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The Bloom Room Returns 🌱
Recorded: March 23, 2026 Duration: 2:09:12Space Recording
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Music Thank you. Music Thank you. I'm going to go to the next video. Oh hey, just setting up. I'm gonna play some music just get get the vibes going.
Oh shit, I wanted my, I wanted to do some covers so I should get my iPad. Do do do do do do do do do.
I'm just going to wing this one.
My iPad's dead. Music As we left the house and took a step outside
We can taste in the air a a sense of pride
Wind it blows as you held your head up high I saw the storm draw clouds into your eyes
Cycle This cycle You're on the road I forget the second verse.
This is why I wanted the lyrics.
I don't know. I forget the lyrics. You should
just make them up. What's up, Dan?
I don't know what to do. I don't know what to play Take your shoes off, hang your coat, stay a while, baby it's cold out there
We could play a coconut, you always win, oh it's not fair
But it's okay, I love that smile, I'll always stare
Promise me you'll never leave
Oh, do you still care?
I know that you say it
But I know that you say it, but I want to see it.
I want you to cry, so I know that you love me.
I want you to hurt, so I know that you care
I want you to fight, when you get angry
So I know that your heart is still there
I've been hurt, I've been wronged I've played along to those silly games
On the surface it seems so perfect
Until it's too late, too late Maybe we could say the things We seem to hide away, hide away
You and me, we are a team This year ain't a child's break
I know that you say it, but I want to see it, I want you to hurt
So I know that you care
I want you to fight
When you get angry So I know that your heart is still there
So I know that your heart is still there
Oh hello people, hi, welcome in. I'm just jamming.
Feel free to come up and hang out.
What's up, Blade? How are you?
Good. How's it going? It's this is Dio by the way oh my goodness hi howdy it's been a long time yeah I've been kind of in and out the last uh year or so how you been that's that's okay I mean
in and out you gotta do what you gotta do Things have been good. I am just hanging out, jamming some music.
I haven't been able to be in space as much lately,
so I just figured I'd come in and say what up and play some songs.
Yeah, that was absolutely beautiful, by the way.
Oh, thank you.
Love to hear it.. Oh, thank you. Love to hear it.
Thank you, thank you.
Oh my gosh, we got Dan up here.
We're bringing up Sunette.
Hi, Dan.
How are you?
Doing well.
Just got done with the concert and on my way to the grocery store.
So I just saw your space open.
I'm like, hey, I haven't heard you in a while.
So yeah, this is, this is great.
Awesome. Yeah. What concert were you at?
Uh, we had a choir festival here in good old Spokane, America. And, um, it was, uh, seven
different choirs from around Spokane. So just got done with that. And you know, uh, this is like
the best kind of afterglow.
I love it. Thank you. That's exciting.
I don't know what to play. Oh, we have Sunet up here. Hi, Sunet. How are you?
Hi, Melody. I'm doing great. I got a, I got a guitar.
I'm taking some lessons from Pugs
oh that's amazing yeah you inspire me and a lot of the other awesome musicians on here inspire me
too so I just wanted to say I I've been missing you and I know you're just you're really busy
with your music and I'll just sit here and listen
and um get in oh well I've missed you too yeah it's been uh kind of a crazy few weeks here but
I uh I had a minute so I figured why not come on and host a bloom room and play some music. I'm hoping that everything is going to calm down
and I can go back to regular scheduled programming.
But for now.
Oh, he has arisen.
I'm hosting a space.
Oh, you just stopped streaming.
You want to jam?
You want to jam?
I'm literally just playing songs.
Yeah, we should jam.
There's like, we got some people in here that would appreciate hearing your guitar.
The other guitar is in the bedroom.
We haven't jammed honeymoon phase, I've realized. Let's talk about that.
You make me sick, I'm falling ill
And I can't even hide it, savoury smile
Oh, it's been a while, it's been a while
Silly sweet, and a touch of madness Maybe he's got a past, some type of badass
With a winter stare and skin so feral
Here we go, here we go again
I'm all choked up
I'm a mess
Falling into the deep end, baby
Oh, oh, oh
Here we go, here we go
Here we go, go, go again
Yeah, we're probably out of tune with each other.
But yeah, that's the one I was talking about.
Thought we had it.
I don't know.
If so, I don't remember what we did with it.
My hands are not working. with it. So it's in A major and then it goes to D. The turn goes to E major.
You make me sick.
I'm falling ill. And I can't even hide it, savory smile
Oh, it's been a while, it's been a while Silly sweet, and a touch of madness
Maybe he's got a past, some type of badass
Honey art with a winter stare and skin so fair
Here we go, here we go again
I'm all choked up by my mess
Falling into the deep end, baby
Oh, oh, oh
Here we go, here we go
Here we go, go, go again
That was cool
Big brown eyes and a sense of humor
I'd sure like to put him in his place
maybe his place
hold me close tell me you love me if just for tonight I'll stomach the heartache
honey I'm not scared a little unprepared
here we go here we go again
all choked up by the mess
falling into the deep end, baby, oh, oh, oh
Here we go, here we go, here we go, go, go again
All choked up, I'm a mess
Falling into the deep end, baby, oh, oh, oh
Here we go, here we go here we go here we go go go
I'll be the first to tell you I might be the first to run away I think I'd like
to stay here we go again oh I forgot the lyrics here we go again
all choked up of a mess falling into the deep end baby oh oh oh here we go here we go, here we go, here we go, go, go again
I choked up on a mess, falling into the deep end, baby
Oh, here we go, here we go, here we go, go, go again
Here we go, go, go again
All choked up, I'm a mess
Falling into the deep end, baby
Oh, oh, oh
Here we go, here we go, here we go, go, go again
Yeah, we have, I don't think we've jammed it. I don't think we've played this one.
This guitar I bend it like it's a child's guitar. It's a little boy.
Oh really? I just realized my phone's dying.
I gotta plug it in plug it in plug it in. that only a canadian jingle? I feel like only no that's glade that is that is that is everywhere. Oh, that's everywhere. Okay, cool
Oh man, I gotta find my charger
I am on a trip trying to find a phone charger. My problem, I need to buy more of those, like,
the blocks and cables because I'm always traveling with... I just, I don't know. I'm always traveling.
I leave them places.
I lose chargers.
Like, there's no tomorrow.
It's a problem.
See, that would be a really great sponsorship deal right there.
Yeah.
It's chargers.
Actually, though. right there yeah actually though
or chargers that you have to plug back into your guitar before leaving
that would be perfect for me here i am running around my apartment looking for
i think i found a cable. Okay. This is promising.
What do you look for?
A charger.
Mel, I've given you three chargers.
No, we've been over this.
I left one at work.
Where's the white one?
What do you mean the white one?
The short one that you've used forever.
Oh, the short one is definitely... I totally brought it to that gig yesterday, didn't I?
I did.
I'm going to make you start buying it. didn't I I did let me see sit in the bag
he's got more it's fine well I don't know where I'm more, it's fine.
Well, I don't know where... They'll just keep buying more chargers, it's okay.
Yeah, I don't know where...
I don't know where mine is, I think it's at work.
Did you bonk her with the guitar?
I would never bonk her with the guitar.
She just happens to be very close to it.
Yeah.
Down to the bonking to it oh my goodness what hey Meliby you want
to hear how beautiful this Martin sounds oh my god you got a Martin let's hear it
yeah my hubby got me a Martin oh i can't wait to hear it the anticipation is killing me
i gotta put it on white spectrum oh yeah yeah of course
it'll let me there you go okay here we go
She's a beaut.
Sounds so nice.
Oh my god, I'm excited.
And you're taking lessons with pugs?
Yes, I am.
I'm looking forward to next week's lessons.
That's cool.
How many lessons have you done so far? Just one.
I only knew like four chords, but he's like, that's really good, you know, to start off.
And he was just teaching me some new chords.
And he said that I could learn Pink Floyd, which is one of my favorites.
So I'm looking forward to that.
That's awesome.
Yeah, keep at it. It's the learning curve at the beginning is the toughest part. If you can get over the learning curve at the beginning, then it's all it's all Gucci from there.
Just the I know I tell my students, like, especially the ones that aren't used to playing all the time at the beginning,
like your hand's going to hurt, your wrist's going to hurt when you're practicing.
