What do you like about singing

[peekaboo]

Why do you like to sing?

Why does it make you happy?


I sing because I want to touch whoever hears me in a way that only singing can. I also love music. It's nice to know that you can have the power to comfort, make someone cry, and make someone dance around like an idiot.

[Greg]

What a great question!

Whenever I have inspiration, singing is the best way for me to express it.

I don't know what I'd do without music.

It's entertained me when I've been bored. It's challenged me when I would have otherwise had nothing to do.

It motivates others, it's contagious in the best of ways. It makes friends from complete strangers.

It's unifying.... oh geez... it's everything.

I sing because I love to sing.

[Doome]

There is a point I sometimes reach, when I am the song, the balancing point between technique and emotion, the one place where I am in total control, yet at the same time, I know I am not doing it, it is a prayer and the time that I feel the most free.

[Chantale Dallaire]

I started by writting songs for expressing myself, then found out I could myself sing them. I never intended to sing because I never thaught I had a good voice until I was in a band with no singer. I started to sing just to follow the songs, then got a mic, then singing lessons.

Singing now helps me to clear my head, and puts me in a state that I only have to sing and not think about anything else. It's kinda of a release of any stress I might have at that moment.

Chantale !
www.chantalechante.com

[Mr Blues]

Hi I'm a newbie, my name is dave.

I love singing , i sometimes sing in resturants and i play in London's Covant garden.

I play guitar and sing.

I really do enjoy singing , I have found it particulrly helpful doing scales and i use variuos CD vocal building tapes , I find these tapes help me mantian vocal strength and agility.

I love artist like Al green and Stevie Wonder, i also like bands like Bread, David Gates lead singer of Bread has also done some solo albums , he is a great singer/songwriter.

dave

[chitown]

TO me, singing is everything. I started doing 3 part harmonies with my parents at age 4.

I am now a professional singer and keyboardist, as well as a recording studio owner. There is nothing in this world more important to me than music.

It is self expression, it is the ability to please a fellow human being, it is acceptance, it is ultimate joy. There is NO sensation in the world like being onstage and having an audience in the palm of your hand. I have had the pleasure of performing in front of an audience of 11,000. What a rush!!

Sing, sing a song...........

[mayeast]

When I was a baby, my dad would sing to me every night. My sisters always wanted to be told stories but I just loved hearing my dad sing. He would sing songs from commercial radio.
Now that I'm older I sing to comfort myself. If I'm depressed or down, I sing myself a little song. If I'm happy I'll sing a little celebration song. Singing for other people is nice, but it's a gift to them. Singing for myself is a gift to me.

[Greg]

I always sing with my kids. They know the words to many tunes of the 60's and 70's, and at bed time, they always ask for a lullabye.

Well those times will change, but won't be forgotten - I'm sure.

[MrsPeabody]

The voice is the most portable instrument. I can sing anywhere at anytime, that's why I love it.

The voice is an extension of the soul and it can speak to you even without using real words!

[Reconsiderate]

[MrsPeabody]

Right on Reconsiderate!

I really really respect beat boxing. I wish I could do it! I've tried and I can do really basic things like make base drum and snare sounds and a variety of clicks and things, but I can't make a lot of sounds in rapid succession... I can't really get the base guitar sound going either... Whatever is supposed to go on in the throat while the lips are making the other sounds, just escapes me.

Hey Reconsiderate, I've heard you beat box on some tracks. Do you have any suggestions as to how to do this stuff? Do you practice by listening to other's beat box and trying to imitate it? I think it would be cool if you started a thread about beat boxing with tips and tricks of the trade.

Would anyone else be interested in this. Please tell me if there already is a thread on this and I've just missed it.

On a similar topic, I've never seen a female beat boxer. I can only think of male representatives. Are there any girls out there or on this site who beat box? If so, Speak Up Sisters! I'd like to know.

Of course we all can't be Rahzel, but like the voice, the beat box is the ultimate in portable drum sets.

[artpaul]

I guess I like singing because it draws attention to me.

I guess if it was just singing I might not but my words get people interested in my songs and I love writing songs and it's harder to sell a book of poetry then it is to sell a CD.

Plus I love to make people laugh.

[MrsPeabody]

[artpaul]

Actaully what I like to do sometime is sing a song people don't expect.

Like if I'm going to sing Karaoke I might sing High Hopes with the ant and the rubber tree plant.

Here are the Lyrics:

Writer(s): cahn/van heusen

Next time your found, with your chin on the ground
There a lot to be learned, so look around

Just what makes that little old ant
Think hell move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, cant
Move a rubber tree plant

But hes got high hopes, hes got high hopes
Hes got high apple pie, in the sky hopes

So any time your gettin low
stead of lettin go
Just remember that ant
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant

When troubles call, and your backs to the wall
There a lot to be learned, that wall could fall

Once there was a silly old ram
Thought hed punch a hole in a dam
No one could make that ram, scram
He kept buttin that dam

cause he had high hopes, he had high hopes
He had high apple pie, in the sky hopes

So any time your feelin bad
stead of feelin sad
Just remember that ram
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam

All problems just a toy balloon
Theyll be bursted soon
Theyre just bound to go pop
Oops there goes another problem kerplop

I like to to learn songs that speak to people because they are different.

All last summer I used to sing Killing me softly with his song is a low baritone voice and some people must of thought it was funny.

I also learned Looked What they done to my song.

One I really like doing is the Hokey Pokey especially when someone starts dancing to it when you start singing it.

Or might get dressed up with cheese on my head and sing songs about cheese.

I think it's really fun to surprize the audiance.

[MrsPeabody]