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Anybody Here NOT Sing?
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CanterburyStrings |
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Joined: March 2008 Posts: 2683 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. | ||
MusicMishka |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 5563 Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Originally posted by Gallerinski: 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: 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. Played a darn fine slide guitar anyway... | ||
Slipkid |
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Joined: September 2003 Posts: 9301 Location: south east Michigan | I'd trade my singing voice for Schroeders in a New York second if I could play guitar like Temp. | ||
twistedlim |
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Joined: November 2008 Posts: 1119 Location: Michigan | I sing but there are many that wish I did not. :) | ||
stephent28 |
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Joined: April 2004 Posts: 13303 Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Ohhhhh SNAP, Clive I think you just slammed really hard. | ||
Weaser P |
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Joined: October 2005 Posts: 5327 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.) | ||
Mark in Boise |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12750 Location: Boise, Idaho | If the picture that Cliff posted is any indication, if Temp sang, it would be soprano. | ||
schroeder |
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Joined: November 2004 Posts: 4413 | I have no idea how long a New York second is. I have no idea about most things these days. | ||
BT717 |
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Joined: October 2007 Posts: 2711 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 ;) | ||
Slipkid |
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Joined: September 2003 Posts: 9301 Location: south east Michigan | I thought it meant "very fast". I should know better than to use sayings outside my own region. | ||
cliff |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842 Location: NJ | The correct term is a "New York Minute". Wanna' know how LONG it is?? . . . wanna' know AGAIN?? | ||
an4340 |
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Joined: May 2003 Posts: 4389 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. I know I'll never be a guitar god so I don't try. | ||
FlySig |
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Joined: October 2005 Posts: 4025 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. | ||
Designzilla |
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Joined: December 2004 Posts: 2150 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. | ||
OldLiverJones |
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Joined: October 2005 Posts: 803 Location: Avondale, AZ | Originally posted by BT717: 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.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! :) | ||
sard |
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Joined: June 2008 Posts: 27 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 | ||
sligoman |
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Joined: October 2007 Posts: 283 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. | ||
IanS |
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Joined: June 2006 Posts: 106 Location: UK | No, can't hold a note. | ||
FlySig |
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Joined: October 2005 Posts: 4025 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. | ||
Mark in Boise |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12750 Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by sligoman: Yep. The spelling makes about as much sense as Favre.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. | ||
Joe Rotax |
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Joined: February 2008 Posts: 747 | Originally posted by FlySig: I think that can be part of it or, for some people, all of it. Plug one ear and then you'll hear yourself.I wonder if some of us have trouble hearing ourselves properly, which aggravates our pitch problems. | ||
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