If you’re not careful about vowel shape, it’s really easy to sing the word “moon” as a long, drawn-out phrase over a couple of notes and sound like a cow.
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If you’re not careful about vowel shape, it’s really easy to sing the word “moon” as a long, drawn-out phrase over a couple of notes and sound like a cow.
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Alan Douglasreplied to Cat Lady Kydia Music last edited by
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I discovered as I was putting my new album together that singing words as conjunctions is a really bad idea. In the song Future Tense James had written the line “Like a child who couldn’t play” and it just sounded like crap when I sang it. We changed it to “like a child who could not play” and it works much better. I’m always really careful with enunciation and trying to separate words as much as possible, this was actually a great lesson for me. -
Cat Lady Kydia Musicreplied to Alan Douglas last edited by
Absolutely! I always try to avoid “chewy” phrases, or at least try to alter the rhythm of a phrase a bit to make it more natural to how one might speak it, as good flow and intelligibility take precedence over adhering to a strict cadence, or even an already-established melodic phrase. Although sometimes that means I *do* use contractions—like shortening “cannot” to “can’t.” Often less syllables are preferable, although not always, as your case demonstrates.