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🦄 🧀 Orchestra vs. Selling Solo Etc. ... "The Math" ...

The cutest violinist in Andre Rieu's orchestra just got her degree this year.

I think what it is about recording an album, or songs, is that the soloists, I was told in class, well don't play in orchestra but you know probably get togethers except I know there's something in it in the orchestra possibly, ... told that, well, anyway, pianists you know are locked in a room practicing all day, can get up to use the 🚽, eat lunch for maybe 30 minutes, I guess like an orchestra might practice from like 9 AM - 11:30 A.M. and 12:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M., probably do not teach much, but I am just speculating/guessing.

It takes me a long time to learn a new song, and it's very easy to learn a song I know what it goes like and if I know it well.

I would always pack a whole grain sweet sandwich, after 1 look at Subway. I would go to McDonald's and get a Happy Meal once a week and spend $30 at least. I always amiss college dining. 💸

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🍩 🍩 🍩 The Plan 🌤

I sang by myself since age 5, and I got singing books and tapes from my aunt Barb, Wee Sing Folk, Religious, and Dinosaurs age 6 maybe. I memorized Catholic church songs before mass since age 6. I sang in church choir age 7-11, not available 12 & 13 but listened to musical theater and 70s/80s "soft rock" or "ballads?" 14-20, 34, 35, 36, 37. I was so mad when I couldn't sing in choir in grades 7 and 9 when I moved from East Coast Florida to the New Orleans area, which surrounds New Orleans as a swamp. If they did have choir in the city, I'd probably not get into musical theater and old pop. I was gonna take singing lessons, too, but I was too shy. I would have liked this at least by age 5 I know. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, above Miami, doesn't know that if you wanna play music as an adult you gotta start sometime as a child and play other instruments on the side or switch officially. Children's orchestra sounds great. High school band and professional musical theater chorus sound like some of the best.

One choir really taught me to sing and I waited to start singing lessons. It was age 9-11, 3 years. You know, most choirs seem to just brush by or just sing in unison like carolers on the street in a bad mood every week. I dunno, I guess that's just allowed. So, this one was pretty good. If you got a solo, you got coached for like a minute or 5 minutes or after choir practice once a week after school, but I didn't have to get any. So, it taught everything, like breathing things, good warmups, very articulate, seeing both the music and the conducting, how to sit, posture, expressive technics, memorization, ...

So, I have to do warmups online, sing songs I know online. Next month, I should get books with longer phrases with quicker notes. I want to do lesser known classical songs. There are probably popular ones within the "academia." I want to do 2 Christmas carols, "12 Days of Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland." I love "12 Days of Christmas" of Dutch looking Latina Connie Francis most. I like "12 Days of Christmas" for seeming real Dutch. I like "Winter Wonderland" for being able to do it "classically." I want to do maybe about 15 songs. I hope to do both low and high, in the middle, etc.

So, I am spending a lot of time preparing food and personal physical therapy... I hope to find good warmups on YouTube and karaoke of songs I know. Next month ... reading singing is easier than following. So, books hopefully can find something. I think there are academic exercises for coloratura, first sopranos and all.