Inspired by a comment by Britney Spears

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1936465]

Comments

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

... If you have perfect pitch, you can eventually learn to barbershop. It may take time. The only person I've ever known who could NOT do so had the exact opposite affliction - he could hear things just fine but could NOT sing on the same pitch to save his life. No perfect pitch there.

I ding this poll for no checkboxes, as several of the answers can apply - if I'm making someone else's song bit into a tag, it's with their words and one line out of four from their notes, before I start. If a song lyric hits me, the music can come second, or if I'm musicing an already-given poem (which I haven't done much since childhood). Filking, as noted, usually starts with the music given.

--Dave

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

I don't have a consistent voice. It drops out in volume outside certain ranges.

I've had an awful lot of time to think this through, but thanks for trying.

--I AM able to write filk, given that I can hear the tunes exactly as performed.(My first was "This World Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us," based on "Small, Small World".)