only singers and mucisians tring hard to make a hit!!! no mean coments ether...

[NYMorningstar]

Building up the diaphragm, the breathing muscle, for singing, tends to dispose you to gain weight easily.

You're kidding right?

Mary, the best way to help your singing is to learn how to control and increase your airflow(breathe). The best way to increase your airflow is do aerobic exercise. Running is the best one you can choose to increase your volume and control with wind sprints being the way to get you there faster. The best part of the running deal is that you will get healthier and more slender automatically. G/L

 

[napalm229]

Ditto with the congratulations on your gig....feels great, don't it?

Well...I totally agree w/ NYMorningstar on the running thing.

Now....I am a total novice at home recording and all that. But I have sang and played ever since I started high school...now about 15 years. Excersise is very beneficial to your lung power...and running is also one of the best ways to do this. Increasing your lung capacity is key to strengthening your diaphragm....
I personally love to lift weights, but you have to do what ever is fun for you. Just put on some of your favorite music...it helps a lot! Sing in the shower...it's corny but people do it for a reason! Don't worry so much about weight or whatever...you will get more endurance by doing aerobic excersise...and the other is a nice benefit.
Good luck to you, hope it all goes well!!!

 

[dirtythermos]

Hi Mary,

Don't wait for lessons to start learning the guitar. Get some new strings and get started. Learn as many chords as you can. Start with Em, Am, G, C, E, D, and A. You can either buy a book or look them up on the internet.

Once you learn them, practice changing back and forth between them until you can change them fluidly in time with the beat.

I taught myself to play the guitar this way in high school and never took lessons! It is hard at first, but you can do it.

 

[Rolf G Riley]

Hello Mary,

I wouldn't get to hung up on this weight thing you know. A couple of months ago here in England a nice young lady won the TV show POP IDOL, and trust me she was fat with a capital F, but she won ahead of many others in the competition because she can sing like an angel, and just as importantly was able, through her performances, to convey her love of singing to the population of the UK. If she can do it I bet you could as well..just sing, and if anyone laughs just sing louder.

 

[Lt. Bob]

I'm impressed! ......This is the nicest I've ever seen this site treat a newbie ...... very cool guys!

Mary ..... congrats on getting to sing in public ...... I know that's very exciting and I'm happy for you . Just have fun and work as hard as you can find time for ..... sounds like you're on your way.

 

[Richard Monroe]

Well, Leftenant, I generally try not to abuse novices unless they prove they are dickheads. This is because I still am one, and tech-heads remind me every day how little I know. I'll admit to leaning over backwards to help newbies of the female persuasion, but it's not some white knight complex. I just think home recording is waaay too testosterone driven. Home recording, and this board can use more of the woman's touch, with all due thanks to such contributors as Riley, Betty Rumble, and Shaky Tee in particular. My former partner Maureen Fleming, is becoming a pretty good home AE. I really want to get her on this board, and a couple of others. She's just the best vocaliast/arranger/lyricist I know.
It was kind of cool, you know- my wife Susan did 2 tracks on my project album, a harp part that's half of a harp/classic guitar duet, and a backing vocal track. I mic'd up the harp, but when it came to the vocal, I just sat her down and showed her how to power up, patch for the task at hand, and how to do a mic shootout. She recorded many tracks on different mics, and we selected the best of them together. It's just so stupid to have a woman who is a perfectly good musician in a house with a project studio and not know how to use it.
The point of this rant, really? Mainly that as I said earlier, this is homerecording.com. If you just do one thing on your drive toward stardom, learn to record your music. Then you will control the music you produce, and if you are smart, retain the rights to it. No one else will make your music for you, but find others who can add their music to yours. Wanna be a star? Get a guitar and hang around with guitar players. Hang out at guitar stores, and expect to kiss a few frogs before you meet the handsome prince. Here's a clue- Beg! Why pay a guitar teacher if you can find a badass guitar player, and *talk* him into teaching you? The world is full of singers and guitarists who can help you. You have to go meet them and convince them that teaching you will be easier than listening to you beg. Then shut up and learn to play. I, for one, will be there for you. Remember, though, as someone claimed "Confucious say"-

"Man who starts out to set the world on fire, often returns for more matches."-Richie

 

[grinder]

"Confucious say"-

"Man who starts out to set the world on fire, often returns for more matches."-Richie

Confucious say, Man who drop watch in toilet have shitty time.

