#i think my mezzo range may be starting to solidify a little but a lot of the time my voice is just coming out weak and thin

[melancholic-pigeon]

Pythia trivia:

Back in high school, I used to have a club/class thing out of my friend's house with...three? Four. Four other people besides my friend.

And my friend had Rock Band for the PS3, so between the thing and when parents came to pick us up, we would play. One of the kids in class was like five foot nothing and such a deep bass he had to drop a full octave, and I'd play bass when he was singing and he would play bass when I was singing

And my range is weird, in that it's somewhere in the vicinity of 3 octaves but weak as fuck just above my break and I navigate my break terribly, and it's high for a first soprano so I constantly get mistaken for a mezzo and then people are shocked and appalled that my voice craps out on a third of the notes and I can't belt a C and I get laryngitis at the end of the run of the show but ANYWAY—

I have a modest belt (A above middle C-ish, B if I'm warmed up), but right above that, at the bottom end of my head voice, it's just awful and reedy and whispery, so I avoided things like Paramore because she's a soprano, but she's a pop soprano and I'm a classical soprano and I can't sing pop soprano any better than I can sing classical mezzo, which is "inconsistently at best"

and thus I always ended up singing Foo Fighters instead, because the high bits were low enough to belt and he has a number of songs where he never or rarely goes lower than I can hit, and low enough I can hop the octave for a stanza and then come back down!

Particularly Best Of You.

I'm not even that into the foo fighters— I do like them quite a bit, but there are a lot of musicians I like better— but I can reliably belt a song that ranges from a B flat up to a....god is it a G sharp or an A flat I can't remember how that works (if you don't know it's the same note it's just labeled differently depending on what key the song is in; I want to say G sharp because it sounds like it's in the key of E and so is "they will come one and all, they will come when we call!" at the end of Red & Black from les mis and that's written as a G sharp but that's a tangent)

I miss playing Rock Band 🙃

(also one of the other guys and I took a musical theater class together and we were the two teenagers in a sea of graduate students taking it for personal enrichment, so naturally we had to do Kiss Me for the final performance and if I do say so myself we were fucking adorable)

(...It's been a while since I talked about my own musical experiences and not the ones I made up for use with fictional characters lol sob)