GRR! Quiet hours!

[JungianZoe]

I love my apartment complex.  I really, really do.  Like seriously, I've lived in a lot of apartments and this place is nirvana compared to anywhere else I've lived.

But I friggin' hate quiet hours.  I'm hyper right now and I want to sing!  Singing is one of my favorite things to do and I've got a monster of a voice that can do tons of different singers and styles.  I also have a huge range.  While I'm occasionally content singing quiet songs, sometimes I just want to belt one out.  I can sing Little Richard's highest notes, but you can't do that singing quietly (not with T-ravaged vocal chords).  That's what I want to do right now.  I want to scream something.

Only it's 11:33 PM.

[AbraCadabra]

Hm, and once you have some big Os --- bite your cushions?! How sad that would be.
I'd just sing, as you do it nicely, that be OK, or?

I also LOVE to sing, but as you say, T had it's way with me too and for a lot longer, mind you.
So I do it in my car. That works best for me.
C. Aguilera "Vanity" or "My Girls" and then "lift me up"! always get tears in my eyes... so beautiful, eh.
Her range is JUST about where I still can get. My kind of dream chick, LOL.

Axelle
PS: dream man --- Mikhail Baryshnikov, just watched him on 2nd season's Sex and the City!
Oh, my, my... words fail me :-)

[Del]

Zoe,
That's one of the good points of living in the country.
Anytime day or night turn on the pa, turn on the guiter amp and sing.
Ain't noboody to complain.
Have a good night young lady.

[apple pie]

During the day you could maybe turn on the stereo in your apartment, close the door and see how much you can hear outside it!?
Because I can sing even in the middle of the night even though I'm in the middle of a big city, because my place is really soundproof

By the way, do you have any tips on how to sing well? I love your voice in the previous videos! Do you / did you take singing lessons? I really, REALLY would love to be able to sing well, but I have completely no idea how I should train myself, or if there are ways to / people who specifically train male voices to sing like a girl...

[JungianZoe]

During the day you could maybe turn on the stereo in your apartment, close the door and see how much you can hear outside it!?
Because I can sing even in the middle of the night even though I'm in the middle of a big city, because my place is really soundproof

By the way, do you have any tips on how to sing well? I love your voice in the previous videos! Do you / did you take singing lessons? I really, REALLY would love to be able to sing well, but I have completely no idea how I should train myself, or if there are ways to / people who specifically train male voices to sing like a girl...

I couldn't help this one...



I could try the trick with the door, but the real concern is whether the people under me, behind me, and to both sides of me can hear it through their walls.  I think I have pretty good soundproofing because the only sounds I hear from neighbors are their dogs, them yelling at their dogs, them vacuuming, them having sex (the ones on the opposite side of my bedroom wall), and video games turned up too loud (the people right under me).  I'm pretty sure I'd be heard because my voice is L.O.U.D.  As in, I can crank it up to 11.  And one of my favorite things to do is turn on and sing to music with high-pitched screams.  I can do the high bit in The Beatles' song without even going into falsetto.

Tips though?  I'm not too good on that.   I've been singing and doing voices since I was a kid and never really lost my high range.  I was 25 before my speaking voice dropped into anything that was at all masculine, and even then I pushed it downward when I didn't want people giving me strange looks.  And when I sang, I always did the high bits.  Stuff like .

But for actually singing like a girl?  I wish I could find a way to do that and have it sound natural, but I'm not there yet.  Working on it though!   I'm doing it by singing lots of Au Revoir Simone.  Especially these two songs:

(I sing an octave higher than them in the chorus)


More than anything, I credit my strange bendy voice to the fact that I've used it in that bendy way since I was a small child and realized what it could do.

[AbraCadabra]

Eh dear Val,
just concerned out the noise factor here, um.
I do recall, living in Germany in an apartment the neighbours would wake me up (eventually).

Funny how THAT actually went. First you sort of dream, then get horny, and only then you actually wake up and hear next door having a splendid good time. Oh my!!!!
ALLWAYS his girl friend (happy chick!), and now WHAT can you do?
It be just too mean to get angry, so I'd suffer in silence, and perspire... sweat... eish.

Living in my own house at present sure helps --- abso->-bleeped-<-inglutely! :-)
Never mind my MUSIC!

Zoë --- just get some good earphones and sing along to your hearts delight!

Axelle
PS: Had blood on the brain (subdural haematoma) OK, not sure this was due to big Os, hehe. Though who would tell?

[apple pie]

I couldn't help this one...

Wow that's a cool song hehe

I'm sort of similar, I have the range alright that I kept from my teenage years (although it is not "huge"), but the higher I go, the less I sound like a girl, which means I end up transposing down all those songs I want to sing anyway if I want to sound like a girl ARGHHHHH

[cynthialee]

thats why I love living in the country

If the neighbors were to bitch I would be blown away and tempted to call them in for their midnight parties......

[JungianZoe]

Zoë --- just get some good earphones and sing along to your hearts delight!

It's not the volume of the music that's the problem, but the volume of my voice.   For someone with bad lungs, I've got some pretty powerful pipes.  Once tested it at Red Rocks (a natural amphitheater about 3 miles from where I live outside of Denver, CO) and if I stood on the stage, my normal speaking voice can be heard in the top row.  Not yelling, but just my voice.  That was my female voice even... my male voice was louder still.  But the female one is getting to the same volume as the male one as I get better resonating in my head rather than from my chest!

Wow that's a cool song hehe

I'm sort of similar, I have the range alright that I kept from my teenage years (although it is not "huge"), but the higher I go, the less I sound like a girl, which means I end up transposing down all those songs I want to sing anyway if I want to sound like a girl ARGHHHHH

That's a common problem because as it sings those notes, a voice thrashed by T has to go into falsetto instead of a natural tone.  You wind up sounding like the Beach Boys when you try.  I don't mean you personally, just the general "you."   I'm working on overcoming this with my own voice, but it's exceptionally tough.  Determined to get there someday though, because I love singing more than I love most things in life, and I hate that it kills my passability.