So, I was hanging out in the studio and laying down some vocal tracks with Fearless Leader. He was trying to refine the timing on a section I was trying to sing. I could tell he was getting a little frustrated. I just wasn’t producing the track that he wanted. It was ever so slightly off. So, we turned on the click track! How can you miss the timing when you have a metronome tapping the top of your head?
Seriously, that is what the click track feels like in the vocal booth. Back into the vocal booth I go! Well, actually, I hadn’t left the booth yet, so I guess it was “so, in the vocal booth I remained.”
Again, and again, we tried to get it right. Then, I was ready to come in on my cue, and the click track sped up! It was as if it skipped a beat! Things just unraveled from there. The light-headedness never really went away...
We decided to take a break. I sat next to the freshly opened window with a fan on me. I started feeling a little more normal. I just could not wrap my brain around the entire scenario. I never made it back into the vocal booth…
Upon reflection, I think I was suffering from a little bit of oxygen deprivation. The vocal booth is not well ventilated (that might let in extra noise we don’t want), and I *was* singing… Have you heard of Soprano high?
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