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"Singing.."

Is it possible to learn to sing? With practice and proper teaching techniques?
If you have never been able to sing, decently, will you ever be able to?

Or is it a born ability?

Bullett wrote:
> I'd much rather play an instrument
> than be a vocalist.

Same here. I'd simply be too embarassed to sing in front of anyone, and I don't even do it alone because it makes me feel like such an idiot.

Playing my guitar is infinitely more rewarding.

Bullett wrote:
> I'm probably tone deaf - I hear myself and think I sound ok, but I've
> never sang in front of anyone - not my thing.
>
> I'd like to sing 'properly', but I'd much rather play an instrument
> than be a vocalist.
>
> I've acted before, and I'm average at best - certainly no
> professional.
>
> I believe you can be trained, just don't expect to be singing like
> the best of them any time soon...

I totally agree. A good example is Pop Idol. Contestants are no more than average singers to begin with but can be trained to sing 'better'
I think anyone can sing (and there are loads of mediocre artists out there) but only a few have the talent to sing well

I'm probably tone deaf - I hear myself and think I sound ok, but I've never sang in front of anyone - not my thing.

I'd like to sing 'properly', but I'd much rather play an instrument than be a vocalist.

I've acted before, and I'm average at best - certainly no professional.

I believe you can be trained, just don't expect to be singing like the best of them any time soon...

I guess I got mine from my dad. He plays the organ too, and my sister plays the keyboard... I do neither. I could probably learn, but I'll never get around to it.

Personally I prefer to act, because I'm a terrible singer, and love comedy.

You can learn to sing, but some people find it much harder than others and take a lot longer to grasp it.

Personally my family and me are hardly musical at all though which will probably explain for my singing talent.

That reminds me, on Friday night a group of lads burst into song, immitating the Top Gun "Loving Feeling" scene to a girl. They were crap...

You can definitely get better but there are levels that you just can't achieve unless you're a natural. But then of course there are people who simply can't learn and are tone deaf. :)

"Out of interest, how many people here are singers or have sung in front of people? I don't mean once at an Xmas party in front of family, I mean on a regular basis to crowds of strangers?"

I was singled out by my music teacher in year 7 and had to sing in front of the class all the time, then in front of the entire school a few times. Then there was a musical I was in when I was 10... I asked my teacher to stop making me do it because I was embarassed and he relented. That was the end of it (apart from a musical in 6th form Drama, but I got kicked out for not attending rehearsals)

I break into song all the time, but there's not many tunes nowadays that suit my singing voice (I tried singing along to Greenday the other day, with disastrous results) and I'm certainly not as good as I was before certain changes occurred downstairs (just last week it was...)

Barbershop is the way to go.

Goatboy could be the new Phil Collins.