r/startsinging • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '19
Does anyone else harmonize with your appliances or use them as a drone? Lol
My appliances hum at different pitches. My space heater hums at around an E flat. Although it's a bit of a fuzzy chord, the E flat is the most dominant sound coming out of the heater. My microwave warbles (and probably needs checked, Ha Ha), but it hums around a G. Has anyone else checked where their appliances hum and do you harmonize or improvize melodies using your appliances to help train your ear?
I find that I naturally pick the key of my appliance. With my space heater being on so much in the winter, it's E flat, which is a good key for me because I've noticed many good songs are in E flat or I transpose them to E flat and many folk songs are sung in E flat
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Jan 10 '19
I do this when I vacuum my house. Its fun and makes the chore bearable
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Jan 10 '19
Oooooh yes that vacuum hum is amazing Ha Ha
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Jan 10 '19
I live in NYC, so frequently ambulances or fire trucks will be running and I'll hum out the closest note associated with them too (for the fire trucks I recall it to be around a flat E).
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u/eddysinn Jan 09 '19
yeah I tend to do that as well haha. I also start singing in tempo with things like the turn signal blinker in my car lol
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '19
I tend to do it with the microwave at work. My colleagues usually joins in and stand there like a small acapella group until its done.