But over time, it'll all get stronger.
It's just muscles that you don't use often.
So, yeah, practice in little increments, and over time it gets easier.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I'm excited for you.
You know, the best practice advice I've ever heard is just commit daily to touch the guitar.
And then you, like, let curiosity lead the rest.
Yeah.
And also don't let your guitar sit in a case.
Like, let's say you have one guitar.
With me, it's a little different.
I have a guitar that sits in its case often
because it's my gigging guitar,
and I travel with it and go teach with it and stuff.
But I have other guitars that sit around,
and they're just there.
You know what I mean?
You're going to pick it up more if it's just accessible.
So if you go hide it in a corner or put it in a room that you never go into
or something like that, then you're just never going to touch it.
Out of sight, out of mind.
So keep it within arm's reach.
Yeah, you know, the main reason I was so excited is because when I was younger,
my dad played the guitar a
lot. He played all the string, all the string instruments, you know, and I want his legacy to
live on because he died at a very young age. He was 36 when he died. Oh my goodness. I'm sorry.
Yeah, it's very sad because he played for like, you know, the nursing homes and stuff and he did
bluegrass festivals. Festival, so.
Oh, wow.
That's another reason I really love listening to you play, Melody.
It's really close and endeared to my heart, so.
Aw, thank you.
I'm glad you enjoy it.
I guess that Christmas sweater is put away until next season, eh?
Eh, sometimes I wear it because it's so soft.
I still wear it now.
Yeah, those are comfy.
I'm a hoodie all year kind of gal.
Like, even in the summer, I'll wear shorts and a hoodie.
I don't know.
Like, some people are like, no, hoodies only come out in the winter.
No, no, no. only come out in the winter. No, no, no.
I like hoodies all year.
Cozy, cozy.
Hmm, maybe I'll play another song.
My phone is plugged in in a very inconvenient spot, so this is going to be fun.
Uno momento, por favor. I'm already building up those calluses.
It feels pretty good.
What are you practicing?
What are you working on?
Right now, I'm just strumming through all the chords that I know.
And then Pugs is going to send me a video of the new chords he taught me and then I'm gonna learn how to play the Pink Floyd song
One of Pink Floyd songs because a lot of those chords are pretty easy chords. So I'm looking forward to it
I love it. I'm excited for you. Maybe one day we'll be able to jam.
Learn to dance and cry. It's easy.
Yeah, let's start our own girl band.
Oh, yeah.
Let's go. I can hear the kiddos in the back. Are they playing?
Oh, yeah. And when they hear mama play, they start to get out the harmonica.
And then my daughter's grabbing my dad's old violin.
She's like trying to play on it and stuff.
I was like, well, we got to get on it.
I forgot. How many kids do you have?
I have five at home and two abroad.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
My eldest is 22. He's going to get married in September.
Hopefully he'll give me some granddaughters
because I have one daughter and six boys. Oh my goodness. So you don't have any grandchildren yet?
No, not yet. I will eventually though. I know it's going to happen. Yep. Destined to be surrounded by little ones. I can sense it. I love it.
Got any advice? Mom advice? What's your mom advice, Annette?
My mom advice is to teach them to honor their parents and to always keep them, you know, critically thinking, thinking critical.
always keep them, you know, critically thinking, thinking critical, because this world is not as
moral as it should be. You know, they need to know, they need to know critical thinking,
and they need to be taught by us and not by, you know, the school system. And they don't need confusion. They need to be boys and be girls,
be who God created them to be.
I got two of them in jiu-jitsu
and that really teaches them some discipline.
I think music is great too.
I really do.
I think my son, I think I might get him,
my oldest son here at home,
to take some lessons too.
Because the hurts of music really helps with the soul.
And I know it's been helping me with stress.
So I'm really excited about it.
Yeah, I mean, music is, it's really good for the brain um and it's never too late or too early in my opinion to take
lessons and to learn how to play an instrument um it challenges you in ways that are going to
be very frustrating at first but i think that's the whole point i literally think that's why it's so beneficial um it wouldn't be as beneficial if it was easy so
absolutely and uh music can teach you you know brain like brain wise like you could teach you
you could teach them like lullabies and stuff with music and it helps them to learn you know like
bible and you know all the different lullabies they have this spells it out and um yeah absolutely
yep i completely agree well if anybody wants uh vocal lessons hit me up i've been having a lot
of fun with my lessons lately seeing students like have those aha moments and like those
just like oh my god i can't believe I can do that
those moments are so much fun I could use some vocal lessons Melody if you do them I'd love to
take some vocal lessons look Pugs is in here now oh look at that Pugs come up if you can
that would be awesome yeah I, yeah, if you want vocal
lessons, just let me know. I would be happy to. I've got the hang of like doing the online stuff
now too. At the beginning, it was like, oh my god, how do we do this? But I feel like I have the hang of it so yeah pugs is up here what's up pugs hi
nice happy sunday nice to see y'all how are you thanks for coming through oh my gosh i'm so tired
today i uh it's just one of those days where i'm like toast and just been kind of vegging out
how's things going with you
pretty good pretty good finally got a chance to come on spaces after a while it's been
crazy few weeks but um yeah I just wanted to come on and hang out and play some songs
so if you got a song for us I know you said you're tired, but I've heard you tired before and...
Well, sure, I can do something.
Yeah, let's go.
How about some Pink Floyd?
Oh, Pink Floyd. Yeah, yeah, we're, you know, we were talking about, you know, what kind
of artists do you like? What can we shoot for?
You know, if you have such and such chords, you know, in your vocabulary right now,
based on those chords, what are some artists that you like?
And, you know, can we kind of connect the two and discovered, like, Pink Floyd has a lot of I mean if you just pay attention right to David Gilmore it's really simple like like of course I'm an alternate tuning right now
but just like wish you were here and welcome to them welcome to the machine
is literally like two chords over and over and over and yeah
it's I look for that a lot in pop music like is there something simple and yet
elegant and it sounds grand and epic but it's really something so simple you
know sorry I was I was in this super exotic tuning last night.
I left my guitar in this like open C sharp from some Coldplay song.
But like...
Yeah, I'm going to have to come back.
I'm going to have to take a minute and get this darn thing a tune.
But anyways, we were just kind of talking about how, you know, some of these tunes that we've heard all our life and it sounds so
grand and epic sometimes there's this sweet simplicity you can discover you know
i agree a hundred percent i i find that the sometimes the simplest music is actually the most beautiful because it's not as technical.
It's just based on feeling.
Yes, it's absolutely beautiful.
Just the simple, you know, chords and music.
It is absolutely beautiful and close and dear to my heart.
I really appreciate you pugs teaching me those simple chords.
Like if you think of like Welcome to the Machine, like the whole thing is like...
Welcome, my son.
Welcome to the machine.
So welcome to the machine
Like the whole song, E minor, C major, not seven, you know
And then we were saying like
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell, blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field?
They are all first position chords and you know
of course this one's a little more of course that's got a specific pattern
but really you're just hanging out in open G first position G you know but uh...
yeah I don't seem to have
a working computer
so what I'll do is I can do a little instrumental flow
now that I'm back in tune close up
Alright, I'll just do a little instrumental flow. Oh Music do
do so music plays
oh I forgot my own song
there we go
what is it?
there we go. What is it? There we go.
Alright, just a little viddy for right now.
A little rusty.
That was beautiful.
Oh, my God.
That's so cool.
I love it.
What key is that in?
It's a D.
It's like an open D, too.
Cool.
Beautiful.
Stunning.
Could you please play like six hours of that throughout my entire day as I work? You know what I have? Lately I've been working on it, so I have like a handful, like
from over the years, I have a handful of different kind of classical type pieces just like that.
And what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to plot out
an opus where I take all five or six of these pieces and and find you know relative
you know keys and where I can segue them and I'm gonna try to make like an opus and like a whole
epic flowing piece maybe it'll be 20-25 minutes long or something and I'll hire someone to do
strings and sequencing and you know but like
i kind of have a vision to take all of my classical genre pieces like that and make some sort of big
you know concerto for steel string acoustic guitar if you will hey pugs uh bts i do sequencing and
producing i that's what i was touring for for a few years.
