I’m told I do a terrible Bostonian. Too cartoony and brash. I’ve never been to Boston so I don’t know what the appropriate levels of cartoony and brash are. So I’ve been working it from the other angle. To use my normal voice as a baseline and slowly incorporate the accent onto the ends of words. (“CVS Phahmahcy”). I’ve confused at least one technician so far. Gotta branch out into Canadian\/Minnesotan and Georgian. <\/p>\n
I gotta get my fun in when I can, right?<\/p>\n
Lately I’ve been entertaining the idea of being a voice actor. Like amateur stuff. Like motion comics for amateur artists or audiobooks. I’m told I have a good “radio voice” based on how I page patients to the pharmacy. And with two octaves, I can maybe do two or three different characters without leaving my usual range. This would be so much easier if I were more worldly or at least had a more diverse group of friends to chat with. Then I could pick up more voices. It’s harder than I thought it would be. 8 weeks in “Ohio” and I still can’t do that accent. But few can. <\/p>\n
I also recently concluded that I’m a baritone. At least when I sing. Or a low tenor. Someone with expertise on this, please<\/em> correct me if I’m wrong, but since I’ve recently committed my singing to silicon for the first time, I was considering picking up the piano again. Step 1: Piano Man by Billy Joel. I’m told I do a terrible Bostonian. Too cartoony and brash. I’ve never been to Boston so I don’t know what the appropriate levels of cartoony and brash are. So I’ve been working it from the other angle. To use my normal voice as a baseline and slowly incorporate the accent onto the ends of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}(Step 0: pick up a keyboard from someone)<\/del>. Then practice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"