Singing is the most accessible stress reliever
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I would generalize that "breathing is the most accessible stress reliever".
Breathing consciously is the single thing you can do always to relieve stress and get your hormons in balance again.
Singing and chanting and drumming can be even more powerful obviously, but you cannot always do that, but you can (and should) always breathe the right way.
I think a technological solution would exist: A and B hears choirmaster, A and B's sound is sent back to server which syncs it with the choirmasters sound before sending to C, D, E and F. C, D, E and F's sound is sent back to the server which syncs it and sends to G, H, I... etc.
So most people can sing along hearing some of the choir and the latency overall shouldn't be too bad. Scales with log(n) * max(latency)
That is, you hear my "Gently" and join in with "Row," but it's not played back for me until I start singing "Merrily." This could work, but as you can see, it would need some clever delay management.
He could hear if a box had a delay about 2-3ms. Quite hard requirements.
https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/30454/how-does-a-p...
Seriously? Even if electricity has a drift velocity of 50% the speed of light, that's still 150,000 meters in 1 ms - how long is this cable???? There must be something else at play.
But that could just be my reading of the thread.
Maybe it's just familiarity but even that feels too simple an explanation
I think it is. Because it has always been like this for anyone since he played the first time. You press the key and (a bit later) music comes. I doubt anyone consciously notice that it is not instant, but your mind notices and adjusts to it.
let's say you're standing a few meters from a metronome and a musician playing to it. If the musician is close to the metronome, you will hear their playing on beat. The further the musician plays from the metronome, the more delay between you hearing the metronome and their playing, unless the musician stands between you and the metronome. When would you notice the delay?
I used to play Dance Dance Revolution quite regularly. One of our controllers had a lag that made it unplayable for most people. But I found my brain adjusting to it extremely quickly, and I think it's because I was accustomed to doing that already during organ playing.
I wonder if actually it's the delays plus reverb we manage to adjust to. I remember playing church organ too, a while back, and I found the delays much easier to get used to than say a 4 or 5 ms delay in a DAW, even though the delay was probably much bigger. It's like it's training + room acoustics that we use to adjust, rather than the raw numbers of the physical delay
For example, at a really large outdoor concert, you might have speakers near the stage, and another set of speakers further back. If you don't add any delay, then the people sitting far back will hear the signal once from the speakers closest to them, and then they will hear it again from the speakers that are further away (by the stage). The effect will sound like an echo.
So you delay the sound coming out of the further back speakers just enough so that as sound arrives from the stage, the speakers further back produce it at the same time.
And it's not just large venues. in small venues, you sometimes cannot cover the whole area evenly with one set of speakers, so you might have small "fill" speakers to deal with coverage gaps.
Also, on a grand piano, the hammer generally strikes before bottoming out, unless you play sufficiently loud, the timing dependent on how loud you’re playing. You have to begin moving your fingers or hands downward into the keys farther in advance when playing quietly, which is a whole thing when your hands are at different volumes. The mass and mechanical advantage of the finger affect the timing and volume, too.
Human hearing is quite extraordinary.
Not where I live in an apartment in a crowded city where the culture is to not bother others. Neighbors would not be happy to hear me sing no matter how good am, any more then they are happy to hear my stereo.
When I commuted to work in a car I had 30 to 60 minutes of singing time each way. Now I have karaoke box 3 - 4 times a year.
human voice relatively patterned, esp if the computer knows the song you're singing / you've sang it before. I wonder if there's room for a custom noise cancelation algo that can dampen my neighbor's opera practice?
I once lived in an apartment where the manager told me don't worry about sound including running the washing machine late at night because the walls are double concrete with a gap between to be sound dampening. That's the only apartment that's been quiet. All others it was easy to hear conversations from neighboring apartments including the one I'm in now (T_T)
Plus, therapeutic levels for singing probably require something louder than mezzo piano.
My last tenancy agreement had specific references to playing any music instruments / singing practice.
So I think singing should be fine legally speaking unless you live somewhere with a lot stricter limits, especially during the day. It's a good idea to check with neighbors though. Often they won't mind if you do it as long as you avoid certain times or certain rooms. That's how we (sort of) resolved things with our student friends... and thankfully we moved out of there pre-quarantine :)
That really depends on what kind of music you like to sing
Seriously though. How would singing be relaxing if you had to deal with angry neighbours every few times you sung?
I will try to search algolia and come back to you with my research
This is one example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eTX9LxZ9YUQ
Definite improvement
When taking lessons is not an option, I've seen this course get recommended at /r/singing a lot: https://singingsuccess.com/
Don't have first hand experience with it, though.
But okay, this at least was the revelation for me: try to blow air like blowing out a candle. Meaning a directed, focused blowing that comes with a good strength. This is basically how you want your breathing to be when singing. A steady air flow, without muscular tensions. Then, you just slowly add voice to that air flow. With a humming voice first, trying to utilize as much of your vocal cords as possible. Then you can try singing louder, and seeing if you can keep the same steadiness. What you are trying to get the hang of, is a certain "bite" where your voice resonates with a good clarity and has strength to it, without really trying too hard. (Go watch John Denver singing to know what I mean)
An issue I, and probably many others, face is an inefficient breathing that generates friction in your vocal cords, causing your voice to quickly fall apart becoming weak and crackly.
So avoid "pushing" your voice as much as necessary. It will just cause bad muscle memory, like doing deadlifts with a bad technique. You have to build up the nervous system and the muscle memory slowly, never extending it too far. It might feel annoying singing with "half-volume", when all you want to do is to sing along with your favourite singer with full power. Yet once you build up the technique the whole thing becomes significantly easier. Hard to explain, but you shouldn't be feeling like you have to expend a lot of effort to get a strong voice.
Well, I hope that's something. I would be curious to know if it helped.
* commit to the notes you're singing: singing tentatively makes it harder to evaluate yourself
* sing along with a recording and emulate the singer--every ornament, every nuance in timing--you can find your own voice (so to speak) once you know what you're doing
* repeat a song or even chorus or line over and over, especially singing along with a recording
* record yourself: everyone hates doing this, but again, it's much easier to evaluate what you're doing
* if you're having trouble with a specific line, find the notes on an instrument and sing along (though make sure you're not just locked in to fixed pitches--a lot of the beauty of great singing is exploiting the marvelous glissando capabilities of the human voice)
* drink water and don't hurt yourself
sudo apt install audacity
Then play back your voice, from the recording, and find out what you'd like to change about your voice, and what you can get better at. It's harder to sing, than what I thought!
And, juts like running or table tennis or whatever, everyone is going to be not-good at it, in the beginning, I think.