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16 Oct 2012, 3:17 am
BlueMax wrote:
BobinPgh wrote:
BlueMax wrote:
I've got perfect-pitch and can sing decently but I don't have a soloist voice... you know, the exciting type that makes people cheer after a song.
I made a better director than singer in that regard... (except those in the church choir that were nearly tone-deaf tend to get ornery if you keep telling them their pitch is really off. Pity they also like to sing the loudest, drowning out the ones in tune!)
I made a better director than singer in that regard... (except those in the church choir that were nearly tone-deaf tend to get ornery if you keep telling them their pitch is really off. Pity they also like to sing the loudest, drowning out the ones in tune!)
Do you think the "sensory Issues" would prevent someone being in the choir? I have been rejected (it was ugly) but I sincerely wanted to learn. It might take me 3 to 4 tries before I know the songs, but would you reject someone who was sincere?
Also, my sister is in a high class church choir and she tells me don't try because I am on the spectrum and she is not.
You'd have to be abysmally bad for any church choir director to really turn you away.
I mean completely tone deaf and an assault to the senses! 
Blue Max,
If you are a director can you advise me? I know there is no way for you to hear me (maybe though I will make a you tube video) but how can I best prepare myself for an audition? There is a choir for the gay community I might be interested in. But I never had the class in high school and that is where the church director blamed my high school for my "problem". Anyway, they play some on the piano, am I supposed to go ah, or oo or what? I did a demonstration with the theme from "Another World" and she liked it but then fired me later. I really tried to apologize if I was a jerk or something but never had the chance. What would you look for or rather, hear for? Or do Not want to hear? Sometimes I get anxious and screw up. Would it be ok to ask for a second chance if that happened? I was told but a director that "I have to accept and maybe should take up bowling" instead
Here is the part that gets me: People hear me sing and say I have a nice voice but then I get rejected by "professionals". I don't say this because I am egotistical, it drives me nuts because if I sounded like Sh-- I would not care at all. I play guitar and piano, but barely if that helps. Then people ask me what happened and I cannot tell them.
I know to dress well and all that but now my family thinks I can't sing because there is something wrong with my brain "on the spectrum" than maybe I did not learn something? Does it usually take 3 to 4 tries to learn a new piece of music? If you don't want to answer you don't have to.
Ignore your sister's advice... sounds more like she's trying to keep you off "her turf". If you want to do it, do it! You may not be a star of the show, but that's the wrong reason to be in a group anyway!