I played the orchestra.
Yeah, hey Dan, nice to see you, man.
Good to see you too.
I think I remember that about you.
I think I've heard, we had some talks in some past spaces about that.
And I came close years ago.
Like I have my other finger style stuff.
It may not be classical, but it's the instrumental, pretty massage music, you know, instrumental stuff.
But like, yeah, back in the day, I was talking back in 2018, I had a guy that was, you know, just a brilliant kind of keyboardist, programmer, sequencer.
And, you know, if you find the right person that knows how to treat it and supplement it, you can you can build around it and add cellos and violins and make it gorgeous.
That is exactly 100% correct.
Gorgeous, darling, gorgeous.
Saying it like AJ.
Gorgeous.
Gorgeous.
Sorry, go ahead.
Sorry, go ahead.
No, I was going to say that there's something really unique about instrumental music.
I find that because there's no lyrics, it makes you pay attention to the sound so much more and the arrangement so much more.
And so there's just something, it doesn't matter what genre it is, but instrumental music just has that, you know, you focus on the instrumentation and it,
and there's no storyline or anything to get caught in the way.
It's just you and the sound, you and the instrument.
Right. Have you, have you guys ever heard this stories of like,
they'll play like a farmer will point a speaker into his,
his fields and plants and like play some classical music and it like helps the plants grow better or something.
And there's something to that, you know.
Yes, it's actually it's called sonic bloom.
That's the that's the title of that technique.
They actually figured out that the frequencies of the classical music was causing their yield to be more,
like they would have a greater yield, but they would also be very disease resistant.
They would just grow stronger and bigger and better and tastier.
So yeah, it's called Sonic Bloom. Lots of farms do it.
I hope that what i just played will
help everyone in the room to bloom yes in the bloom room absolutely i'm blooming i was just
playing along with it oh i think we're kind of losing you, Sonnet.
There's a little...
Guys, I'm just going to chill here and just listen to you guys.
And I'm not going to say a word.
I'm not going to throw any emojis.
But I'm going to love every second of everything everyone says.
Unless they start talking shit, then that's it.
That'll be even better.
That'll be even better.
That's my favorite.
That's why I'm here on X.
I'm just glad you're back. Literally, I got the last two spaces you put up. I got all jacked up. I was like, I'll make some coffee. I got ready for it. And then you
fell asleep. Oh my God. I'm so sorry. So here, let me explain myself. So the first one,
I was very sick.
You don't even have to explain yourself. That's rock star. What are you kidding me?
Fucking firing off his face and just like leaving the case.
There's many times I wanted to do that.
Fuck man. I was like, honestly, the first one, I should have just canceled it.
I was signing myself up for something that I knew I wasn't going to be able to do that night. Cause I was so sick. I should have just canceled it. But then I felt,
I fell asleep. My body was like, Nope, you're, you're canceling it. You don't get a choice.
Um, yeah. Then there was one that I tried to, I tried to get into spaces one night. Um, and
it wouldn't let me unmute,
so then I ended the space,
jumped into another space,
I think it was Prez's space,
and I couldn't hear anybody.
So I don't know what was going on with spaces that one night,
but that was...
No, I miss you.
You had a Suno space, Mela,
and the sound was off,
and nobody could hear.
I couldn't hear anything.
That's weird.
It's, like like really annoying.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They got a, they don't care about us.
They're just the, you know, they're doing their own thing right now.
101 glitches.
There's literally so many different kinds of glitches.
It's crazy.
Mm-hmm.
But we're here now now living in the moment
maybe I'll play a song
I'm just gonna listen and not throw any emojis. It's hard to do that when she plays but I'm gonna try to.
I honestly encourage people to. I'm like close your eyes, sit back, relax, you don't
have to throw the emojis. It's all good. Half the time when I'm sitting my eyes
are somewhere else or closed anyway. I guess I had this coming.
The rain was bound to fall.
I'm not ready.
How could you be steady?
I made the bed but I can't sleep
without you messing it up with me
And now I'm a mess, ain't that funny
And I don't wanna know, I just gotta know
Does she make you laugh? Does she make you cry? Does she scratch your back? Does she make you satisfied?
Are you satisfied? Does she know your past? Does she know your dreams? Would she give it all just to make you happy?
Would she give it all just to make you happy?
Oh, are you happy?
I know that I'm not perfect for you
I really try hard, I let you slip away
I can't bear another day
Seems you've got new plans as you should somewhere
Ain't that funny
I don't wanna know, I just gotta know, does she make you laugh?
Does she make you cry?
Does she scratch your back?
Does she make you satisfied?
Are you satisfied?
Does she know your past? Oh, are you satisfied?
Does she know your past?
Does she know your dreams?
Would she give it all just to make you happy?
Oh, are you happy?
And I don't wanna know, I just gotta know
Does she make you laugh? Does she make you cry?
Does she scratch your back? Does she make you satisfied?
Oh, are you satisfied?
Does she know your past?
Does she know your dreams?
Would she give it all just to make you happy?
Are you happy?
Are you happy without me? Are you happy? Are you happy without me? Are you happy?
Oh my god, I felt like I needed to cough that whole time jeez louise do you need to cough need to clear yeah
i should have done that in the second chorus. I just need to cough, need to clear my throat. Da-da-da-da-da.
Oh man. It's been a minute since I've played that song.
Been working on other stuff lately. But yes, thank you for listening. We got Ryan here, we got Daryl,
Dan, Pugs, Sanette, AJ. thank you guys for coming up to the speakers.
Anybody else wants to come up, feel free to request a mic.
Love to hear from literally anybody down there, so please come up.
Let's check in with Ryan.
Oh, he might be glitching a little bit.
He dropped down and then dropped back up, or came back up. What's up, Ryan? Am I here? Am I here? Oh, yeah, be glitching a little bit. He dropped down and then dropped back up or came back up.
What's up, Brian?
Am I here?
Am I here?
Oh, yeah.
Loud and clear.
Ryan in the house and Jane in the house and Aaron in the house and Dan in the house.
And Ezreal.
I was trying to get out of my emotions real quick, but it seems like the host wants to
play with the guitar more than she wants to speak with us because I keep hearing those
drums strumming.
I was checking on, I think there's like a buzzing fret on my guitar.
I was checking it to see what's going on.
It's so lovely, though.
Like, as a man trying to be masculine, like, I was having almost tears.
And so thank you, though.
Sorry for making you almost cry.
No, that's the way that men overcome their fears and things.
To be witness to this is important.
And I don't know if the other men are doing what I do.
Anyway.
Yes, I actually, like the first time I heard Melody sing, I cried.
Like I wasn't even expecting it. I just went in a random space. It wasn't even her space. She was just playing a song and it made me cry. There's something about her voice. It's like that desperado moment in Seinfeld. When I hear you sing, it's just like everything stops and I'm just like, I'm just in this zone. There's something about your voice. It's so beautiful.
Oh, thank you you that means a lot
i have to work harder i have to work harder is what i've is what i got from it like i gotta get
work done like i gotta provide harmonize things because it's it's pretty dark out there sometimes
when you look at it but when you witness the beauty of that, then I got to get back to work.
So I don't want to labor the space right now, but I feel real blessed to be here and to witness what I did.
That is such a unique response to that song.
to that song. Usually the men that hear that song, there have been many men that have come up to me
Usually the men that hear that song, there have been many men that have come up to me.
and one time I played that song at a gig in real life and this man came up to the front and he was
just bawling his eyes out and he was just like profusely grateful. He was like, thank you so
much fruit plate. Like he was just bawling his eyes out.
But I've never had anybody say that that song makes them want to get to work and work harder
and provide and stuff. That's really cool. That's a very unique experience from that song.
We've been trying to tell you how special you are.
Why, thank you. I'm glad the music resonates. Truly.
Um, oh my god, Paula's here! Paula! Guys, Paula came to one of my shows in Toronto.
