Day Seven: A Moment

Ok, this whole post of "A Moment" is weird to me. So I'm going to take this "moment" and explain several music things that annoy me.

First of all, I'm not trying to offend anyone. These are just things that happen to annoy me, and I don't think that anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot or anything. I just wish I could fix it. This is just MY opinion, and frankly it's probably pretentious and snooty.



Ok, without further ado, I'm taking a MOMENT to explain Amanda's Top 5 Musical Annoyances:

5. This last week in church I heard a choir sing. They were pretty good. But they sang one verse with just them men. And the men sang the tenor and bass part. No melody. Um... first rule of choir directing: you must always have the melody singing. It doesn't have to be the top part, but the melody needs to be somewhere in there.

4. Phantom of the Opera is not an opera. I swear. I know the word "opera" is in the name, the work itself is a Broadway show. A good one at that! I've seen it twice. It's about an opera, but it is not itself an opera. So, no, I haven't sung a lot of songs out of there.

3. Playing the hymns too slowly. Please, please, in the name of all that is good and holy, PLEASE speed up the hymns! I'm dying here. ALWAYS err on the fast side. If you can't play it that fast, fake it. I can't stand to sing "Praise to the Man" one more time 50 bpm.

2. Along with the previous point, if you see the time signature 6/8, please don't make it 6 beats in a measure. That's not what they mean. Cut it in half and make it two. Look, lets just make a deal that faster is ALWAYS better when it comes to the hymns.

1. No, I don't like American Idol. Yes, they all make me cringe. Also, if I could, I would totally give Taylor Swift voice lessons. She's cute, she's sweet, but she really needs to breath from her diaphragm.


I'm really not mean. These things aren't that big of a deal. But I've wanted to spell them out forever, and I was given a moment...