Lol, I guess I am :)

Singing is supposed to be fun anyways :)

BTW, what's your take on singin' a dumbed down 'gug' sound on a scale? I can realy feel the muscles above my larynx afterwords. According to SLS approach it's supposed to be helping with the lower larynx thingy.

Thanx again.

Dont obsess over the bull frog thing, I do them every night when I go to bed, ultimately you want your larnyx to maintain a neutral position as in resting but trust me it is gonna move up down whatever as you sing but the less it moves up the more your throat won't close choking your sound and resonance
When you sing dont think about any of this shit, you'll screw yourself up
think while vocalising and stretching...Gugs are good they do help and the G sound takes weight out of the voice but remember your never gonna sing gug gug gug through a song so work the exercises but then work on singing songs

Thanx Matt,

I appreciate your advice. I'm nor obsessing, it's just I want to make shure my technique is up to scratch before I start singing songs. It's all about muscle memory, remember? So, at the moment, whenever I actually sing, I tend to resort to the bad habits I had.

Cheers.

Don't worry. ALL singers obsess ;) THat's our problem. That's why it is a good idea to promote this board to your friends, so that singers have a place to talk to other singers for advice, like Matt. He always gives great advice!Don't worry, you'll discouver your voice. Just have fun with it!

JV

The one thing I've come to realize is that Singing requires a complete lack of any sense of shame. I'm completely serious about this. You literally have to be willing to get on stage in front of a ton of people and look like a fool, yet that the same time - in private - or off stage - you're totally obsessing over everything because you don't want to screw up when you're singing, and have people hear it.

Before I began taking singing seriously - I never dreamed how much practice it really does take to train your voice. As a drummer - I never worried about practice as much as I do with my voice. And of course, I have driven everyone around me completely nuts. One of my friends saw me doing the bullfrog one day and she goes, "Have you lost your freaking mind? It looks like you've developed some kind of nervous condition!"

Then I explained to her what I was doing - and she still thought it was crazy. Thank God she didn't hear me vocalizing - then she would think I was crazy.





Tim

Hahaha, great attitude. The new videos should be up soon and one of them shows me doing and explaining the Bullforg.

JV

Hi Jamie
Any chance that you can also release the bullfrog exercise through your youtube channel.
My pass word to your members section is not working.

Where can we see the bullfrog exercise video?