Thanksgiving
Michael4000
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Today in America we celebrate Thanksgiving. I would like to say thank you to our administrator Bob, the moderators, and all the members for your advice and encouragement.
Michael
Michael
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Thank you @Ken Tamplin for the amazing course (pure genius). His trusty sidekick @highmtn "Bob". I know people thank you a lot my friend, but you do an amazingly great job around here so I sincerely want to thank you for all of your help.
The Moderators that I have interacted with @Gaston_Jauregui , @Furious_Phil , @stratman , and @streeter. You guys have all been great through the time I've spent here.
The Students. I've learned just as much from the students either through their questions, or answering them, and their replies to mine as I have with any other feature of the program. I've also become friends with people from all over the world. (how cool is that!)
Anyway this program has changed my life in a lot of different ways. Musically, everything has changed, and for the better. I can finally sing my own songs, and as a result of that I have some good things on the horizon that I'm excited about, and it is a direct result from this program.
So to all of you I say Thank You.
Peace, Tony
All the best,
Ben
I'm grateful to Ken for putting this little corner of the internet up and paying the bills to keep it open. I have seen and heard a LOT of voices pass through here and I've seen a few amazing transformations, along with just a ton of ordinary people like myself who just wanted to learn to sing well, learn exactly that.
We have all had our personal struggles, and some of us have had to struggle a little more than others. But we're all moving forward. Those of you who are feeling like you won't make it, I want to encourage you to try to believe in yourself a little more. You can do this. Life gets hard sometimes, and we may get side-tracked off-course and then think we aren't progressing. That's not normally the case. Sometimes we don't give our vocal workouts the priority that they need in order to be able to perceive that progress. Watching glaciers pass by can seem as if nothing is happening. Truth be told, a lot is happening, but it's in proportion to our level of focus and desire to move ahead that we begin to see perceptible progress.
If Ken had never put up his first video and started showing people what he had learned on HIS long singing journey, then NONE of us would have this amazing gift of his program, which works so well for so many people.
Looking back on all of the other programs that I spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on, this one pays back in spades. Knowing what I know now, I would gladly have paid thousands for this program, taking out student loans, to learn what I have learned through KTVA. Thank you, Ken!
I was beginning to think that ALL vocal programs were hoaxes before I gambled one more time on what I thought was a very expensive program. Hearing Ken sing real songs like a real vocalist helped me to have the faith that helped me make that leap.
I enjoy watching everyone here grow and be an encouragement to one another. Help out your brothers and sisters along the way. Lend a hand. Just be sure that what you are sharing is what Ken says and teaches, and you can't go wrong.
I also want to thank the moderators, and the forums students who are reaching out and helping others with quality information. And to all of the students who are working to grow their voices. You are making us proud as we see you grow.
We just passed the 15,000 member milestone yesterday. There were about 90 people here when I started out.
This is an awesome group of people, from countries all over the world.
And you're welcome, Michael. I'm glad you're beginning to see the likelihood of your satisfaction with where you are headed. You're on a good track.
All the Best!
Bob
I may be able to do some live performance recordings before long. I've been working on ways to record my band and get decent live recordings. I'm still trying to get the technology together to get a decent sound out of live performances. These I did at home.
I'm honestly very surprised by the number of people on this forum who say they haven't done many recordings of themself singing songs (or scales). Isn't this one the best ways to monitor your progress? It seems like we do a lot of talking about singing (which is great) but not so much analysis of actual recordings...to me this is one of the best features of the forum. Am I missing something?
It really depends on the person. I did upload a few things a while back for evaluation, and have improved massively since then. I think most people like to figure things out for themselves with the course, or just ask some questions here and there on the forum. It sure did work for me. I don't really feel the need for any more evaluation, so i would like to make some good song recordings in the near future.
However, i agree that is the best thing you can do here. Uploading some scales can get you great advice. I did it once just to check, and there wasn't much advice to give, because it was going pretty good already. I do wish i uploaded something sooner, it might have saved me some time, but i just needed to go through the whole discovery process.
I just did the math on my 2 demo songs. I started KTVA in January 2011. I recorded those songs in August of 2012. I probably had done a skype lesson with Ken by then.
I do recordings for myself very often. It helps me a lot to monitor myself.
Sorry, I was on heavy duty - patients, patients and even more patients.
That´s how I notice I need to re study details, its good to rewatch all volumes every now and then and take notes because youll have more understanding of everything Ken says
btw also I always notice people tend to slur in scales like the 9 note and octave scales kind of like if it was a "slider" and they usually disregard the passaggio, they still bridge but in a very carless way, at some point I noticed I was doing this too, so its something to really look, really think of every note you are singing will improve your pitch