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I had a song i wanted to do and every time i would lower the key.   First once and then twice.  I just couldn't get it right.    I tried raising it.   I can sing it perfect up 3.  :dancin:

If you can't do them down, (which is the most natural thing to try,) try taking them up.    And sing them in a lower octive.

Kelley, if Bobbie Gentry's original version of "Fancy" ever comes out on karaoke, I might try singing that.  It would be easier for me to sing than Reba's (which I haven't done yet).  

Eric (and everyone), last night I tried singing "Town Without Pity" again and I nailed it!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!     There weren't a whole lot of people there, as it was early in the evening, but they seemed to like it.  I had them lower the key by 4 half-steps (I had been singing it at -3, but I tried -4 this time), and that worked out great--it didn't sound like the track was slowed down or anything like that.  (BTW, when I say I had them LOWER the key, I don't mean that I _sing_ it lower--I sing it _higher_.  But I'm afraid that if they raise the key, the background vocals on the track would just sound ridiculous, 'cause they're so high already, know what I mean?)

I asked one of the kj's beforehand if they'd ever had anyone sing it, and he said, "I've sung it."  I said, "Well, shoot, I oughta just let _you_ sing it."  He replied that his range wasn't what it used to be.  I asked him after I was done singing it, "How did I do?" and he said I did fine.  Of course, maybe he says that to everyone, I dunno...  LOL

I sang it in the car on the way there (just to practice in case I decided to sing it that night).  That seemed to help a lot.  Of course, I don't usually know ahead of time what I'm gonna sing, so I can't practice EVERY song in the car, but I guess if you find a really difficult song like that and you want to get it right, that's a good idea.

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I've never tried any of those (not sure if I've ever even heard the first one), but I can imagine that the other ones would be hard to sing, especially "Can't Smile Without You", which has about a million key changes, give or take a few.  LOL

That reminds me:  The former choir director at our church used to joke about "the obligatory key change" that occurs in a lot of the songs we sang as choral anthems.  Since I'm the pianist there, I pointed out the fact that the obligatory key change usually occurs at the same point as the obligatory page turn!  

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Sting's "Fortress Around Your Heart" is very hard for me to sing. Tried it a couple times, finally had to mentally throw it away. He sings the song in like FOUR harmony parts (backing himself up in studio) to the best of my knowledge. When I try to sing it, I can't find the key as I'm all up and down the music spectrum. Sounds good in one key but by the time I'm in the harmonizing parts, I'm totally lost!

Oh, I love that song!  I've never heard anyone sing it for karaoke (I guess you just told me the reason why!).  Hmmm, maybe I'll try it sometime--but thanks for the warning about it being hard to sing.  Sometimes I don't realize how hard a song is until I actually try singing it!

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