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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?

gimo80 wrote:
Just need to find a bassist and a
> drummer, heh - they are very, very rare in our area! :S

"Band's" a bit of a loose term then :-)

Umm... I know the bloke who opened for the Manics at the Millenium Stadium quite well... Does that count? :-D

Do you do backing vocals, Goaty?

Goatboy wrote:
> Out of interest, how many people here are singers or have sung in
> front of people?

I was the singer in a band for about three years (I say a band, it was more a songwriting/studio-group thing). Started off sounding like a Boyzone reject, but ended quite good. Did a couple of gigs at one point, which went well but I didn't enjoy - that's when I realized performing wasn't for me.

Goatboy wrote:
> Out of interest, how many people here are singers or have sung in
> front of people?

Yus.

I've tried out for a band before and have sung on stage a few times.

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Do you do backing vocals, Goaty?
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Only in the studio. We needed a falsetto chorus for backing, so all 4 of us got loaded on tequila and recorded it at 2am. Sounded ok actually, was most surprised.
But not onstage, singing drummers are a no-no.

Goatboy could be the new Phil Collins.

Barbershop is the way to go.

"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...)

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. :)