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[aubreynoramarie]

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There's another of my favorites and made for folks with voices like mine. I guess it's a matter of perspective what is easy or hard for one person to another! Singing soul or jazz music is like breathing for me.

I love that. I soooo want to hear you!

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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Geez, Crazy seems so easy to me. What I mostly meant about it being easy to sing is, it's easy for fans to sing along with. Country music is usually clearly sung so that the listener can tell what the words are and I've heard many songs where no matter how many times I replay I can't figure out what they are saying til I download the lyrics. Fans like music they can at least hum along with and some music is just not user friendly. Take opera for instance. May take a lot more talent to perform than us average Joes can handle and I admire the abilty of a really great opera singer but am I gonna be singing opera when I'm in the shower? No I'd rather sing "Let's Give 'em Somethin to Talk About" any day!

Sorry Lacey, that song is a bit too high for me but if it is brought down a couple steps or more I'd be willing to try it. My voice is nothing like her's though so you'd probably be dissapointed anyway. I sing more like Liza Manelli, Cher or Patsy Cline. I also have been likened to Peggy Lee, Janis Joplin or Bette Midler. It really depends on the song I'm singing but no singer can do everything well. Anyone who says they can is a liar.

I think it depends on what your voice is suited to as to what's easy to sing. My voice is similar to the link Lacey posted. My first vocal coach was a retired opera teacher so my training was very formal. We did share a love for Barbra Streisand so I sang a lot of her songs in training. Once I learned to control my voice and we started working on songs I was performing we had some good laughs while she learned to understand country music. Then when I was learning to play guitar I learned all the old county because my teacher was a performer from that era. Still love Silver Wings and although I haven't performed in years, still warmed up with the technique from my opera based vocal coach. She also has some great stories about stars back in her day.

My vocal coach also taught me a phrase in Italian (which I can't remember anymore) but it basically said that the song was not suited to my voice. I was to say that when someone wanted me to sing something that wouldn't compliment my voice. She was a kick!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I think that is so cool. I know nothing about opera and I soooo wish I did because I find it absolutely fascinating.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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There's another of my favorites and made for folks with voices like mine. I guess it's a matter of perspective what is easy or hard for one person to another! Singing soul or jazz music is like breathing for me.

I love that. I soooo want to hear you!

Well then, as soon as we get the coop up, let's get together! We'll bring food.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Geez, Crazy seems so easy to me. What I mostly meant about it being easy to sing is, it's easy for fans to sing along with. Country music is usually clearly sung so that the listener can tell what the words are and I've heard many songs where no matter how many times I replay I can't figure out what they are saying til I download the lyrics. Fans like music they can at least hum along with and some music is just not user friendly. Take opera for instance. May take a lot more talent to perform than us average Joes can handle and I admire the abilty of a really great opera singer but am I gonna be singing opera when I'm in the shower? No I'd rather sing "Let's Give 'em Somethin to Talk About" any day!

Sorry Lacey, that song is a bit too high for me but if it is brought down a couple steps or more I'd be willing to try it. My voice is nothing like her's though so you'd probably be dissapointed anyway. I sing more like Liza Manelli, Cher or Patsy Cline. I also have been likened to Peggy Lee, Janis Joplin or Bette Midler. It really depends on the song I'm singing but no singer can do everything well. Anyone who says they can is a liar.

I think it depends on what your voice is suited to as to what's easy to sing. My voice is similar to the link Lacey posted. My first vocal coach was a retired opera teacher so my training was very formal. We did share a love for Barbra Streisand so I sang a lot of her songs in training. Once I learned to control my voice and we started working on songs I was performing we had some good laughs while she learned to understand country music. Then when I was learning to play guitar I learned all the old county because my teacher was a performer from that era. Still love Silver Wings and although I haven't performed in years, still warmed up with the technique from my opera based vocal coach. She also has some great stories about stars back in her day.

My vocal coach also taught me a phrase in Italian (which I can't remember anymore) but it basically said that the song was not suited to my voice. I was to say that when someone wanted me to sing something that wouldn't compliment my voice. She was a kick!

I completely agree! The stuff I think is hard is the stuff I can't do. lol I love Barbra too but there are a few of her songs I just can't do (even though I really, really want to). She has a phenomenal range and although mine is decent it just isn't as good as hers.

I bet you had a great time with that vocal coach! She sounds like a hoot! I could use that phrase she taught you. I've been in that situation before and I absolutely hate it when someone insists you do a song (or sing a song that's not in the right key for you) that's not right for you. It's usually because they can't play it in a different key and they really only care about how they sound not about the audience's experience as a whole.
Once I had to peform "Somewhere Out There" in a key that was way too high for me and it was recorded! I still cringe when I think of that. Luckily no one in the audience seemed to have a clue that it was not a great performance or they were just being extremely sweet!

