The Singers Thread - Page 34

***Tessar*** · 12-27-2010, 09:41 PM

Oooookay. Experimenting.

I'm not sure that I like the song, and I'm not sure if my voice (or, I should say, "the way that I'm singing,") is appropriate for this style of music. I'm trying to write something that's sort of a broadway/folk/pop style song.

My main problem with it right now is that I feel like the only chord structures I can properly handle are so generic that it kills the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA7lqFg3DZE

Thoughts?

But heeeey. On the plus side my high notes are gettin' stronger, eh? That's good. They're still not as "colorful" as my middle and low, but definitely gettin' stronger.

Voronwen · 12-28-2010, 01:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

Dude. If you do But Who May Abide, you know we're going to require a recording.

All this talk of Messiah brings back memories for me.

***Tessar*** · 12-31-2010, 04:04 PM

Aww, I'd love to hear you doin' some Messiah, Voronwen.

I'm trying to play around with getting my soft palate to stay high. I'm not convinced "But Who May Abide," is quite the right medium to be trying new techniques though.

It's hard enough, and then you start trying to think about other things? Not so much.

One thing I found, actually through my violin lesson, is that when I'm not paying attention my shoulders rise... not to the extent that someone watching me would normally notice, but it makes a difference in the tone of the violin, so that made me pay attention while I was singing and.... sure enough.... my shoulders began to levitate the minute I hit a section of the song I wasn't "sure" about. It definitely makes a difference in my voice, too.

EllethValatari · 12-31-2010, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tessar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA7lqFg3DZE

Thoughts?

Is that really you in that video? You sounds great! I agree, your higher-range notes sound best. Amazing, actually. It's so weird to see what the person behind the computer looks like!

Gwaimir Windgem · 12-31-2010, 06:19 PM

Oh, yeah! Nice, rich voice, middle range best, and I like the song a lot. Whose is it?

***Earniel*** · 01-01-2011, 06:23 AM

Ooooh, purdy!

***Tessar*** · 01-01-2011, 04:11 PM

Thank you guys, I really appreciate the feedback.

Gwai--it's my song. I'm still working on it. That's the current version of the chorus/ending. Not thrilled with the little high part at the end, so I may move it to somewhere else.

I had to record myself playing the accompaniment and then sing along with that because, as I believe I mentioned to you on Facebook, I really can't play and sing very well at the same time since I haven't yet developed the proper technique to sing the same while sitting down as I can while standing up.

***Tessar*** · 01-01-2011, 06:22 PM

Awwwwwww SNAPPLE, YOU GUYS. Totally just got my palate workin' better, and it made my high notes a little warmer. I figured out how to get it to lift -before- I head on up to a high note, without having to keep it totally arched the whole time for my low notes.

I enjoy making tiny breakthroughs. >.> One baby step closer to being a truly formidable singer!!!!!

inked · 01-02-2011, 12:59 AM

Zehr gut! Und du vil lik diz den"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11...eature=related

It's seasonal and inspirational!

Also, for the high notes check out THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT in the related side options!

Keep up the good vork!

Gwaimir Windgem · 01-02-2011, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tessar

Gwai--it's my song. I'm still working on it. That's the current version of the chorus/ending. Not thrilled with the little high part at the end, so I may move it to somewhere else.

Y'know, that part struck as a little bit . . . Whitney Houston. Odd? Yes. But that's what it made me think of.

Inked, here's another seasonal song for ya.

***Tessar*** · 01-02-2011, 03:09 PM

Haha, inked I got my dad that CD for Christmas. The funny parody songs on it are good, but everything else is sort of.... eh? They're all good singers, but I'm not much into barbershop/pop crossovers.

Gwai--LOL!!!!

Also I think I know what you mean. She did have something of a tendency to be singing and then bust out a loud/high note sort of randomly. But she can get away with it because she's Whitney. I am not.

<.<

>.>

Honestly. I am NOT Whitney Houston.

***Earniel*** · 01-02-2011, 05:07 PM

Yeah, yeah, suuuuure.

EllethValatari · 01-02-2011, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eärniel

Yeah, yeah, suuuuure.

Earniel, you're not making proper use of our wonderful festival gifts.

Yea, yeah suuuure

is much more appropriate

***Earniel*** · 01-02-2011, 09:18 PM

I didn't want to wear them out prematurely. And

is also appropriate if you ask me.

EllethValatari · 01-02-2011, 10:29 PM

True...it all depends on the attitude

skeptical...

OR

sarcastic...

Thus ends my lesson in smiley face communication.

Gwaimir Windgem · 01-02-2011, 11:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tessar

<.<

>.>

Pretty sure you mean

***Tessar*** · 01-03-2011, 12:02 AM

No, see that's a "hmmm... sumpin's up," style of emote. Or skeptical, as Elleth said.

<.<

>.>

Is like, "Aww, crap on a stick, I hope no one saw me take that last cookie..."

