I noticed a very strange thing when I sang at the forum concert on Saturday.

I am sure I sang better on Saturday than I usually do, I was very nervous singing in front of an audience but at the same time I sang much better too. I wish I could look back at a recording to see if it was just my imagination, but I surprised myself, that's for sure. Anyone else find that with singing???

With most instruments I find that I am more likely to make slips and not play as well as I can when I have an audience, but although it's hard in a way to be certain, I really think I sang better even in the rehearsal on Saturday when there were people listening than I usually do. Unless it was just a reeeeeeeeeeeally good acoustic!

I wonder if it's because I had words that I had to get across and actually had someone to get them across to...

Very strange, though!

You certainly sang really well on Saturday, and you looked like you were enjoying it, which is important.

It's a phenomenon I've noticed before - once I'd stopped having massive nerves at performing in public, then the challenge of it made me raise my game a lot. I can actually pinpoint the first time that happened to me in a performance - just over a year ago.

I think the adrenaline rush before performing gives a heightened awareness of one's performance, and so one puts a lot more commitment/effort into the song, and therefore get a good result.

Yes, I'm sure that's true, Katyjay.

Katyjay's going to be really proud of me here:

I don't know, because I wasn't listening.

Thank you and I was enjoying it!

Thought that posting what was written in the CISD thread might have some relevance for people who only see it here


Actually, to say I surprised myself is a bit of an understatement. There were just one or two notes, I can't even remember if it was in the practice or in the performance where I thought "oooh not quite" but it went so much better than I had hoped, so much less affected by nerves than I had imagined, and so much more sound came out of my mouth than I knew I was capable of, that "shocked" would be a better description it is very heartening though to know that I am capable of singing that much better than I had realised or managed before. If with practice I can bring even a little of that ability into my singing on an everyday basis, or even just when singing with friends and in choirs, then I shall be very happy indeed.




*applause*!!!

I haven't mastered that at all yet, as you can tell from what I have already written *grin*

Aaaw, wish we were there. Still, there's Leicester...

Hooooooray!!!!!

But how did it feel?

that's funny, Sarah

when my little girl sang in the school nativity she had been practising all week and only ever singing sweetly but inaudibly or loudly like a fishwife. To all our surprise she raised her performance by about fifty notches when performing in front of a crowd and sang beautifully, as well as loud enough without being forced. I thought maybe that was down to personality and "rising to the occasion", since I tend to go in the other direction, but reading your post I wonder if it flags up a possible difference between singing and instrumental playing.

That's interesting, zoda. Yes, I thought it was odd when instrumentally it's the other way around for me, usually. I'm quite glad to know it's not just me being weird

I have this really sweet image of your daughter singing now *grin*

I thought youwere having an early night!!!

I'm just running a bath, then I'm off!