Friday, February 09, 2007

Dramatic restoration of my dream ! ^

Its recommended that you read the post below this first to get a feel of wat this is all about..

So can u make a guess wat happened..
Quick recap : i was off to home to cure my throat infection which had grown very acute ( even the intake of saliva pained a lot....) and cud hardly speak.
And i was supposed to sing for one of the bands at AD (* acoustic dusk *) @ IITB...

Wen at home somehow due to the gr8 medicines my throat was cured....Atleast now i can swallow my saliva !! phew !!
But there seemed to be no improvement in my voice....My vocal chords were angry with me. :(
i was very worried..
Next day i woke up ( yeah i did wake up ) at 5.45 am and after " taking bath " went to hostel ....as i hate bunking lectures when i cant get attendance without attending them :P
Only thing in my mind was what will i do today 6pm in AD..
What if i fail ? What if i cannot sing in front of others ? and all such sort of questions boggling my mind.....

Yeah the throat infection was least expected at such stage... x-(
That afternoon Akhil asked me to sing once in front of him....By that time i had some more fragment of my voice coming out...
I was able to sing but had difficulty of stretching on long lines...
He said " watever is the case , you will be singing ".
So at that point i made up my mind to do it....however bad i may sing....

We were the fourth one to perform ....In front of the lights i cud hardly anyone in the audience....The scene was completely black for me....
I introduced the band.....and then we started....I sung quite good ( in such a condition ).
I received various types of comments...but that hardly matters ....for at that point i was glad that i did sing.......

I learnt a lot from other singers and was a great experience with a seemingly fair start...

victorie et joie

Signing off...

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Tragic demise of my dream !

I always thought that i could become a good singer....
I too received the opportunity of singing in AD ( Acoustic Dusk @ IITB ) ..this takes place once a year....My friend cum wingie cum drummer ( Akhil ) helped me out by having me sing for their band...

I had to sing fade to black by Metallica (* FTB *) . During my first practice on this song i did it pretty well but had problems in matching scales with the rhythm guitartist (chinnu) mainly in the last few lines . To tell u some facts.... my hands shivered a lot while holding the mike and my legs too shivered and was feeling a bit more cold than usual ..... and i guess that does happen . At tht point i had a very weird feeling coz of 2 reasons mainly..viz...singing without mic and with mic is hell lot of different and if my hands are shivering in front of a team of four,wat will i do in front of 1000 ppl during AD..... !!phew!!

After tht akhil oferred me to sing Dance of death by Iron maiden (* DOD *).....this was way tougher than fade to black....Managing scales ,pitch was no longer easy for any part of the song....I tried a lot for 2 days.... this was the only song on my playlist in winamp for 2 days continuously....and i did it somewhat well....but again the difference made by mic made it uneasy for me ....I screwed it badly during our practice and felt very bad....i do not know wat went wrong but i screwed up the scale and pitch and lyrics completely.....as in it cant get any worse :( Thouroughly discouraged.and now it is just one day left for AD

Akhil wants me to sing or try for sweet child of mine...Difficult than FTB but quite simpler as compared to DOD....and i can almost sing it i guess ....

Tragic part -->

But m a bit sick since 4-5 days and now i have a throat infection over it :((
The throat infection has become so very acute ( 1 day remaining for AD ) that i can hardly talk....Now how m i supposed to sing ??

WAT NEXT ? ( i have no clue of wat is gonna happen tomorrow )

Signing OFF.