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[kyrasantae]

Whenever I sit here and Evanescence comes onto my playlist, I remember that there is a person[1] who once told me that I sing better than Amy Lee. I think she's qualified to say it, and I think she really believes it.

I slow down and listen more carefully. And I say to myself, yes, I do sing better than Amy Lee. I can probably write better, too. But she can play the piano while she sings - something I'm confident I could learn to do once I can sing what's meaningful to me.

Is this all I can do to remind myself of who I am?



[1] That's why I sent that to you. You deserve it from me.

Comments

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

I actually had to take lessons to learn to sing and play. I had intended to take "adult/advanced" piano lessons only, but the woman discovered that I wanted to be able to sing/play in a band (as well as teaching, she did the 'piano bar' thing), and she helped a LOT with being able to sing and play at the same time. (and also how to voice chords from a song chart and accompany oneself in a piano bar type situation - a good skill to have)

It was probably just a matter of practice, but having lessons that I was paying for made it important to me to actually spend the time practicing.

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

Hehehe I can already play from chords ;) Not from guitar chords, necessarily, but I have my own strange version of figured bass.

I *have* accompanied myself on a few occasions, but in those cases the accompaniment was on sheet music and was either similar enough to (but not exactly) the melody line or it was a simple arpeggiated pattern (Loreena McKennitt's "Dante's Prayer", I'm sure you've heard that?).

I think that once a song is something written *by* you it becomes so much more meaningful and makes the muscle memory easier to achieve. There were some little tunes I once wrote that I thought I'd totally forget, but once I had worked it out on the piano a couple of times I can't seem to forget them...