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I can sing badly, does that count?

Title says all.

Can you actually sing? If you can, what method do you use, and which voice register do you sing in?

Can you actually sing? yes. how well is up to debate tho.
If you can, what method do you use,the same as everyone else... with my vocal cords. and which voice register do you sing in?nothing ear... err... glass shattering.

I do go Karaoke'ing with my friends alot.

Like a bird. And by that I mean I can cause loss of sleep.

I can sing badly, does that count?

Thread stealer...

I can sing, but I haven't done it seriously enough to know the answer to your other questions.

I sing like an angel.

I sing in a classic choral/musical play style. I can sing both Baritone and Tenor

I've been known to sing, but I don't know anything about singing.

Title says all.

Can you actually sing? If you can, what method do you use, and which voice register do you sing in?

Some people say I can, some say I can't. As for register, I'm somewhere between a bass and a tenor.

I like to sing Queen songs but I really can't. All my friends complain about my horrid singing voice!:p

I used to sing in a chorus; I sang First Soprano or Second Soprano depending on what the director needed, and in a pinch, Alto.

Not sure if I can sing or not, and I refuse to torment others by trying.

Not sure if I can sing or not, and I refuse to torment others by trying.

They don't have to listen if they don't want to.

I can sing badly, does that count?

Me, too! What a coincidence!

I've never tried to sing seriously, so I wouldn't know, maybe I'm an undiscovered talent? :eek:

Thread stealer...
I gots mad thread stealin skillz, yo.
I sing like an angel.

While dancing on the head of a pin?

I gots mad thread stealin skillz, yo.


While dancing on the head of a pin?

Nope, too crowded.:D

Can I sing? Yep, sure. Now the real question is how well...

I sing like an angel.

Of the fallen variety I presume?

Hell no.

Unless I'm drunk. And a word of warning, if there's a Singstar game around at that time, you'd better evacuate the premises.

Ive sang semi professionally for years...have been a session singer for over 10 years and have sang on several underground soul/dance albums...ive also released music with my old band the Late Risers

So in answer to your question...yeah I can sing ;):cool:

I suppose I can sing, although it's been a LOOOOONG time since I've had any kind of training. That would have been way back in middle school for me, and since I'm in my mid-30s now...well, yeah. I can sing along with a lot of songs, though, and I actually have a decent range (which I'm sure would expand if I took vocal lessons). I can probably sing anywhere from tenor to bass, although I suppose I'm more of a natural baritone. Of course, most of the songs I sing along with don't really feature trained vocalists, either....

I voted Yes/Male/Female Vocal Ranges.

Why? Because I can sing, and my range reaches from Bass (higher bass, not super-low; nearer to the Baritone level) to sky-high (19th Fret, High E string on the guitar). The only problem is filling in the gaps... I'm getting there, but my transitions from regular to falsetto aren't so great at the moment, not to mention I'm not yet done going through puberty, so I break up sometimes.

Overall, though, I have a pretty good Baritone singing voice. Think Freddie Mercury. Though I'm definitely not as polished. My music teachers back in grade school always said I had really great potential, and I guess they were right.

I can sing from soprano to tenor, but I am most comfortable singing alto (no effort).

I do sing well, with enough practice.

I can sing well enough to be good at karaoke :p I have a fairly wide range, but I'm most comfortable singing alto.

I sing Tenor in the choir at my church. I've also briefly sung in a secular chorus that did classical music.

--The Democratic States of Cogitation

I've been singing for the sheer pleasure of it since I was able to talk. I'm now a choral director and music professor at a small private university in the upper midwest of the US. I've sung jazz with Dianne Reeves, Mark Murphy, the Four Freshmen, Fifth Avenue, Anne Marie Moss, Kristin Korb and some others. I just played the role of Balthazar in my university's production of Amahl and the Night Visitors. I don't have a great voice, I have a versatile voice. You need an a cappella doo wop bass (The Bobs, The Coats, The Nylons), I can do that, including some basic vocal percussion. Vocal jazz? Any male part. Chorus? Any male part. Karaoke? Not so much -- all my favorite bands and singers are too high for me. I'm not a soloist -- I'm the consummate ensemble singer with excellent blend, intonation and diction.