I got to meet the Paula, and I'm so freaking grateful that you came out, because it was so cool to meet you and I'm so glad that you
you got to hear me live in person a lot of the people in spaces don't get to do that because I
live in Canada and far away from everybody so yeah what's up Paula hello hello yeah it was
fantastic guys if you ever get the chance to meet the beautiful sorry my dog's barking in the
background meli b please do because you won't you'll love it you'll absolutely love her too
oh thanks paula yeah it was fun that was a good one a little song singer song right around
um i hope i get to meet you someday melody because you're very inspiring
and your voice is very soothing i hope so too that would be lovely i did not know you're
melody are you bashful to be on a stage like in real life
am i bashful to be on a stage in real life? What do you mean?
You've performed wonderfully but I wonder if like if you were in your
actual community with a lot of physical people around you. I love the stage. I
love being on stage. The first I I mean, the worst part about performing
is the half an hour before you get on stage, in my opinion. The half hour before you get on stage
is the absolute worst feeling ever, but also the best at the same time. It's this weird, like,
oxymoron where the anxiety is crippling, and're just like oh my god just freaking get me out there like just let me go on stage um but it's like that's what i keep coming back for right
is that feeling that rush it's fun but once i play my first i feel like once i play that first song
uh then it feels very comfortable.
Do you have any new melodies that you're practicing right now that you could embarrass yourself
if you wanted to try them with us?
I do.
I just wrote a new song.
Yeah, I just wrote a new song.
How does it go again how does it go let me think what's it about
what's it about sometimes i write a song and i don't even know what it's about until a year later.
It just comes to me and then I'm like, oh, that's what that song was trying to tell me.
But this one, it's kind of...
I think it's about...
Maybe I'll just play it.
I'll let you guys interpret it the way that you want to interpret it.
Because I kind of don't even know yet. Let's see.
I just need to remember the rhythm of it. Thank you. okay i got it i had to get to I had to think a little bit there.
It's very new, very, very new.
We've got space, we've got time,
we've got places to drive.
There's a guy down the street
with a pretty sweet ride.
Maybe we make some friends
Pick a spot, set up camp, take a trip down the river
Oh, these words make me quiver, push the ego aside
Let the rest fall just right
Oh, just let it go Six months alone now Made you the ghost of what you know
Just let it go Sleep until sunrise
Pick up those dead eyes Let the rest's just a mess, always has been a sad, just a god forsaken rock in space
Maybe all that we have is all that we get and the clock's here to track what we make of it
Push the ego aside, Let the rest fall just right
Oh, just let it go Six months alone now Made you the ghost of why you know, just let it go
Sleep until sunrise, pick up those dead eyes
Oh, just let it go
Six months alone now, made you the ghost of what you know
Just let it go, sleep until sunrise
Pick up those dead eyes
Let the rest fall to strike Fast Vulture Stray Very nice.
That was tough right now.
I'm not ready for that one.
I wish I still drove my old school BMW where it's like six CDs and one of those CDs was yours.
Because even though I was punk rock but that
would definitely settle me down every day yeah that that was a really good
song that was cool that could be one of your best ones like almost like wow
that's a great song thanks glad you guys like it. You're definitely on fire with the writing lately.
Thank you, thank you. I love writing music.
That's what I love to do.
I think your voice is a step up on the lyrics, though.
Oh my god, that was rough right now i i can sing that
song a whole lot better usually i haven't done my warm-ups it's late late but i appreciate that
thank you i should just take the compliment shouldn't i some of us might get overwhelmed with the way we bloom, and if this is the bloom room,
then there's a flower that's going on right now musically that's kind of hard to make
sounds about.
Well, thanks for listening to my new song.
I think, I don't know what to call it.
Oh, sorry, one second.
You're in the works.
Sorry, go ahead, Pugs.
I was just saying it's nice to hear one of yours that's in the works
and hot off the presses and still working it out. That's cool.
Yeah, like it's probably gonna evolve, um, especially when we start recording it.
But that's...
Can we make sure that you have the best microphone though? Because your voice
cannot be compromised by the lack of technology.
I'll help if I have to. Yeah it's a it's a Neumann we're good it's a great microphone I've been recording for
a little while now found a studio that I really like so everything's all like analog and warm and cozy so yeah
Can you tell that's an A6 Pugs?
At first I had it as just like a regular A major and I was like no.
I feel like A6 just gets looked over.
Yeah, you don't hear that too often.
I run into G6 and E6 a lot more frequently.
Mm-hmm, yeah.
Yeah, I was just playing it, and I think it was an accident.
I think my hand just hit that high E string when I was barring the A,
and I was like, ooh, that's actually really nice for this song.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
It definitely doesn't fit everywhere.
Because that little bit of dissonance, I guess.
Pugs, you want to play us a song?
Sure, I can do it.
Oh, I owe you.
Remember, like, I had, like, a few weeks back, like, right?
I had just written Read the Room.
And you're like, hey, would you come and play that?
Like, I couldn't make it that night.
Oh, my God, dude.
god dude i needed you i needed you so badly basically what happened was some loser came
I needed you.
I needed you so badly.
in the space and completely hijacked my space and like ruined it yeah absolutely ruined it
um the vibe killed the vibe completely i was too much of a freaking wuss at the at the moment to
kick them because i was like oh i don't want to make anybody mad. I should have made them mad. You got to pick your battles. I mean, don't be hard on that.
Oh, I should. It was bad. So I'm sitting there and I'm like, we need pugs. We need pugs to come
play that song. All right. Well, here's my makeup session. This is the latest,
my latest original life written called Read the Room.
Check my phone just the other day Walls of text from you
Too long, didn't read all that
So sorry, oh congrats to you
You always got something more to say.
Don't deny you know it's the truth.
You gotta read the rule.
Step outside your head.
Open your eyes and ears.
You've got to let it breathe.
You gotta read the rule. Don't be an attention whore, can't use it but for a minute, cause sometimes less is more, you've got to read the rule, don't make it up out yourself, and you might just make some friends
Social cues are lost on you
But ignorance ain't bliss
Every thought you spew it out
Like Captain IBS
We've all only got so much time, don't spend it all on my dime
You gotta read the rules, step outside your head
Open your eyes and ears, You got to let it breathe
You gotta read the rule
Don't be an attention whore
Can't use it but for a minute
Cause sometimes less is more
You gotta read the rule
Don't make it up out yourself
And you might just make some friends. We all got quirks and tics and cringe moments
and faults and flaws and never-ending monologues. We love to hear ourselves talk.
God love the stoners. God love the autists, God love the fellow traumatized.
But no one likes a bully.
Big surprise.
You gotta read the rule, step outside your head, open your eyes and ears, you got to let it breathe.
You gotta read the rule, don't be an attention whore, can't choose it before a minute, cause sometimes less is more You gotta read the rule Don't make enough out yourself
And you might just make some friends I love it. God love the stoners. God love the, what is it?
Stoners, autists, and fellow traumatized, but no one likes a bully.
Oh my gosh. I love it.
Killed it.
It had a black, what is it, black crows feel to it.
Very bluesy.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Good ear.
When I wrote this song, I kept catching myself taking my vocal melodies to Hard to Handle.
Don't spend it all on my time.
Hey, little baby, let me light your candle
because of mama, I'm so hot.
Yeah, I was totally like towing that line.
Good ear. I'm impressed. Well done.
That's exactly what I heard when you were playing it.
I was like, that sounds exactly like that song.
It's a unique voice to pull off, so good job.
Thanks, guys.
Glad to finally share that up in the Bloom Room.
Let's go.
So good.
Thank you for playing that song for us.
Loved it.
If anybody else wants to come up,
I don't know if anybody wants to play anything,
feel free to. I will play another song in come up, I don't know if anybody wants to play anything, feel free to.
I will play another song in the meantime, I guess.
When Mela B stream Dakota asks. Yeah, I just got a new computer. I had to get a new PC
to set up my stream again. So I'm going to start streaming again on YouTube and Twitch. So you
guys will not only be able to hear me sing but with much
better audio quality because I have like a proper setup and with video as well
so that'll be cool I don't know what I want to play right now.
What do I feel like? You don't know me like you want to
And I'm sorry but I don't think you ever will
You don't know the fault truth
And it's funny that you seem to think you do
Cause I got one thing on my mind
I got one thing on my mind
I got one thing on my mind
And it's not you
You don't need me like you see you do trust me baby I can't be you just
days me and you make me feel so small so why should I put you on a pedestal?
