New Compact has got off to a rocky start  

We restarted our stage @ Peking Hall on Sep. 17, 2006. We have no drummer, but 3 guitars and a keyboard with woodwinds.  Rhythm was OK, but solo parts by kb/woodwinds were terrible in many tunes, perhaps from the long blank, 2 months, without music activities, though we had 4 practices just before this stage. There came many excuses/beg-pardons/apologies from keyboardist/wind blower, who are often in conflict over sharing solo part.  No blame but salvo from Bandmaster. I thought we might be no paid musicians in quality but hall-owner paid us as he had, the same amount in spite of our smaller band size.

This might be encouraging us, I supose. Why do I think this way? The owner advertised his dance hall twice, in July and August, while we had summer holidays, with newspaper inserts, in which he put our band name as its regular band. Peking Hall is incubating us to be semiprofessionals?

Have checked my singings. "Save The Last Dance For Me" was not good in higher tones,  because my voice cracked into a falsetto in some parts. But if from singing elocution point of view, it seems much better, because more voiceful with abdominal breathing. It will be much better with a little bit more pushing out my breath from my abdomen into voice of higher tone. Chel okayed my "San Francisco".

 Vocal Lesson 3 was normal : Instructor seemed a bit gentler and eagerer to teach me. He showed me a VACCAJ method book, saying it covers most of how to sing. ( This encouraged me to buy one at Shimamura Gakki in LOFT.) He required me to acquire abdominal breathing and elocution, using powerful pushing out my breath from abdomen especially in higher range of my voice. He will continue this practice until I fully have this breathing for singing.