Re: Does anyone get depressed or even semi-suicidal when they hea
It's like facing your fears, instead of fondling spiders or snakes, it's listening to yourself. :-)
If I focus really hard, I can lay down an acceptable backing track in a looper pedal, but it's hard enough I still use BiB or internet for most tracks.
Getting better as a player helps a lot, takes time and patience, be patient with yourself, a cheer-leader and not a critic helps a lot.
Still, I went years before I would let anyone hear me play on mandolin, it was so bad to my ears.
Voice is even worse, you'll throw yourself off a bridge for sure.
And yes, voice lessons are fantastic, and necessary because voice is special, there are so many ways to sing wrong, few get it right without lessons, and singing wrong can hurt your voice.
I started life as a (half-decent) classical trumpet player. I knew how to breath, how to phrase a melody line, nice vibrato, I could control the tone I wanted, it was sweet.
But I couldn't get any of that to work with voice, so given voice was just another wind instrument, with six months of voice lessons I was able to get to where I could sing well, with a controlled vibrato, the tone I wanted, and all of the trumpet-learned musicianship transferred over to voice nicely.
For someone who doesn't already know breath control, melodic line phrasing, and vibrato, I think it would take longer.
Voice is also one of those infinitely flexible instruments, very few can sing in all styles well. I have a niece who comes pretty close. She has an amazing voice, range and power like nobody's business, and huge talent. I have heard opera, modern pop (various flavors), jazz, and country come out of her style-perfect. She should be graduating from college with a voice performance degree soon.
Davey Stuart tenor guitar (based on his 18" mandola design).
Eastman MD-604SB with Grover 309 tuners.
Eastwood 4 string electric mandostang, 2x Airline e-mandola (4-string) one strung as an e-OM.
DSP's: Helix HX Stomp, various Zooms.
Amps: THR-10, Sony XB-20.
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