Me too. I think like me, youy wish your range was bigger and are too hard on yourself.

I wish I could sing and play at the same time too.

It's just practice. I was doing shows at the age of five singing and playing but I practiced every second my parents would allow.

I'm talking about singing WELL.

Have you seen '20 Feet From Stardom.' It's a documentary on the difference between backup singers and stars, and a lot of it is more appearance and personality than skill. Those people can flat BLOW. And they back up everyone, one week it's Conway Twitty and the next it's Ray Charles, then it's on to a sitcom theme song, then movie soundtracks.

Those are people I think sing well, not just carry a ditty.

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I just knew I couldn't something like this in my life

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Tru dat. I don't have an interest though. I would rather just play a guitar composition, solo. Would have someone else on guitar if I sang because there is some cool shit you can do with vocals.

Take this for example (start around 4:30 for the good stuff):

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I've been playing with this on my new looper.

Just what I am. Thinking of adding a layer of some violin and/or chello.

I have a decent acoustic guitar. I've thought about diving back in full steam.

I can play guitar and piano and can comp along appropriately. Singing comes fairly naturally to me and I have a decent ear. My 4 year old loves music she hears on the radio so we frequently will look up chords and I will sing them to her; most tunes are super simple.

Composing, to me, is easily the most difficult. And it's not even close. Good composers truly have a gift that I cannot fathom.

Well truth be told, I stopped singing lead and playing guitar simultaneously when I was 18 years old. Thankfully, the bass player in my band was a very good singer, so it was no big deal. That band is still out there BTW, minus me, of course. :D

I never enjoyed singing, my vocal tone doesn't fit rock or modern rock and even when I've sung background vocals, they just never seem to fit in a mix. I don't care for my vocal tone, overall, so no real loss.

Cool, Man! If you've got the time and the passion, go for it! :)

It's just for my own enjoyment, why not, right?

Right!

Hey man, it looks like we're putting the band back together

Dude, I've been married twice. Had a kid. Lots of other girls and friends. Even a family.

No one has ever heard me play. To this day. :shrug:

My musical talent is thus:

Composing - I've never tried, but it would be cool to do. I could do lyrics, I think, but the music would take a lot of training. I'm in awe when I hear a complex song like Jungleland. How do you envision that in your head? Amazing. And a symphony with 50+ instruments? Mind-blowing.

Instruments - I like musical instruments and want to play. In my youth I was the first chair in my saxophone section, but I had no illusion that I was really good. I could play mechanical stuff pretty well and could play the fast stuff really well, but I couldn't really do the subtle things that make it really good.

Singing - I have an ear for music and can hit the right notes, but I have a range of about half an octave and I don't think my voice is very melodic. I never sing in front of anyone other than maybe my wife when the radio is really loud and I'm just singing along.

On the above note, out On Demand TV channel throws up experimental channels once in a while, and a few years back they put up a karaoke channel. The wife was gone and I found the karaoke channel and thought, "Let me give it a try." It was terrible, in part because they didn't have songs that I knew very well, but also because a song would be the wrong key for my limited range or it would be bizarrely slow or something. So I tried it for 20 or 30 minutes and then thought, "Ugh, that was a disaster."

And then my wife came down the stairs. I thought she was gone, but she was just up in the bedroom. She heard me doing this horrible singalong for a half-hour. I was mortified.