Singing Low
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
Something I ordered a couple months ago just came in the mail today. For the left-brain challenged folks like me, a company put together a set of CD's called "Hymn Helper." It teaches the parts of the hymns individually! You don't know how long I've been dying for something like this. The soprano part of some of the hymns are painfully high to me...like "Come, Come Ye Saints," and "O My Father." The words are beautiful and I want to sing, but it hurts to sing that high and I'm tone deaf to the other parts.
I'd always been tempted to ask Heather G. to make a tape of her playing the piano and singing just the alto part for all the hymns. Well, I wouldn't make her do all the hymns. That would be cruel. There are something like 341 of them. But I would have been willing to pay her hourly for her troubles. She's really got the left brain thing down when it comes to music.
Claudia enlightened me about a decade ago by informing me that I'm a mezzo soprano. Translation: I can sing high notes, but not REALLY high. And sometimes it really hurts! It doesn't sound good anyway.
So when I auditioned for the 2ID Soldiers' Chorus in 1998, after singing, the leader asked me what part I sing. I confidently stated, "Mezzo Soprano." (Thanks Claudia!) So he thought I had some formal training in music (NO!), and he put me to the test on the first day of rehearsal. He had us all sing some really mind-bending scales during warmups. And I just stood there. Duh.
posted by Angela Marie at 12:03 AM
Something I ordered a couple months ago just came in the mail today. For the left-brain challenged folks like me, a company put together a set of CD's called "Hymn Helper." It teaches the parts of the hymns individually! You don't know how long I've been dying for something like this. The soprano part of some of the hymns are painfully high to me...like "Come, Come Ye Saints," and "O My Father." The words are beautiful and I want to sing, but it hurts to sing that high and I'm tone deaf to the other parts.
I'd always been tempted to ask Heather G. to make a tape of her playing the piano and singing just the alto part for all the hymns. Well, I wouldn't make her do all the hymns. That would be cruel. There are something like 341 of them. But I would have been willing to pay her hourly for her troubles. She's really got the left brain thing down when it comes to music.
Claudia enlightened me about a decade ago by informing me that I'm a mezzo soprano. Translation: I can sing high notes, but not REALLY high. And sometimes it really hurts! It doesn't sound good anyway.
So when I auditioned for the 2ID Soldiers' Chorus in 1998, after singing, the leader asked me what part I sing. I confidently stated, "Mezzo Soprano." (Thanks Claudia!) So he thought I had some formal training in music (NO!), and he put me to the test on the first day of rehearsal. He had us all sing some really mind-bending scales during warmups. And I just stood there. Duh.
posted by Angela Marie at 12:03 AM