Shorts
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Bad Voice Triennium
In the 11th grade, I sang a duet as part of Red House’s entry for the school’s annual Western Music Competition. We sang a cover of Almost Here, and it didn’t go so well. Particularly the pre-chorus bits. If you hear the song, you’ll understand why.
I think 17-19 are the worst years voice-wise. But it’s especially worse for singers. I’ve been singing since I was 8 or 9 years old, and I always knew I had a good voice. But I’ll admit to questioning my ability to sing during those three years. Notes I could easily hit a year ago would seem far out of reach, and I had resigned to singing easy songs that were far from “wow” worthy, lest I try too hard and mess up1.
Unfortunately, those years are pretty high up on the curve of when you meet new people. Going off to college, meeting bands at concerts, stuff like that. Having an unstable voice meant I wasn’t taken too seriously by musicians, and I used to restrict others in the bands I was a part of. You never want to do that.
But it feels good to be on this side of vocal-puberty, where you know how much you can exert and how high you can go. Now being in a band is more about getting along with the people and less about my singing—that takes care of itself.
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Although I did perform a version of “Stairway To Heaven” during that time, which people in school still associate to me. ↩
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