Fish's Underwater World

celebrating 12 years of frenship 13 aug

Cant believe that i have known clarice for almost 12 years. Here's to our frenship. Cheers!
Clarice was performing at Hark Music Cafe. She has been taking keyboard lessons at Hark and the cafe is a place for students to showcase their talent. The ambience at the cafe was relaxing with lights dimmed. Tealights were placed at the table. The place does not charge cover charge once you have ordered a drink.
That night, besides keyboard performances, there were song items by graduating classes. Hmmm the vocals were not super fantastic or wat. Passable. Perhaps the songs that they had picked were not suitable for them. Too difficult? Cos one gal could not hit the high notes and sounded squeaky. I think that a good singer needs to have a good natural voice to start with, after which the vocal techniques can bring out the best in the voice?
Vocal training does make a difference. One guy who was playing the keyboard sang in such an "old" manner (imagine rong2 shu4 xia4) for the song wo3 zhen1 de shou4 shang1 le that the audience wanted to laugh. Very bad lah, but it was really funny. Full marks for the courage though. This music school at least offers an avenue for their students to put wat they have learnt into use.
Saw on their flyer that there are other activities on different nights. Like ladies nite (ladies get the priority to sing with the live band), gents'nite, students' nite (the singer gets tips from the vocal teacher on how to sing better) etc. Sounds pretty exciting. mabbe can drop in on other nights to have a look.

posted by sunkissfish @ 5:38 PM