Mobile hotspots in the parks?

[DisneyMom]

Larry is a real nice guy. He is godfather to my friend Bobs kids. Bob toured with Larry and recorded the Strange Animal album for him, among others.
We are very happy to see how Styx has been rejuvenated since he joined them!

They were Amazing!!!!!!
I felt so lucky to get to go see them, have been favorites since High School!!!

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

We performed it on our Spring Show. Maybe never again, unless we can replace his changing voice!

WELL, there is ALWAYS the Italian solution!!

[Freak]

Why can't you carry a tune? This website believes it has the answer.

I had no idea that people couldn't tell the difference.

26 out of 26 correct, and I'm not a very good signer. DEBUNKED. :p:
Though I do have guests tell me I can whistle damn well.

[BRWombat]

26 out of 26 correct, and I'm not a very good signer. DEBUNKED. :p:
Though I do have guests tell me I can whistle damn well.

I am curious about this. I got 26 out of 26 too -- which frankly wasn't a surprise, because the wrong ones were glaringly wrong. It's hard to imagine missing any even if you aren't familiar with the tune. Did anyone have serious trouble with this "test"?

[accioetoile]

I actually got one wrong. But I think it was because I somehow skipped one, and then couldn't remember which one it was when I went back to answer it.

The thing is, I know I can't sing, and I often have trouble distinguishing between notes. I actually learned this at a puppetry workshop, when they told us to go up when the music goes up, and go down when it goes down. Yeah, I didn't always know when to go up or down.

[Big Wallaby]

I guess the idea is that if you are tone deaf it will all sound right to you. I am curious to hear from anyone who is, how they did.

And Freak, can you carry a tune? It's not going to tell you what kind of voice you have... I get 26 out of 26 as well.

[DonutGoddess]

I think in my case I understand the concept of tone. The problem is not knowing how to use my voice as an instrument.

[shilohmm]

The problem is not knowing how to use my voice as an instrument.

Yep. Learning to sing is like learning to play an instrument, except the kids who pick up instruments without instruction are rarer. ;) But most people who learn to sing young, you look at their childhood and see that they were in an environment that encouraged singing, and motivated them to learn to sing in tune. Kids in churches that encourage the congregation to sing harmony are usually pretty good singers; kids in churches that sing unison or who are unchurched and otherwise have no regular singing "practice" at all are not usually as skilled.

In our church, the lady in charge of the children's choir has the boys step out for a while between children's choir and the teen one, "until their voices have settled down." They still have to relearn how to use this new voice, but I think her theory is that being able to sing while your voice is changing would be like playing a guitar while someone else keeps twisting the tuning knobs -- it's a constant and exhausting chore with a high percentage of errors for even the most talented, and simply impossible for most. But once a guy's hormones are done rearranging things, it's just a matter of practice and more like re-learning to ride a bike when you haven't for twenty years than like learning how to do it for the first time as an adult.

My grandmother learned to ride a bike when she was in her sixties. She'd had a horse as a child and thus had never learned when young. :horse3: Grandpa was ten years older than she was; ten years before he taught her to ride a bike, he rode his from Minnesota to Florida. I think she refused to learn for a long time because it was her best excuse to avoid those kinds of trips. :whistlng:

[WEDFan]

Yep. Learning to sing is like learning to play an instrument, except the kids who pick up instruments without instruction are rarer. ;) But most people who learn to sing young, you look at their childhood and see that they were in an environment that encouraged singing, and motivated them to learn to sing in tune. Kids in churches that encourage the congregation to sing harmony are usually pretty good singers; kids in churches that sing unison or who are unchurched and otherwise have no regular singing "practice" at all are not usually as skilled.

Just reminded me of a song that I love, but haven't heard in quite some time. It's by a folk group called "Schooner Fare" and is called "Teach Your Children to Sing." From memory, it starts...

Somewhere between your noon hour and alarm clock setting day,
If you are lucky, must be lucky, but we're all lucky anyway,
Set aside your routine pleasures, for this most important thing,
And take the time to teach your children to sing.

Oh you know it's not like working and the kids will call it play,
And as you teach them, they will teach you, we're all teachers in a way.
Set aside your routine pleasures, sit together in a ring,
And take the time to teach your children to sing...

Wriiten by a former educator, it has many poignant thoughts about the power of song and the act of singing with your children. It even addresses those of us who can't sing well :) If you like folk music at all, check out the group.

[Goofyernmost]

I think that I mentioned before that I was a member of the Barbershoppers with my Father when I was about 11 until I was 15. During that time I went from Tenor to Lead to Baritone. By the time I was in my 20's I was singing base. Don't use it much anymore...I tend to whistle more than sing now.

I took it to heart when they said...

S ome
P eople
E specially
B aritones
S hould
Q uit
S inging
A ltogther