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pidunk 10:19 pm UTC 08/15/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Were still the chirldren - pidunk 09:13 pm UTC 08/15/07 |
> >I think they'd probably claim > > he's just not very good. Jim can't sing his way out of a > > wet paper bag. By professional standards. > > ROFL!!! :) :) One should be aware, if one is not, that > singing as a trained art, is one that gives one the > ability to sing badly, or to sing well. If Jim wanted to > sing and sound like he has snot running down his nose, he > could....without the snot! He can sing like he can't >sing,> he can sing like he can, and he can sing his way out >of a wet paper bag, except he should not actually be in a >wet paper bag in the first place. Not knowing who he was, I > spoke to him and said that they way he speaks sounds to me > like he could sing very well. It takes alot of talent to do badly what one could also do well. Good actors can act like bad actors, good singers can sing like bad singers.....It is part of the skills. I can choose the quality I attempt to sing at, and in the past I hated to let anyone hear me sing so I purposefully didn't sing like I had any ability to sing at all. On Jim Cypherd's radio jingle.....I got a real kick out of it....he did not sound like he could sing with vibratto, or with any kind of breath regulation at all. The art of singing is one that is a talent as well as a life-saver. Singing requires more emphasis on the diaphragm than breathing does alone. One does not ordinarily realize this, but the diaphragm is the origin of the breathing motivation to the rest of the body that pushes the air into and out of the lungs. The lungs do only part of the work, but its engine is the diaphragm. The muscle of the diaphragm, which one knows of in the center of their abdomen, is that muscle that one could control in order to extend breaths, if one so needed to do so, and this is called "staggered breathing". Exercise of the diaphragm is paramount to singing. The breath is pushed across and through the larynx to emit the sounds. One can also just as easily refrain from using the diaphragm in their singing, and sound like any untrained singer. Hence, a good singer can sing like a bad singer. As for the life-saving part: I had a near respiratory arrest in the hospital that for the sake of knowing how to push air with the diaphragm, would have completely kept me from breathing. When I have had my other episodes previously I was able to use my knowledge of breathing in order to push air when my lungs wanted to stop. I find I have to explain this to doctors, so they know how severe my experiences really have been. More than ever before, without the need to sing a note, I need to explain that I am a trained singer. | |
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