Walsall Wonderland

To any songs that I like, well, that’s not the only specification that has to be met…

You see, singing actually releases calming, de-stressing chemicals in the brain so good to do in so many situations! Now, there are a couple of parameters that must be met for me to want to sing along with the song. Firstly that I like the song, secondly that the song suits my voice in some way. I’ve got a bit of a high, not very strong, sort of voice… think old movies, Disney movies, and Christmas Carols, they suit my voice.

Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Celtic Woman’s work, and there are a few songs that I love to sing along to. Spanish Lady is one that I can sing along to with no worries, it’s fast, but once you’ve learned the lyrics – still working on it – you can go with it. I also really like Dulaman, Si Do Mhaimeo I, and Siuil a Run, all of which have heavy – if not total – Gaelic components.

Now, I don’t speak Gaelic, even though it’s a lovely language. I spent a few years working to learn Japanese and eventually gave it up as a lost cause. Anyway, one important aspect about Japanese is when it is written in our characters, referred to as Romanji by the Japanese, there is always a vowel and a consonant, and the sounds don’t change from ours. It is a very clear case of ‘Ah, Ie, Oo (U), Eh, Oh’ for each of them. Gaelic, however, has a whole bunch of accents and all sorts of groovy things going on… and I suck at interpreting them, and only suck a little less at mimicking what I’m hearing the singers say. I’m still having fun singing along, though, so that’s cool.

Now for a musically inclined pattern. I think this pattern here, for fingerless gloves called Musica, is really rather pretty. Very detailed!