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Joy-Sikorski

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  1. First, I don't think you have a "horrible voice" at all. Your pitches are pretty clear up high and all you really need is some meaty support to get out what you want to get out. Another thing to remember is that all vowels tend to mesh or merge or mush together into a sort of "uh" sound as you go higher (some will argue with this but that's ok). I mean you can work and work and work to get clear vowel sounds up there and that is a good thing, but ultimately, you will want to release a mental restriction that we all tend to place on ourselves, which has to do with wanting our voices to be "perfect." All who know me on this forum know that I don't go in much for a lot of terminology (although I can do that) because I believe that the essence of singing freely has to do with releasing all constrictions, including trying to mentally/intellectually/academically fit in our voices to this muscle position or that muscle position. Learn everything you can about all of that and then let it all go. When you connect your emotions and what you want to express in singing with your lower ab muscles in a natural and balanced way, you will have no problem with the vowels up there because, again, the power of what you are expressing is more important that the vowels themselves. This is not to say that you should abandon any study of the technical aspects of your voice, but I will caution you not to spend too much time on it. I have worked with so many people who have never found their authentic or true voices by going too far in trying to understand the terminology route that they get stuck there and stay constricted or frustrated. I also see that you are in the Beverly Hills area. I'm going to be down there on the Westside next weekend and if you want to meet for coffee somewhere near the Playa Vista area just to talk about your voice, I might be able to work that into my schedule. Let me know. No charge but I'll let you buy the coffee! :)
  2. Loved your guitar improv! About clenching your jaw and thinking that opening it more both hotizontally and vertically, there is a thread about the tongue that also gets into whether or not you need to open the jaw more to get more sound or more nuance of sound. It's on page #2 of that thread. http://www.punbb-hosting.com/forums/themodernvocalist/viewtopic.php?id=1887&p=2 There may be some other posts about this topic too, but I do not know where they are. Maybe someone else on this thread will know. Everything is a balance. Keeping the energy between your guitar technique and your vocal technique is not an easy thing to achieve, but you are doing a great job learning how to do it!
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