Rye
11-22-2006, 09:55 PM
Today in Honors Choir/Chorale/Chamber Singers/whatever you call the select awesomesauce singing groups, I had an embarassing moment. First though, you will learn choir stuff to explain the situation. Bare with me, mmmkay? Or skip if you're a weenie to the topic. ;_;
You see, we're doing a jazz rendition of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", and for that, we're split beyond just the normal SATB (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) line up. We have the sopranos split into Soprano 1s and Soprano 2s. Soprano 1s do the very high notes, like the High G's, High A's, High B's, High C's, etc, that even most girls can't hit. I'm a soprano 1. The soprano 2s have the odd notes between the Sop 1s and the Altos, but nothing out of the range of any soprano. In this song, there are A LOT of descant-ish (the high lines sung by a few sop 1 chicks usually to top off a song) lines.
Anyways, since higher pitched sounds are heard more above lower pitched sounds, the number of soprano 1s are limited to about 5-6 girls in the choir. And also... since we're mostly 15-17 year old chicks, very few girls can hit those very high notes with aplomb and strength. Today, however, a lot of people were out, so only 2 other soprano 1s were in besides me, both of which were younger and not loud at all.
And at this time, the teacher happened to decide to have us sing this one particular phrase "dance boots" which for the sop 1s is a high G or A, which is not a difficult note for me, but is very high, and I was practically the only one singing it. And to make things worse, as we're in mixed allignment (as in, sopranos are not with sopranos, tenors not with tenors, etc) and I was stuck next to all altos and tenorettes (chicks who sing tenor, normally the higher register male part) which have low notes so I wanted to shoot myself. Then the teacher, made just the soprano 1s sing the dreaded "DANCIN' BOOOOOOOOT" again. And again. And again. And again. I was like, bright red for embarassment, since the other girls would not sing! >:[ People said I did fantastic, but gosh! I ended up hiding my face in my hands after since I was so embarassed. xD I don't have much of a problem singing by myself, but such a high note. ;_;
I guess I'm lucky though that this was one of my most embarrassing moments this year, it's not even that bad. xD
Anyways, topic: Name any embarassing in-class moments you've had lately?
You see, we're doing a jazz rendition of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", and for that, we're split beyond just the normal SATB (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) line up. We have the sopranos split into Soprano 1s and Soprano 2s. Soprano 1s do the very high notes, like the High G's, High A's, High B's, High C's, etc, that even most girls can't hit. I'm a soprano 1. The soprano 2s have the odd notes between the Sop 1s and the Altos, but nothing out of the range of any soprano. In this song, there are A LOT of descant-ish (the high lines sung by a few sop 1 chicks usually to top off a song) lines.
Anyways, since higher pitched sounds are heard more above lower pitched sounds, the number of soprano 1s are limited to about 5-6 girls in the choir. And also... since we're mostly 15-17 year old chicks, very few girls can hit those very high notes with aplomb and strength. Today, however, a lot of people were out, so only 2 other soprano 1s were in besides me, both of which were younger and not loud at all.
And at this time, the teacher happened to decide to have us sing this one particular phrase "dance boots" which for the sop 1s is a high G or A, which is not a difficult note for me, but is very high, and I was practically the only one singing it. And to make things worse, as we're in mixed allignment (as in, sopranos are not with sopranos, tenors not with tenors, etc) and I was stuck next to all altos and tenorettes (chicks who sing tenor, normally the higher register male part) which have low notes so I wanted to shoot myself. Then the teacher, made just the soprano 1s sing the dreaded "DANCIN' BOOOOOOOOT" again. And again. And again. And again. I was like, bright red for embarassment, since the other girls would not sing! >:[ People said I did fantastic, but gosh! I ended up hiding my face in my hands after since I was so embarassed. xD I don't have much of a problem singing by myself, but such a high note. ;_;
I guess I'm lucky though that this was one of my most embarrassing moments this year, it's not even that bad. xD
Anyways, topic: Name any embarassing in-class moments you've had lately?