Is it time you took a personal inventory with regard to your singing

Is it time you took a personal inventory with regard to your singing?

Has your singing become harmful to you and those around you?

Are you a soprano or a tenor?

If so, you may want to ask yourself the following questions --

YOU MAY BE A DIVA WITHOUT KNOWING IT!!!

Have you been involved in an auto accident because of your singing?

Is a disproportionate amount of your income spent on operatic anthologies?

At first the occasional high G was enough for you. Now, do you need to sing several high C's every day in order to feel good about yourself?

If the answer to one or more of the above questions was "yes," you're probably a problem Diva. And we at Div-Anon want to help. Testimony from Div-Anon success stories:

"We admitted that we were powerless over our egos, and that our voices had become unmanageable."

"We believe that a conductor greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity."

"We made a decision to turn our voices over to the conductor, as we understood that conductor to exist."

"We made a searching and fearless vocal inventory."

"We admitted to ourselves and to our section leader the nature of our wrongs."

"We were entirely ready to have our voice teachers remove all shortcomings."

"We made a list of all fellow singers we had harmed and became willing to sing duets with them."

"We continued our vocal inventory, and, when we were out of tune, promptly admitted it."

"We sought through choral music and ensemble singing to improve our contact with the great voice teacher in the sky, praying only for knowledge of tritones, and the ability to sing straight tone in our upper registers when we needed it."

"We conscientiously followed the 12 steps of the Diva and brought the message to Divas everywhere."

THE TWELVE STEPS OF THE DIVA

1. Offer to sing a duet with a fellow singer.

2. Allow your duet partner to choose the part he or she would like to sing.

3. Sing softer than your partner.

4. If you are a soprano, wear your hair close to your head and cover your cleavage.

5. Listen to harmony parts and work at blending with them.

6. When vocalizing before a concert in the presence of other singers, only vocalize in your midrange.

7. Ask a fellow singer for advice on vocal production.

8. Comment on another singer's excellent diction.

9. Thank a fellow singer for singing a passage correctly when you had been singing it wrong.

10. Tell another singer he or she sounded great in the concert.

11. Tell the conductor how great another singer sounded.

12. Congratulate a singer on a solo you auditioned for.

Div-Anon W O R K S !

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