Originally Posted by dcuny
I have a singer in my Sunday group who thinks he can.

He asks if I changed the key every time he has trouble singing his part. laugh
Hmmm, I wonder if Anthony Amusia has a pathology of some kind affecting his inner ear, subcortical structures or hippocampus. Perhaps a brain worm, injury or other cognitive decline? Absent any pathology, he should easily be able to sing along to simple familiar songs. Children can do this at very early ages.

“The latter years of childhood are characterized by a general singing competency for the majority. Relatively few children are reported as singing “out-of-tune” at the age of eleven years (Howard et al, 194; Welch, 1979;2002).”

Vocal Pitch Development in Children

In any event, I hope “Anthony” isn’t preventing you from grasping the underlying “Happy Birthday Concept”; that healthy humans are wired and capable of cooperatively singing with one another.

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For me there’s no better place in the band than to have one leg in the harmony world and the other in the percussive. Thank you Paul Tutmarc and Leo Fender.