As for method, my voice teachers tried everything from Alexander to Bel Canto. I can't be trained, apparently. Which is fine by me, as I've never wanted to be a classical soloist.

Yes. I used to sing both soprano and alto in choir.

BTW..why are the male vocals separated out too and not female? :p

Can I sing? Yep, sure. Now the real question is how well...



Of the fallen variety I presume?

*dons his Angel of Light costume*

Who, me?:cool:

We have a regular chorale competition, and the first time around I was the only one whose voice was deemed unclassifiable (read: not fit for singing :D). So he placed me at baritone (which, I assumed was a wastebasket classification), but I was alone there. Eventually I was plopped into the bass camp because we lack basses.

I sing alto/tenor. I have been told that If I never sang again the world would be a better place. Apparently my voice is weapon quality.

I sing alto/tenor. I have been told that If I never sang again the world would be a better place. Apparently my voice is weapon quality.
Then we can take over the world using our weapons of mass destruction! :D

Me, too! What a coincidence!

What about those of us who like the way you sing? ;)

As rumour has it, yes.
Gig'n this wknd.

not only no but hell no not worth a dam.

but i can play a variety of musical instruments and read sheet music.

from time to time when i get arround to practicing enough and have one to practice on, damd good too. (well ok, almost reasonably good, but i did ok in band in highschool)

oddly enough most of the music i care to listen to is nonvocal as well.
or if vocal, actually preferably in some language i'm not familiar with.
like nepali or tuva or yanimara or something.

most singing seems to be about human personal relationships. most of what i'm interested in is about the kind of world we all have to live in and about mechanical things and little furry nonhumans.

=^^=
.../\...

I rarely sing. If I do sing, I either sing in a low register, or badly. Mostly, I stick to flute playing, it's better for everyone listening.

Why yes, I can!

In fact, I used to be a "singer", in a few garage bands. Now, I play guitar and sing.
Course, I smoke a lot these days too, so its not as easy as it used to be.
Soon, I shall be done working on a 4-5 song album, and maybe even press out a few copies. When I do, I shall whore it dutifully.

I can sing, but I haven't done it seriously enough to know the answer to your other questions.

Same, yeah.

Couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.

I sing bass in a Cambridge chapel choir, so reasonably competent. My range is quite deep, C2 - E4 at max (without going into falsetto at the top, though a bit strained). Mostly classical, though I've done a fair bit of barbershop and some jazz. I'm an ensemble singer, not a soloist.

Does growl count?

I sing bass in a Cambridge chapel choir, so reasonably competent. My range is quite deep, C2 - E4 at max (without going into falsetto at the top, though a bit strained). Mostly classical, though I've done a fair bit of barbershop and some jazz. I'm an ensemble singer, not a soloist.

C2? Nice. That gets you into all the choirs that program Russian music...some Gabrieli, too.

I sing soprano in our youth choir, and take singing lessons.

I guess I'm pretty good, so, yeah.:D

People say I have a deep, soothing voice, but those compliments evaporate the moment I start singing.

So no, no I can't.

C2? Nice. That gets you into all the choirs that program Russian music...some Gabrieli, too.

Well, like I said, on a good day. Or if I've got a cold :D

I suppose I could be a sub-bass specialist, it's what I did in my old barbershop group: sang 1st normally unless there was a really low part. Still, producing good loudness down there is rather taxing. As well as holding the same note for a whole piece, ala Tavener's Song for Athene which we did last term and on tour. Awesome piece, but quite dull for basses.

So what have people been singing recently, other than carols (though if you know of some unusual and good ones, let us know)?

I sang in chorus at school from 7th grade through 10th grade and I sang first soprano then. I don't sing much anymore.

Title says all.

