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Location: Scotland | Oh yes. And how I hate it. |
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Location: Burbank | Trust me you don't want me to sing, or play. I just won't show up! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Can't sing!
No Really... I Can't Sing. And you don't want me to try. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I can't, but I do.
Apparently, the more you do it, the better you get. But if you're not a singer, you're not a singer. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Everyone can sing, just not every song.
It's all in the selection process.
If Ringo sang it, you can too.
If Annie Lennox sang it....maybe not. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | It is a common request that I sing tacitly. |
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Location: NW Washington State | I don't sing, and I can't play the guitar. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I've been told I sing well, but they were lying to make me feel good. I have heard my voice recorded. The only time I sing is to harmonize with someone, or if I want someone to hear one of the songs I have written. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | no |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I do ... but it's not my forte' either. I can carry a tune and harmonize, but I don't have that "up-front" voice. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Everyone can sing, just not every song.
It's all in the selection process.
If Ringo sang it, you can too.
If Annie Lennox sang it....maybe not. How about Bob Dylan? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I sing much better than I play guitar. That doesn't say much, so how about if I brag that I got a college scholarship for vocal music? I used to have that on my resume. It was true, but I don't remember if anyone asked me how much the scholarship was. It was $50. That was probably commensurate with my talent, but that was a lot of money back then. A full ride was $125 a semester. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I try
Sometimes I succeed, sometimes it's almost, when it's going to be a "never get it" on a tune I know better than to try. |
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Location: Waterloo, IL | Sing? What's that? |
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Location: Portland, OR | What Mark said, except I got no scholarship. On the other hand we made cigarette money playing RR in places like Kamiah, Couer d'Alene, Cottonwood and Post Falls, all great Idaho towns. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I like singin'.
I'd like to think/hope that I'm better than most and not near as good as the rest.
I was thinkin' bout this the other day.
I'd say that 40% of the Amelia gang was singers who played guitar. Another 40% were musicians who where more into running scales and the 1/4/5 thing.
The last 20% could do both. |
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Location: SoCal | I think there are a number of people here who will tell you I can't sing...... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I CALL FIRST IN LINE...!! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Everyone can sing, just not every song. Riiiight... :rolleyes:
<Psssst... just wait for the G8r Bowl II report.> |
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Location: GA USA | That's right. At g8rbowl, everybody sings every song. |
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Location: East Tennessee | A few pulls of War Eagle's elixir would help some of the bashful ones. :D |
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| I sound like Tom Waits when I sing so that may not count for much with you all but really, if you play, it's kinda hard not to sing a bit here and there as well. |
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Location: NJ | tom waits got nothing on me. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by sligoman:
What Mark said, except I got no scholarship. On the other hand we made cigarette money playing RR in places like Kamiah, Couer d'Alene, Cottonwood and Post Falls, all great Idaho towns. First, the huge scholarship I got was because the choir director was a neighbor and was pissed that the college pulled my academic scholorship after a year.
Second, I'll believe you if you can pronounce Kamiah. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I'm told it's an acquired taste |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Originally posted by Joe Rotax:
but really, if you play, it's kinda hard not to sing a bit here and there as well. I agree with Joe. I sing nearly every time I play. Sometimes I think it sounds good, sometimes I think it sounds awful. |
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| Originally posted by fillhixx:
[QB] Everyone can sing
No they can't. |
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Location: Cincinnati | I can't and don't. We have rules about that here. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by Beal:
Sometimes I succeed, sometimes it's almost, when it's going to be a "never get it" on a tune I know better than to try. Realizing what songs not to sing is half the battle |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Originally posted by Slipkid:
I like singin'.
I'd like to think/hope that I'm better than most and not near as good as the rest.
I was thinkin' bout this the other day.
I'd say that 40% of the Amelia gang was singers who played guitar. Another 40% were musicians who where more into running scales and the 1/4/5 thing.
The last 20% could do both. Hell Brad I don't think I'll fit into any of those categories!! :rolleyes:
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Location: south east Michigan | Your right AJ!
I forgot.
There is another group.
A couple guys are assigned to tote guitars around and store cases as needed. :D
I look forward to meeting you.
Don't forget to bring your back support brace and practice lifting with your knees. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Mate I'm looking forward to it too!!
AJ :) |
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Location: Vernon CT | I was told most of my life "DON"T SING, YOU CAN"T!" I then joind a little "Jam" group who encouraged me to sing. They didn't seem to care how bad it was. And it was bad! I've now been singing for 3 years. I've discovered I can sing in a couple of keys and within an Octave. Im no
front person, but can hold a tune.
