Work+in+Progress

Work in Progress
__Process Journal__

20.09.11 After I chose my topic I spoke to my supervisor and we fixed a particular time once a week for me to go for vocal training classes. Today, I researched on my topic too and obtained a lot of information.

28.09.11 I found out about the different types of vocal training and how long each course will take to complete. With my supervisor, I then chose songs I should start my training with. We chose songs that I find hard to sing, that are of a higher pitch than my voice can take or that are of a lower pitch that my voice can take.

03.10.11 Today, I submitted my work that was due, i.e Phase 1, to my personal project supervisor, Mr. Felix. I wrote all about the AOI's in that and also a detailed plan of how I am going to work at achieving my goal. My planning entries haven been pasted on the other page.

09.10.11 Today I decided that I would go privately for vocal training classes and not to my supervisor for it. I asked around about where I could go for vocal training classes and in the end I found a teacher that would come train me every saturday for 2 hours starting from the 1st week of november. The trainer that I got to help me is Mr. Avinash Lobo, he was previously a part of the StopGaps Academy of Music. He is an amazing singer and I'm excited to go for classes to him.

11.10.11 I was going through voice modulation videos on youtube and I found this one video from my favorite movie. This was a video of Mandy Moore singing 'Only Hope' in the movie, "A Walk To Remember'. I hope to be able to sing like her when I'm done with my vocal training. This is the video : media type="youtube" key="j8f8RHWMPyY" height="315" width="420"

1.11.11 We had to prepare ourselves for submission of the 2nd phase of our personal project. It is our work done so far, research as well as a mind map on our plans for the project.

9.11.11 I went for vocal training classes and recorded this small clip of me singing. It's a small part of the song 'If I die young' by 'The Band Perry'. I chose to record this song because I feel my voice goes well with this song and also this song is very easy for me to pitch. media type="custom" key="11365056"

18.11.11 Today, my voice went as I have a bad throat. I still recorded another short clip of myself singing a part of 'Someone Like you" by Adelle. It's not very good, but when my voice gets better, I'll record another version of this song. This song is just like the song above as it is easy for me to pitch. I will take on songs that are harder for me to pitch as I go through my training process. This is just to get me started. media type="custom" key="11365176"

22.11.11 I had a vocal training class today. We practiced harmonizing 2 voices together. My friend Apeksha, and I trained today. We used the song 'Eternal Flame' to train. Felix sir played on the piano and we both sang. Apeksha sang high and I sang low. It sounded really good. I'm posting 2 voice clips below. One of them is of me singing alone and the other one also includes my friend Aditi. I tried using the harmonizing technique we practiced today and it came out quite good.