Yesterday Sok and I started singing lessons. It was only for 1/2 an hour and a lot of that was talking about what we wanted out of singing lessons and it was great! We had a go at singing two songs, "Hopelessly Devoted to You" from Grease and I have forgotten which My Fair Lady song we sang. We also did quite a few warm-ups and exercises that our teacher explained really well. I have to work on singing less breathily.
Something that Sok and I kept talking about later tho was her assessment of our voices. When we had discussed what we wanted to sing and I said I wanted to improve my range again and hit the higher notes I used to be able to she said I did have a relatively low speaking voice, but then later on after we'd done some exercise and she was assessing us she said that we both had good tuning and similar ranges. The main difference between me and Sok is that my voice sounds fuller, hers sounds sweeter. This is because mine is more mature! Crazy! Then she asked how old we were but there is only 3 months between us. Sok just has a younger voice, ahh well. ANyway I said I wanted to go some Jazz stuff as well is possible as my uncle said if I got a song I could probably sing with his band some time. Next lesson she is going to give us some songs that we can start working on "Fish gotta Sing" from Showboat for me and something from "Phantom of the Opera" for Regs. We are also to bring a folder and a notebook so that we can keep a record of our homework. We have to do at least 10 min of exercises a day. She also was quite keen for us to join a choir she conducts so that would be neat too. Yay, I'm glad to be singing again.
Next time we go we're going to take the Musical Score for the "Buffy Musical Episode". Sok has it and we might work on some of those songs too. 1/2 an hour a week doesn't seem enough.