So after watching a few youtube instructional videos on vocal harmony… it really seems like a piece of cake really. What vocal harmony is when a singer is singing in tune with a certain chord like say a C chord for example, the back-up singers would sing higher notes that are in that chord. Like in a C chord is a 1 3 5 so the notes would be C E G. If a singer is singing on the root note C, the back-up singers would sing a little higher either E or G. You could come up with all kinds of vocal harmonies for back-ups like “oooohhs”, “Aaaahhs”, “mmmmmmm”, “Sha lalalala”, etc. Whatever you can come up with… just be creative. I’m gonna give this a try by practicing in garageband and then I’ll try it for another song. Should be easy.

Some of you may ask how did I improve myself with the singing? Well, the only secret to that is… practicing. That’s all there is to it. The goal is you want the voice to give that buzzing sensation in your head… get all of that sound out of your mouth. After listening to my older songs, I felt I really needed to improve myself. I wanted to become an actual “singer”. Really sing good and not sing like I’m using my speaking voice if you know what I mean.

Singing is fun. I enjoy it so much. You’ll never see me audition for “The Voice” or “American Idol”… I’m gonna be doing my own thing.

I wanna try doing some acepella singing… see what kind of feedback I can get of me singing without an instrument.

If your voice sucks and if you don’t like the way it sounds, you can always improve yourself. Don’t always think you can’t. I taught myself how to sing. I prefer to teach myself instead of working with a vocal coach. Teaching yourself is better. You don’t wanna get anybody else’s style. You want to develop your own.

Kev

I didn’t buy too many albums this year in 2013. Music industry gets worse every year so there’s not much good music anymore. Once in a while a good album will come out but not much. Looking through my CD collection, I only bought 7 albums this year. For all those other new albums I wanna hear, I’ll just listen to them all in spotify this week and then I’ll make my picks for the list. If I like the album enough, I’ll buy my own copy on CD. That’s what I use spotify for. If there’s an album I wanna hear, I’ll listen to it in spotify first to see if I like it enough.

I don’t subscribe to spotify… I just listen to the free service. I don’t mind commercials and advertisements. It’s just like listening to the radio, ya know?

I’ll be honest that it hasn’t been a good year for music but the big plus’s are that Black Sabbath and David Bowie both made comebacks. I’ll have this list up sometime at the end of this week.

Kev

… the goal is to ask her out to her face in person… show her you got the balls and confidence to do it in person than over the internet.

Maybe internet dating is a good thing. In these days, it seems that the internet is a big deal. Everybody’s doing it. People are hooking up through paying dating sites and social networking like facebook. I’ve known plenty of couples who just hooked up through facebook. So maybe this stuff does work? As long you’re careful and watching out for scammers, prostitutes, women with STD’s, and all that stuff… internet dating should be good.

Maybe I will give internet dating a try… don’t know.

I just think it would be more fun if I try to score a date with a woman who I just met publicly like out at a store or a band show or the gym or something like that. So I guess you can say that one of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2014 would be try and be more confident with women. Start talking to women I never met before… I need to do that more. I need to work on my conversation skills and it is getting worked on. Talk to people in person like I talk a lot on the computer. Shouldn’t be that hard.

Goal for 2014… try to talk to and meet as many women as possible. I’m 37 now, almost the big 40 and I wanna get myself a nice lady before then.

To be honest, I’m not worried about looks in a woman. It’s the personality that I look for. As long as she’s fun to talk to and you can click pretty well with her… who cares if she’s beautiful or not. It doesn’t mean I’ll date an ugly or an overweight woman, though. I would like a good looking and hot woman but if not, I’ll take a normal woman too.

I can’t see myself being single for the rest of my life and I really need to do something about it. Would like to get married someday but only to the right one.

Kev