Home
Piano Music
Piano Music Library
Audiovisual Study Tool
Search pieces
All composers
Top composers »
Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Chopin
Debussy
Grieg
Haydn
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Liszt
Prokofiev
Rachmaninoff
Ravel
Schubert
Schumann
Scriabin
All composers »
All pieces
Recommended Pieces
PS Editions
Instructive Editions
Recordings
Recent additions
Free piano sheet music
News & Articles
PS Magazine
News flash
New albums
Livestreams
Article index
Piano Forum
Resources
Music dictionary
E-books
Manuscripts
Links
Mobile
About
About PS
Help & FAQ
Contact
Forum rules
Pricing
Log in
Sign up
Piano Forum
Home
Help
Search
Piano Forum
»
Piano Board
»
Performance
»
Getting comfortable singing and playing
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Down
Topic: Getting comfortable singing and playing
(Read 1368 times)
noam1
Newbie
Posts: 6
Getting comfortable singing and playing
on: May 18, 2022, 01:38:36 AM
Hi y'all,
For decades -- literally,
decades
-- I've dreamt of having a repertoire of pieces I can play and sing together.
I've worked on it. I've walked away from it. I've come back to it and tried again. I was trained classically, so I had to unlearn a lot of stuff and learn new stuff.
Now I'm finally good enough at the piano part. But... then comes the singing. And suddenly, it's unexpectedly hard.
I have a good voice. I used to sing in choirs and other ensembles when I was young. But I have very little experience singing solo. And -- now that I have a performance opportunity in a month -- I'm listening to myself practice and getting really cold feet.
Is my voice still good enough? Maybe it was never that good solo but fine in an ensemble? Am I projecting enough when sitting at the piano? Am I too distracted with the playing to give enough power to my voice? What if people think I sound like a soulless imitator? What if they can discern the holes in my playing?
What if I'm not good enough?
I don't know where to go with this. I have had disappointing teachers in recent years so I don't have one right now.
What do you suggest?
Logged
brogers70
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 1776
Re: Getting comfortable singing and playing
Reply #1 on: May 18, 2022, 10:41:29 AM
Get some honest friends to listen to you and tell you what they think, after making it clear you do not want them to spare your feelings if they think you are not sounding that good.
Logged
lelle
PS Gold Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 2554
Re: Getting comfortable singing and playing
Reply #2 on: May 18, 2022, 01:24:10 PM
An important question is, even if your voice does not reach a certain arbitrary standard when you sing solo and play piano, why does that mean you aren't allowed to perform? Even if you would be bad, how are you gonna learn if you are not even allowed to try? To fail? To practice? Especially since it sounds you have a good foundation ("I have a good voice") and you just need to learn how to branch out into this area which is outside your comfort zone.
Life is short and even if it ends up being a spectacular failure, nobody who matters is going to remember or care.
Logged
thomas10
PS Silver Member
Newbie
Posts: 2
Re: Getting comfortable singing and playing
Reply #3 on: June 02, 2022, 05:59:30 AM
Just wanting to do it is 90% while the other 10% can be rehearsed, perfected, critiqued, analyzed and refined. Get psyched and attack!
Logged
Sign-up to post reply
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Up
For more information about this topic, click search below!
Search on Piano Street