My greatest fear, if I fear anything at all when it comes to singing...Is that I will never be able to sing as well as I'd like to.

What an amazing topic, Jaime. I'll have to agree with Mr. Fater, but just to add some diversity to the mix, I'm gonna have to say having your voice shut down on you mid show. I've told you before about how my cords feel like they're closing off occassionally. I'd be MORTIFIED if that ever happened onstage!

Seriously though, I think this is marvelous angle to look at singing. The more you can obliterate an individual's specific fear, the more everything else should fall into place.

1) Catching a cold
2) Forgetting my lyrics
3) This one is based on my personal experience as a street artist in the early 90's: People accusing me of lip sinking pointing at my radio (which was actually just playing the piano accompaniment)in front of the rest of the crowd.

I find that i bridging my passagio worries me when im singing infront of people. When im by myself, i cant do it really well, and then when i sing infront of people, i am so concious of it that i usually mess it up. I was singing 'say you will' by Foreigner on the kareoke the other week, and there was a few notes i wanted to hit in head voice that i know i can do when im not so consious of it, but i was worrying about it so much that i cracked when i tried to do it.....its so frustrating because i know i can do it fine...lol...i just worry about it so much....
but ill get over it.

I'm with Oiselle.

1. Catching a cold (of which I currently have one, sux)
2. Forgetting Lyrics, really sux when in the middle of a line you get a brain fart.
3. Monitor crap's out and I can't hear myself over screaming guitars.
4. Ear infection.
5. loose my voice(has never happened but would never want it to either)

My biggest fear is getting half way through a song and when a big note comes up I totally go off key on that note.

I have actually lost my voice by over pushing it with bad technique...that was scary i guess, took about 3 days to come back. I was actually thinking that it was permanent and that i would no longer have a career in singing...lol
Also a cold is scary when you know you have gigs...the day before a gig, i usually think im getting a soar throat...lol....but im not im just paranoid.
I have sang a gig with a really bad cold before, but the cold started on that day so it hadnt taken a big hit to my throat at that time, and i sang fine (with tissues on stage...lol) but i find its the days after the cold that are difficult to sing.
Also, one gig i the guitars were so loud i cudnt hear my vocals, and the guitars were so loud i cudnt even hear the guitars...lol...so i had no key to start me off...and when i watched the camcorder footage, i was singing in a completely different key. The sound was so distorted when we were playing that i cudnt hear the notes, so i was just going by what i thought was right....lol....i had no monitors, and the vocals were so quiet through the PA becos i kept getting feedback. so its not as if people cud hear how out of key i was singing anyway.

So i think Troys fears are accurate for my own experiences...

1. Singing off pitch
2. 'Oversinging' and burning out my voice before the end of the gig
3. Colds
4. Stagefright
5. Worrying about my tone e.g. too nasal

Hmm...

1. Becoming hoarse before a gig
2. Cracking on a high note
3. Not being able to hear yourself during a gig...
(mental note to self: ALWAYS WEAR EAR PLUGS.
a) It keeps you from permanent hearing loss and
b) you can hear yourself clearer, similar to holding your ears shut)
4. Having to sing with a cold
5. Not knowing the lyrics/the music well enough

How about getting booed?

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Gotta agree with Lee here. In line with my constant head voice work, that is my biggest concern live, always.

-SINGING OFF PITCH
-NO REACTIONS AT ALL BY AUDIENCE (WHICH CAN MAKE YOU MORE AND MORE NERVOUS)
-FORGETTING LYRICS
-BAND/MEMBERS PLAY IN WRONG KEY

1.NOT GETTING TO THE GIG.
2. GIGS UP 3 FLIGHTS OF STAIRCASES.(NO ELAVATOR,NO ROADIES)
3.NOT HAVING AN AUDIENCE TO SING TO.
4.HAVING A BAD AUDIENCE.
5.NOT GETTING HOME.

i would have to say paresis/paralysis. its no fun

1. singing off pitch
2. breath support/forcing
3. worrying about the tone: nasal/or not
4. Catching a cold / being sick
5. monitors

I agree with everyone here.

1. Losing my voice completely before an important performance. For me, my singing voice doesn't return until 2 1/2 weeks after I regain my speaking voice & it takes close to a month to get back to the point I was at.

2. Forgetting the lyrics to the song.

3. Being so nervous it affects my pitch throughout the entire song. (I sang a solo in choir my senior year of high school, & I can't bear to go back & listen to it. It was my first time actually using a mic to sing into & I was also the very first person to go up. )

4. The audience does NOTHING for several seconds afterwards (either that or they boo).

5. One or both my hearing aids breaking before a performance (it takes up to 3 weeks to get them back from the company), thereby influencing my pitch.

PS-Happy belated birthday, Jaime.

My singing star. How I lov thee:) Your name is going to big in big letters at the front and back of RYV II. My webmaster said you did a wonderful job and you will be one of the first people to get a copy before it is ever released:)

JV

So my name's going to be lighted up, eh? Just kidding.

You're so very welcome, Jaime!!

I wish there was a "blushing" icon here because that's exactly what I'm doing right now.