Riffing Help- Page 2

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 11:57pm

20 (oooh...I'll be turning exactly 20 and a half in a few days I noticed!)

Akiva

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 11:57pm

Akiva, you have a really nice voice!

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 12:01am

Ah, youth. LL when I was 20 I was dating my wife - get going!!! Just joking. We all can not find their soul mate while still a teen.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 12:01am

brdlwyr, stop that -- you'll make me feel sorry for myself.

[Barnaby12345]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 12:02am

The thing is that on top of all the usual requirements I need to find a girl that can also sing! Life is so complicated!

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 12:07am

Hah...thanks guys. Well since I have TOTALLY threadjacked this thing, I might as well go all out and put another song of mine.

DON'T LISTEN TO THE FIRST 2 MINUTES AND 30 SECONDS OF THIS CLIP.

They are useless and I ramble. This clip is obviously from a live gig.

again "Here You Stand" is Copyright ME
Akiva singing "Here You Stand"

[Barnaby12345]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 12:12am

Ohhh I like this song! Your voice is awesome. And was that you saying you're not a performer? You are!

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 12:18am

Hah, well this gig was a tsunami funraiser (if I remember correctly), and it was in the Theatre School I go to, and almost everyone in the room were actors, and I am training to be a Set Designer, so I was a bit intimidated. I am paying my way through college by acting in big musicals over the summers though, so it's all very confusing.

Akiva
Updated On: 12/15/05 at 12:18 AM

[Barnaby12345]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 12:28am

Yea that would be so intimidating!

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 9:50am

On the topic of riffing...it's much like learning how to sing opera -- you just pretend until you get it.

Dreamgirls is right, you fake your way to the top.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 10:13am

"I wish a painful death to anyone who riffs or does runs. Why don't you all just try singing?"

Then I highly advise you to stay away from opera (try finding an aria without a "run"), and you'd better get your baseball bat and go give that painful death you speak of to that silly Julie Andrews woman, then, because I can't think of anybody in the theatre who has sung more runs than her.

Perhaps we should all think a bit before making sweeping, general statments, eh? What we now call "riffing" is simply a modern form of the ornamentation that has been present in ALL music since music began. The appogiaturas, mordents, trills, and scale-step runs so liberally applied by Shoshana Bean, Mariah Carey, and Whitney Houston aren't musically that different from the ornaments used by Bach, Vivaldi, Lully, or Scarlatti centuries ago.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/15/05 at 10:37am

Don't worry Em - you have time before you start dating your future wife.