Can you actually sing? If you can, what method do you use, and which voice register do you sing in?

Yep I can, it's just horrible.

I sing (http://media.putfile.com/Nikiwapamaw-44).

Dunno much more about it than that though.

Hell no. Irony is though, I'm the lead singer in my band... :eek:

I sing (http://media.putfile.com/Nikiwapamaw-44).

Dunno much more about it than that though.

Is that really you? Hay-zeus...

Meant to post this ages ago but may as well now I've found the thread again...

Yes, I sing. Now the details, in actually not as much pedantic detail as I'd like... though still enough to scare half the thread probably, lol.

First started lessons in October 2006, having considered them for several years but not actually doing so. (I was 20 at this point.) Teacher was your common-or-garden 'teaching technique derived from general classical singing practice and applying them to pop and musical theatre', albeit with no lack of variety in this field. Well, as much variety as was reasonable with my not-that-suited-to-pop range: the most pessimistic definition would be G2-D4, although F2 became more consistent to the point of usability as the teacher, rather enamoured with my low notes as she was, disproportionately focused on them, and given time E2 might have done as well. But in that time, I suspect I could have expanded my range the other way rather more, for it is apparently easier to stretch one's range up than down. Not that this was the approach of said teacher, as we just didn't try stretching upwards after a while. She pigeonholed me as a bass; maybe correctly, but it became self-fulfilling prophecy.

And, as a singer-songwriter, I didn't want to be constrained like that, and particularly objected to her dogmatic rejection of falsetto. (I quote: 'men shouldn't sing in falsetto'. This was after she let me warm up in that range, which extended up to about Bb4 then and maybe a little more now; I've warmed up to C#5, but wouldn't write anything higher than Bb4 for myself.)

Found new teacher, got on with her relatively well especially at first, but quickly decided my priorities were in piano and composition, and decided not to renew the four-week contract I had with her. Although if I won a game show (I don't play the lottery) then I probably would resume with her... it was more a perception of bang-per-buck, or as us economists put it the marginal utility of each lesson relative to its marginal cost.

As I enter 2008, I'd say I have managed to extend my lower register up reliably to Eb4 if not E4, and I've smoothed out the break into falsetto at least a little.

I'm in a choir, in which I'll join the undermanned tenors from time to time (something made possible by the trends mentioned in the last paragraph) and sing bass otherwise; we're a pretty small informal bunch, 30-40 of us at most, and if we specialise in one thing it is probably musical theatre - we've got SATB adaptations of For Good, For Now (and if you think it's confusing enough for everyone else, I'm singing tenor for the former and bass for the latter!), Love Changes Everything and two pieces from The Lion King whose names I can't recall. Also we're doing an SATB arrangement of Hallelujah (probably about the 590th different arrangement of said song), Pachelbel's Canon in D and, erm, this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=GuyaVcqTgic). By popular request, apparently. There's also a significant chance I'll be able to get a solo, which'll almost certainly be something I've written, and I'm writing a small group a capella piece for two soprani and two altos that'll be performed in the same concert (in May).

I might join the musical theatre group on a more regular basis to sing in its chorus (I'm auditioning for one of its productions - a musical written by the director of the aforementioned choir - tonight, with zero expectations of getting in but plenty of hope for a valuable experience) and I'm hoping to write more for my own voice soon, possibly.

Yeaaah...

Oh, I voted baritone. I identify myself more as that than as bass, even if it might not be strictly accurate... I've been called both, and really I have little time for pigeonholing. I merely look at what I can('t) do in a very Boolean manner, and use that as the sample space of things-I-can-put-in-songs-for-self. Ditto any other individual I write for.

Well, judging from the fact that in grade seven two of my classmates literally dragged me off with them to choir practice after hearing me sing, I'd say yes.
I'm naturally an alto, but can do enough soprano notes to be able to play the part if the sopranos are short.
As for method, I, um, vibrate my vocal chords and expel air?

I sing (http://media.putfile.com/Nikiwapamaw-44).

