I've been having singing lessons whenever I can fit them in.
When people are training to become singers, they all have moments when they hit a wall.
I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.
I started taking vocal lessons steadily. I started taking it seriously.
By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
To play the trumpet, you have to use that diaphragm, and it's the same if you want to sing correctly. You really need to push it out from there. And I think that's what has kept me going as a singer.
I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.
