Me mi me mi me

I took a voice class with Miguel today, it was unexpected interesting, and I had so much fun in it. I always don’t have confident with my voice, especially singing, but after this class, I felt like I can try. The class started with drawing, we drew what we think our voice like, and which part of the body will block our voice. Everyone’s drawing is interesting, each of us has different thought of our voice… of course, and those approaches to the drawings are so different in terms of drawing, it was an interesting sharing.

After that we tried how to find our voice from breathing to make a sound “ha”. We did it when we were lying down, we took a deep breath, and then we made a sound of “ha” at the end of exhale. From a single “ha” to double “ha” to five “ha”s, we learnt how to use the breath to support our voice when we project it! Then we tried to use our voice with different sound while we were standing. “m”, “n”, “ng”, “m+n”, “m+ng”, “hi-o”… The funniest sound was “mi”, we had to make it from the nose, it sounded like the character in cartoons, it was so difficult to concentrate in this exercise, because we needed to look at Miguel and talk to him with “mi”, he looked so cartoons and he was so serious at the same time, I had a hard time to stop myself laughing when I talked with him, but it was really fun.

We ended the workshop with singing, we went to the piano, and Miguel picked a note from the piano randomly, and made a song for us, the song was beautiful though we were just repeating the same phrase in different pitch… “Don’t you want me babe, don’t you want me woo-oo-o.” … The melody of this song resonated me in the rest of the day.

Such a beautiful sunny weekend.