First of all, pretty impressive for a five year old to even get to a roof.
As for singing, there's the expression regarding "having an ear" for music so probably the left side injury is irrelevant since it would already be "in you"
there are amazing people who can play an instrument "by ear" and never take a lesson yet play so well
that musical ear also lends itself to an ability to speak other languages and not sound like a cowboy in that language, have you been able to speak another language and been told you sound fluent or like a native speaker?
singing can be technical where you get trained professionally and can perform well when your voice is mixed with a group but when performing solo the audience doesn't feel it, it doesn't resonate with them
of course, there are days when i just can't feel the song but then there are moments my audience is mesmerized, the room is still, the room is perfectly quiet, they're all hushed and listening and i see smiles or stunned faces
i usually give up right away on anyone who can't carry a tune but you seem to know the technical well enough, so when you sing have you ever sung and FELT the song? felt like you're ready to cry and can't continue? then THAT'S when you continue because now your heart will translate to your voice and your audience will feel it
all of a sudden technical becomes personal
i do a lot of improv, i can't read notes, i am no professional i just sing because it makes people feel good
google Lettice Rowbotham the improv violinist who doesn't fit into orchestras because she's always straying from the page, she's a technically proficient and well trained violinist but she can't help but play with her heart
a great way to feel a song is to sing harmony to it because there won't likely be any sheet music for it, harmony in itself can sound like crap as Crosby Stills and Nash recently discovered when their lead mike didn't work, but harmony adds essence to a song, enhances emotion and feelings to the lead singer
i've done a lot of harmony to the radio in my car, it's cheap personal training and pretty effective (for me anyways)
have a great day good luck on your quest
- ian
_________________ "For whenever people of the nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law . . . They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter of the law to be written in their hearts" (Romans 2:14-15)
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