Posted by headachequeen on June 17, 2004, at 13:21:18
In reply to Re: Has topomax helped, posted by bridgey1128 on June 16, 2004, at 20:52:54
> I understand the voice stretching capability thing. I am a classically trained lyric 1st soprano and here I am having to sing songs like..White Room by Cream. We aren't really a cover band because our "director" for lack of a better word arranges them so different from the original and adds the instrument solos and such that they don't sound a whole lot like the originals. I think it's really helped my vocal abilities in the long run because I have had to stretch my chest voice range upward. Whereas before I could usually only get up to a G and sound pretty good I can now get up to a D. I wouldn't do this for church music now. It's just a total different sound to my voice for this style. It really helped me when I was playing Bloody Mary in South Pacific in Feb. That was so much fun! I found out that we, and when I say we I mean our High Point Community Theatre, are doing Into The Woods. I'm excited! Each show I get a better and better part. One day I will get a true lead. Bloody Mary was a lead technically but I wanted her. She was SOOO much more fun to play than Nellie would have been. I love to be able to play a character with depth. Bloody Mary was so funny but so intelligent. I got to do funny and serious in one role while maintaining a rather humorous Tonkinese accent. Now if you can make them gasp at the seriousness of the scene without laughing at your accent you know you have accomplished something. I belong to a site called rifftrader.com so when I get the final demo up I will let you know so you can hear it. :) I love celtic music. Gee, it must be something in the blood. hehe Or the hair. hmm Charlotte Church does a Welsh lullaby that is SO beautiful and I would love to sing..but I think if I tried to sing in Gaelic I would sound like I was hacking up a hairball. I have a Scottish friend and he said inevitably when someone tries to immitate a Welsh accent they end up sounding Pakistani. haha Oh yeah..this site has soemthing to do with Topomax doesn't it? hehe
Yep.. it does indeed... and let's admit it... without the stuff you and I would be somewhere out there wishing we were able to do the things we used to do... and sighing for the good old days...
I have done Lola and Nellie F. and Maria in Sound of Music... and in Westside Story... and then had the great fun of doing Buttercup in Pinafore and she was a riot...
so much more fun that Nellie ... although in those days I was about 100 pounds and young... and having been a baby farmer to the Captain of the ship and mixing him up with the sailor who wanted to marry the captain's daughter had to be a lot older and weighed a lot more... but poetic licence took over I guess LOL.. and it was such a fun person to sing...
Bloody Mary would be such a character... I envy you...
Lola is someone I could almost play again as far as size goes...age??? well, I am not sure...LOL
but the Topomax has returned a lot of the self esteem so who knows???It really has helped...
in so many ways...
and the Gaelic music is fun to do... it is a thing I have done from childhood so easy... but we are doing translations so people can understand it because the music is so rich that the words need to be understood... well I know what I mean.. maybe the cognitive skills have been zapped after all???????I am anxious to hear this cd and I know how hard it is to come back after the weight thing.. that does attack one's sense of self in so many ways... at least it did mine...
one can be fat and sing in church but not in the rest of the world at least not in my world... and now it is great...for my daughter's wedding I chose the music...
Mhairi's Wedding instead of the old and overdone Wedding March,Borning Cry, L'hymne a L'Amour, May You Always and for leaving the church, instead of the other wedding march, Go Now in Peace ....
then she asked if I would be her soloist...
before Topomax I would have refused...
no way would I have stood in front of a crowded church all 209 pounds of me...
but 155 pounds of me did...and in a black dress and purple jacket at that in that goddess fabric and felt like a human being at the feast...The weight issue is as much a part of the treatment for the epilepsy as are the seizures I think...
of course having had another breakthrough seizure last night I am not sure the epilepsy is being beaten...
and why are they called breakthrough seizures...
to me a breakthrough is a discovery, a success???on the flip side, I am applying to go back to work in radio full time...
another topomax breakthrough
LOL
kat
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