Dunno much more about it than that though.

I wanna know what language that's in!
(And btw, you sing really really well)

I can sing, I can scream and I can growl so low it would make Chris Barnes jealous. I just can't do inhales, but pig squeals are fucking lame.

Geez, some of you people are braggarts.

That being said, I am by far the best singer on these boards, and probably in the entire world. And I say that with the utmost humility.

I can't but my wife is classically trained.

A Contralto in fact.

Nope. My singing voice is really quite awful.:(

Nope. Does it stop me? Hell no.

No i can't sing very well, i can sing loud but not in tune, it's not a pleeesannnt sound.

I can sing any part from baritone through soprano I. Oh, and I'm female.
Mostly I sing for the church now in choir; I usually sing alto, as it is my most comfortable range.

Well, people occasionally pay me for it, so they must think I sing reasonably well. :p

I jokingly call myself a "sopraltonor," because I'm regularly asked to sing everything from Sop 1 to Tenor 2; I'm generally classified as a natural mezzo, but I tend to think of myself most as an alto. I've sung every part but bass at some point or another. I have a few choirs I work with regularly as a "swing" (my term), which is to say that I get assigned to whatever part needs more support on a given piece, or as an emergency fill-in, which is to say that I'm not technically a member of the choir, but I become one for one or two rehearsals and a concert whenever somebody gets sick/quits/whatever; one of those choirs also uses me whenever they need an alto soloist, which is fun. I'm a choral junkie at heart, but singing solos is good for variety.

Fair dos - I swear bash.org did (but no longer does) have a quote with someone who flitted between parts in choir likening themselves to a utility player in baseball.

Because I stand behind everyone else in our choir (which is lined up such that the females are at the front, the males are at the back, and the higher section of each are to the director's left/our right and vice versa) in order to part-swap more readily (and also so that I can head out very easily if it all gets too much for me, which with my hypersensitivity it quite conceivably can unless I wear my earplugs), I liken my position to a 'sweeper' in soccer (who stands behind the defence in the centre). Though I suppose, if you consider a male/female, infield/outfield analogy for baseball, I'm a utility infielder.

...though apparently I went up to G4 (i.e. a minor third higher than I thought the 'breaking point' in my voice was) in my audition tonight. O_o I'm pretty sure that's actually just the break into falsetto being very much smoother than normal...

I wanna know what language that's in!
(And btw, you sing really really well)

It's Cree and thankya.

I can hum. I like humming instrumental songs like classical music.

I sing (http://media.putfile.com/Nikiwapamaw-44).

Dunno much more about it than that though.
Very cool! :)

no, although i sing to myself often while i work and people ask me to sing-up, as it were. i can't sing for an audience, that's for sure. i prefer whistling.

I can growl slightly... it´s on the border between grunt and growl though, and I get a sore throat doing it :/
So... I guess I can sing, albeit in a way that most people doesn´t like.

my best answer is "you really don't want to know", and if you ever did you would never ask again. i have what is called a "tin ear". i can read sheet music. i can tune an instrument to match pitch with another by listning for the beat frequency, but i can't pick up tonal sequence from listning, only rythmic phraising. so i can play from a printed score any instrument i have tecnical skill in, but you really really REALLY don't want to hear what happens when i attempt to sing. let me put this another way: what i hear inside my head, sounds waaaaay different then what i hear on any recording media when i play it back.

=^^=
.../\...

I can growl slightly... it´s on the border between grunt and growl though, and I get a sore throat doing it :/
So... I guess I can sing, albeit in a way that most people doesn´t like.

If it hurts, you can't do it.

I don't think so, but I've never heard myself sing without the interference from my head. That sounds alright to me but from what I know of how my actual voice sounds it wouldn't sound very good to everyone else.

Title says all.

Can you actually sing? If you can, what method do you use, and which voice register do you sing in?

Yes, I can.

I use singing method and I have no idea or understanding about registers.

I just open my mouth and sound come out.