“With singing it’s all hidden.” Even if you hold a golf club poorly, you can at least see your hands. “When you’re looking at a skilled athlete, you can see what they’re doing,” she said. While singing is a motor skill, it’s unique in that most of what happens is invisible to the singer. This learning would take place across the whole body. There is something deeply transformative about sending your voice, as music, into a room.
It was better, she said, when I wasn’t overly self-conscious about it.īut how could you not be self-conscious about this act that derives entirely from one’s self, that seems to so powerfully express that self? “It’s so good to hear your voice,” we say on a long-distance telephone call, when we really mean “it’s so good to hear you.” Parenthood had put me back, however briefly, into a world of singing, but it suddenly occurred to me I’d been discreetly and aimlessly singing my entire life-to a song on the radio, along with a band at a concert. My wife had occasionally told me I had a “nice voice,” but, she carefully allowed, it was sometimes off-key. I’m not a natural performer apart from a thankfully forgotten, pre-smartphone outing at a friend’s bachelor party, I hadn’t even dipped into karaoke.īut I did enjoy singing around the house, in the shower, in the car. Whatever music theory I learned early in school is mostly lost to me. I don’t consider myself a natural vocal talent, or even particularly musical.
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