The hardest song for you to sing

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 7:42pm

What song have you personally been working on and can never seem to be pleased with?

for me:
On My Own
Losing My Mind (but I'm a soprano)

[apdarcey]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 7:51pm

not while i'm around... sweeny todd

[broadway86]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 7:55pm

Soliloquy (sp?) - CAROUSEL

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 7:56pm

I HATE singing Soliloguy. It is FAR overdone.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 8:03pm

I still can't do a very good "Soliloquy," which is sad, because it's one of my favorite songs.

As far as other songs go, I've been working on "Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd for years, and am finally coming close to being happy with my rendition. It's so hard!

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 8:06pm

"I'm Not Afraid"
I love this song with a passion, but I personally have never been able to do a decent redition of despite the fact it's perfect for my voice type
Oh well
there are other songs I suppose

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 8:16pm

OMG broadwaystar2b, mine is the same! I can act it just fine, but I can never get the vocals JUST right.

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 8:23pm

I love Soliloquy. Bravo for you all doing it!

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 8:31pm

MNiL,
It's an amazing JRB song and I love it, I just can never quite get the consistant mix it needs.
I either get the low notes right and then do weak on the high ones or, more often, I do a great belt voice on the high notes and then the low ones become too breathy.
go figure
I'm glad I'm not the only one though

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 8:32pm

"I either get the low notes right and then do weak on the high ones or, more often, I do a great belt voice on the high notes and then the low ones become too breathy."

SAME problem. It's an amazing song, and whenever I get it just right will be a wonderful day, hahaha.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 8:59pm

I sound terrible singing any of Elphaba's songs from Wicked except I'm Not That Girl because I can't belt. But the hardest song for me has got to be Once Upon a Time from Brooklyn. Ouch.

[Plum]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 9:06pm

If you can't belt, what are you doing trying to sing those kinds of songs? That's like me trying to sing "The Bus."

Which I have. But an octave higher. :)

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 9:11pm

That was back when I thought I could belt. But then I realized that I was using my head voice. So when I tried actually belting I sounded like a dying cat. Now, I just do Glinda's songs or songs not from Wicked.

[broadwaybound3]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 9:51pm

yea- i have trouble with anything that Cheno does.... i definatly go into head voice during noe one morns way early. Its not good. But i rock at anythign that really alto! yey altos!

[scotty]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 9:55pm

Shiksa Godess.

Moving too Fast.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 9:59pm

I love singing The Bus.
But I sing it the way it was written.

Which is why I can't sing songs that go higher than a D#.
Why am I a bass. WHY??

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:00pm

Gov, basses are sexy
be pround to go low

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:00pm

There are a few songs I have trouble with, but for this thread i'll say "I Feel Pretty" just because all of Marias notes are so friggin high!! Of course, i'm not really a Soprano so I don't know why I even try her songs, but, I just love the character of Maria so much!

With that said, has anyone else noticed that most of Sondheim is ridiculously hard to sing?? I think he likes to torture singers =P

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:02pm

Because I HAVE to think technique instead of acting while I'm doing the song (if I don't think technique, the sounds are painful), the hardest song for me to sing is:

MARTA from Kiss of the Spider Woman

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:05pm

For some reason (because I'm weird, that's why), I've always found Sondheim difficult, but not impossible to sing. Many of his songs are hell to play on the piano, but I can sing them easily.

And thanks, bs2b.
I'll keep that in mind as I try to sing songs from the Secret Garden originally written for Mr. Mandy Patinkin.

[Plum]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:07pm

The lyrics on Sondheim songs can be extremely tricky, but if you think about what's being said it's not so bad. And his stuff is so atypical it easily holds your attention.

I'm a mezzo-soprano at best, so my renditions of true soprano songs are downright painful. I love "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" too much to shut up, though. :P

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:08pm

but then gov you can sing the hell out of Old Man River

[nztheatreluva]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:11pm

Sondheim songs are hard, but so worth it. I sung I KNow Things Now from Into the Woods and I have never felt so proud as when I actually managed to get through it well for the first time

[Mattio98]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:12pm

For some reason I have difficulty with "Being Alive". It doesn't even have anything to do with the range, I just get carried away with the emotional part and forget my technique.

Also:

King of the World
Not While I'm Around
Lost In The Wilderness (those 8va jumps are a b*tch)
What Is It About Her?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:12pm

About 20 years ago I was cast as Psuedolus in a dreadful production of FORUM. The director didn't know what he was doing and gave us inadequate rehearsal time. As a result, I had to work on the music by myself. I had an incredibly difficult time learning the lyric to "Pretty Little Picture". As most people know, Sondheim's lyrics are very clever, but in this case, they were also tongue twisters and I had an all-but-impossible time learning the song. In fact. I flubbed the lyric at the opening performance.