Today I turned my attention to getting comfortable with the change of key of my backing track for a performance of ‘I’m a Believer’.


Having determined that, as a Bass, I didn’t want to sing higher than D4 I lowered the pitch by 2 semitones to make the key F (Mixolydian).

I did a warm up and then a few run throughs before making a rough test recording. That turned out better than it felt to sing to be honest. I was pretty much managing to reach the D with the occasional duff note even going to Eb.

Listening to that rough recording left me with some performance notes referencing our Sing Pop learning, mainly around timbre and onsets.

Transpired that I was not capturing the melody correctly, especially around the flattened 7th in the verse and the high notes in the chorus.