give it to me straight....

I remember being told by a youth minister/choir director in my early teen years that my voice needed more vibrato, that my tone was too straight. 30 years later and I'm staring at an unopened CD set "Mastering Vibrato", not because my tone is too straight, but because like many other female vocalists with a passion for contemporary worship songs, I have more vibrato than I know what to do with. It has been a difficult passage for me to come to peace with not leading worship vocally but I have. Anyone who has spent their life sitting alone at a piano singing away, has an understandably challenging time seperating the two mediums of expression from each other. They have always gone hand in hand for me. I sing and play. Play and sing, and it's been a little trip for me transitioning to "play".

So we'll open this thing up and see if old cords can learn new tricks. If they can, I'm hoping to help fellow voices learn to manage their vibrations in a contemporary-friendly way. If not, well it looks like Mylie will just get an earful at home. To date, she has yet to complain... And if that doesn't work I can always see if the Symphony Chorus needs a soprano :)