We ALL can sing, the question should be "can
you sing in key" I've learned with practice MOST can probable "train" yourselves to do so just by doing it and not caring what you sound like. Eventually you will "find" your key and range.
Just my .02! :) |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | I used to sing very well a couple of thousand cigars ago, but I had a very nice low bass voice. You know how many popular songs have been written for low bass singers? Doesn't much matter now. These days about the best I achieve is rhythmic croaking, but that doesn't keep me from achieving it as often as I can. |
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Location: Kansas | Funny you should ask....people ask me all the time "Can you NOT sing? PLEASE?"
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by wilblee:
low bass... rhythmic croaking BINGO! That's ME...  |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by schroeder:
No they can't. Yes they can
Yes they can
Yes they CAAAAAAAAN!
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by tholmes:
Funny you should ask....people ask me all the time "Can you NOT sing? PLEASE?"
Tom Ditto! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by wilblee:
I used to sing very well a couple of thousand cigars ago, but I had a very nice low bass voice. You know how many popular songs have been written for low bass singers? Doesn't much matter now. These days about the best I achieve is rhythmic croaking, but that doesn't keep me from achieving it as often as I can. Get an all hog guitar and sit on the street corner with a can and sing all the old great blues songs from the 30's - 40s! Sounds to me like you got the PERFECT voice for it! Screaming Jay Hawkins, Gatemouth Brown, Hooker, Johnson, etc, etc...and my FAVORITE BARITONE/BASS singer LEON REDBONE! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | For the record, I've never heard or seen Paul Templeman sing. Nor witnessed any of the other things he claims to do frequently. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Me. I'm a solo fingerstyle player. When Legg starts singing I will. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by stephent28:
my FAVORITE BARITONE/BASS singer LEON REDBONE! Mine also! Thanx. Now off to YT... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
For the record, I've never heard or seen Paul Templeman sing. Nor witnessed any of the other things he claims to do frequently. What he was doing in the hotel lobby at the last factory tour at 4 in the morning MIGHT be considered singing in some sort of warped Ozzy Osbourne kind of way. |
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| Originally posted by BT717:
I've discovered I can sing in a couple of keys and within an Octave. Im no front person, but can hold a tune.
We ALL can sing, the question should be "can
you sing in key" I've learned with practice MOST can probable "train" yourselves to do so just by doing it and not caring what you sound like. Eventually you will "find" your key and range.
Just my .02! :) That's pretty much how I started. I just got sick of not singing because, for me, lyrics/vocals are a big part of the enjoyment of playing music. So I began with not caring what it sounded like and eventually found areas and that I can work with. Once I started tuning to E flat things came together better. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
Originally posted by Gallerinski:
For the record, I've never heard or seen Paul Templeman sing. Nor witnessed any of the other things he claims to do frequently. What he was doing in the hotel lobby at the last factory tour at 4 in the morning MIGHT be considered singing in some sort of warped Ozzy Osbourne kind of way. |
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Location: Michigan | A bunch of us who have been friends since
( hi skoll ) still get together and party like its 1995 and after 20 or so drinks or whatever someone will go put an old Beatles record on and EVERYONE becomes a lead singer. When youve been partying to long everybody actually thinks that we all sound good but im sure if it were recorded there might be some other thoughts after the playback but we have a ball doing it.
Its something about those old Beatles songs that you have to sing along to no matter how bad your singing is. :eek: :rolleyes: :p GWB |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
A bunch of us who have been friends since
( hi skoll ) still get together and party like its 1995 and after 20 or so drinks or whatever someone will go put an old Beatles record on and EVERYONE becomes a lead singer. When youve been partying to long everybody actually thinks that we all sound good but im sure if it were recorded there might be some other thoughts after the playback but we have a ball doing it.
Its something about those old Beatles songs that you have to sing along to no matter how bad your singing is. :eek: :rolleyes: :p GWB KIDS! :rolleyes: |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Learning how to enunciate and breathe correctly contributes immensely to the performance as well. Some do marvelous on raw talent. Most don't. Those with both talent and knowledge of how to sing are the best. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | In 1995 I was years past the get drunk and sing at the party stage.
Brad is right. A good coach or teacher can really help. Some people just don't have a voice that can be helped, but I'm not sure that anyone is really tone deaf. I've watched one American Idol show and that was one of the tryouts. It is amazing how many people think they can sing that aren't even close. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I KNOW some people can't sing! My ex-husband (one of them) is a perfect example. He is a GREAT guitarist, but he can't even sing well enough to make a person understand the simplest song he has in mind unless he has a guitar in hand. One time he mentioned a Pink Floyd song he wanted to learn. He couldn't remember the name so I said "hum a few bars". I had NO idea what he was trying to hum. Then he said the words. "The lunitic is on the grass". There are only three notes in that line and he couldn't do it!
