Subject: Re: Earplugs & singing > On Mon, 10 Oct 1994, Rick Barker wrote: > > singing with ear plugs in. Playing the harp while they're in doesn't seem Then Barry wrote: > in. I think he compares it to learning to sing all over again only way ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ band (lucky me, I get all the HIGH parts). ;-) Anyway, I have been using
become awful - next to impossible. That was due to rehearsing in small hearing protection. It took months to get use to playing with earplugs, where it had been before - I could tune quickly and easily again! But until I was sort of forced to sing for this band I had just gotten in. I found that without earplugs, I could not find my vocal pitch very well, Well, when you're the guitar player and need BOTH hands on the guitar The first perk (and perhaps the BEST for *me*) was that with the earplugs were acting as an "invisible finger", and enabled me to find my pitch
band as a whole. It cut out all that excess NOISE - the real high-end literally like taking a band from volume '11', to about '5'! :-) enables me to clearly DEFINE and SEPARATE *each band member* as we when someone's singing flat. Earplugs are my Godsend! :-)
tone than you really have (due to the high-end filtering), and they are pay to save your hearing for the rest of your life, you know? Sorry about the length of this post, but I have such a strong conviction Both my wife and I wear them religiously to ANY and ALL music events - If you DON'T wear them, then please by all means at least give them a well, then you definitely have A LOT to lose - like your hearing! your most precious asset as a musician, do you? :-) Just my two,
| Craig Smoot | | Gradkell Systems, Inc. - Huntsville, AL | --------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:09:28 CDT From: "Charles Williams CS" Subject: Re: FAQ
Yes, I will secongd that.
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prowess and writing ability than any harp player that I know.
