Hello World…here is where I am at today this 14th day of December…
Wellllll I wasn’t feeling my order of songs, nor was I 100% sure that I would be “allowed” to sing an original song during the audition for Season 4 of “The Voice”. So like any other over thinker I started to flounder a bit on Tuesday about what to do.
I finally decided that I needed to pick another mid tempo song that I could sing in place of the HISTORY for SALE (original) tune. I will move that one into a back up or on-deck 4 slot and only sing it if they allow me to do so. Sooooo I started thrashing through my Karaoke discs for songs that I wanted to sing that I enjoy and that I thought I could just put right into the 3 song list. Unfortunately NOTHING was coming out as workable…NOTHING. Then it hit me that I had picked up a set of 4 discs at Costco over the weekend:
What to sing…What to sing…
Looking over the discs I couldn’t find anything that I WANTED to try and sing. But then I thought…”Hey I actually like that one song…” I had first heard it on Pandora from the original artist. I listen to some secular music and am a pretty big Jeremy Camp fan. So David Barnes had come across my play list many times:
The new lead off track for my audition for “The Voice”
The song is “God Gave Me You” as performed by Blake Shelton. The great thing about the song is that vocally it is right in my power zone. It lets me stay pretty during the verse and then charge hard on the chorus. It is similar in style to some of the music I am currently writing. Am I worried about singing a Blake Shelton song for an audition for “The Voice”…not at all. The producers will either like or not like my voice. I doubt that they will hear very many Blake Shelton songs during these “Industry Referral” auditions. Mainly because everybody is going to be incredible…
Soooo….I have been in learn/practice/memorize mode for the past 3 days. I am at about 95% today on the song. The last 5% is locking down swagger and delivery or phrasing. I will be singing it in more of a rock style like it was originally written for. I will be singing it like I sing… Wednesday was my last “full volume” practice…I want to keep the pipes fresh:
I have also decided to sing the song first since it is so comfortable to sing. So the new order is going to be this:
1. God Gave Me You
2. Lips Of An Angel
3. Shake You Down
4. The Future (alternate)
Now all that is left is to nail down the last 5% of “God Gave Me You…
