Music:

[TheWriter]

If you enjoy music, do you sing along or do you just bop your head back and forth to mMBop?

What style of music do you listen to?

I love Country, Gospel, Christian, Rock, Minimal rap (if it is respectful I do not listen to that hate mess.)

Garth Brooks (Who I am told I look like from time to time)
Brooks & Dunn
Shania Twain
Travis Tritt

Do I sing to it? You betcha

I love the song Believe by Brooks and Dunn.

I used to be in a music group called Always ~N~ 4Eva when I was younger. My voice messed up, so I sing to myself at times I can really sing, but others its WATCH OUT TRAIN WRECK! lol Tourettes really messed my voice up cuz of my vocal tic.

Regardless, I still do my best. I was also in a Church Choir with my sister.

The songs we always sang.

 

[Lynx]

Didn't we just do this?

Copy-paste from the last thread like this:

So... Music...

I'm a bit of a music nerd. Like, my friends know to never, ever bring up the topic around me. I can talk for hours about food, computers or chocolate. I can talk for DAYS STRAIGHT about music. Your eyes will glaze over, guaranteed. Do. Not. EVER. Ask me to recommend a song in a certain style or on a certain topic. More than a week later I'll still be saying, "Oh yeah, here's another song I thought of that might fit what you're looking for."

LISTENING: I have everything in my collection. It's all Christian, but it's everything from bluegrass banjo to rap, from black choir to Jamaican, from old quartets to heavy metal. I can guarantee I will be able to find something you like in my collection, as well as something that will get on your last ever-loving nerve.

SINGING: As my signature line says, I sing at church. I also sing at home. And in my car. And at work, at the supermarket, at Walmart... They do give me a microphone at church, although I don't know if they turn the volume way down on my mic. I'm afraid to ask.

MAKING:
I make soundtracks for songs I want to sing at church. Every church's piano player always has a very full plate, so it's just easier than asking them to squeeze in learning my song. I use Reaper digital audio workstation (cheerful name, I know... They had a contest and that name won. Very good program though.) I also use a lot of virtual instruments.
Here's a song by Carl Cartee, "Chasing After You."


Here's a soundtrack I made for that song:
https://app.box.com/s/enap94g3rbqrbzpxf389

Give it a chance until the chorus at least.

 

[melita916]

I sing.
I listen to rock.
I play the violin. I know enough chords on the guitar to get by lol.

 

[TheWriter]

I sing.
I listen to rock.
I play the violin. I know enough chords on the guitar to get by lol.

I tried playing guitar lol I failed at it just can’t get my hands right lol I know anyone can play it however, I got big hands so it makes it a challenge.

I do want to learn the piano though. In middle school I learned a little about it in music class but that knowledge had long since been gone.

 

[JohnDB]

I tried playing guitar lol I failed at it just can’t get my hands right lol I know anyone can play it however, I got big hands so it makes it a challenge.

I do want to learn the piano though. In middle school I learned a little about it in music class but that knowledge had long since been gone.

My wife has tiny hands and has a difficult time getting them around the neck of the guitar to make the cords.

You just need a thicker neck and strings a little wider spaced.

 

[TheWriter]

My wife has tiny hands and has a difficult time getting them around the neck of the guitar to make the cords.

You just need a thicker neck and strings a little wider spaced.

I had never thought of that 🙂 thank you for the idea I’ll look into it

 

[TheWriter]

My wife has tiny hands and has a difficult time getting them around the neck of the guitar to make the cords.

You just need a thicker neck and strings a little wider spaced.

I’m still partial to the piano though lol

 

[JohnDB]

I’m still partial to the piano though lol

I learned how to play as a child. And the skills I learned then gave me typing skills lasting into the computer age. I don't use a computer often and don't type much. My wife who does, she hunts and pecks all day long. She has to watch her hands most of the time. I don't. (Scientists say something it's about developing neural pathways)

However, I learned to play proficient....but for whatever reason my hands couldn't make music. I like music...I play air guitars and pianos when my songs come on the radio....but deep within me where that talent comes from is dead. As in a missing arm dead. I simply don't own it. I can only carry a tune if I'm handing out CDs or Hymnals.

 

[HopeinHim98]

do you sing along or do you just bop your head back and forth to mMBop?

Oh I sing along!!! I'll harmonize if it's too low or too high. Sometimes I look up karaokes to my favorite songs and sing my heart out. But more often I'm doing it at my keyboard.

 

[HopeinHim98]

Oh I sing along!!! I'll harmonize if it's too low or too high. Sometimes I look up karaokes to my favorite songs and sing my heart out. But more often I'm doing it at my keyboard.

But I actually don't know what mMBop is...

 

[TheWriter]

But I actually don't know what mMBop is...

Lol it is a old song but strange lol it is on YouTube it is very jarring to me

 

[TheWriter]

But I actually don't know what mMBop is...

I warned ya

 

[HopeinHim98]

I warned ya

Lol not my style. But the words aren't too bad!

 

[TheWriter]

Lol not my style. But the words aren't too bad!

Lol not mine neither

 

[TheWriter]

The whole Mmbop gets stuck in the mind its like ugh get out lol

 

[George0115]

I warned ya

I remember Hanson lol. Not my style of music though. Give me Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen was the man. Greatest guitar player of all time. RIP Eddie. Anytime I hear people talking about music, I always get Van Halen in there for some reason.

 

[TheWriter]

I remember Hanson lol. Not my style of music though. Give me Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen was the man. Greatest guitar player of all time. RIP Eddie. Anytime I hear people talking about music, I always get Van Halen in there for some reason.

Lol it’s all good. Hanson was way too much back in the day lol too many people in class thought they were too weird lol blonde heads mmmboppin to some crazy mess head bobbin. Like hmmmm so is there a reason for this nightmare? I thought Barney was bad lol but they took the cake

 

[TheWriter]

Lol it’s all good. Hanson was way too much back in the day lol too many people in class thought they were too weird lol blonde heads mmmboppin to some crazy mess head bobbin. Like hmmmm so is there a reason for this nightmare? I thought Barney was bad lol but they took the cake

They took the cake and made it out of mud

 

[Lanolin]

I like Shania Twain

I like acoustic karaoke (guitar). I play along but dont ask me to do anything solo!
I enjoy singing but I dont have a high range.

haha Hanson...I dont know if they did any other songs but Mmbop would have been one every tween of a certain age knew.

Most music today is more finger tapping and clicky, instruments and sound technology has changed. You arent going to find a full orchestra in churches these days ...nobody has organs anymore, but a lot have a whole sound suite with someone controlling all the sound mixing in the back.

Im like, I want to go to a church where everyone plays harps.

 

[Lanolin]

If you can play the piano, thats a talent many can or learn but then dont play

Pianos are just too big an bulky to fit in most homes now. I had a keyboard but I traded for a guitar.
I would like to try other instruments but I need one thats portable. So maybe not a huge drumkit.

Harmonica?
I think I like strings because I just like plucking. I dont do chords I tried but could never remember them so I just finger pluck. Its not how you are supposed to play a guitar but thats how I play. As long as its in tune it doest matter.