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Friday, April 21, 2006

The Reasons Why K-ing is Bad for Singing

After YF's "Do's and Don'ts in Karaoke", I'd like to give my own little advice about the "don'ts" to karaoke at all. Yes, say no to karaoke unless you are going with lots of people such that you do more talking than singing. In that way you may have fun without paying the price of damaging your voice.

1. You sing while sunk deep into the sofa, with stomach, diaphragm all wrung together. Try projecting your voice in that position.

2. From your sunken position more often than not you look up at the screen, straining your neck and throat muscles. That's no way to sing man. Just look at i tenori.

3. Your real voice gets distorted through the mic. You can't hear the pitches properly. You can't hear yourself properly really.

4. Rooms are smoky.

5. Rooms are cold. When cold you lose control over muscles to produce the desired pitches.

6. Snacks given are exactly of the kinds that hurt the throat. Do you eat roasted, crunchy, salty snacks when you have a sore throat?

1 Comments:

Blogger Yifan said...

Perhaps the bathrooms should have water-proof ktv systems for people to sing to themselves while showering. Then again I think many people go to k-box to show off their singing talents.

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