Exactly 23 days ago, On this post Improving my musical skills, I wrote a post with a few resolution on improving my musical skills. The two major method I mentioned to use as a means of improving was : Learning on YouTube and avoiding certain meals believed to hinder a free flow of air. This post is aimed at giving details on how well I've been coping with the mentioned resolutions, or maybe how bad.
For emphasis as mentioned earlier in my previous post on music. I don't take music as a career, but I've loved singing since I was young. I've never considered improving until I felt the need to earlier last year. I'd love to know I can sing well and probably sing even better in congregations leading worship or praises. It will be a dream come true and for that, I'm putting an effort, with the hope of improving.
If someone should ask me how well I've been coping with the resolutions?, my honest answer will be "badly". But it's fine, I understand the beginning isn't always pleasant, it comes with some discomfort I believe I'll get through with time. I remember the first lesson I had in learning breakdance. At one point I wanted to give up, felt like my body was stiff and my bones weren't giving, everything the tutor did then looked like magic and I wondered when on earth I'd learn all those tricks. It happened when I least expected, my days of training were adding up until it finally paid off and there I was, no longer seeing magic , but an easy to-do dance. The same way it'll happen with my music resolution, all the errors and trials will keep adding up until suddenly I'll notice a remarkable change at the end of the day. It's barely two weeks since I started, so I don't expect much change.
The first difficulty is changing my choice of meal. That's too difficult to do. The few ones I believe may enhance my voice do not satisfy my hunger and I see myself falling back to heavy meals and getting all croaky again. Sometimes I want to blame myself for the lack of discipline on food, but I have no choice but to accept that it wouldn't happen overnight. I was born and raised with those meals, they aren't gonna leave me that easily and I appreciate their fight sometimes, hahaha.
The second difficulty is understanding what the YouTubers are teaching. They just assume they're talking to an expert and flash, they just drop the message and I'm there just looking. But then not all YouTube videos are that way, some take their time to make a novice like me feel calm, then go gradually with the basic thing to do, sometimes just one lesson and that's where it ends. However, there's progress in failure. I've understood a few ways it won't work and I'm sure to try other ways and see what the results are. There's nothing wrong with failure, it's part of the ladder to success and I've taken a step already. Someday when I'll give my success stories, the hard time will be the beauty of the end result.