Category: Safe Haven
Hi all,
What does everyone think of the new karokes? The first one mom bought from qvc had a duel tape deck, so you could put a blank tape on the right side, while you put the tape with the songs on it on or in the left hand side. the tapes you bought had the main singers on one side, and the back up singers on the otherside, so you could be the star. I could just play the song as many times as I needed to in order to learn the words, and get the melody right. Now, they play on cds, and there no main singers, the words are written on the tv screen, and we who are totally blind can't just listen to the words anymore, and if you've never heard the song before, how can you learn the melody? And you can't record yourself anymore. They should at least have had a cassette deck next to the cd compartment so you could record yourself from cd to tape. And they call this better?
wonderwoman
now you're talking to someone who does caberait, and excuse the spelling of that. I am blind, and a semi professional singer. the way i tackle the problem is this. I larn a song, then I look at the various versions of the karioke tracks available, and diffrent companies make diffrent styles of the same track, some more true to the original than others. I pick the closest match and go with that one. hth
Depends on your singing I suppose, if one sings really badly not recording it sounds like an improvement to me personally if I recorded myself I would not forgive myself for a long time .
cheers
-B
I think you should prove the point wildebrew, go on, rise to the challenge, sing something for us and put it up as your audio profile!
lol sugar baby, heeheehee, Well, there are just some songs that are a little above my voice range, high pitched I mean, but I'm not a pro by any means, and I don't claim to be, but nobody hears the bad ones except me, and my mom, if she asks to hear it, and if she didn't ask, I wouldn't even play it for her.Well Dobyn, that's a good way to do it I suppose, but ii'm not a professional, but before they changed the whole thing, I liked doing it just for the fun of it. The problem with the way it is now, I don't have much of a way to learn the words.
wonderwoman
I'm v.i. and I can read the words on the screen as long as I'm really close. Usually, the stage people are nice and accomidate that. The main problem I've had is when I go to a karoke place and the intro to the song is really low, so I don't exactly know when to come in or what key the karoke version is in, but it's fun anyway. Plus, most times I choose songs I know by heart anyway. I love karoke events at parties and at our county fair, haven't been to a bar yet though. I don't think I'd get one at home, but i collect a lot of midi files on the computer, then get the lyrics off the net and do them that way. When I get a microphone and (a crack for) soundforge, I can record myself and I will definitely put it up for an audio profile!
That will be interesting Melodica, it's always interesting to hear people's voices after seeing their posts for several months. I use to play in public, well when I was young, I played in public 2 or 3 times, and I was always so nervous, I broke out almost in a rash. Once I was asked to play the pianoat a kiwanna's club, and one of the notes wasn't working, and that totally threw my playing off, and I was totally mortified. When I was learning the guitar, my guitar teacherand her husband put on an arts and crafts show, and I played for that, and people seemed to like it, but I never got where I wasn'tnervous, and I was so terrified of forgetting the words and going totally blank. I played at a citizens band coffee break once, so I think in all, I played in public 3 times.
wonderwoman
Karaokes are fun. Iv'e had a ton of them in my youth. Lol.Well I'm stil in my youth! But y know what I mean. I used to be obsessed. Duel tape decks are the win, and so are tape decks that can record while CD's are playing. Yay for karaokes!
Caitlin
Hi Caitlin,
well, yes they are, I just wish they'd go back to the way they were, it was so much easier.
wonderwoman
Here's something funny. When I was little, I was never nervous at a school play, talent show, or other performance. Now, suddenly I've noticed I'm more nervous at performances now. I wonder what changed... maybe because I was tired of being so different and so confident, lol! I'm only nervous if I get thrown off like I posted before at karokes though. I've always just loved tape-recording random stuff, like stories, different voices, jokes and things, and then speeding the tape up or slowing it down and hearing how funny I sound.
yeah, that can be funny, and if you speed your recording up, you sound like the chipmunks, lol. Well, I think when you're little, maybe you just don't think about things like messing up, and I think we're more confident when we are very small, but some of us get less so after we get older. I'm not sure if that's right, but it sounds right. People tell you how silly it is to feel this or that, but when the feeling comes, it just comes.
wonderwoman
I had (might have if it hasn't been thrown away yet) a cassio songstar... it had two decks, an echo/bolume knob for each mic (I think it had a volume for each one anyway, might have been a master echo/volume) anyway I liked it but then the tapedeck had to break and the other's buttons stopped working. I planned to use it as a radio since my new boombox has a crappy digital station changing thing and I would much rather have a dial but hey...
James