 

[mocharock]

Oh, and here I thought that every one was being nice because they saw that Mary was only 15.

Mary just keep practicing, and do more than just sing to the radio, or in the shower. That is my two cents.

 

[MISTERQCUE]

Mary, do you have any MP3's or link where we can audience your talent?

 

[mary]

hey

you guys rox, i just logged int o see any updates and here i come and see all this good things, i must say i feel very happy, my life has been giving a few spins and many new and interesting things have happned.
i can't really express hoe happy i really am, and i really appricite your interes and thankx for holding back the nasty comments cuz i'm 15...
by the way it's a belly buttun piercing, so don't get all wierd on me now...lol.
so anyways i have interseting news...i'm starting a duet with this gurl firend of mine and we are going to rock, byt the way her uncel is a producer...s o who knows, you might be hearing me soon on the radio.
um i such with computer and everything that goes with them so i can't really think of a way to let you hear me sing...
well anyways, what more can i tell? um i got braces? lol.
yeah things are good for me now, and i really so appriciate everything you say, (good this sounds like an after school special...)
anyways i am happy with my life, i forgot to do a project and my computers teacher is going to kill me but that's about it..
and well i like thsi guy and i've kinnda been hearsing him and he know, but he is a surfer dude and he is so frekn' hot , you don't wanna hear abouth that thought, so bye bye!

quiero decir algo en español pero no se me ocurre nada asi que les dire: gracias!!!

mary!

 

[mary]

hey again

so i don't know if you wanna but i wrote this song and i am kinnda proud of it so if you want to read it i could send it, and maybe i could hear your comments about it . i don't know if that is a good idea cuz you never know if someone could just come into this posts and copie it, not that it is tha good, but you know it is a possibility, it's called kiddin yourself, and it's pop so sorry to disappoint you, (if you are not pop lovers) i have this terrible gift and i can just sing pop, i mean seriously i can turn a nirvana song into pop... i can sing r&b though....
well anyways if you think i'll be cool , i could post the song...
it's not writen out of personal expirince i just got cought up in the moment (i think that is not teh way it goes, the expression i mean) so i wrote it..
well anyways i am happy to be writing here and see all tour things, by the way the confucius thing... the sitty time, that was really cool...
i'm a can't help been so fond of stupid jokes... i once laughed for like an hour of what must have been the world most stupid joke,
and i mean it, i could tell it but it is in spanish so you're not goingt o understand, not all of you anyways...
i've been giving it some thought and i think that i reallly have to learn to play the guitar. you know, my mom goes on, and on about how good she sang and how good she played the guitar and that she learned all by herself when she was eigh...
that makes me wonder...i've never noticed until know i don't know the whole story, if she was so good and talented as she says she was, what kept her? why didn't she record...that really makes me wonder.
i have this cousin of mine and i sing so much better than her and she is recording a cd now, and that really makes me conder who she um, *talked* to to do that. she has serious issues...
my family keep on telling me that i am gonna end just like her, but i must say, atleast i'm not a stlut and if i get anywhere , i'll get ther beacuse of talent, not long *talks* with the right people...
ok i'm wrap it up now, bye bye

mary

 

[mallcore pop]

Re: hey again

. . . and it's pop so sorry to disappoint you, (if you are not pop lovers) i have this terrible gift and i can just sing pop, ....well anyways if you think i'll be cool , i could post the song...

I love pop! (check the username, y'all)

Post it por favor, y de seguro le doy un listen or two. See you in the mp3 forum!

 

[SPINSTERWUN]

Good luck, Mary.

spin

 

[mary]

ok listen

i wrote thsi song, those where my words i worte it, i have the lyiric, i can't record it still so what i was asking is if you wanted to read it and give me you thoughts...
sorry if i disappointed you

mary

 

[mary]

great

the second time i will sing in public, you'd think it would be better than the last time, but no, i get to sing two lines and then repeat then...pathetic, it's a church song, for a first comunion, this sucks, i mean i love to sing, but that song doesn'¡t even work for me. well i guess i have to suck it up, cuz i think it will be one of the few things i will get easy...
so i have to go, bye bye!

mary!

i'm glad you ove pop, make sure sure you buy my cd then! god , como de llamo optimista o ilusa....lol...