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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on February 17, 2015 at 10:58pm

I hate shows like 'American Idol' or 'The Voice'. They all stress technical singing and yodelers. If you can yodel out a word in pitch and staccato your on your way. Singing is about self expression. Not technical precision. If you can't sing like a piano your not good enough. Self expression and style are both lost. It's crap.

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on February 18, 2015 at 12:33am

...another thing with these shows is that amateurs are pitching themselves against professional big name singers by trying to do their songs and failing - if they were able to sing their own songs, as some of them could, things would be much fairer, but soon as anybody says they write their own stuff there's always a loud groan... :-/

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Permalink Reply by BUGGY (C) on February 18, 2015 at 3:51am

I think the more you do it, the better you get and learn
Some people's growl sounds great..
Just do it and soon it will come easier.
Just try and sing the notes you play.
Blues comes from watching and learning from
The chap before you and taking the bits you like
and experimentation.
Video yourself and learn from what you did
so the next time it's slightly better..
If you think you can then you probably can..
I never sang before coming on this site, I worry
less these day and probably still can't sing.
But I enjoy it and ain't that's what it's all about.
There's always an auto tune if you are really bad?
I think singing is confidence
It's getting the right notes that is the tricky bit..

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Permalink Reply by BUGGY (C) on February 18, 2015 at 4:51am

In respect to the US you guys say well done whatever
It sounds like
In the UK I think it's harder as people aren't so forgiving
Wear a mask it helps hide yourself ..
Beer and booze also help lots...
But mainly with the confidence.

Keith Richard also had to learn to sing for his solo
stuff..

But don't expect to be amazing if you never
practice, it's just like learning CBG

The more you do it better you get.

However my wife sings in the key of Q
as she can't match the notes she hears.
But she can still sing something.

Maybe it's listening,that is the key to singing
and picking off riffs and tricks like we do with our CBG

First tune your CBG to a key you can actually sing first
It's basic but we do forget this.

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Permalink Reply by BUGGY (C) on February 18, 2015 at 5:12am

Bit like this place then
Safe to fail

There is no failure in life ,it's just learning

People need warm encouragement to improve
not a smack in the face.. ;>}

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on February 18, 2015 at 7:18am

like this fella!! cant sing but its a catchy tune.

 http://youtu.be/UPB9e4yfaXY

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on February 21, 2015 at 6:30am

Expressing yourself threw an instrument is much easier than doing it vocally. Singing becomes personal. Makes you more vulnerable. Singing takes letting yourself go. Allowing emotions to come threw. The more of yourself you can reveal as you sing the more people will relate to you. The more they will want to hear you. If Janis Joplin would have sung like she was in choir none of us would have heard of her. Yes when you first start out singing in front of people it is scary. You feel judged, vulnerable and insecure. Look at this realistically. What do you expect when you go to hear someone else perform? You want to be entertained. You want to hear something good. If you like what you do then chances are they will like it too. It's just as easy to psych yourself into as it is to psych yourself out of singing.

Don't be afraid of failing. When I got up to do a song at the Kansas City fest I dropped the ball hard. I forgot words and guitar parts to a song I wrote. My singing and playing were both horrible. I felt like i just dropped my pants and yodeled in front of everyone. I was so bad two people even told me just how bad I was. What I took away from this experience is I let these people down. They wanted to hear something good and I didn't deliver. They're just like me. They wanted to hear something good. They wanted to have a good time. They wanted something to remember. Well, it was probably rememberable. But not in a good way. : ) My point is my failure was a wake up call. It's simple, get better. I don't have to be better than anyone else but myself. I'm doing everything I can to do just that. Failing is easy. Letting it stop you from getting better and back up again is wrong. I'm going to deliver. I promised myself this will NEVER happen again.

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