The best laugh

Today I am grateful for the biggest laugh I've had in ages!

My singing lessons are always full of fun. It's the best way, I guess, to relieve the tension of all the concentration! (It's blooming hard work!!!)

Well, today was no different.

I had been very pleased with myself after my warm-up scales, because my range is getting higher all the time. I think Owen (my teacher) deliberately gives me so much to concentrate on (shoulders down, breath into the sides, stomach muscles pulled in at the right moment, energy, smile!!!) so that I won't realise how high I am going! I get scared when I think I can't reach a note, and then, of course, I don't hit it 'cos the more I try, the more my throat closes!!

I have a new-found appreciation for the fabulous talents of my mam, sisters and nieces...I always knew they had great singing voices, but I didn't realise how hard it was to co-ordinate the body to produce the wonderful notes!!

Anyway...after my scales, we started into Nella Fantasia (my current song du jour). I was finding it harder than I expected, after my great performance with the warm-up, to reach the high note. It was there, but not with any real gusto. So, Owen said he would take it down to a slightly lower key. Now it was no bother. Better then ever. When I was finished, Owen admitted that he had started off in a higher key the first time, just to show me how easily I could sing it in the original key!!! The monkey!!!

Ah, well...it certainly confirmed that the fear really is all in my head! And I guess that goes for more than just singing!!!

As my two would say...hearts rule, heads drool!!!

Gratefully yours.
xx