Cause I've got one thing on my mind
I've got one thing on my mind
I've got one thing on my mind
And it's not you, no it's not you, no
I've got one thing on my mind I've got one thing on my mind
I've got one thing on my mind
I've got one thing on my mind
And it's, it's not you
Guess I'm just bad at writing love songs
In fact, I don't think that I've ever written one at all
Cause just when I feel like it's my time to fall
You come around and prove I was better on my own
Cause I've got one thing on my mind I've got one thing on my mind I've got one thing
on my mind and it's not you no it's not you no I've got one thing on my mind I got one thing
on my mind I got one thing on my mind, I got one thing on my mind, and it's not you.
Thank you, thank you.
That was one thing.
Open bracket, not me.
I love the rug pull.
I love the rug pull in there.
It's like, you're getting excited.
It's like, oh yeah, it's about to kick off. She's got this on her mind excited. It's like, oh, yeah, it's about to kick off.
She's got this on her mind.
And it's like, oh, wait, it's not you.
I got one thing on my mind.
It's not you.
It's a great rug pull technique.
Yeah, I wrote that song quite a while ago.
And it was, I feel bad for the person, to be honest.
So this was when I was still a single lady, and I was talking to a human that had some really big red flags, and I wrote this song about him.
And he... This is such a dick move. He asked me like what have you been working on music wise so I showed him the song.
I sang it right to him.
Yeah.
Never talked about who it was about. He never asked.
Brilliant.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Fun stuff.
What else?
I need to tune my guitar.
That's the problem.
One second.
Oh my goodness it's the weather the weather's changing um
i don't trust this tuner sometimes that did not sound like it was in tune.
It was telling me it was.
Yeah.
How's your guitars holding up, Pugs, in the change of the seasons?
Well, my guitar in general doesn't keep its intonation. It's 35 years old, very
road-worn, and my guy said he recommends the first five to seven frets replaced.
So it used to be like... like I could get first position in tune and then up on
the neck would be out of tune, but now it's like first position G is in and
first position C is out.
And it's like, it's all about finding happy mediums,
and it drives me autistically insane.
I also do not trust tuners.
Yeah, that would drive me nuts.
That would drive me absolutely bonkers.
Darren, I'm trying to bring you up,
but it seems to not be working. Let's see if it
worked this time. Darren, Earth to Darren, can you hear me?
Mm-mm. I'm telling you, this app, man.
So weird. Um. I feel like playing something old.
Something that you guys haven't maybe heard.
Something borrowed, something blue. I gotta remember my own song.
Not even an ocean could hydrate my water.
What is it? What's the chord there? It's
I'm literally relearning my own song in real time with you guys. Sorry
Could hydrate my weathered and bone-dry
I've searched I've searched it's minor mountains and valleys
For my fix, please come fix me hold me up tell me
when it's over I'll close my eyes for once in my life let you be let you be my
armor take me to sea let me float away, away, away from this place I need, I need, I can hold my breath for more than a minute.
It seems I'd do that best.
I'll hold you close to my chest.
Tell me, can you hear waves of misery in there? Seems I do their best, I'll hold you close to my chest
Tell me can you hear waves of misery in there
And can you be my armor?
Fortify me, keep my heart afloat when I need you most Take me out to sea, to float away, away, away from this place.
I need, I need, I need some time and space.
It's just like a short little, short little something I wrote a long time ago.
What was your second chord there?
Was it a B minor?
No, A minor.
I know we can't jam, but I want to jam, Pugs.
Oh, I wish I could hear you.
X needs to get this sorted out because like it's it's just such a tease. I was almost hearing like a G to B minor, then down to the A minor.
Oh, that'd be cool. Let's see.
I can't breathe, I can hear my breath.
Oh, that would change things. That would change things for sure. That would change things.
You could hold the A minor twice,
or you could go up to the D
for more of a proper turnaround back to the G.
Yeah.
Like still hold the G for just as long?
Well, I was playing along with you not knowing what was what,
and I was just like G, B minor, A minor.
Gotcha.
Something like that.
That'd be cool.
Yeah, that could be cool.
I'll mess around with that. Thanks you and me let's let's do a
collab someday let's work with stems and whenever the stars line up let's do it let's do a tune
someday yeah i could even um if you're down to like play some lead line guitar i i've got stuff
i could send you for sure awesome awesome how awesome. How's the bass line going to progress?
I don't know.
I don't know. We'll figure it out.
Something like that.
Okay, Pugs, we need to hop on a call.
Maybe we, this could be the song we collaborate on i'm down i'm around i say that because i need to be able to like there's there's much better audio
on calls x spaces like they can't they can't figure it out god forbid I play my guitar at the same time as Pugs. Everything just hits the fan.
I hope God's so allowed. There's been a few times where it syncs up like if someone's vamping on
blues and the other guy's just like...
You know if you're just doing a little part then it kind of feels like it flows and blends together.
There was one time I was vamping.
I was like, I was doing a vamp and Trolly Troll was singing on top of it.
And it was surprising when we listened back.
It sounded like it was so on sync, but it's like almost like luck.
It's like, and then I've heard sync but it's like almost like luck it's like and then i've
heard too there's like three tiers sierra talks about like the hosts have the most real time
and then the speakers have a slightly like second tier lag delay and then the listeners have i don't
know five ten fifteen seconds up so there's all these factors and variables to overcome. It's, you know, it's tricky.
Yeah.
Maybe one day they'll get it sorted out.
But for now, we can just, we'll hop on a Zoom call.
That'd be cool.
Zoom's not even the greatest either for it, though.
What do you use for your lessons?
Are you using Zoom? I've been using Google Meet, but I mean, you can achieve something similar with so many,
you know, Telegram, Team.
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, that's what I use Google Meet for my lessons as well.
It's been pretty good.
Not too shabby.
We already have everything.
Why not have our lessons too?
Yeah, for real.
By the way, if anybody wants to take guitar lessons,
Pugs is offering guitar lessons.
And he is an incredible guitarist.
As you have heard.
So you should check it out.
It's never too late
never too early to learn how to play an instrument
yeah I've been encouraging sonnet you know she's picking it back up and like
look at Kara look at Kara Mia Kara Mia is like three years deep and well I mean
for one thing she seems like an American Idol finalist.
But her guitar playing, too, is growing in leaps and bounds.
And, you know, it's like my dad, I played in a couple of bands with my dad.
My dad picked up drums at like 40 years old after like no musical instrument background hardly.
And you just, it's beautiful to pick it up late in life.
Like you said, it's never too late.
No, it's never too late no it's never too late and you're never like there's no such thing as ready like you're gonna you're gonna pick it up you're gonna suck it first and you just gotta push past sucking that's what
that's the key to learning I think anything just accept the fact that's the key to learning, I think, anything. Just accept the fact that at the beginning, unless you've got like beginner's luck or you just have an affinity for whatever it is you're trying to learn and it's just working out in your favor, usually nine times out of ten you're going to suck at first. You just got to deal with it.
I have to have that conversation with my vocal students often because I am usually making them
do exercises and different like experiments with their voice to see you know what's going to solve
certain things and you know just putting them in a very vulnerable because with singing it's very
vulnerable I think guitar and piano I teach both as well but with singing it's very vulnerable
because you got I'm gonna make you make weird noises to help you find certain like placements
and registers and stuff and um it can be weird I have one student it took like a month and a half just to get her
to sing on her own like i had to sing every in every lesson i had to sing the entire time because
she would not sing by herself um but we got there now she's singing by herself and it's
it's fun do you do you choose the song that she sings or does she have to um i
if they want me to choose the song that they sing i will happily make suggestions but i usually try
to get them to learn something that they're interested in um like i'll ask them like what
are some artists that you like or some some bands or songs that you like to sing along to?
And then that usually gives me a good idea of what their interest is.
And then I can pick something that would be at their level.
But I'm even doing, like, songwriting with some of my students.
I've got about 30 students right now.
And I would say a quarter of them I am doing songwriting with and some of
them are complete beginners on their instrument but I'm learning that by songwriting with them
oh my god I should this is such a I'm not going to gatekeep this this is such a teaching hack
and I'm going to do something with it because this is such a teaching hack
my students that I'm writing with practice more that's what I'm going to do something with it because this is such a teaching hack. My students that I'm writing with practice more.