 

[SunnyDawn]

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I've tried to like it. I just can't seem to enjoy it. I guess it's my blue collar roots showing but even though I am amazed at what they can do with their voices, I'm afraid I just can't seem to tolerate it for very long. I feel terrible that I can't teach myself to enjoy it but at this point I've pretty much given it up as a lost cause.

I chaperoned a field trip for my son's class once and they took them to the opera. I was pretty upset when I found out that out of the 2 field trips we signed up for (my oldest (step) son and I) he ended up getting to go to the car show and I got the opera (I'm sure the boys planned it that way)!!!

But the teachers assured me that this was a very lighthearted performance that anyone would love so I got all excited thinking maybe I would finally enjoy it! 20 minutes into it the kids in my group were asking if they could take a nap or did they have to keep watching (they said this with the most pitifully pained looks on their faces) and I said "Oh yes, go right ahead! It would be horribly cruel of me to force you to watch the whole thing"! I unfortunately did not nap cause I needed to wake them before the lights went up.

Please, if there are any opera fans out there, don't hate me!!! I really did try, honest! Just blame it on a complete lack of culture!

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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I think it depends on what your voice is suited to as to what's easy to sing. My voice is similar to the link Lacey posted. My first vocal coach was a retired opera teacher so my training was very formal. We did share a love for Barbra Streisand so I sang a lot of her songs in training. Once I learned to control my voice and we started working on songs I was performing we had some good laughs while she learned to understand country music. Then when I was learning to play guitar I learned all the old county because my teacher was a performer from that era. Still love Silver Wings and although I haven't performed in years, still warmed up with the technique from my opera based vocal coach. She also has some great stories about stars back in her day.

My vocal coach also taught me a phrase in Italian (which I can't remember anymore) but it basically said that the song was not suited to my voice. I was to say that when someone wanted me to sing something that wouldn't compliment my voice. She was a kick!

I completely agree! The stuff I think is hard is the stuff I can't do. lol I love Barbra too but there are a few of her songs I just can't do (even though I really, really want to). She has a phenomenal range and although mine is decent it just isn't as good as hers.

I bet you had a great time with that vocal coach! She sounds like a hoot! I could use that phrase she taught you. I've been in that situation before and I absolutely hate it when someone insists you do a song (or sing a song that's not in the right key for you) that's not right for you. It's usually because they can't play it in a different key and they really only care about how they sound not about the audience's experience as a whole.
Once I had to peform "Somewhere Out There" in a key that was way too high for me and it was recorded! I still cringe when I think of that. Luckily no one in the audience seemed to have a clue that it was not a great performance or they were just being extremely sweet!

OK, here's what she told me to say when I knew my performance of a song wouldn't be best for me. She told me that I shouldn't open my mouth if it wasn't going to be good... "That song doesn't have suitable tessiturra" I was told to hold my head up, as if it was distasteful! She was quite a primadonna, dressed to the nine's down to her jewelry for every session!

Here's the translation of the word tessiturra: tessitura, (Italian: “texture”), in music, the general range of pitches found in a melody or vocal part. It differs from the compass of a piece to the extent that it does not take into account the extremes of the piece’s range but is concerned with the way in which the vocal line is arranged or situated. The tessitura of a piece, therefore, is not determined by a few isolated notes of extraordinarily high or low pitch but rather by which part of the range is most consistently used; for example, the role of Siegfried in Wagner’s Ring operas extends from c♯ to c″, but its tessitura would be considered extremely high (and consequently very demanding) because the tenor is frequently required to sing long phrases in the range c′ to a′. Added to the strain of singing in such a high tessitura is the full volume and dramatic intensity often required for such parts.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

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I love that. I soooo want to hear you!

Well then, as soon as we get the coop up, let's get together! We'll bring food.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Can anyone give me some advice on my poor roo's wing? I posted under the I have to talk Polish thread about my Polish pens gate being left open yesterday. My husband went camping and I was gone from 7am to 6pm and when I came home the Polish pen gate was open. I let my mixed flock egg layers and my EE roo free range all day but I'm going to breed the Polish so they have their own space.....well, the EE roo must have kicked a$$ all day because only 6 were back in the coop. All the mixed flock were in their coop. I found one Polish in the tree, one my cocker showed me, she was tucked under some old motorcycles covered with a tarp and my head of the Polish flock roo was laying on the ground next to their coop but outside of their run.....today his wing is dropped. I searched the forum for what to do but couldn't really get an answer...there's no blood and he was OK when I palpated but it's just hanging and the other wing is missing most of it's lower feathers so I'm not sure if it's hanging too. Should I tape it up or just leave it? He's eating and drinking but boy when my EE roo (who's huge) comes up to the fence, they all run to the furthest end of the run.

Here's a picture of how he's holding the wing:

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I have heard that a drooping wing could be a sign of a leg problem. They droop their wing for balance so their limp won't be obvious. Just a suggestion