Terriblesinger.com is now also available thru podcasts! First one is always the hardest but I’m happy I got it finally online. I wanted to have something special to celebrate the occasion, so I went to a very unusual place to make the recording. The secret is revealed in the podcast, so go ahead and click the link

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Terriblesinger.com wishes you Happy New Year! After the fireworks and New Year’s promises (hope you made some, I know I did ) it’s time to get pulled back from the happy blue sky to the harsh reality. I must say I got really disappointed with my Sony netMD today.

Continue reading ‘Sony Made My Life Harder’

Farewell Christmas, Welcome New Year! I hope you had a good time during the holidays. Celebrating Christmas kept me away from blogging, but now I’m back! And there’s lot to tell. I made some promises for Christmas, so I’ll be going back to those in the following posts. I also met a very good singer on a Christmas cruise and I’m hoping to get his interview in the near future to this blog. I’m also setting up my recording gear, which I will present in a post called Terrible Singer’s Guerrilla Recording Gadgets. So hang on, I’m working to get the material online. See you soon!

Do you know that feeling when you meet an old friend? I was fortunate to meet some old friends during the holidays. It may sound akward, but one of my friends came through a Playstation box. Continue reading ‘I Got To Get Me One Of These!’

I like to make promises. To be honest, I LOVE making promises. It’s like creating a better future, since you usually promise to do good things. Needless to say, that reality strikes my face with a shovel every now and then. A promise that I haven’t kept is like a thorn in my spine (well, not that bad but almost ). Over the years I haven’t learned to cut down the quantity of my promises but I have learned to promise less. So I still make a lot of promises, but instead of conquering the Himalayas with you I promise to take a look at the brochures.

So what promises I have made for this Christmas?

Continue reading ‘The Dawn of A New Year Thrills Me To Make Promises’

I admire people, who can play the guitar and sing at the same time. I cannot do it, although I can walk and chew a gum simultaneously. Anyway, this is again a skill that can be learned by practicing. So what I’m going to do here is to practice Happy Birthday and I’m going sing while playing the guitar. The chords are basic, so this is a good tune to start with. But before I can start, there’s one essential thing to do. Continue reading ‘Pit Stop: Get Your Gear Tuned!’

There’s no doubt, that the most famous version of Happy Birthday is sung by Marilyn Monroe. She performed this famous song at JFK’s 45^th birthday with over 15,000 people celebrating the occasion. This sexy M.Monroe version gave me an idea. I’m not going to perform the song as she did it (she would turn around twice in her grave), because I would just give “tribute” a bad name. But I’m going to exploit her idea.

Continue reading ‘Idea That Marilyn Monroe Gave me’

Last couple of days I’ve been busy writing 2 additional pages to this blog. Continue reading ‘New pages added’

OK, I made some research work and came up with a practical exercise. This is the most basic exercise there is, but I’ll start with it since it instantly works on my worst problem. So this exercise is called “singing on pitch”. Continue reading ‘Exercise #1: Singing On Pitch’

You are driving your car and listening to the radio. Suddenly you realise that the DJ is playing one of your your favorite songs! You start to nod your head with the catchy melody. You’re feeling excited, because this is just the song that you like to hear while driving. Just to get the kicks, you increase your speed a little bit. Yeah, you’re having some serious quality time with yourself! The intro stops and there’s the short guitar part before the verse. You think to yourself that they have put the break just in the right spot, because it builds your excitement even more!!!

The verse begins and you want to sing along as loud as you can, because this is your favorite song and you know all the words! So you start singing from the bottom of your heart… and in a matter of seconds you notice that your favorite singer is singing terribly wrong. Hey, how the h*ll he cannot sing correctly??? I’ve listened to this song thousands of times and it didn’t sound that bad! The version is also the same, not some new live recording… Continue reading ‘The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Terrible Truth’