Can ya sing?

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Yes, that's what this thread is for, this very Q that I just posted. If you want, post your examples.
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I can BARELY sing. My only wish is that I could, it'd sound rather silky and sexy for a guy.

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I used to have an incredible voice, and perfect pitch. I can still sing, but nowhere near as well compared to when I was 7-12.

A bit, I'm in the university choir and have been getting progressively better and better with my technique.

i auditioned for the local chorale and made it. i'm a second soprano. learning new songs there is good brain exercise.

Very good which throws people as I'm a low talker that always sounds like a stoner. I sing like Lionel Ritchie or Dave Mustaine. Two very different types of music.

I love to sing. That's how I got into FSU...before I dropped out -___-

yep I can sing. I use to sing at the church, now my voice has gotten deeper and I mostly sing when I am Larping.

Depends on who you ask.

I've got perfect-pitch and can sing decently but I don't have a soloist voice... you know, the exciting type that makes people cheer after a song.

I made a better director than singer in that regard... (except those in the church choir that were nearly tone-deaf tend to get ornery if you keep telling them their pitch is really off. Pity they also like to sing the loudest, drowning out the ones in tune!)

Very much So. I am A Soprano 1 that can range through the soprano spectrum . . . downside is my voice is naturally "young" and on the phone people always ask to "talk to my mom or dad".

I can read music to a point, thus I can use music sheets to sing, at least once I have heard the tune. I suck at memorizing lyrics tho, which is what takes me practice. A trick I learned from choir in my old university is that if you are not on a solo and you forget a word, just hit the note, no one will notice you did not enunciate.

I should really seek out a community choir of some kind to join. I miss performing with an ensemble (same goes for violin and orchestra too but my bow needs to rehaired something fierce before I do that).

I sang choir in high school, and was in a show choir in college, did voice lessons and so on.

Eventually, I developed a freakishly large range that's one note shy of 4 octaves. I have no idea how that happened. I just know that when I was a teen, my voice cracked, I was singing alto after that, and had barely any soprano range. Then I got my soprano range back in my upper teens, went to college and started finding whistles of all things.

I'm usually that person, that when they need to add power to a section (or someone who can find strange harmonies or higher notes) I'm there. I am very pitch and harmony gifted at hearing things. Rhythm is another story (lol) and I usually have to take it home, clap it out and practice to get that part right. But one thing I noticed (and it could be the stubbornly easily bored 1st violinist in me) is that I am generally dissatisfied with many choir's bland SATB arrangements they choose. I am especially not happy with anything like watered down Mac Huff! He gives women the most boring parts in the universe (and I would know since I've sang all three parts in various choirs). Altos get stuck around the same 3 or 4 notes, sopranos get the melody (blah, give me something more challenging), and 2nds get the melody with random arbitrary other harmony notes thrown in every so often to make sure you don't fall asleep at the helm.

I just crave something more... intense. I remember the show choir I was in, and the director decided to have us do The Nylons arrangement of Up the Ladder to the Roof, and while a lot of the people in choir absolutely hated it because they struggled to find their parts in the dense harmony, but I loved every minute of it. And I got to not only dig into the harmony, but I was allowed to do the high notes too. And there's something loveable about a capella singing when done right.

Some people feel naked when they sing a capella, but I'm just used to it. I was raised in a church (that I can't stand anymore but that's besides the point-- they thought instruments were evil and disallowed them) but they sang everything a capella, but because of being raised that way I was just used to it. It's strange. I keep meeting people from (or formerly of) that denomination and it seems a common trait that when you're used to a capella that you don't flatten your pitch over the course of the song or lose your sense of key or melody.

I don't really like how a lot of stuff just plain doesn't suit my voice type though. There's just something about it that's good for blending, but not for solo stuff I've noticed.

I'm about to start my sixth year with a local men's choir.
I think that means "yes, I can sing."

I could sing, whether I can or not now is another matter. So no, I don't think I can.
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I can do a cracking foghorn impersonation though.

I can sing but I also write songs

I think I can sing, i enjoy singing along to songs or singing at any other time that it wouldn't feel awkward to sing.