u/MeanRepresentative24

They say the best way to get better at rhyming is improv, but I know for me at least, I don't have anyome around me that I could do rhyming games with haha

So I'm gonna randomly generate a word, and then.... I giess we can do it like a round robin? So I'll make a line for it, and anyone can respond with their own line that makes a rhyme (not just first come, first serve! More of a free for all!) and then if you see someone else's line and have a rhyme for it, respond to them with a line using it!

And then we can all see what we come up with!

I generated "admit"

So my line is: "It bugs me more than I'll admit"

This is kind of a random question, but for people who write songs in different languages --

Do you find it easier to rhyme in your native language or in secondary languages?

I'm monolingual but whenever I listen to Korean/French/Spanish lyrics, the rhyming sounds effortless in a way that English rhymes don't. Obviously, this is because of my lack of familiarity, but I started wondering if rhyming in English sounds similarly easy in other languages . . . and then I started wondering which is easier -- the language you're intimately familiar with, or the one where you're less aware of/bound by the nuances between different words?

Before we get started, I want to emphasize that this is a **conversation** post and not a request for feedback. We are all on different journeys and at different places on those journeys, yeah? And I am not at a point where that feedback is helpful or desired, thank you.

About a week ago, I posted a question about vocal equilibirum (for anyone who doesn't immediately know what equilibilrium is, it's your body's internal idea of up/down or left/right. Some people also get north/south/east/west out of it bc they're lucky) and I kind of assumed this would make what I was asking about really obvious.

I got a lot of people telling me I shouldn't be using pitch apps and should be ear training in order to know what pitch I was singing ir not singing.

Now that I'm reaching a point where I *am* more comfortable with identifying and matching notes and a lot less overwhelmed (and a lot less pitchy in general lol) I'm thinking back to that post and wondering if there's a miscommunication because of how I experience singing versus how others do?

So how aware **are** y'all of where different sounds are sitting in your body? My elementary music teacher made it sound like it was a fundamental skill when moving between chest & head voice. I don't remember much about it but I think we spent at least a week learning not to stretch our necks when we were trying to hit higher notes and her pointing out where tension was in our bodies.

(Sorry for any typos. Autocorrect wouldn't let me swear so I turned it off.)

I'm curious if this is a thing other people experience. It's less intense when I'm singing by ear (though I'm definitely realizing that all my singing experience being in choir means I've never learned to differentiate between notes well *anyway* haha) but I'm practicing sight reading + singing the notes on the staff using the Nail the Pitch app and.....

When I see I'm off key or pitchy, and try to adjust, it's like my voice is backwards? I want to go higher, and instinctively sing lower and vice versa (actually it's more noticeable when I need to go lower to hit the center of the note, and instinctively jump up two notes instead. I have no sense of nuance for this and it's a little embarrassing to think about lol)

It's not a huge issue since I can tell the difference in how both directions feel, so I'll definitely learn, but.... I'm wondering if there's a name for this like there is for being tone deaf?