I’ve never been excited about recording vocals for an album before. This is changing.

For the past two months, I’ve been training – quite rigorously – using a vocal program called Speech Level Singing, developed by Seth Riggs. I’m not using the *actual* SLS program, because I think it’s like over $100, but I am using a book called “Singing for the Stars”. You can check it out on Amazon.com. All I can say is that it’s freakin’ fantastic.

Like anything worth anything in life, vocal training takes time; and for the first time ever, I can say that I feel like I’m gaining legitimate confidence in how I sing. (When I was in high school, I was overly-confident in an untrained, ignorant sort of way.)

And although I don’t have a “vocal coach” or instructor to walk me through some of this stuff, step-by-step, I do feel like I have a pretty good ear for matching tone quality, and a sense of whether or not something “feels right” as I’m singing it…

All of this to say that I’m actually looking forward to recording lead vocals tomorrow.