EllethValatari · 01-03-2011, 02:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tessar

No, see that's a "hmmm... sumpin's up," style of emote. Or skeptical, as Elleth said.

<.<

>.>

Is like, "Aww, crap on a stick, I hope no one saw me take that last cookie..."

You should talk to Santa. Maybe he could get us a "hmmm...sumpin's up" emote that doesn't need any explaining.

(We're off-topic

)

Gwaimir Windgem · 01-03-2011, 01:49 PM

Something like this, perhaps?

Voronwen · 01-08-2011, 01:30 PM

Fühlst du nicht der Liebe Sehnen, So wird Ruh' im Tode sein....

12-31-2010, 06:19 PM	#665
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Oh, yeah! Nice, rich voice, middle range best, and I like the song a lot. Whose is it? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

01-01-2011, 06:23 AM	#666
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Ooooh, purdy! __________________ We are not things.

01-02-2011, 12:59 AM	#669
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Zehr gut! Und du vil lik diz den" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11...eature=related It's seasonal and inspirational! Also, for the high notes check out THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT in the related side options! Keep up the good vork! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

01-02-2011, 05:07 PM	#672
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Yeah, yeah, suuuuure. __________________ We are not things.

01-02-2011, 09:18 PM	#674
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	I didn't want to wear them out prematurely. And is also appropriate if you ask me. __________________ We are not things.

12-27-2010, 09:41 PM	#661
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Oooookay. Experimenting. I'm not sure that I like the song, and I'm not sure if my voice (or, I should say, "the way that I'm singing,") is appropriate for this style of music. I'm trying to write something that's sort of a broadway/folk/pop style song. My main problem with it right now is that I feel like the only chord structures I can properly handle are so generic that it kills the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA7lqFg3DZE Thoughts? But heeeey. On the plus side my high notes are gettin' stronger, eh? That's good. They're still not as "colorful" as my middle and low, but definitely gettin' stronger.

12-31-2010, 04:04 PM	#663
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Aww, I'd love to hear you doin' some Messiah, Voronwen. I'm trying to play around with getting my soft palate to stay high. I'm not convinced "But Who May Abide," is quite the right medium to be trying new techniques though. It's hard enough, and then you start trying to think about other things? Not so much. One thing I found, actually through my violin lesson, is that when I'm not paying attention my shoulders rise... not to the extent that someone watching me would normally notice, but it makes a difference in the tone of the violin, so that made me pay attention while I was singing and.... sure enough.... my shoulders began to levitate the minute I hit a section of the song I wasn't "sure" about. It definitely makes a difference in my voice, too.

01-01-2011, 04:11 PM	#667
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Thank you guys, I really appreciate the feedback. Gwai--it's my song. I'm still working on it. That's the current version of the chorus/ending. Not thrilled with the little high part at the end, so I may move it to somewhere else. I had to record myself playing the accompaniment and then sing along with that because, as I believe I mentioned to you on Facebook, I really can't play and sing very well at the same time since I haven't yet developed the proper technique to sing the same while sitting down as I can while standing up.

01-01-2011, 06:22 PM	#668
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Awwwwwww SNAPPLE, YOU GUYS. Totally just got my palate workin' better, and it made my high notes a little warmer. I figured out how to get it to lift -before- I head on up to a high note, without having to keep it totally arched the whole time for my low notes. I enjoy making tiny breakthroughs. >.> One baby step closer to being a truly formidable singer!!!!!

01-02-2011, 03:09 PM	#671
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Haha, inked I got my dad that CD for Christmas. The funny parody songs on it are good, but everything else is sort of.... eh? They're all good singers, but I'm not much into barbershop/pop crossovers. Gwai--LOL!!!! Also I think I know what you mean. She did have something of a tendency to be singing and then bust out a loud/high note sort of randomly. But she can get away with it because she's Whitney. I am not. <.< >.> Honestly. I am NOT Whitney Houston.

01-02-2011, 10:29 PM	#675
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	True...it all depends on the attitude skeptical... OR sarcastic... Thus ends my lesson in smiley face communication. __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

01-03-2011, 12:02 AM	#677
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	No, see that's a "hmmm... sumpin's up," style of emote. Or skeptical, as Elleth said. <.< >.> Is like, "Aww, crap on a stick, I hope no one saw me take that last cookie..."

01-03-2011, 01:49 PM	#679
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Something like this, perhaps? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

01-08-2011, 01:30 PM	#680
Voronwen Lady of Andúnië Join Date: May 2009 Location: Andúnië Posts: 572	Fühlst du nicht der Liebe Sehnen, So wird Ruh' im Tode sein.... __________________ " ...But the Exiles on the shores of the sea, if they turned towards the West in the desire of their hearts, spoke of Mar-nu-Falmar that was whelmed in the waves, Akallabêth the Downfallen, Atalantë in the Eldarin tongue." "Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest ... " ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline

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