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This place in the forum gets little action. So I am more than happy to put this into the Universe and let it disappear into the Ether:

I tend to find more tidbits of useful information in my returns than my forwards. While the forwards are encouraging and energizing, the returns are inspiring.

My most recent return said: "Overall Russell, work to find a little more of your own voice to these songs." Then I spend my idle moments contemplating the balance between my own voice and that which is "commercially" viable. I think about what it takes to write to the a-la's while injecting my personal feel and/or take on it.

Yes, on this particular listing I forced it. And of course it showed. Live and learn and improve.

But considering my "Own Voice," I begin to wonder if it is possible to transcend my self-limiting vision and achieve more.

Thank you screener #367, whomever you may be.

yeah man, it happens in the moment, can't be thinking , gotta be being hey!

Don't you find that the moment we start 'thinking' as we are singing, its gone ? hehe

Practical tip possibly ( helped me anyways), sing with a lower monitor vol on the vocal in the cans. the verb and the slight delay tempts to start judging ourselves as we sing ?
Have you noticed this other "voice" creeping in sometimes, like some dude we don't know, stealing the moment with a score card or somat! Who is that??

"OOh this sounds great", or "oooh this sounds bad" comments
it's all bad, both are thinkings and not feelings hey

hmm - kinda not gotta care .. or something .. i dunno, but feel there is something in that...

"your own voice" good skills screener!

music is top fun and one of the closest tasks to being in the moment there is.

I guess brain surgery is up there too, can't be thinking about what to have for tea whilst doing that.
Maybe high speed car driving, ahh quite a few..

All the 'greats' have it, have the ability to trust and be right in the moment. Can't be wondering about the note just gone by or the one up a head. Ahhhhahhhhahhaha .. ramble ramble.. but cool huh!

"work to find a little more of your own voice"

I've been trying to do that, not only with my music, but in my life (in general). It's that whole authenticity balance...I guess.

sedge wrote:"OOh this sounds great", or "oooh this sounds bad" comments
it's all bad, both are thinkings and not feelings hey

I have to agree. I generally know if I have a decent take [recording] by how it felt as it was being recorded...especially with vocals.

Stuart

sedge wrote:yeah man, it happens in the moment, can't be thinking , gotta be being hey!

Don't you find that the moment we start 'thinking' as we are singing, its gone ? hehe

music is top fun and one of the closest tasks to being in the moment there is.

All the 'greats' have it, have the ability to trust and be right in the moment. Can't be wondering about the note just gone by or the one up a head. Ahhhhahhhhahhaha .. ramble ramble.. but cool huh!

cardell wrote: I have to agree. I generally know if I have a decent take [recording] by how it felt as it was being recorded...

Hmmm... I hadn't thought of these things in light of "find your own voice." You guys are right, though, remembering the times my head got in the performance, the product was stiff and unnatural. Otherwise when I suspended "self," I achieved flow and my "voice" came out much better than anything I could have purposefully done.

Less thinking, more doing eh?

Rock-on!

(now I gotta figure out how to do that without alcohol )

Voice in the literal or figurative sense?

What is a stranger really saying when they say that? Maybe I really do sound like Elvis Presley and write like Bob Dylan?? Or are they saying that I tried to sound like Elvis and write like Bob, and that I failed, but maybe that's me? Ok, go ahead, tell me, who am I?lol!

Len911 wrote:Voice in the literal or figurative sense?

What is a stranger really saying when they say that?

I recon they mean like when we can tell someone is reading off a cue card, or putting on an accent in a film but not quite right,
... all leading to the listener not believing a single word from that point on ???

Len911 wrote: Ok, go ahead, tell me, who am I?lol!

That's an easy one, you are an infinite being joined with a finite feeling machine with one goal, to experience life through an unknown universe, a way for the star to experience itself!

heheh : P

Russell Landwehr wrote:Less thinking, more doing eh?

Rock-on!

(now I gotta figure out how to do that without alcohol )

that's known as cheating ha !

sedge wrote:

Len911 wrote: Ok, go ahead, tell me, who am I?lol!

That's an easy one, you are an infinite being joined with a finite feeling machine with one goal, to experience life through an unknown universe, a way for the star to experience itself!

heheh : P

That's so beautiful Sedge!

Sending you a PM.

Stuart

sedge wrote:That's an easy one, you are an infinite being joined with a finite feeling machine with one goal, to experience life through an unknown universe, a way for the star to experience itself!

heheh : P

Is that literally or figuratively?

And one day in my infinitsy(is that a word?),lol, I'll be transformed into fertilizer for the flowers on an un-named planet, metamorphing from flower to fruit fertilized by a honey bee to be relished by the Mormon Kings and Queens, and pooped out like star dust to perpetuate the eternal cycle.

Len911 wrote:And one day in my infinitsy(is that a word?),lol, I'll be transformed into fertilizer for the flowers on an un-named planet, metamorphing from flower to fruit fertilized by a honey bee to be relished by the Mormon Kings and Queens, and pooped out like star dust to perpetuate the eternal cycle.

Only the "finite feeling machine" part of us.

Stuart