When a friend of mine recently commented that to her music was something you only did in formal groups, I stopped dead and STARED at her.
It's that way to a lot of people, most of my friends included. It's not something you do, it's something you're passively entertained by. My dad's side of the family (er, the side that we acquired when my grandfather remarried, a year or so after I was born) are musical and play instruments and write songs, and a family get-together isn't complete until they pull out the guitars and the mandolin and the songbooks. So the filk concept, that you'd put your thoughts about stuff you read or watch to music, isn't alien to me, but to a lot of people I know, it is.
I don't sing or play anything, mostly because my immediate family didn't do that - well, I took the violin for three years and never practiced, and I took a semester of voice and piano in college, but it wasn't something we did on a regular basis. I wouldn't mind practicing singing again (I'm an alto, like you, but woefully out of practice and can't sustain a note or even hit the proper one without a good run-up), but there's so many other things I've got on my plate that I want to do more than singing that, at least for now, it's staying on the back burner.
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It's that way to a lot of people, most of my friends included. It's not something you do, it's something you're passively entertained by. My dad's side of the family (er, the side that we acquired when my grandfather remarried, a year or so after I was born) are musical and play instruments and write songs, and a family get-together isn't complete until they pull out the guitars and the mandolin and the songbooks. So the filk concept, that you'd put your thoughts about stuff you read or watch to music, isn't alien to me, but to a lot of people I know, it is.
I don't sing or play anything, mostly because my immediate family didn't do that - well, I took the violin for three years and never practiced, and I took a semester of voice and piano in college, but it wasn't something we did on a regular basis. I wouldn't mind practicing singing again (I'm an alto, like you, but woefully out of practice and can't sustain a note or even hit the proper one without a good run-up), but there's so many other things I've got on my plate that I want to do more than singing that, at least for now, it's staying on the back burner.