I know a guy out here who can't sing either. He was raised out in the middle of Nowhere, SD, and his family never even had a radio. He never heard music AT ALL until he started school. It was too late by then. He has no ear, no rythum, and can't carry a tune. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
For the record, I've never heard or seen Paul Templeman sing. Nor witnessed any of the other things he claims to do frequently.
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What he was doing in the hotel lobby at the last factory tour at 4 in the morning MIGHT be considered singing in some sort of warped Ozzy Osbourne kind of way. Hey, in Temp's defense he was holding a tune AT LEAST as well as his slide held the Tequila....er well...anyway... ;) :D :eek:
Played a darn fine slide guitar anyway... |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'd trade my singing voice for Schroeders in a New York second if I could play guitar like Temp. |
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Location: Michigan | I sing but there are many that wish I did not. :) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Ohhhhh SNAP,
Clive I think you just slammed really hard. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Gentlemen, gentlemen...what happened in The Lobby, STAYS in The Lobby.
(And, T, you "think" he got slammed really hard? Read it again.
He did.) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If the picture that Cliff posted is any indication, if Temp sang, it would be soprano. |
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| I have no idea how long a New York second is.
I have no idea about most things these days. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by schroeder:
[QB] I have no idea how long a New York second is.
Schroeder, Having grown up aprrox 70 miles from NYC I can tell you a New York second is described as: " I don't give a Fock how long you think it is, so Forget aboud it"!! :D ;) |
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Location: south east Michigan | I thought it meant "very fast".
I should know better than to use sayings outside my own region. |
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Location: NJ | The correct term is a "New York Minute".
Wanna' know how LONG it is??
. . . wanna' know AGAIN?? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | While I don't have the greatest voice, singing is integral, to me, to playing the guitar. I suppose it comes out of that stew of roots music and punk that I grew up in, where presentation trumps musicianship.
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Location: Utah | I can sing better than Dylan or Springsteen, and those guys are superstars. So it is all relative whether one can sing or not. I haven't sung publicly for a long time, my interest was killed when my guitar playing died. Now I plan to do some singing to go along with playing guitar. I don't know if the intervening years have been too unkind to my voice, which used to be good enough to earn me the lead part in the high school musical thirty years ago. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | I have never been a really good singer, but I think practice and confidence do a lot to help. When I was a kid I would sing when ever I got the chance, just to get more practice in front of people and gain confidence in performing. These days I rarely sing for others - complete lack of confidence and practice. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Originally posted by BT717:
I was told most of my life "DON"T SING, YOU CAN"T!" I then joind a little "Jam" group who encouraged me to sing. They didn't seem to care how bad it was. And it was bad! I've now been singing for 3 years. I've discovered I can sing in a couple of keys and within an Octave. Im no
front person, but can hold a tune.
We ALL can sing, the question should be "can
you sing in key" I've learned with practice MOST can probable "train" yourselves to do so just by doing it and not caring what you sound like. Eventually you will "find" your key and range.
Just my .02! :) This sounds like my story. Now I am comfotable with my singing and my wife (who has a golden voice) and I sing an occasional karoke night. She get raves and cheers. I get polite applause. I recently taught my daughter (who has her mother's voice) the song "I'd like to teach the world to sing". It is one I do well and she loves it. My daughter will let me know if I sound bad. |
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Location: Calgary,Alberta | I've been told if I like that better than singing, or if I could sing in tenor, ten or fifteen miles from here |
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Location: Portland, OR | Mark: Way I heard it it was Kameeeeiiiii, along some river. Native Americans. Made us do Twist and Shout about 20 times before they'd let us out of the place. Had a great time. |
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Location: UK | No, can't hold a note. |
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Location: Utah | I wonder if some of us have trouble hearing ourselves properly, which aggravates our pitch problems. When I have on headphones it is a lot easier to find pitches. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by sligoman:
Mark: Way I heard it it was Kameeeeiiiii, along some river. Native Americans. Made us do Twist and Shout about 20 times before they'd let us out of the place. Had a great time. Yep. The spelling makes about as much sense as Favre. |
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| Originally posted by FlySig:
I wonder if some of us have trouble hearing ourselves properly, which aggravates our pitch problems. I think that can be part of it or, for some people, all of it. Plug one ear and then you'll hear yourself. |
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