General Music Chat

LOL, Its the same Down hehn in Texas example;

One mornin I was a feelin sa bad I got up and threw my dang peeller out the winder. Then ma wiofe brung me some cowfee and thangs got better from thar.
oil=all
haircut=harcut
batteries=batree's
beer=bear
guitar=geetar or guitfiddle

West Virginia must be close to Georgia, my geoghraphy is not that great.
about 4 years ago I was in Georgia and I was in the supermarket and I was asking where something was at and the lady was telling me ova thaya and I couldn't understand the word thaya=there

exhale wooh! dude! what was this thread about

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about 4 years ago I was in Georgia and I was in the supermarket and I was asking where something was at and the lady was telling me ova thaya and I couldn't understand the word thaya=there [/quote]

Most of my relatives are from Georgia or Texas and I just figure if I can understand every other word, then I am in good shape. I told my cousin the reason I can't understand him is because of the 5 pound bag of sugar he emptied in his 12 ounces of ice tea makes his mouth stick together constantly so he can't say things right. He has return comments, but they were uncreative and unrepeatable.

The day my son was born, I called my relatives to give them the news. My uncle asked me what we were naming him, & I told him "Ian."

"Ay-yun! That ain't no name for a bow-ee!" (translates to "Ann! That ain't no name for a boy!")

HJ - you need to bone up on your geography, man. We're quite a distance from GA. I'm inbetween MD & PA, sorta. If you make a fist, stick out your thumb & middle finger, palm up, with your right hand, that's a good idea of how WV is shaped. I'm in the thumb area. My uncle lives up north in the tip of the middle finger, in Wheeling. That's between PA & OH.

Phil, yuh fergot "win-derrs" (windows)
Funny stuff dude. It's like that here too in southwest VA, and in TN when I lived there. I had to really lose the accent when I moved to Florida for a while..

Oh yeah!

"Mah mah-wum sayez Ah gots tuh warsh the deeshez ee-in duh zinc under duh winder."

And don't forget the fascination with walmart. I can't write the accent out here, but we went to walmart three times in one day because they didn't have a super walmart and my aunt found it fascinating.

Hi all,
I guess singing problems have something in common with feeling that you need to adjust or tame your speaking accent.
Where I live in East Sussex the kids all speak south London TV speak, but plenty of the older people have broad country accents like you see in films of Thomas Hardy and DH Lawrence.

Singing is a bit stressful for me not just because I don't sing too well, because as has been pointed out, if you look at Bob Dylan, or Jimi Hendrix and countless other who sang their own songs, their voices were not great technically; but they were strong in the sense that they confidentally expressed their songs with them.
My problem is in not feeling that my voice is the right messenger boy... it doesn't feel to be telling the right story, or with the right tone and emphasis... and I am always struggling to stay on pitch.

If I had that self confidence I would just belive the problem lay with the people who say I can't sing.
But not to exagerate it... it's not every person who hears my CD who says I can't sing, but maybe most people just lie to be kind!

Hearing Jessica singing, and those notes flowing out bang on pitch every time (to my ear!), it just made me wish I had waited in the queue for good voices a little longer, and not rushed on to join the queue for one of God's heavenly guitars!
Mark P...............

I might just be a redneck, the only 4 places I shop

Walmart
Home Depot
Guitar Center
Auto Zone

and thats it

Mark, I always wondered why the Beatles (and some other English-UK groups) had that great UK accent when they spoke, but none of it was discernable (where's the spellcheck on this site?) when they sang? That was always confusing to me...

Hello ZXYZ,
Funny you picked the beatles as an example, as they struck me as singing very much in their spoken Liverpudlian tongue, at least in the early days.
Later John sounded more American to me, but Paul, now Sir Paul! sounded always a Liverpudlian.
It seems very much the accepted thing in the pop/rock world to sing in an Anglicised American accent, though some like Freddie Mercury who was half Indian of course, kept a good London accent.
I just sing in middle English, but my friend Gwyn, if you want to check him out in the first verse of Money Gone (I sing the rest) on my profile, sings in Anglo/American... which I would guess around 50 or 60% of all rock singers do here.

An interesting subject ZXYZ; I wonder what some other think?
Cheers,
Mark....................

heh heh heh - so why do American singers try to sing in an English accent? I've heard this more than once, & it fascinates me...perhaps to be more understandable?

Hello Phil,
I have not come across an American singing in English... I like that idea as I just always assumed it was English people who would think American was the coolest accent coming I guess from the blues.

There were a lot of the big progressive English rock bands from the seventies who sang in English, like Genesis and Yes etc, but pop chart stuff seems to me always to have been in American... listen to Mick Jagger etc. Then I guess you have Rod Stewart in a funny kind of Scottish American... and several modern day Irish boy-bands is Irish-American.

Perhaps I will write my next song in American!
Mark.......................

What I really hate is hearing a fckin twang coming out of someone who's never even been to a southern town/city. It just makes me sick sometimes. Meh, yea, I know I need help.

Hi Andrew,
I suppose we need to remember that the voice is an instrument like any other... like you might turn up the treble on your guitar, or make it muted and jazzy.
I think I had one voice I used at home with my parents, and another I used at work with the fairly roughly spoken guys (blokes in the UK) I worked with.
Every time we sing we put on some kind of a voice I think.
Cheers,
Mark.....................

LOL

Around here, the word "accent" sounds like "ack-say-yent!"

I recall an 'ol boy from south of our western boarder that once told me he needed "new TARS for his car"