I want to sing.

[SagaLore]

This is an odd urge that has been growing. I want to sing.

But I can't sing. I don't have a great voice (I cringe when I hear myself on a recording), I'm never on key, I can't remember words.

Anybody else ever feel like this?

 

[IronWing]

Never stopped me.

 

[Jawo]

welcome to the club....I played in school bands for a decade and still can't sing in tune!

 

[IronWing]

Ya just gotta do it.

Sing, sing a song, sing out loud, sing out strong.
It doesn't matter if it's not good enough for anyone else to hear, just sing, sing a song.
Na na ah na na, na na ah na na, na na nana na....

 

[waggy]

I love ot sing. to bad i sound worse then a cat that was ran over with a lawnmower..slowly.

not that i sound goo dany time. i been told i sound like a pre-teen girl on the phone =(

 

[mallik]

Text

 

[compuwiz1]

Just get in the shower, and you will sound like a million bux. It's worked for me, for years.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

:music:
Be a good boy
Try a little harder
You've got to measure up
And make me prouder
:music:

We'll love you...just the way you are...if you are perfect.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

I think singing is more about hearing than anything else... Im not a singer though (have horrible voice for singing) but I am great at figuring out which notes go together etc its all about hearing the song in your head, feeling the rhythm... thats my opinion at least

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: mallik
Text

LOL!

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Na na ah na na, na na ah na na, na na nana na....

SHE'S GOT THE LOOK!

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Just get in the shower, and you will sound like a million bux. It's worked for me, for years.

I only play with my instrument in the shower.

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Just get in the shower, and you will sound like a million bux. It's worked for me, for years.

I only play with my instrument in the shower.

I know, it's your soap, your instrument, and you will play it just as slow or fast as you want.

 

[djheater]

Singing takes practice. Kids who are encouraged to listen to music and sing with a group will fare better at it later, but nearly anyone without a tin ear (and a true tin ear affects a small percentage) should be able to learn how with lessons.

<---Can sing fairly well, years and years of chorus.

 

[ScottFern]

Didn't stop Sanjaya.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Just get in the shower, and you will sound like a million bux. It's worked for me, for years.

Ripped from Schlock Mercenary (a darn good comic BTW):

Note: As any audio engineer can tell you, shower acoustics are a result of resonant frequencies within the range of the fundamentals being sung. If you start with a one- by one- by two-point-five-meter shower stall, and cover it with tile (which reflects roughly 98% of the acoustic energy striking it) the whole thing can be considered at first as an organ pipe two-point-five meters long. The lowest fundamental frequency can be computed by taking the speed of sound (call it 340 meters/sec) and dividing it by twice the pipe length. In this example, 340/(2.5*2) gives us 68 cycles per second. In equal-tempered piano tuning that is the C# two octaves below middle C (C2#), or close enough to it for an oboist, at any rate.

But it doesn't stop there -- the harmonic series continues at two, three, four, and five times the fundamental (and beyond, into infinite inaudibility) - a C3#, a really flat G3#, a sickly C4#, and a blue note between E4 and F4 that will make the dogs howl. A shower baritone who hits that first C2# just right (or rather who MISSES it just right) will get all the rest of those notes as harmonic accompaniment, although at much lower amplitudes.

And we're STILL not done. The transverse vibrational modes are functions of those one meter dimensions, providing us with fundamental resonances on a blue F3, F4, an almost C5, and so on. Again, these are frequencies at which, when the singer in question sings them, the sound waves will reflect in phase such that they amplify each other rather than cancelling each other out.

The flip-side to all this is that there are out-of-phase, non-resonant frequencies as well -- notes which, when sung, seem to disappear completely.

All of this means that as much as you may like the sound you get in the shower, anyone with a half-trained ear can tell that you sound terrible, and the shower is rewarding you for missing notes and singing the worst ones as loud as you can.

Incidentally, Commodore Shufgar's species has very acute hearing, as well as aural triggers in the erogenous nodes of what, for lack of a better term, we shall call the "pleasure center" of the brain. Given the right dimensions, they REALLY like singing in the shower.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

:music:
disappointed faces of your peers
Oh oh oh
Take a look at me 'cause I could not care at all
Do or die
You?ll never make me
Because the world will never take my (heart)
Go and try; you?ll never break me
We want it all, we want to play this (part)
I won?t explain, or say I?m sorry
I?m not ashamed, I?m gonna show my (scar)
Give a cheer, for all the broken
Listen here, because it?s who we are
I'm just a man; I'm not a hero
Just a boy, whose meant to sing this (song)
I'm just a man; I'm not a hero
I
Don't
Care

We'll carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on
And though your broken and defeated
Your weary widow marches on
:music:

 

[WildHorse]

I want to sing.But I can't

Pleeezzz don't practice near me

 

[IronWing]

Remember, music sounds better when it's loud. So try singing louder and see if that improves things.

 

[KarmaPolice]

get a coach or take lessons. I believe that people are born with good voices but you can get a lot better if you take lessons.


I REALLY SUCK that singing..

thats why i play the sax....

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Just get in the shower, and you will sound like a million bux. It's worked for me, for years.

Ripped from Schlock Mercenary (a darn good comic BTW):

Note: As any audio engineer can tell you, shower acoustics are a result of resonant frequencies within the range of the fundamentals being sung. If you start with a one- by one- by two-point-five-meter shower stall, and cover it with tile (which reflects roughly 98% of the acoustic energy striking it) the whole thing can be considered at first as an organ pipe two-point-five meters long. The lowest fundamental frequency can be computed by taking the speed of sound (call it 340 meters/sec) and dividing it by twice the pipe length. In this example, 340/(2.5*2) gives us 68 cycles per second. In equal-tempered piano tuning that is the C# two octaves below middle C (C2#), or close enough to it for an oboist, at any rate.

But it doesn't stop there -- the harmonic series continues at two, three, four, and five times the fundamental (and beyond, into infinite inaudibility) - a C3#, a really flat G3#, a sickly C4#, and a blue note between E4 and F4 that will make the dogs howl. A shower baritone who hits that first C2# just right (or rather who MISSES it just right) will get all the rest of those notes as harmonic accompaniment, although at much lower amplitudes.

And we're STILL not done. The transverse vibrational modes are functions of those one meter dimensions, providing us with fundamental resonances on a blue F3, F4, an almost C5, and so on. Again, these are frequencies at which, when the singer in question sings them, the sound waves will reflect in phase such that they amplify each other rather than cancelling each other out.

The flip-side to all this is that there are out-of-phase, non-resonant frequencies as well -- notes which, when sung, seem to disappear completely.

All of this means that as much as you may like the sound you get in the shower, anyone with a half-trained ear can tell that you sound terrible, and the shower is rewarding you for missing notes and singing the worst ones as loud as you can.

Incidentally, Commodore Shufgar's species has very acute hearing, as well as aural triggers in the erogenous nodes of what, for lack of a better term, we shall call the "pleasure center" of the brain. Given the right dimensions, they REALLY like singing in the shower.

Thanks for posting that. It's a pretty cool explanation, actually.