there okay i hope we've done it right uh we're supposed to talk about music
yes
okay
oh well that's good because i'm a singer
well good what kind of singer are you
um in high school and college it was classical lately it's been more contemporary country
oh really do you do you sing in a group or
well
no actually i do what's called karaoke um the
oh tell me what that is
it's a a thing where you've got a background video that just has the background music the instrumentals and there the video has the words to the songs on it and you can sing along with the with the tape
it's pretty neat they do it at a lot of different clubs
oh
um like Dave and Buster's and
oh yeah
oh little country bars and stuff
and and so you stand up in front of the
you get up in a front of the audience and a microphone
and and where and uh are you looking at the words
uh-huh yeah they've got a little TV monitor on the stage most most places do
so so who sees it do you just see it
um the person singing sees the monitor and most places have a big screen behind you so that everybody can see the words yeah
so that everybody sees it
do they sing along
uh not usually unless it's a real ratty song it's it's fun
well how cute so that way that keeps them from being able to have other uh have or other musicians
uh-huh
uh-huh yeah it's you some of the places do karaoke like once or twice a week and then they have like there's a a country bar or country saloon i used to go to that they have uh country bands most of the rest of the week
uh-huh
it's it's pretty neat i like it
well that and and you and so you get up and sing it yourself
uh-huh um-hum
well great
i i i had a a music scholarship to college but i didn't use it so what do you do
uh-huh
well i am a music teacher i teach uh elementary music in Plano and
oh how neat
oh i don't know about elementary i don't know i think elementary would be good that would be interesting with the little kids
huh
well
it it it it has a lot of uh very um rewarding parts and then the there are lots of it that you know you feel like you're just a bouncer
uh-huh
uh-huh yeah i i i can remember music back then
and then the paperwork and all of that but generally where i am i
um i uh this has been the the best situation in terms of not having a lots of discipline problems and and having children that really are pretty interested in in music in general
oh good
hm
so it's really been nice but
i think that's one reason i got out of music because i didn't think i wanted to go into teaching and at at that point it was either performing or teaching it was like oh well
well it and
yeah it it's and i think that's a real valid reason for not majoring in it my boys
yeah
were good in it and they didn't even even i mean that was the reason they they took a lot of it in college but they didn't go on with it
yeah
yeah well i after college i got out got married started working or started working got married and i didn't sing for ten years and i just found karaoke last October i guess
and i was just thrilled i loved it it's it's neat
now you didn't you didn't sing in uh uh during those ten years you didn't sing at all
um not really not in not in anything not in anything organized no
not even like in church choir
it periodically if we go to like
a Christmas Eve services where they do the part of Messiah or something like that but that was about it but back in high school i was more of a classical kind of stuff through Wagner and Chopin and and Schubert and
um-hum uh-huh
uh-huh
yeah things that they they have you do during high school
yeah yeah the things you have to do for competition
well what is what is your um
uh what is your voice is it alto or
um in high school i was from second soprano down to tenor believe it or not i i sang tenor a lot in church
my goodness i kind of wondered
i kind of wondered if your voice if you uh might be you know old usually country singers uh or folksingers have lower voices that
uh-huh
they yeah that's i found a lot of stuff like Anne Murray she i have to that's one thing neat about karaoke you can change pitches i mean you can change the keys
uh-huh ooh
really
and her stuff i normally have to take up at least a step if not a step and a half
well is that a bad uh oh they're probably i wonder if that means they've cut us off
i don't know
heard a little
oh okay
i i can't remember i've only done this one other time
oh good i don't feel bad
are you doing this uh as a fund-raiser
no my i'm in a sorority but we decided not to do it for the sorority my boss his wife is one of the uh
uh-huh
the sorority the transcribers for the tapes and he was like do you wanna make some money okay here so
um-hum um-hum
my it's an easy way to do it well we're doing it in our church choir
yeah it is
oh now that's a neat idea
and it's supposed to you know be a
a really i mean they a lot of they've already made a lot of money on it
that's
wow now that that would be a good idea yeah i proposed it for the uh for i'm in a service or actually it's a social sorority and it's Beta Sigma Phi
so isn't that
yeah
and they decided no that we wouldn't not everybody might be able to make all the calls so i was like okay that's fine i'll do it for myself
well i just decided i would do it once try to do it once a night and um
uh-huh
and i i mean i just started doing it this week but uh the first time we had to talk on exercise and then this time music so
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