Singing ATPo-pella

Yesterday, ann1962 and midnightsjane linked to a featurette on youtube about the making of OMWF. They say it's in with the season six DVD's, but I don't remember it. (Shows how little I've watched that particular season to the bitter end!). I enjoyed the fact that it shows each of the principles doing something interesting and shows most of them having some difficulty.

I guess I really wish I had a video of the group singing along at the Big House in Tahoe (including dlgood commenting that he didn't do musicals, because that was part of it). I think it was a very interesting study in the way people act in such situations. anom made everything richer by singing harmony a good bit of the time. masqthephlsphr griped because the men all were trying to sing "I'll never tell" as a duet. I wish she was around to discuss it, but I think her complaint was that the men didn't want to sing the girl's part. Personally, I think having enough men and women in one spot willing to sing that we could have done it as a duet was special. She had more of a point when Tara's solo started. I admit the hetero in me likes sitting back and listening to women sing love songs, even though in this case it's sung to a woman. But, I don't think any of the guys had a problem with singing Buffy's numbers or Tara's part in the duet with Giles. Part of the problem with singing all the time is that you don't hear everyone else as well. Like the point where I was running out of gas and atpotch's beautiful voice became abundantly clear.

Personally I have to decide on the fly how I'm going to sing something. I am a tenor naturally, but I've known since shortly after my voice changed that I can speak and sing in a much deeper voice, from the diaphragm as it were. In singing sometimes I can get away with singing the soprano part. Sometimes not. So occasionally I will drop down an octave. We sang occasionally in Spanish class, and my habit of singing down an octave really got to the girl who normally sat beside me one year. She was an absolutely gorgeous cheerleader, a really nice girl, a year older and way, way, way out of my league! I'd get to the point I couldn't hit the high notes and drop down. She'd take it for a while then get up and move! (She'd move back after we stopped singing so it wasn't anything personal.) I suspect that as my voice got tired I didn't sound so good at the sing along, so I'm grateful to scrollgirl, who was right in front of me, for not getting up and moving!