Singing

[Rye]

I've seen a few musical instrument threads, but no singing ones. Does anyone here enjoy singing? Do you sing in a choir or go to any singing competition of sorts?

I love singing. It's a beautiful feeling, to sing. I used to be in a choir last year, but Mom pretty much nagged me into taking art classes because she believes I have some crazy talent in art which I really don't. I like drawing, but I prefer to sing much more. I think she just doesn't like me singing. Also, I used to take singing lessons but Mom stopped bringing me one day, another sign she just doesn't like me to sing. :/

I've been to a singing sort of competition. It's not really a competiton, but basically you have a few months to memorize a song, then you go into to a local school or something and perform it to a judge and get scored. I did that last year for the first time. My singing teacher told me to skip level 1 and take level 2 (the highest is level 4) and I was a point away from going to level 3, but I was really nervous and forgot a line! xD I was happy with how I did though.

Anyways, do you sing and if you can, will you post a file of you singing?

[Necronopticous]

I sing Utada Hikaru songs in my car all the time and there is no way you're getting an audio file of it.

[612904398619]

i sing along when i hear a good song or play my guitar or just plain bored.

[boris no no]

i love to sing but i'm really really rubbish!!i mean it!! i sing in a monotone voice!
i still sing at the top of my voice! much to the annoyence of my family!
if you've got the talent do it! i wish i could!

[Kossage]

I enjoy singing very much. It's relaxing and nice, and by singing I can make a lot of people happy. I'm not bad at singing but I don't consider myself to be an awesome singer either (although some people do). And girls like it when I sing some ballads to them, so singing has its perks.

[LIVE4THEMOMENT]

I simply sing when I'm listening to songs/groups I like the thing is I have a very deep voice so I can't sing stuff such as Amy Lee's music without sounding odd

[612904398619]

you can sing one of frank sinatras songs.

[sascha]

I love to sing.(hence the signature lol!) I get lessons and I've been doing the whole performing thing since I was 3. Talking of singing competitions you reminded me that I've got a festival soon and I'm crapping myself- time to forget my words! The only thing I have of me singing is a short clip that lasts 6 seconds long of the beginning of Evanescence-Imaginary. You know the bit Amy Lee sings right at the beginning before the song actually starts? I don't know if that's ok.

[Rye]

Yeah, I know that part. *crazy insane Evanescence fan*

[sascha]

*crazy insane Evanescence fan*

Yeah same here. I don't think I'm me anymore... I think it's half amy lee nah just kidding.... Nearly everything I sing now is Evanescence. I bought my pianist friend the book so I could sing with it and it's great.

[Dingo Jellybean]

I use to sing...for a short while. Like a 1.5-2 months. After realizing how bad I was at it, I quit. It also doesn't help that I sometimes have something stuck in my throat. Like an infection or something, I've tried taking medicine, but it never helps. So annoying.

So even if I had the time and motivation to sing, I couldn't.

However, I do remember hitting a few notes on R.Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly. Even when I first started...or at least that's what my ears thought. Man, I would have loved to record it and listen to myself...I swear...I hit the right notes! Or at least some of them...and that was when I was beginning.

I always liked R&B/Soul music because of the incredible singing the musicians possess. R.Kelly, Alicia Keys, Joss Stone, and Michael McDonald...those guys are just _SO_FRIGGIN_TALENTED. Especially Michael McDonald, that guy must have came from the gospel, because he can just belt it out. People who sing in the gospel, they are just so heavenly when they sing...I can almost feel their emotion...but eh.

But then I quickly turned my attention to the piano. I guess my long fingers were better suited for the piano instead of my crappy voice.

[sascha]

I found my six second voice file hiding. It's kind of crap it's all I really have but anyway.. here's my voice singing the first little bit of Imaginary (although I listened to my c.d and actually realised she sings what sounds like "aah" and i sing "oh" so ok)

[Rye]

Wow, that was good. I have files of me singing parts of songs on some quick little site I made cause Geocities wouldn't let me post just the songs on LJ or anything else. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, so sorry if it doesn't. :o

Singing files.

[sascha]

You've got really good potential in there. I especially noted in Broken you didn't strain up to the high notes in a chest voice which a lot of people do. For points to work on I think I thought you had to work on holding your vowels on but I'm not sure now since I went back and Geocities screwed up. I thought other stuff too but I can't check lol

[Rye]

Thanks! I'll work on that. I always have troubles with pronounciation when I sing, like ending my sentences crisp and not ending with an "uh" like Michelle Branch when she sings.

One day I need to buy my own hosting server so I don't have to rely on the evil Geocities.