, right? After all, I think Groban's songs go too high, why not compound the issue?
or
"100 Years" by Five For Fighting. Let's go for broke, and do a song that is done 50% in falsetto. And not just nice long phrases in falsetto. That would be too easy. We're going to jump up and down from chest voice to falsetto to chest voice again right in the middle of words. Even small ones. Like 'it'. Because, you know, we're bored and don't have anything better to do than tie our vocal chords in knots.
Wheeeee.
Anybody want to vote?
First off, at the moment I am finding it very hard to hit his higher notes, and that is on top of not being able to pronounce the lyrics themselves. When I try to practice, I sound like Mr. Bean in the Christmas choir.
" mumble mumble..... Si Volvieras a Mi!.... mumble mumble......"
So, yeah. Hard.
I have been practicing every day. I even have an entire CD made up of nothing but vocal warm-ups to work with. I wish that they would do ALL of the work, especially the voice cracking part. And math.
The CD is very good. I swear by The Zen of Screaming now.
(And at it, occasionally)
The audition instructions suggest that I prepare at least two songs. Keep in mind that my first song will be by Josh Groban, a man with a beautiful, lyrical, baritenor voice... which I (at the moment) don't have. My high notes are about as solid as the Italian government. My voice is... well, I like to describe it as "better than Larry the Cable Guy." Or perhaps more generously, "manly."
My possible choices for first (Josh Groban) song:
"Si Volvieras a Mi" (which, if you didn't notice, is in Spanish. A language which I never studied and which I do not speak. Why doesn't Josh do a couple songs in French? I could SO show off in French. I changed my mind. Josh Groban sucks)
or
"Remember When It Rained" (which is in English, but unfortunately it's in an octave which is too high for me, but which sounds boring and stupid in the next lower register. Did I mention that Josh Groban sucks? But dang, impressive...)
My choice for second song is between:
"Everybody's Fool" by Evanescence, a rock song sung by a female vocalist. Totally makes sense, right? After all, I think Groban's songs go too high, why not compound the issue?
or
"100 Years" by Five For Fighting. Let's go for broke, and do a song that is done 50% in falsetto. And not just nice long phrases in falsetto. That would be too easy. We're going to jump up and down from chest voice to falsetto to chest voice again right in the middle of words. Even small ones. Like 'it'. Because, you know, we're bored and don't have anything better to do than tie our vocal chords in knots.
Wheeeee.
Anybody want to vote?
posted by Bren at 9:46 AM
4 Comments:
Um...I'm not familiar with any of these songs but I'm going to vote for 100 Years, because I think going for broke is fun.
I vote for the Spanish song - it'll make you stand out a bit.
I vote no Spanish, just because if you make it to the big top, and haven't studied the accent well enough, Spanish-speaking people will be snickering at you.
I have a story that I would under no circumstances put on this website about how a language mispronunciation got a friend of mine in horribly hot water.
And she was a French language COLLEGE STUDENT.
How about Franki Valli if you want to try falsetto?
Just lose the platform shoes...
either of those songs would be ok, although the person who said no spanish has a point
I wouldn't do everybodys fool either just because a female siang that song and people would think it weird otherwise, besides 100 years is a really good song.
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