Maybe this can help somebody: Choral music

[divisi]

I was doubting whether to post this in the chat forum, but I believe it's better suited in this one because it can perhaps be helpful for some stutterers here:

You know, we don't stutter while singing. It's like a gift, so why not enjoy it?

Any of you ever tried to join a choir? If you didn't, it's a great experience: you meet a lot of people, you enjoy the beauty of choral polyphonic music, and you learn new skills.

There're amateur choirs that you can join even if you don't read music notation nor have any previous singing experience (it's important to read notation and to have a good vocal technique -they're requisites for joining serious choirs-, but you can learn both with time).

I'm just a newbie, I discovered the world of choral music a couple of years ago, but I joined an amateur SATB choir even if I didn't have previous experience. In this time I've met a lot of new people, I've progressed in learning music notation and improving vocal technique, and I've really enjoyed the beauty of this kind of music.

And it's nice that I'll never stutter when singing in the choir!!

There's a problem, though: You're no longer afraid of stuttering, but however other fears surround you, like being on pitch and singing notes at the exact timing :rolleyes:

[happy7117]

I was doubting whether to post this in the chat forum, but I believe it's better suited in this one because it can perhaps be helpful for some stutterers here:

You know, we don't stutter while singing. It's like a gift, so why not enjoy it?

Any of you ever tried to join a choir? If you didn't, it's a great experience: you meet a lot of people, you enjoy the beauty of choral polyphonic music, and you learn new skills.

There're amateur choirs that you can join even if you don't read music notation nor have any previous singing experience (it's important to read notation and to have a good vocal technique -they're requisites for joining serious choirs-, but you can learn both with time).

I'm just a newbie, I discovered the world of choral music a couple of years ago, but I joined an amateur SATB choir even if I didn't have previous experience. In this time I've met a lot of new people, I've progressed in learning music notation and improving vocal technique, and I've really enjoyed the beauty of this kind of music.

And it's nice that I'll never stutter when singing in the choir!!

There's a problem, though: You're no longer afraid of stuttering, but however other fears surround you, like being on pitch and singing notes at the exact timing :rolleyes:

Ahh!! The choir! Many have asked me if I have sung before, and I have always said "Absolutely not..I sound absolutely terrible!". Choral speech does help me too, but to join an actual choir to acheive that effect sounds very embarrasing for me. Now if we did not have to sing in a choir, which I could do, I would be all for it. But I am so tone-deaf, I would sound rediculace! Choral reading I can do within a choir, but singing no matter how fluent it would make me, would make everyone cover their ears!

[divisi]

Some people say "tone-deaf" when they mean a different thing. For example, if somebody plays the piano and you've to sing the same notes, if you realize that you're singing out of pitch, you're not "tone-deaf" (you sang it wrong because it was out of pitch, but you realized you did it wrong, so you're __not__ tone-deaf).

There're people who are not able to realize if they sing with the correct pitch or not. That's a problem, but can be fixed: I've read that music teachers are usually able to fix this problem in their students (although it requires a lot of effort and practice, perhaps a year or so).

[divisi]

WTB: I didn't mean this suggestion to take advantage of the "choral effect", but to just enjoy singing, forget about stuttering (we don't stutter while singing), meet a lot of friends who all share their passion about music, learn new skills... and discover the beauty of choral music (it's so beautiful).