And Tonight We're Back!

Hey all!

I know it's been a while, but don't worry I've been working a ton. Tonight I'm singing at Martuni's again! Holy moly right? It's been 3 months since that awful last time (lobster claws + muscle paralysis = awesome night). Tonight we try this again.

The 4 songs I'm singing are (in order):

* When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss
* Skyscraper - Demi Lovato
* Te Lo Dije (I Told You So) - Carrie Underwood
* Who You Are - Jessie J

Should be a fun 4.. a nice ramp up from a calm, sweet song to a more emotional and dramatic song, to more power ballads. 

The only issue with tonight is that I have an awful throat pain and fever, so I'll be EXTRA raspy tonight - we'll see how this goes. 

Updates and pictures soon! Wish me luck!

Best,

Missy

"Addicted" Live Cover

So.. Another push to post something.. 

Again, excuse the insane amount of nerves I had.. Anxiety and panic hadn't gone away yet.

I stumbled with getting through tears and a closing airway in the beginning of the song.. But I think I found more comfort halfway through..

Click on link below to see performance video..

http://youtu.be/3guOMAgCbFI

Wasn't Half Bad!

Whew! It's done!

Strangely enough.. I wasn't super nervous before going up there!  Although, there were a couple scary moments.

First off, my voice coach tells me (in front of the huge group) that no one should pick me to go after them, as he wants me to go LAST so wrap it up and finish us off with a bang.  And then he motions hitting a ball with a ball bat.. as in.. I want you to knock it out of the park. Ummm.. what?! NO PRESSURE right??? Psh.. wrong. But somehow I was fine with it. I just sat and eagerly listened to each person go up there and just blow it out of the water.  When it was my turn to go up there, I brought him the sheet music and reminded him to play it a half step lower (since that's how the original song is recorded as well as that's how we've been practicing it).  He tells me that he didn't bring his keyboard in so he can't do that. He'll have to play it higher than usual. (He threw his back out and couldn't carry it in, understandable). But CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!!!!

Anyway.. I sang it.. sang my heart out. Did I suck? I dont think so. Did I kick ass? Meh.. I could have done better..

Here's a snapshot:

I watched the video back and yeah.. It wasn't terrible, wasn't the best I could do. Caveat being that my voice teacher did tell the group that he played it higher than it normally is.. but the group didn't seem to notice. They all really liked it! Yay! :)

Anyway, if my coach thinks the video is good enough - i'll post it. Otherwise I'll need to record it again in the studio.

Seeeee ya!

Missy

...And then she took a final Leap off the ledge, hoping to FLY

Whew.

It's all done. I'm laying down in bed.. Going over the performance over and over..

I didn't tank I don't think.. But no where as wow-worthy as I would have liked to be. I definitely learned a lot out of this first public performance.. 

Here's the run down:

As the group gets together and starts prepping for the first performance, my palms are already cold and sweaty, my stomach is in knots and my hands start to tingle and lock up. Soon after that my lips start to tingle and lock as well - EUGH, not good for singing in a few minutes!!!! The whole hour goes by and I'm finally called up! Bahhhhhhh!!!

I stand up and do my intro, and let my voice coach know he's good to start (while my body is 1000% trembling).

When my voice teacher starts playing the intro to my song, I didn't recognize it. I'm listening really closely, watching the audience look back at me while I blankly look at my coach confused. What melody is this?! When am I supposed to come in!? I wait for him to realize he's not playing the arrangement and intro that we had worked on together but instead he continues-the audience still staring at me, blinking ad wondering why on earth I haven't started singing. 

I finally just start the song and am obviously all over the place in the first verse because I'm trying to navigate the first verse with the RIGHT melody to an entirely DIFFERENT song that's being played. Once i got to the chorus the teacher found where he was supposed to me and just followed my lead, but by that time I had totally effed up the verse and knew that I could sing that so much better.. What I've learned tonight is that if the pianist is making up the song, still own and sing the verse with conviction instead of singing so tentatively..

I'm disappointed in tonight as a whole and am that much more nervous for the FOUR song set that I'm doing on Monday at a BAR IN SAN FRANCISCO! Eughhhh.. 

Anyway, after all that I still got up there and certainly deserved a glass of champagne to calm my nerves that were spinning out of control..

I'll be practicing like a psycho until Monday.

Gnite loves,

Missy