Well, it's Monday all over again and I am back spending the day with Garrick where we are mostly in the dungeon working on two computers in tandem. Garrick is on the "music computer" and I am on the "internet computer. We do get a lot done.
Later, we will probably rehearse upstairs using our "romantica rehearsal tracks" which have my voice removed and the musical sounds left in.
I am being directed by the ever vigilant Garrick to pitch my voice low, for emphasis, instead of high. Do you know how hard this is? If you read the last sentence - in what is now the typical manner of speech inflection - your voice will go up at the end. Well, so does mine.
It is extremely hard for me to hear this habitual inflection in my voice because this is what I am used to doing and what I hear all around me. So, word-by-word-line-by-line I have to train and then groom my voice to speak differently for the purpose of giving the true "The Open Sesames" performance.
So, to recap I must:
Later, we will probably rehearse upstairs using our "romantica rehearsal tracks" which have my voice removed and the musical sounds left in.
I am being directed by the ever vigilant Garrick to pitch my voice low, for emphasis, instead of high. Do you know how hard this is? If you read the last sentence - in what is now the typical manner of speech inflection - your voice will go up at the end. Well, so does mine.
It is extremely hard for me to hear this habitual inflection in my voice because this is what I am used to doing and what I hear all around me. So, word-by-word-line-by-line I have to train and then groom my voice to speak differently for the purpose of giving the true "The Open Sesames" performance.
So, to recap I must:
- Memorize my material down to the bone.
- Embed my material into the music rightly and consistently.
- Train myself to drop my voice instead of raising it for emphasis.
- Deliver my material in such as way as its story is best told.
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