Hi,
first post here, so maybe I should start off with an introduction?
I've been singing to the wall in my apartment for quite some time now, but never dared to tell anyone I like to sing... until two months ago, when I started taking lessons (four so far). She tells me I'm a tenor. Which was great news, because the songs I like to listen to are wohoo-up-there-in-the-range... and I may be able to sing some of them with proper technique.
Anyway, during the summer there are no lessons so I decided to work on my upper range which was G below high C. I found a G# for The music of the night, and the A I needed for a dream theater song (Solitary Shell).
Today I was singing along to Grenade in my car and when I came home I found out it had even higher notes (I was obviously straining but I occasionally hit some of them).
So, here is the clip of me singing the chorus of Grenade by Bruno Mars:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/06gf9q16f6cz9yn/Grenade%20-%20chorus.mp3
...aaaand the questions:
1. Am I hurting myself? Or can I safely continue practicing the song like this?
2. The top notes (>A) are breathy and thin, and without compressing like hell (think food coming back from stomach) I cannot reach them at all. Should I approach them differently all together?
3. Oh, and is the voice "connected" or some kind of falsetto thingy? Or head voice? I think there is a nasal quality to the tone but I have never ventured this high before so I don't really know
So the perfectionist inside says it sucks, and the funny guy inside says it's a lot of fun and I'm asking you whether the technique is a dead end or if I will eventually get there if I continue doing the same thing.
// Ronnie
Ps. I forgot the lyrics but instead I managed to laugh in tune with some compression. Just saying ;)