This week in the video log, I’m taking a quick look at the song, Edelweiss, from The Sound of Music.
Media Logs
Vlog
Audio Log
Github Study Respository
Link to my Github repository containing music notes.
General Session Records
| Date Session | Duration (Minutes) | Public Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-15 | 30 | Berklee Vocal Technique, experimenting with low notes. Extended low notes. Half-step intervals on low notes. |
| 2025-09-16 | 24 | Berklee Vocal Technique. |
| 2025-09-17 | 2 | Experimenting with low notes. |
| 2025-09-18 | 9 | Experimenting with low notes. |
| 2025-09-19 | 31 | Berklee Vocal Technique. |
| 2025-09-20 | 81 | Guitar accompaniment, Eidel Weiss. Berklee Vocal Technique. Experimenting with low notes. |
Memories to Share
Bigfoot A1
Towards the beginning of this week, while I was doing my singing practice, my voice relaxed and I began easily hitting A#1. I had my vocal pitch app open on my phone as a means of visualizing the tune.
Hitting low notes is simply fun. I don’t know why.
Wanting to record the moment, I switched my active phone app to a voice recording app, hit record, then switched back to the vocal pitch visualizing app.
For a few minutes, I was happily going back and forth from A#1 to C2, even dropping down for a few seconds at a time to A1, and briefly hitting G#1.
My voice can only sustain those low notes for a few minutes before I start tightening up again; soon I could only hit C1.
I went to check my voice recording app so that I could have my record, only to discover that the voice recording app and the vocal pitch app can’t have access to the microphone at the same time. Shucks.
Above, I posted the three second recording of my voice that was captured between the time I started the recording and when I switched over to the vocal pitch app. I’m not sure what note that is.
For now, the elusive low notes that my voice can sometimes hit remain a mysterious creature hiding behind a tree in the forest.
Gen Z for Fifteen Minutes
Towards the end of the week, my students invited me to dress as one of them for a day. So, I came the next day wearing sweatpants and a hoodie. Since I was a bonefide member of the gen z clan, I was able to do a few things a millenial may typically struggle to do, such as “the griddy” and “gangnam style.”
Artificial Intelligence Transparency Report
No artificial intelligence was used for the writing or performing portion of this blog post.
I used Google’s Gemini AI to help me create and manage my sql database for tracking relevant data. For example, I used Google Gemini to write a script that exports my singing data records from my custom PostgreSQL database and format the data as an HTML table.
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