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May. 13th, 2006 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
titusnowlDid you know that birds have two separate vocal cord things? I've often thought it sounded like my bird was making two noises at the same time, and it turns out that yes, that's exactly what he was doing. He can croon and chirp at the same time, or whistle with two notes in harmony. It's cool.
I envy him that, because whenever I hear harmony, I hear all of it. I can't follow just one line, I hear them all, each a separate thing and yet all together creating another separate thing that is the group of them. I'm listening to the Bangles' cover of "Hazy Shade of Winter," and I'm trying to sing along, but I can't pick a single line to cover - I want to sing them all. I have to play it three or four times and sing different notes each time.
If I could slow it down a little and get a good handle on each separate line of the harmony, I could sing it over and over and multitrack it in Audacity and have a one-person harmonized version of it, but I'm not really feeling up to that tonight.
I also sing the backup vocals on most songs. I hear them just as well as I hear the lead singer's melody, and I usually like the notes the backups sing better - they often get to go for dissonance or at least a good, interesting effect with a note three steps down on the scale
My family has a history of singing in the car to pass the time on long trips, and it always amused my mother and annoyed my sister to have me singing counterpoint.
I don't claim to have a wonderful voice, and I don't think I need to have a wonderful voice. I sing for myself, for the joy of it, and although I'd like for other people to think it was pretty - I always crave praise - I'm perfectly happy singing to myself and my parakeet.
Time, time, time, see what's become of me...
I envy him that, because whenever I hear harmony, I hear all of it. I can't follow just one line, I hear them all, each a separate thing and yet all together creating another separate thing that is the group of them. I'm listening to the Bangles' cover of "Hazy Shade of Winter," and I'm trying to sing along, but I can't pick a single line to cover - I want to sing them all. I have to play it three or four times and sing different notes each time.
If I could slow it down a little and get a good handle on each separate line of the harmony, I could sing it over and over and multitrack it in Audacity and have a one-person harmonized version of it, but I'm not really feeling up to that tonight.
I also sing the backup vocals on most songs. I hear them just as well as I hear the lead singer's melody, and I usually like the notes the backups sing better - they often get to go for dissonance or at least a good, interesting effect with a note three steps down on the scale
My family has a history of singing in the car to pass the time on long trips, and it always amused my mother and annoyed my sister to have me singing counterpoint.
I don't claim to have a wonderful voice, and I don't think I need to have a wonderful voice. I sing for myself, for the joy of it, and although I'd like for other people to think it was pretty - I always crave praise - I'm perfectly happy singing to myself and my parakeet.
Time, time, time, see what's become of me...