That's what I'm learning.
And I think it's because they don't have anything to go home and listen to, right?
Like if they created something and there's no recording of it anywhere,
then they have no choice but to play it themselves, meaning they practice more.
So I'm noticing my students that I'm writing with, yes, it's a little bit more, I don't know,
it's a little bit more work in some ways, but I'm noticing that they're kind of like advancing a little bit quicker
than other students, but I don't know, it could just be a coincidence.
Do you do all the like
like all those exercises yeah lip trills semi-occluded vocal tract exercises like I'm
very like sciencey about it I've I did a course um that you know gave me a good understanding of how to...
It's a course made for music teachers, for vocal teachers,
teaching you how to teach it.
Because it's one thing to be able to do it,
it's another thing to be able to teach it.
So I did this course and it just opened my mind to so many things
and I think it's making me a better singer too,
I think it's making me a better singer too.
so I'm very excited about it.
I've seen this clip of James Hetfield,
the big, bad, mighty James Hetfield and Metallica
doing those vocal exercises.
It's kind of funny.
Yeah, you got to do it.
Man, like even metal singers,
like the guys that are literally screaming.
There's this vocal coach named Melissa Cross who has worked with like 90% of them.
Like she's like the, yeah, she's like the metal vocal coach.
So she teaches them how to scream properly.
And like a lot of them, they went on tour and they blew their voices out.
And they're like, shit, I can't do this every day.
So they go to her and she teaches them the way.
And it's not as difficult as people think it is.
I think that we get so worked up about the exercises and sounding silly and putting ourselves in that position to be uncomfortable
is pretty difficult for some people at first but once you get past that the exercises are like
the holy grail of singing it's I don't know I've learned so much and I'm I'm a trained singer too
like I did classical training when I was a kid from like five years old until I would say maybe like 14 years old.
I was in classical training.
And then I went to a jazz or like I was in a jazz program in my high school.
So it was like a regional art school.
So you audition to get in.
You go.
I was in the vocal program and that's where I got like my jazz background and started to learn more about different like vocal techniques and styles.
And then fast forward to now, I am like still applying a lot of the techniques that I learned back then.
But I think much like any science, things have really evolved and we know more and there's
always more to learn so um yeah I've just kind of I did a course that's like more recent stuff that
I didn't learn in any of my lessons back in the day it was just it was a little bit of a different approach but um yeah sorry go ahead what'd you say you took a new
did you say that you took a new course recently that was on an approach
sorry i should leave no it's okay i i took a new it's vocal, it's basically a course that teaches you how to teach specifically
mixed voice. It's kind of a mix of everything, but this course was specifically designed for
teaching mixed voice, which probably means nothing to you because you might not know what mixed voice voices but yeah this it's something that um a lot of singers avoid but it's really uh once you learn
the techniques and you do the exercises and you put the time in it can be really helpful
i might i might think that i know what mixed voice is, but let's go on with space.
Unless we want to share what that is.
What do you think mixed voice is?
I'm trying to think too.
I would say that before I consider the language that I'm speaking,
there's an energy of my being, like an emotional thing.
Right now it's in a space online, but it's also when I'm like in life,
it's complicated. It's a very complicated topic.
Mixed voice. I wouldn't say that's the answer. But yeah, it's just like briefly for those who might be wondering and want an answer to this unanswered question. Mixed voice is basically
like the third register. So a lot of people think that there's chest voice, there's head voice,
and then you mix them to access certain notes in a more forward and what some people call a beltier way.
That's what people call belting.
But there's actually a third register.
There's chest voice, mix voice, and head voice.
Mixed voice is basically the pharyngeal voice.
Are these all before
falsetto yeah so yeah so chest voice mixed voice head voice and then up into falsetto which is
still technically head voice because it's resonating in the nasal cavity but that's that's
like the definition of head voice is that it's where it resonates is what we're talking about
so head voice resonates in the nasal passage and then chest voice resonates in the mouth because that's the biggest space
for it to resonate in the, and that's why it's called chest voice. If you go, Hey, Hey, you can
really like put your hand on your chest and you can feel it resonating in your chest and it's
resonating in your mouth though. Um, but then mixed voice is the pharyngeal area. So there's this small little tube that connects the mouth and the throat to the nasal cavity. And that's called the pharyngeal area of the vocal tract.
So that's where mixed voice resonates and there's certain exercises that you can do to practice resonating in that spot.
So that's what I focus on a lot with my students because I'm sure, you know, Pugs, when you're singing, I'm sure like going from chest to head voice, you can feel that there's different transitions, right?
different transitions right you can feel everyone has three transitions usually three transitions
at least um in their voice going all the way from the bottom of the range all the way to the top
and some of the transitions are more subtle than others but there's usually one that feels really
really uncomfortable and that can be smoothed out if you can figure out how to navigate using the pharyngeal voice.
I feel like Chris Martin doesn't really have any tears.
It's just like one continuous.
I'm just beside myself.
When I listen to Coldplay, he seamlessly goes from diaphragm to falsetto, like in the back and back.
It's like unbelievable.
I've heard very few people can do that.
John Mayer does it well too.
Yeah,
that's,
he's definitely one of those singers that's accessing that area.
That's the whole point,
right?
With the exercises,
a lot of singers see the warmupsups as warm-ups, right?
They call them warm-ups because they're like, oh, I'm warming my voice up to sing a song.
But I see exercise, I see them as exercises. You know, you don't go to the gym and go stretch and
warm up and then don't lift any weights, right? You have to, you warm up your voice, then you
exercise your voice, and then you sing the songs in my opinion that's that's what
i do because there's certain exercises that are much better done for longer periods of time um
a lot of most singers i would say don't either they either don't warm up their voice before
they sing and i'm guilty of doing that sometimes for sure um but if you are going to warm up your voice, it's much more beneficial to
have your like warmups and then your exercises and the exercises are very targeted and more difficult.
So it's the same with like guitar. You stretch your hand a bit, but imagine you just like
stretch your hand to go play guitar or like pulled
out the guitar and like did a scale and then just never played any other thing right it just wouldn't
make sense sorry go ahead so i have a question so i'm not a professional singer but i find like
a therapeutic value in it so like over like the last two years, I've been kind of playing around with singing and learning how to sing. And I don't have a proper technique or anything, but I know that
I could be a good singer if I really put the time and effort into it. The one problem is that I have
a hiatus hernia, which affects my diaphragm and how deep of breath I can take. So it affects the
diaphragmatic singing and breath control and stuff. So I'm
wondering if stretches that I could do to kind of, because I do notice that when I stretch my
throat and my neck and all that out, I can hit different notes that I can't, if I don't stretch
first. So do you have any recommendations for how to deal with that? Can you repeat, where is the
hernia? Is it in your abdomen? is that where it's by the diaphragm
yeah it's basically where the the stomach gets caught on the diaphragm so that my stomach sits
above my diaphragm and spot where it's not supposed to so i can't take full deep breaths
and sometimes it gets caught when I'm fully exhaling.
But okay. So with speaking like a regular sentence, do you find like when you're speaking a sentence that it gets caught and you feel like you have to take a breath or something or are you usually
fine when you're speaking? Sometimes I'm fine, but like most of the time I'm fine,
but I notice I'll get the hiccups when I try to speak.
And sometimes I think it might be related to that.
Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, the diaphragm is, it's responsible for your ability to breathe, really.
Like it's the muscle that allows for that contraction and that it's allowing for that to happen, right? Cause it's contracting
for it. But, um, I don't know if there's a hernia there, the fact that I can hear you're speaking a
sentence and you're not running out of breath and then having to gasp for breath tells me that you
can, you can definitely sing. Um, it's not the amount, like the, the big big deep gaspy breaths are not necessary for singing in fact they can
actually cause irritation to the vocal tract so it's it's actually more beneficial to take a breath
through your nose small breaths through your nose when you think about it your nose has those little
hairs in it right those hairs filter out the air that you're breathing in so the air that you breathe
in is actually going to be more clean and and. So that way it doesn't irritate anything on the way down.
So it's not about, you don't have to take big gaspy breaths for singing.
