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I like to sing. I started singing when I was very young, and “wrote” my first song when I was 10. (I didn’t write it down, but I composed the melody and the lyrics and memorized it). When karaoke became popular, I began singing in karaoke clubs in southern California. I sang in five different clubs in Las Vegas.
I have had my own karaoke show for about 5 years at various local clubs, though I don’t currently have a venue. But I still sing with various local bands occasionally. I also started playing harmonica when I was very young. I think that has helped me with my singing, especially singing in key. I have perfect pitch, that is I can hit any note perfectly. I attribute that to playing an instrument that is always exactly on key. Of course, that ability is a great help when singing.
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My singing is about as wonderful as singing can possibly be - in my own mind. When I actually open my mouth and let sound out, the reality is somewhat different. In fact, I'm a bit like the penguin Mumble in Happy Feet - except I can't dance either.
Weirdly - and this bit is true - I tend to meet singers on trains. I mean great singers. Last year I met and befriended a woman called Helen whose singing really is wonderful. I've heard her in concert, and in my home when my wife and I had her round for dinner, and even once on the train! There is no build-up with her - she goes straight from silence to awesome sound. And last month I got talking to a woman because she overheard me talking to someone else about geology. Turns out she teaches geology as her day job, but she is also a singer-songwriter in a band that supports Fish, Marillion and Midge Ure. I haven't heard her singing live but she sounds good on her website. |
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Hi, Been singing all of my days so far. Been playing strings since 1957.
It's more fun when people sing with you. Try rafting up a half dozen boats anchored in Hadley's Harbour on Naushon Island (near Wood's Hole"and having a concert. One guy smaw over with a mandolin over his head. Perusion by Tupperware. We had a ball. " Her name was McGill, and she called herself Lil, but everyone knew her as Nancy." ...... " A day without singing.... ......is a day without significance." Dan Bessette |
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Oh me! Me! Me!
My father would spontaniously break into song all the time. (Often off color parodies of popular songs) and on rainy days my mother would teach us all the old songs from her childhold. Being farm raised in the Oregon desert it would include a lot of cowboy songs. We would have a big group sing. I had an excellent singing voice until age 22 when I started smoking cigarettes. Never got it back even though its been over ten years since my last cigarette. Though sometimes I can fake it if I put enough enthusiasm into it. (Wow, right now my father's ghost is singing in my right ear, "Yank my doodle, its a dandy!" with all the gusto of Pavarotti. Damn, its nice to hear his voice again. )
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Basso profundo here. Sang in the chorus in college with an occasional solo. Most challenging piece was Ives' Three Harvest Home Chorales. Yee-ha! re the polyrhythms we had to master.
Just to see if the voice still has the range I'll tackle the opening recitative for the bass soloist from the Finale of Beethoven's Ninth every once in a while. Hitting the eighth and quarter notes on that low A (octave and a third below middle C) at the end of freudenvollere is always a challenge and fun. Never gave that song about the Italian cowboy ("Rocky Raccoona") much of a try.
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I like to sing, but I'm not very good. The worst person who has ever been on American Idol is probably better than me. I guess, but I don't watch it. I like to sing along to songs on the radio and at karioke. Especially songs from musicals.
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No, just isn't my thing.
The "trauma" so to speak is growing up in a social environment in which year after year people insist that you partake in these activities and look at you like there is something wrong with you if you don't. |
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(Does a double take)
Urp, sputter, Well yeah! You weren't dancing! That's like saying since its normal to turn blue when you don't breathe, its okay that your blue since you'e not breathing.
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IIRC, Dr. Egon Spengler collected spores, molds, and fungus.
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Neverfly, doesnt like singing but he likes music.
![]() I like singing, I was once a vocalist in our Music Group in our church. They say I have the voice, but I don't have the guts to flaunt it. I just sing whenever my heart tells me too. And my son is my favorite audience now. ![]()
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I have been told that I have a great singing voice. That is no accident, I have worked very hard at training my voice. When I was about 35, I would answer the phone and people would ask to speak to my mother. I decided to work on training my voice down. It took a lot of years, but I now sing bass, baritone, and tenor. I am equally at home singing Old Man River, or Sherry, by the Four Seasons. I have also worked hard at training my voice to sound like the original singer. So, whether it’s Roy Orbison, Elvis, Jefferson Airplane, Aerosmith, Neil Diamond, Van Morrison, Andy Williams, or Satchmo, I color my voice to sing appropriate to the song.
I guess the lesson here is that if you work hard enough at anything, you can achieve it.
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