Okay, NOW I'm panicking
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figmoToday the rabbi arrived in San Jose. She left me a packet of songs she'd like me to do tomorrow night.
It's 1/4" thick.
I'm not going out tonight in hopes of possibly making it through some of these. I'm about ready to crash and I'm terrified. I can sort of sight-read the ones written in simpler keys (two flats/sharps or less), but when I get something in E flat, AIEEE! As if that isn't enough, these prayer tunes often have complex rhythms or time signature changes every couple of measure.
To top things off, some of these are not in "my key" (as in "it hurts my throat or sounds screechy when I sing them"), but because of the way I am, I suck at transposing while sight reading them. I'm cursed with perfect pitch, which means if I see a C, I "have" to sing a C.
If I didn't have to work tomorrow I'd just spend the day entering them into my computer and trying them in different keys. Unfortunately, I don't have that option.
It's 1/4" thick.
I'm not going out tonight in hopes of possibly making it through some of these. I'm about ready to crash and I'm terrified. I can sort of sight-read the ones written in simpler keys (two flats/sharps or less), but when I get something in E flat, AIEEE! As if that isn't enough, these prayer tunes often have complex rhythms or time signature changes every couple of measure.
To top things off, some of these are not in "my key" (as in "it hurts my throat or sounds screechy when I sing them"), but because of the way I am, I suck at transposing while sight reading them. I'm cursed with perfect pitch, which means if I see a C, I "have" to sing a C.
If I didn't have to work tomorrow I'd just spend the day entering them into my computer and trying them in different keys. Unfortunately, I don't have that option.
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Date: 2003-10-05 05:46 am (UTC)Second, you'll sound great in comparison. You know that. It's like the story of the sneakers in Doctor Who's "Survivor" episode (you have the sneakers on). You may not be happy with your performance, but you'll do fine.
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Date: 2003-10-05 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-05 04:20 pm (UTC)Two mates are camping in the jungle and deep in the middle of one night, one wakes up the other. "Did you hear that?" the bloke says.
"Hear wha—" and then they listen to this low growl.
"That's a tiger!" says the first man. His mate reaches under his bunk and takes out his sneakers and socks. Another growl comes, closer.
"What are you doing??" the first man says. His mate just puts on one sock and sneaker. There's a third growl, from behind the tent, on the other side of the entrance. "You can't outrun a tiger? You're crazy!"
The mate finishes lacing up the second sneaker and, just as he's at the front flap of the tent, turns back. "I don't have to outrun the tiger."