So I don't think it would make too much of a struggle for you, but I also don't know,
you know, how bad it is. So it depends. Um, there's
also like exercises that you can do for diaphragmatic breathing. So I don't know if you have any of
those, but, um, or if they would help, I don't know. I, I haven't ever dealt with that kind of
thing, but yeah, there are exercises for that. One of them being taking a breath in.
So breathe out all your air.
Put your hand on your belly.
And when you breathe, I don't want your shoulders to rise.
I want your belly to expand forward.
Almost as if you could imagine like a loose belt around your waist.
You're trying to fill up that belt with your abdomen. So your shoulders shouldn't rise up.
You shouldn't be gasping up upwards for air.
It should just be a nice relaxed breath into the gut.
And then the breath support is that's where you kind of have to exercise because you can take that breath, but being able to support that breath.
One of the exercises I use is the hissing exercise.
So you just take that breath into your belly, inhale, and then just like a steady hiss sound.
And if you can do 10 seconds, that's great. Aim for 12. If you can
do 12 seconds, okay, next week, aim for 15 seconds or whatever. And it's actually really
calming for the diaphragm because it's regulating the breath. It's causing this little bit of back
pressure onto the vocal cords so that way not all the breath is escaping all at once. Because when you think about it, singing is just riding
a breath with sound. So our goal with the breath support is to make it so that way you don't have
a bunch of air just like pushing through the vocal folds. You want to be able to control that airflow.
So the hissing exercise is really good for that. But I don't know if that will help you.
I think it will, because I do notice that on occasion, I do breathe with my shoulders like
that by lifting my shoulders or because I can't fully extend my diaphragm down. It's like bringing
the rib cage up. So I do notice that in my just my general breathing so that will definitely uh
an exercise i'll have to work on yeah give it a shot if you feel any pain or anything
obviously stop don't don't force yourself to do it if it's causing any discomfort
um but that's that's a good one and then the other one is straw phonation um you can use a cup of
water so just get like a glass of water uh only fill it up a little bit though so maybe like a
quarter of the glass is full and put a straw in it and then just blow bubbles and the goal is for
the bubbles to just be super steady you don't want them to be big big big bubbles you want them to
just be like small steady bubbles bubbles. And you'll notice at
first, most people can't really get them steady. So that's how you know that their airflow is,
sorry, excuse me, their airflow is not consistent. If you have consistent airflow, the bubbles will
be visually consistent. You'll be able to see it. so that's a good way of testing to see if uh
you're you're able to to uh control the airflow through the vocal cords
awesome thank you i'll keep that in mind yeah no probs
fun stuff vocal lessons with meli b i do i like i actually love teaching it it's so much fun
um especially like i have one student the other day was just geeking out with me about it and
she was like oh my god this is so cool this so exciting, I'm having so much fun with this, and like, oh, I love that, I love that so much, because my goal as, and like, Pugs, I feel like
you probably relate to this, as teachers of music, it's not like, I'm not trying to make anybody
sound a certain way, or, you know, adhere to certain rules or anything I my job is literally just to
take the conversation about your voice out of your head and place it on the table so that way
it's now something that I can help you with like we can discuss it and figure out okay what's going
to feel more comfortable how do you want to sound what would better sound like to you and then figuring out
how to get there together that's kind of how i see it so um yeah daryl if you love to sing this
is the thing is like singing singing is for anybody i think if people sang more
like collectively i think the world would be a happier place
so keep singing regardless just keep singing and if you ever want you know a one-off lesson
hit me up i got you definitely i i've been finding it um like for because i i work on
chakras and stuff like that too so I find that
singing really helps and some like I was saying some bands I can feel my vagus
nerve be triggered when I sing when I try to sing their songs and stuff like
that so I find it kind of therapeutic as just to kind of help de-stress and
everything so yeah definitely they'll definitely consider that I was thinking
of hitting you up I'm just a little short on cash right now so paying for
lessons isn't as you but I don't want to ask for anything for free.
Yeah, it's all good. I'm here. I am around, and I'm thinking I might put some vocal stuff up on
YouTube and in my Bloom room on school, So I don't know.
I haven't made that content yet,
so I can't make any promises,
but I've been thinking about it.
Could be cool.
Something that you can just watch on your own time.
Little warmups and stuff, exercises.
It's definitely,
there's a market for it right now right you know and share your expertise like
put it out there and you know people will see it and you motivate people to get involved in singing
and pick it up as a hobby yeah yeah absolutely and i think anybody can sing like even uh you
know how some people say that they're tone deaf? And that they can't learn how to sing because they're tone deaf?
It is actually extremely rare.
Like there are like hardly any tone deaf people.
Like it's just not, it's not a common thing.
You can, in my opinion, if you think that you're tone deaf and it's because you can't match a pitch or you can't figure out how to copy a sound and hit the right note, in my opinion, nine times out of ten, it's like a vocal cord coordination issue, not an auditory issue you can hear the note and in your mind you can hear the note but you just
don't have the vocal cord coordination to be able to make that sound so that's just uh my
limited knowledge opinion
i think i think singing is i really admire singers because it's one of those things where you have to do perfectly because if you make a mistake, everybody notices, right?
There are certain things, you know, you can make a spelling mistake here, people forgive that or whatever, but singing is something you have to be, like, dead on, paying attention, in control, and any mistake, people hear it.
So I really respect the
the structure and discipline singers have because i don't have it
yeah i mean and and so it's weird because like music itself there's no rules it's like such a
creative it's like a medium to express yourself right so there's no rules with
music um but there are there are opportunities to learn how to make sounds that you want to make
rather than your voice and your current capabilities dictating what sounds you make,
if that makes sense. Like I would rather be able to tell my voice what to do rather than my voice
telling me what I can do. So that's my goal with vocal lessons. And that's what I tell my students
is like, I'm not here to make you sound a certain way. I'm here
to make it so that way you can pick and choose how you sound at any given moment.
So, cause there's stylistic stuff, right? Building like a good foundation can help you,
um, you know, I might be like, like oh i want to sound really breathy at this
part or i want to be really forward and project really um you know i want it to resonate and like
be like really like belty at this other part um falsetto like pugs was saying like accessing that
falsetto or even whistle tones or something like that there's always more to learn it's really uh and it's exciting when you unlock i always feel like it's like
unlocking an achievement in a video game when you're like oh my god you can do that now that's
crazy you couldn't do that yesterday yeah like oh those aha moments are so much fun
how about you pugs what do you think about like teaching music
what's your take on it yeah i mean for me it's like i personally am
i don't know i feel like 85 percent like self-taught and intuited and figure it out. And 15% like lessons and grimoire and intentional
study and knowledge building. Well, and now that I've been going three plus decades,
of course, the knowledge base is there, but it's funny. I always considered myself kind of
light when it came to theory. And I think because I know a lot of chord names I think sometimes
people look at and think of me as more with theory than I actually am like I used to play
I used to play in this one band and a couple other guys knew all the theory like you know
the mixolydian ionian and, here's why this chord works,
and here's why this dissonant note works, because we're going to resolve it over here.
And it was like, I just kind of intuited it, figured it out by ear,
but these guys in the band, that kind of, one of them had a degree and studied it, you know,
and I definitely learned a lot by osmosis being around them.
But coming back to your question, to me, it's helping sharpen my game,
question to me it's helping sharpen my game my theory knowledge and connecting and understanding
the why on on some of the dots that connect and the more I'm you know speaking with students and
kind of considering chord families and concepts it just kind of sharpens me as well you know what I
mean but yeah like you said, the joy of
when someone connects those dots and is up and running with something, I mean, certainly there's
the reward part of it too, you know? Yes. Yeah. The, oh my God, the theory talk is so, it's such
a funny topic because for me personally, because I, um, like like I was saying I have that like classical training and I
have that jazz training and when I was in the jazz school they were very much trying to like you know
teach us theory and and we had like an entire course just on music theory and I was so against
it I was like no bro like such a hippie musician I was like no bro, bro, like such a hippie musician. I was like, no, bro, I just learned everything by ear. Like, that was me for real. I could do the sight singing, I could do the sight reading stuff, but I didn't want to. Because I was just like, no, that's, I just want to go make music and be creative.
I'm such a hypocrite.
I'm in my lessons with my students and I'm like,
oh, this would be so much easier if you just knew the theory.
I'm like, I understand why they want us to know the theory now.
