Sing Me A Song
Singing can be a source of great joy. Sometimes just humming a song can take our mind off our troubles.
- When did you last sing to yourself or to someone else?
- What type of music was it or the song title and group?
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Today in the shower. It was the Cranberries Linger and Zombie. ❤️
@soulsings
Long-time choir member here. The present choir sings French pop songs, so usually not too interesting to me, but at least it's singing in a group as a female baritone.
I sing to kids, for instance, walking them back from school (there are all kinds of marching songs for children and scouts).
I am pretty good at whistling all the more that tunes are better remembered than words. It could be arias, folk tunes, hymns, and these come out while walking, either in town or outside in the countryside.
- When did you last sing to yourself or to someone else?
- What type of music was it or the song title and group?
@Fradiga you sound like a very musical person - a female baritone sounds like a deep voice. Do you have any recordings that do not reveal your personal identity that you care to share?
@soulsings
Well, when you are part of a choir, your voice is NOT supposed to be distinct from the rest of the "instrument" that a choir is. Choir singers are also supposed to have a "white" voice, which means no tremolos should be heard. This is why you can't really hear me in a choir.
Of course some recordings have been made for all the choirs I belonged to but they are not commercialized and I have no legal right to use them.
I have enjoyed a great voice range most of my life, reaching the C above the G clef staff (making me a soprano), but I lost the upper range by first, accepting to sing alto (the joke is that altos are actually sopranos who can actually read music) too many years and then back in 2015, my upper range dropped further during chemotherapy. I then noticed how low my range could get, although not with a lot of resonance, but I reach the A at the bottom of the F clef staff still, and two notes lower when I have a cold. My speaking voice is medium to high, which is not deserved as a smoker..
This treatment was also the cause of neuropathy in my hands where I lost so much sensitivity that I had to stop playing the harp or other string instruments. I can play some piano still, but not too fast....
Thanks for reading the whole thing!
@Fradiga now I understand how you got to where you are today. Sorry for the loss of your upper range but you are a survivor and make the most of what you have. I hear you choirs are a blending. Thanks for sharing in detail.
@soulsings
❞ i sang for the last time to my beloved soul, a song woven into the strings of my guitar. how sorrowful it is that i shall never sing to it again.
@raggedlibrarian that is a very moving quote. Who wrote that?
@soulsings
❞i just wrote this in honor of my love who died a year ago
@raggedlibrarian it is so beautiful. That is the start of a poem if you care to say more. It is very poetic.
❞yes, i sometimes write poems for the soul, some of them are philosophical, but there are also those dedicated to her. but unfortunately they are in russian
@raggedlibrarian oh thta is unfortunate as I do not know Russian but google translate may be a help but may lose the poetic flow.
❞ there you go. one of this.
February
The cold snow falls. A boundless grief unending,
Like winter’s smoke above the storm-torn trees.
Your grave lies frozen, silent and unbending,
And I stand lone, as once before, the breeze.
Oh, there were days your breath would warm my being,
A chest now scarred by wounds of time and fate.
Your lips—now but a dream’s pale flickered seeing,
And frozen stands the age, its call abate.
Where is the fire of those eyes once gleaming,
A torch amidst the tempest’s howling flight?
Now only snow, its merciless redeeming,
Lies white, unyielding, shrouded deep in night.
Oh life, where is that fleeting, lost sensation,
When once your voice sang softly, pure and bright?
Now only chill and voiceless desolation,
In mute gray days, in snowdrifts lost from sight.
And yet, amidst the storm’s bewitched endeavor,
I see you there, within the winter’s snare.
But lips that once gave kisses lost forever
Are silent now—like February’s air.
@raggedlibrarian this is such a stunning expression of grief. I am still feeling its resonance within me.
If you care to PM me https://www.7cups.com/@soulsings I am really sensing you have a great poetic sense.
"I never sing a whole song to anyone, but it's really therapeutic for me to just sing with karaoke. I like pop, country, or indie sometimes. My neighbors probably want to kill me, I'm sure. Haha. Am I improving my English? I have some issues."
@selfconfidentCucumber2324 youi must be singing loud if it bothers the neighbors!
@soulsings
It has been so long i don't remember.
I used to sing songs all the time... all my 20s basically.. in my 30s I made a transition to reading and singing got replaced... it's searching for solace through words.. before it was in love songs , now it's about stories ...