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CanterburyStrings
Posted 2009-01-08 7:27 PM (#434669 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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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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MusicMishka
Posted 2009-01-08 7:28 PM (#434670 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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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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Slipkid
Posted 2009-01-08 7:32 PM (#434671 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?



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I'd trade my singing voice for Schroeders in a New York second if I could play guitar like Temp.
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twistedlim
Posted 2009-01-08 7:58 PM (#434672 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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I sing but there are many that wish I did not. :)
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stephent28
Posted 2009-01-08 8:18 PM (#434673 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?



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Ohhhhh SNAP,

Clive I think you just slammed really hard.
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Weaser P
Posted 2009-01-08 8:51 PM (#434674 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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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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Mark in Boise
Posted 2009-01-08 10:13 PM (#434675 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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If the picture that Cliff posted is any indication, if Temp sang, it would be soprano.
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schroeder
Posted 2009-01-09 8:18 AM (#434676 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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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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BT717
Posted 2009-01-09 8:45 AM (#434677 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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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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Slipkid
Posted 2009-01-09 9:59 AM (#434678 - in reply to #434619)
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I thought it meant "very fast".
I should know better than to use sayings outside my own region.
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cliff
Posted 2009-01-09 10:09 AM (#434679 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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The correct term is a "New York Minute".

Wanna' know how LONG it is??


. . . wanna' know AGAIN??
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an4340
Posted 2009-01-09 10:18 AM (#434680 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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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.

I know I'll never be a guitar god so I don't try.
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FlySig
Posted 2009-01-09 10:59 AM (#434681 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?



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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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Designzilla
Posted 2009-01-09 12:35 PM (#434682 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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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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OldLiverJones
Posted 2009-01-09 1:09 PM (#434683 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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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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sard
Posted 2009-01-11 11:19 AM (#434684 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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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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sligoman
Posted 2009-01-11 11:55 AM (#434685 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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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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IanS
Posted 2009-01-11 3:03 PM (#434686 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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No, can't hold a note.
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FlySig
Posted 2009-01-11 3:51 PM (#434687 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?



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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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Mark in Boise
Posted 2009-01-11 8:47 PM (#434688 - in reply to #434619)
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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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Joe Rotax
Posted 2009-01-11 11:20 PM (#434689 - in reply to #434619)
Subject: Re: Anybody Here NOT Sing?


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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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