But like, I don't focus on it 100%.
I sometimes I surprise like last week, I surprised one of my students.
He walks in the room and I saw we had an hour lesson instead of his usual half hour. I was like, Oh, perfect. I'm going to take advantage of this extra half hour.
And I'm, we're going to go over major keys and we're going to understand, you know, what makes
a major key and what is a key? What is a key signature? What like having to teach that kind
of thing is so funny. Cause like first thing comes up, I'm like, okay, so key signatures.
And he's like looking at me like, what is a key signature?
And I'm like, holy shit.
I haven't had to think about this in a whole...
Dude, if someone asks you what's a key signature, I sat there like, what is a key signature?
I came to the conclusion that it is a family.
I call it a family of chords that sound good together.
I don't know.
What would you say, Pugs?
What is a key signature?
When I'm thinking, okay, so I think, first of all,
my resting default is more around time signature.
I used to play in a metal band, and I'm into like fusion and progressive rock,
and they played in five and seven and nine, you know.
But when I think of time signature and or key signature,
I'm thinking bar and staff, right?
Written music.
And so when I think of key signature,
I think that's the key that that the again as you said family of chords or
overall song is in um and that's yeah that's what you've got you know on the left hand side of your
bar and staff oh okay this song is in b flat that's the key signature but beyond that i like what you said it's a family of chords that fit they sound good
together yeah because my if b flat is your key then what are the chords that are going to
correspond with b flat as your nexus and then you get into circle of fifths and yeah there is like
math and science in yeah it's so cool it's so cool now that i'm old
i think it's cool i say old lightly guys i know i'm not that old but um yeah when i was younger
i was just like no i don't want to learn this stuff and then i get older i'm like oh my god
this is so cool the patterns the math the the science, it's all, it makes you realize,
holy shit, there's method to this.
It's not just a bunch of noises that sound good together.
I can find patterns in music,
and I feel like AJ's going to come in and be like,
that's how you know we live in the simulation.
The patterns, they're everywhere.
The synchronicities.
Music is literally synchronicities, music is literally
synchronicities and patterns. So I think the singers are the geniuses. If you ask me,
the singers have always amazed me and the stories of the singers and the humbleness of the singers,
ah, they have a different intelligence. And a lot of them are very highly intelligent.
I know Brian May of Queen. He was like an astrophysicist. A lot of these guys
are brilliant guys. It's amazing. And yeah, and definitely a simulation. No way is this real.
How in the world could this be real? Where it's like every single thing that happens in your life
like pushes you to a certain moment, gives you a little bit of understanding. And all of a sudden
you're writing a song
and you wouldn't have that song
unless you had that experience.
And then that experience makes sense
because you were able to create the song
and it's just like that, you know?
Yeah, it all feels that way sometimes.
Like I said earlier, sometimes I write a song
and then a year later I'm like,
oh shit, that's what that song was about.
Oh, get out of here, really?
Yeah, it's like you predict sometimes, and I've heard other singers say this,
it's like you can predict your own future with the music that you write,
because sometimes you'll write a song before you've even experienced what's in the song.
Freddie Mercury did it in real time with Bohemian Rhapsody.
One of the greatest songs of all time.
So good. Bohemian Rhapsody. One of the greatest songs of all time.
So good.
Wait, I just want to make a request.
I'm going to drop down.
I got to run a little bit,
but could you play that other song that you first made?
That you made?
The new one?
Again?
Oh, like the newest one?
The one that I played earlier?
Yeah. Is that all right? Yeah, I can do one? The one that I played earlier? Yeah.
Is that all right?
Yeah, I can do that.
I don't know.
And what's up, Prez?
Danger Dev.
As we own the house.
KC down there.
Long time.
Everyone else?
James in the house.
Can you guys hear me okay?
Here.
Yeah, perfect.
Okay.
My phone is currently on top of a jar in front of me.
Okay.
Let's hope it doesn't...
Alright.
I gotta run, guys. Bye.
See ya.
I gotta figure out how this goes again.
So new. We've got time, we've got life, we've got places to drive.
Wait, what are the lyrics?
Okay.
We've got time, we've got life, we've got places to drive.
We've got places to try
There's a guy down the street
With a pretty sweet ride
Maybe we make some friends
Pick a spot, set a camp
Take a trip down the river
Oh, these words make me quiver
Push the ego aside Let the rest fall just right.
Oh, just let it go, six months alone now, made you the ghost of what you know, just let it go
Sleep until sunrise, pick up those dead eyes
Let the rest fall just right
Seems the world's just a mess, always has been, they said, just a god-forsaken rock in space. Maybe all that we have is all that we get
And the clock's here to track what we make of it
Push the ego aside, let the rest fall just right
Oh, just let it go Six months alone now
Made you the ghost of what you know Just let it go
Sleep until sunrise Pick up those dead eyes
Oh, just let it go
Six months alone now
Made you the ghost of what you know
Just let it go
Sleep until sunrise Pick up those dead eyes
Let the rest fall just right There you go.
Very nice. Thank you. Very nice.
Thank you, thank you.
I can't call that song, Let It Go.
That's not happening.
Because that is a song from Frozen, and...
You guys know that song, right?
Let it go. I forget how it goes, but... Gotta call that song, right? Let it go.
I forget how it goes, but I've got to call that song something else.
Do-do-do-ba-do-do.
Frozen fractals all around.
I love that the word fractals is in that song, I've got to say. Fractals? Where do I say fractals? Do I say fractals all around. I love that the word fractals is in that song, I gotta say.
Fractals.
Where do I say fractals?
Do I say fractals?
No, no, no.
Let it go.
Frozen.
Frozen fractals all around.
That's so hilarious.
Every time that lyric comes up, it makes me laugh.
Tripped me out.
I was like, do I say fractals in my song? And I don't even know. That'd me laugh. Tripped me out. I was like, do I say fractals in my song?
And I don't even know.
That'd be cool.
Oh, my goodness.
Okay.
Pugs, you want to play a song?
Your song is the fractal.
Sure, I can do something.
Yeah, let's call this.
We'll call this the last song.
I'm going to pack it in.
Okay.
All right.
This is another one of my newer ones.
November, wrote this November.
And Sometimes, I like to play it.
It's called Sometimes. Sometimes I just sit and cry Just can't find the why
But nonetheless I try Cause I realize deep inside You're the reason why
Life is worth the while
Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes the mission's clear
Sometimes I'd rather disappear Sometimes I find my peace Sigh, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes
Live to keep from dying, laugh to keep from crying
But mostly I'm just sighing
Then I realized deep inside
You're the reason why life is worth the while.
Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes the mission's clear. Sometimes I'd rather disappear Sometimes I find my peace
Sometimes I fall to pieces Sometimes I sigh Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes I'm planning for the future.
Sometimes I'm thinking about the next life.
And sometimes I just cast my faith to the wind.
Like forest guns feather
Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes the mission's clear
Sometimes I'd rather disappear
Sometimes I find my peace
Sometimes I fall to pieces
Sometimes I sigh
Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes
Oh, I love it.
That's a good song, Pugs.
Love it.
Yeah, the bridge really pops.
It's so short, gets out of the way and right back to the chorus.
Yeah.
Simple little reprieve and then boom.
That's like three minute, three minute, 30 second song.
Not bad.
Absolutely beautiful.
Well, thanks for playing that. Um, I think I'm going to shut it down. I'm, I feel like I should
probably go to bed soon. I did not get a good sleep last night. Um, I got to do this self-care
thing that everyone talks about, you know? Balance.
What is balance?
I don't know how to balance, but I'm trying.
Get your rest.
Take care.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, yeah, thanks for hanging out, everybody.
It's been real.
Good times as always.
Little, I guess, little housekeeping stuff to let you know that there is still time to apply for
hosting a show this summer. So you can check the link in my bio for all my stuff that's going on.
But the one thing I'm really pushing for right now is getting more dates booked for shows this
summer. So if anybody wants to host me, it would be awesome. We're doing like a backyard DIY tour. So it's
like backyards and living rooms and just like cool intimate spaces. I would love to play anywhere and
everywhere. So hit me up in the DMs if you have any questions. But until next time on the Bloom Room,
take it easy and stay safe.
Much love, everybody.
