Do you have a good singing voice?

[Classik]

Yes, I'd like to hear.

Wait a second. I must hear it first

 

[WIP]

I can do okay. I think the ability to sing on key is one of the gifts God has given me although I use it mostly for Him. I also sing in a men's gospel choir. In the church choir I sing the tenor part and in the men's gospel choir I sing the 2nd tenor part which usually is the melody. I am often asked to sing solos in both groups. At first I was very apprehensive about it but if I concentrate on singing the message contained in the music I find God keeps the jitters under control. I also sing the lead part in a quartet that was formed out of our men's group. Recently, a neighboring church asked me to sing the tenor part in a SATB quartet. A couple years ago I was asked to sing tenor for a concert choir that was put together in a neighboring town about 10 miles away. I agreed maybe a littel too hastily because when I arrived at our first practice I learned we were performing 8 movements from Handel's Messiah. Yikes! Even the bass part of his music is high for tenors and my range didn't go quite that high so I did find a couple places where I was reaching quite a bit. It was fun though and I loved it.

 

[farouk]

The trick is doing it without your normal vocal cords. But that's not so easy, humans automatically activate them when making words.


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Claudya:

I know what you mean; it's a kind of deeply breathed, rasping sound, which is similar to the voiced pharyngeal fricative.

Do you maybe practise in front of a mirror when you try hard rock / heavy metal lyrics?

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

Claudya:

I know what you mean; it's a kind of deeply breathed, rasping sound, which is similar to the voiced pharyngeal fricative.

:o Can we say "fricative" on CF.net?

 

[farouk]

:o Can we say "fricative" on CF.net?

It's a recognized phonetic term among professional linguists. (I'm not sure what you were thinking of.)

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

It's a recognized phonetic term among professional linguists. (I'm not sure what you were thinking of.)

I'm thinking I made a joke and it failed miserably.

 

[Classik]

Can anyone here comfortably do Handel's Halleluyah???

 

[farouk]

Can anyone here comfortably do Handel's Halleluyah???

Umm, no.

 

[Classik]

:toofunny You can. How? Rehearse it

 

[Claudya]

Can anyone here comfortably do Handel's Halleluyah???

Only the alto part.

 

[farouk]

The trick is doing it without your normal vocal cords. ...

Claudya:

Kind of a breathing, rasping sound, that really needs to be practised, right?

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

The trick is doing it without your normal vocal cords.

But I don't have any abnormal ones, so what do I do?

 

[Classik]

Only the alto part.

Really? Interesting. Something dreadful about the chorous thing is, it has awful registers

 

[Classik]

One of the ways to test your ability (i.e for newbies)...after say, 4 months of serious training is to try songs like Beauty and the Beast: Celine Dion. If a male and a female can do this very well, then: WELCOME TO THE GLOBE OF MUSIC. This is just a step tho....there are more complex ones

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

One of the ways to test your ability (i.e for newbies)...after say, 4 months of serious training is to try songs like Beauty and the Beast: Celine Dion. If a male and a female can do this very well, then: WELCOME TO THE GLOBE OF MUSIC. This is just a step tho....there are more complex ones

Best have 'em start with "may mee mah moh moo" first.

:toofunny

 

[Classik]

Best have 'em start with "may mee mah moh moo" first.

:toofunny

:toofunny :toofunny :biglol :biglol

 

[Classik]

And when they mature introduce them to the world of Kirk Franklin

 

[farouk]

One of the ways to test your ability (i.e for newbies)...after say, 4 months of serious training is to try songs like Beauty and the Beast: Celine Dion. If a male and a female can do this very well, then: WELCOME TO THE GLOBE OF MUSIC. This is just a step tho....there are more complex ones

Celine Dion has a good voice (she's from up here, actually). I love her rendition of O Holy Night.

Mind you, I really do think Madonna has a great voice. Don't always like her songs, (least of all, some of the accompanying videos).

 

[Deborah13]

One of the ways to test your ability (i.e for newbies)...after say, 4 months of serious training is to try songs like Beauty and the Beast: Celine Dion. If a male and a female can do this very well, then: WELCOME TO THE GLOBE OF MUSIC. This is just a step tho....there are more complex ones

I can't but my youngest daughter can beautifully. She competed in high school by sending a demo (one of hundreds) to a college here in CO. She was one of 60 selected to sing at the college with the women's choir for a special appreciatiion concert for the CO firefighters. They sang songs in Japanese, French, and Spanish. Her demo was in Italian and she doesn't speak Italian. She sings 'I Will Always Love You' Whitney Houston, almost as well as Whitney did.

Right now she is taking first year Bible college class, next year she'll go on campus for the second year, and the third year will be for Praise and Worship Music.

 

[Classik]

Celine Dion has a good voice (she's from up here, actually). I love her rendition of O Holy Night.

Mind you, I really do think Madonna has a great voice. Don't always like her songs, (least of all, some of the accompanying videos).

Yes - and she's got this great singing pitch. Brandy is superb, Maria Carey is fantastic, W. Houston etc...

One of the ways to learn and improve is: buy and play stuff