singing

This past weekend I sang at church for the first time in quite a while. I normally end up playing bass at church, and not singing with that, although I would like to. This time, however, they had me on acoustic and singing. It was lots of fun, but I had some problems, it felt, getting things together completely with guitar rhythms and voice. I was also feeling that my breath support wasn't quite there. Of course, when I talked with a couple people about it, they said it sounded good. I don't know if I'm just a harsher critic, or if people just try to be polite. It has always bugged me how people aren't willing to give honest criticism to even a friend. Anyway, the sound guy made a recording of the service and is going to send me a cd. With that, I'll be able to listen to my voice and find out some things to work on.

You know, I think I'm a bit too hard in my statement about people not wanting to give criticism. I think it's more likely that other people are just enjoying the music, or the other musicians on stage are just thinking about their own playing. This is probably why people just say, "it sounded good."