On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 15:31 -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote: > I was told in grade 4 choir to NOT sing ... just mouth the words. It's > 50+ years later and I still avoid singing ... and I'm probably not > that awful. Shows the effect of a teacher on a young mind. And, I > fear, that things have not changed all that much in the last 50 years. What is bad singing? Neil Young wasn't a good singer and today he's less good as in the early days, but it suits to his kind of west coast music [1]. A weak point can become groundbreaking, this is part of the work artist should do. We've got the technology to fix the singing of Neil Young. I bet nobody would buy a Neil Young + Crazy Horse "Antares" album. That reminds me that there's some truth in the study. Some days ago I listened to "Ragged Glory" 1990 and IIRC the chords and rhythm of more than the half songs on that album are simpler as for the old songs from him. [1] I'm not sure if in other countries Neil Young and musicians like him are called west cost musicians http://board.rapmusic.com/hip-hop-central/903136-top-100-west-coast-songs-all-time.html "Cos what I call home you call hell" - Ice-T (Perhaps this is west coast music) Greetz from South Central Ruhrgebiet Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
