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Your ear may be used to it, but if your voice isn't equipped, you shouldn't do it. Singing in too high of a tessitura for one's voice for any extended period of time is damaging to the vocal chords.

I'm not being mean to him. I just don't understand why his choir instructor insists on putting him, a baritone who has trouble with notes above middle C, on tenor which, if he's singing tenor 1 (and I really hope that's not the case), can go up at least to the G above that, if not higher. (It shouldn't be any higher than G if it's a typical SATB with consideration for part writing rules and ranges, but that rule has been broken many times.)

Right now, "Love Out of Lust." Sharon Van Etten

"Bellows to Brass Lens"-Eksi Ekso

"I Want the World to Stop"-Belle and Sebastian :tongue:

The National vs. The Antlers

^ What? :wtf:

1. "Harold T. Wilkins, or How to Wait for a Very Long Time"-Fanfarlo 2. "Albatross"-Eksi Ekso 3. "The Perpetual Self, or 'What Would Saul Alinsky Do?'"-Sufjan Stevens 4. "Electrify"-MuteMath 5. "Serpents"-Sharon Van Etten 6. "Tarantula"-Pendulum 7. "Waking Up Sideways"-Kassidy 8. "September Sun"-Type O Negative 9. "Septett in E-flat, Op. 20: Thema con Variazioni"-Ludwig van Beethoven 10. "This Is My House, This Is My Home"-We Were Promised Jetpacks

Not to sound like I'm slamming you guys, but lack of ability to read rhythm is a typical choir thing and not really a you thing. (Many of my choir friends in college have acknowledged this.) Of course, you guys have the added challenge of learning words. But yeah. Why on earth are you singing tenor if you have trouble with stuff over C4? Good gosh. :dead: Please tell me you're at least a tenor 2 and not a tenor 1. That would be beyond stupid.

"Swamp People." :heart: (Haterz gon' hate.)

"Warpath"-Esben and the Witch

"Standing in Silence, Part 14"-Rhian Sheehan

The forum. Specifically, it was either you ^ or Tammi, although I can't remember which. These New Puritans

The National vs. Elbow

"Faust Arp"

"Don't Waste Time Doing Things You Hate"-And So I Watch You From Afar

"Zombie"-Natalia Kills

"Kisses"-Elbow

Ummm. "Music Now," probably. The Killers

1. "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"-Mannheim Steamroller 2. "Mouth Wooed Her"-Animal Collective 3. "Running Away"-Friendly Fires 4. "Monarch"-Feist 5. "Violet Hill"-Coldplay 6. "Coventry Carol"-Mannheim Steamroller 7. "Blame Game (feat. John Legend)"-Kanye West 8. "Like Dylan in the Movies"-Belle and Sebastian 9. "With Wreaths of Rose and Laurel"-The King's Singers 10. "Tranquilize (feat. Lou Reed)"-The Killers (I have a feeling that now I have my laptop with everything on it, my lists will be much different.)

Would classical music be acceptable to post in this thread?

Acting? More reasonable? Uhhhhhno. It's highly unstable as far as trying to find jobs is concerned. Oh, so you do choir? That's nice. :nice: Maybe if you worked hard enough, you could go into a choir program in college or something. One thing I've learned is that college definitely helps you improve A LOT. Also, piano can help you; if it's like my college, you're required to take piano classes (that teach you the very basics of how to play piano). If you're good enough and get into a music program, you can talk to someone and maybe test out of some of those classes. (My school of music offered me that option during my orientation, and I ended up testing out of all but the last one, and only because the professor thought I needed a refresher on a bit of the theory.) As far as the physics question, I've never had to take physics. However, I do know that if you go for it, get into AP Physics your senior year, and do well enough, you can acquire college credit and get some of your classes out of the way, which is always a good thing. I didn't have to take any English or history in college due to that very thing. (I bombed the Calculus one so badly, though. Thankfully, I only needed one semester of math, anyway.)

This actually doesn't sound like a bad idea. Sure, I'll participate. :D

That's just creepy.

As I am finishing up my degree in music education right now, I believe my input will be important here. First, you can't just go into music theory for a bachelor's degree. It's just not possible. Now, if you got a degree in music education, you could get your master's in music theory. (I've actually thought about doing it myself, but I won't. At least, not yet.) Anyway, doing music on its own is hard enough as it is. I don't know how other schools do their credits and whatnot, but it takes a lot. First, you have to be somewhat talented to get into the school of music. Some schools are stricter than others, but they don't just let anyone walk in and declare a music major. You have to audition for it and get accepted. Also, the schedules for a music major take up more time. Why? We have more hours to take. The average degree takes 120 credit hours. My music degree requires 133. Thankfully, I took summer classes and had 18 hours of AP credit going into it, so that wasn't really an issue for me. There's also the matter of classes for music majors being worth less. People in other majors complain about having 4 3-hour classes. When I started out, I was taking 10 classes worth 16 hours. That included ensembles, some fundamental music classes, a weekly studio class, a weekly lesson, and recital attendance (which didn't count for any hours, but was required for 7 semesters in order to fulfill part of your degree). Oh, and you HAD to do at least one ensemble a semester. That's required for all music majors, including composition majors and those majoring in guitar. Anyway, I don't know about engineering, but I imagine it has its own challenges. Trying to do that and music at the same time is a terrible idea. If you have any other questions regarding the music route, please let me know. I will do my best to help. :nice: