I've been getting back into writing fiction and fanfiction lately. That's when I saw a forum offering a challenge on a Harvest Moon story. There is one where the challenge is to write 100 chapter with a given theme for each chapter, 100 words only revolving the life of 1 HM character.
I am so intrigued by this challenge and wanted to get on with it then and there. However, I've been busying myself with making music lately... It's been going pretty well. There are more listeners now mostly gained by the Sims 3 Seasons cover song I did recently. Now it's growing up to 200+ subscribers! Wow..
There's so many things I want to do yet I'm just here writing about what I want to do. Time is really the main decider.. Which large portion of my time would I be willing to offer for a certain project.
No, perhaps I should just divide it to which artistic ... action ... I'd like to do more. Surely I should do music more because it's what I do best. But sometimes I wish I can just spend the whole day writing, yet there's always something that would keep me from finishing a chapter..
Life is full of challenge...
You start off not know what you want to do.. experience a mid-life crisis.. then you began to know what you want to do.. and now not sure which one to do first..
Life in the Sims seems much simpler than real life. Perhaps that's why it became so big..
Sep 18, 2012
Sep 6, 2012
Pushing the Limits
When I was the Philippines, I get to talk with one of my friends about putting a band together. Well, it was mostly him that will be putting the band together while I was "booked" to be the singer. At that time I said yes. The next time he asked again, I said yes again. Only...this time I asked if my voice was right for the genre or not.
As far as I know, my voice was a soft and quiet one. I did sing some songs before that requires some slight "shouting" but never all the time. This time, his song influence are mostly J-rock bands where the girl had to kind of force her vocal chords to avoid using falsetto even though it's past her comfortable chest voice.
I was starting to worry because I did have problems with my own song when it was reaching a high note. I tend to always use the easy way out and use the falsetto. However, this time he said no. He told me to cover 3 song for him to listen and forced me to use my chest voice.
So I googled some "vocal training" posts online and found an exercise where I can blend my head voice and my chest voice. The guy even gave an example of himself doing a flawless scale where he blends the two voice without breaking.
In the end, I didn't really do any blending when doing the song but I did find some interesting facts about my vocal range. I never had to push myself to sing like that so I didn't know that I can actually reach the high parts. Of course, it hurts eventually and then I can't control my voice anymore but I find it comforting that the more I get to do it (with breaks in between), the easier and more comfortable I get to singing those parts.
It actually encourages me to start pushing myself to see how far I can go as a vocalist. Hopefully I get to train properly instead of slowly killing my vocal chords.
As far as I know, my voice was a soft and quiet one. I did sing some songs before that requires some slight "shouting" but never all the time. This time, his song influence are mostly J-rock bands where the girl had to kind of force her vocal chords to avoid using falsetto even though it's past her comfortable chest voice.
I was starting to worry because I did have problems with my own song when it was reaching a high note. I tend to always use the easy way out and use the falsetto. However, this time he said no. He told me to cover 3 song for him to listen and forced me to use my chest voice.
So I googled some "vocal training" posts online and found an exercise where I can blend my head voice and my chest voice. The guy even gave an example of himself doing a flawless scale where he blends the two voice without breaking.
In the end, I didn't really do any blending when doing the song but I did find some interesting facts about my vocal range. I never had to push myself to sing like that so I didn't know that I can actually reach the high parts. Of course, it hurts eventually and then I can't control my voice anymore but I find it comforting that the more I get to do it (with breaks in between), the easier and more comfortable I get to singing those parts.
It actually encourages me to start pushing myself to see how far I can go as a vocalist. Hopefully I get to train properly instead of slowly killing my vocal chords.
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