0 being a tone deaf mutt whom all who have heard you think you are a tone deaf mutt when it comes to singing. If you are truly and honestly a 10 then your singing is top notch and you have blown away listeners.
I'm 48 years of age and I have never been in a choir in my life. In bands I have been in I have never sang a note, in fact usually the only non singing member.
I'm being totally honest and I'd rate my singing about 1.
I sing painfully flat and out of key and I've got literally no vocal range nor clue when it comes to singing. That's me being brutally honest, how would you score your singing ?
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I sang in a semi-pro choir as a teen, and I'd rate myself personally as a 4.
The strange thing is that I am perfectly content to listen to vocalists such as Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Billy Bragg and Richard Thompson - none of whom could be described as bel canto. They are more "off" than I am willing to allow myself to be.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youI'd say zero, but I've never worked on my singing. If someone plays a note, my first attempt would be off, but I could quickly bend my voice to the pitch.
It's not just me that thinks I can't sing either - I have tried once or twice, and the unfortunate bystanders agree. I have also recorded myself in the privacy of my own home and it's not nice listening back…
I have almost always been painfully aware of this too - I was written off as 'tone deaf' by the music teachers at school, and unfortunately I took that at face value, so dropped 'Music' as soon as I was able and assumed I was just unmusical. Later I became very interested in music as a listener (which should probably have given me a clue that I wasn't), and eventually taught myself to play the guitar by ear, after I became interested in it via my electronics hobby and helping some older boys at school repair their guitars and amps. I eventually realised that the reason I hated singing is exactly because I can hear how bad it is.
I've also been in bands where I have been the only non-singing member - in one case a six-piece. I have usually made up for it by also being the soundman.
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On a good day my singing is not that terrible, but I'v tried to record my vocals once and it was truly horrible experience having to listen to it afterwards. I can to backing vocals etc, but I consider myself a non-singer.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youI would say, from memory, I thought "Well well, he's not half bad at all - rather good show that." And then rapidly tried to remember where I was in the song on bass....