If you can't sing, how can you find the melody?

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grimtraveller said:
But to hear him sing is a revelation. It's like hearing the low level hum of a car engine idling. Every note literally sounds the same. It's an awful sound. .
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My dad is exactly the same. I say that he sings the bassline. Purely monotone, no idea of melody what-so-ever.
 
Good ole southern humor. :)


I hope Shane never comes here with questions....
 
Mr. C said:
When I sing the song it sounds like I want it to sound for the most part, but when I hear the recording it's just horrible.
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Everyone hates the sound of their own recorded voice. When you hear yourself, you get hung up on that and tune out what you ought to be hearing - the pitch. Get someone with a pleasant voice to sing it while you try to play along on the keyboard. That will take your mind off of how awful you think your voice sounds and put it where it should be - hearing the melody.
 
jimmys69 said:
I hope Shane never comes here with questions....
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I hope he never comes here with answers. :eek:

Singing is like being a comedian. Some people can't even tell a joke properly, most people can tell a joke well enough to make their friends laugh, but only a very few can deliver it well enough to do it in front of a large group of people.
 
I can sing well enough to make a stadium full of people laugh.
 
Diane Warren, anyone?

shes no great singer... heard her do one of the huge hits she penned, on an interview...

shes just plunking little bitsy stuff on the keyboard, singing along... nothign great, but... when the BIG singer does it? And the track is fully fleshed out with all the other instruments? *magic*

i dont know shit from shinola, but, i figure if you can "hear" a singer tearing it up in your head, the fact YOU are just singing it rough... is just to give the final "real" (bad choice of word?) singer the IDEA of what you hear in your head... how the rhythm goes, where the emphasis is, where they back off and get "sweet" on it...

then the real singer TEARS IT UP like they do...

sure, many songwriters also play an instrument really well... sure, many songwriters are great singers too...

yet, many of the TOP songwriters really arent either one... barely a good instrument player, barely what we would call a "singer"... yet, when a good singer gets a hold of their *song*, they really tear into it! The polished pprofessional musicians take the simple "roy orbison big note songbook" melody line(s)... and come up with the rest around it...

You as a somgwriter, are DESIGNING the beautiful mansion... you need not know how to lay brick like a pro, how to install windows, and let the electrician do the electric, and let the plumber do the plumbing...

you need know only "enough" about alll those other profesional jobs, that what you DESIGN is not impossible or improbable for them to make anything out of your BLUEPRINT.

Frank Lloyd Wright DESIGNED "Fallingwater" famous architectural house.... i hardly think he learned to lay brick, do stonemason or framing carpentry, welding, cement finishing, and electrical work, nor HVAC either...

but NO ONE remembers the brick masons name that did Fallingwater... FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT designed it...

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just concentrate on the house you see in your head, get the blueprint down, and you only need know ENOUGH about all the other jobs that you dont design somethin that cant be built...

"let the PLUMBER do the plumbing"
 
SEDstar said:
i dont know shit from shinola, but, i figure if you can "hear" a singer tearing it up in your head, the fact YOU are just singing it rough... is just to give the final "real" (bad choice of word?) singer the IDEA of what you hear in your head... how the rhythm goes, where the emphasis is, where they back off and get "sweet" on it...

then the real singer TEARS IT UP like they do...
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SEDstar, I didn't want to quote the entire post, but I thought it was fantastic.
 
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