Secret Singer, Singing Alone

When I was four my oldest sister had me sing a duet with her in church which is one of my fondest memories of her.

I'm glad u have that good memory. Sisters are special people. Thanks for sharing.

I sing like a crow at sometimes but never shy of singing in my friends, i do not sing in shower cause most of the times I am in hurry to do something else and just plan about that at shower(LOL).

the little buggers shout me down, maybe earphones is a great idea!!!

"It couldn' hoit!" (wink!) Maggiepie “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, & to institute new government...” ~ Thomas Jefferson

Well, phooey on 'em! You should still sing, if it makes you feel better. Just put earphones on, pretend you're singing along to a CD, & let fly! Maggiepie "Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose your job. Recovery is when Obama loses his job." ~ Armand Berube

I could kick myself for never having tried karaoke! I even had a couple of guy pals invite me, but I suddenly felt so shy! I really don't know why, since I was very confidant of my voice, AND I wouldn't even have had to fret about remembering the lyrics. As I understand it, they're played on a screen in front of you so you can always check! And now that all I have left is my raspy, thin frog-voice, it's too late! Let this serve as a warning to all: SING WHILE YOU STILL CAN! Or you might regret it silently, later on! A good life lesson, I suppose. I'd still rather trade my hard-won wisdom for the ability to sing "O Holy Night," or maybe the mad aria from "Lucia de Lammamoor." Sigh...oh well. At least I can still write! Maggiepie “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, & to institute new government...” ~ Thomas Jefferson

You are aware of the fact that your hearing is a bit distorted by the skull casing, yes? It's the reason why it's hard to recognize your own voice when you hear a recording of it. As you age, & your skull continues to slightly expand, it changes what you hear even more. Anyway, this change drives people with perfect pitch crazy, because before, when they learned what an A, for example, sounds like, later on in life no longer sounds like an A to them! This is why I'm glad I only have perfect relative pitch. No matter what sound I'm given, I can instantly blend right in. Well, if I still had my voice, I could, anyway. While we're discussing arcane music trivia, here's another odd fact. Our sense of hearing today is a bit different than it was before our noisy industrial age. That is, we tend to hear things a trifle off-pitch, now. I don't know when musicians realized this, but professional musicians in orchestras began "brightening" their instruments (I think) in the 1800s. That is, what composers once intended audiences to hear would sound muddy or too low on the scale to modern ears if played as actually written. So musicians began tuning their instruments up to a slightly higher pitch so it sounded "right" to our modern (damaged?) ears. That's called "brightening." Thank goodness for MyLot; I now have a place to dump all my useless trivia! My head was getting too heavy with it all! Maggiepie “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, & to institute new government...” ~ Thomas Jefferson

Does it make you feel better when you sing? If it does, then sing to your heart's content! That's what singing alone is all about! Never mind others, or, if you like, go somewhere outside where no-one else will be & sing. I think you'll find it liberating! It always lightens my heart! Maggiepie “Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” ~ Pope John Paul II

Did the horses like it? The chickens on our farm didn't care, at least, & I didn't ever think to sing to Charlie. I wasn't supposed to get near him, my G-parents told me, as he was "dangerous." But I did anyway. He never even flicked so much as an ear at me when I went into his stall. I liked the smell of his food. I once tried a lick of his salt, but it tasted awful. I loved salt, but his stuff didn't taste like salt, or even edible! Do you smoke? Is that why you can't reach high notes? Or is there another reason? (Nosy mind wants to know...) Maggiepie “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, & to institute new government...” ~ Thomas Jefferson

You may recall I put that very trait into the comic strip (Welcome To The Zoo)...you singing as you vacuumed, "Seeee thaaaa U-S-A, in your Chev-ro-let...!" And there I was in the kitchen, baking bread, singing "Psycho Killer." Ah...good times, good times... Maggiepie “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, & to institute new government...” ~ Thomas Jefferson