Who doesn’t love it when the spotlights on them? When the microphone is held up to your mouth and you sing your most favorite tune, whether it be in private or in a public place? Granted, we can’t all be on American Idol, but we can all have a chance to sing to our heart’s content to almost any song at any time. If you love Karaoke, I have good news for you.
When I was searching the world of CyberSpace, I came across this website: www.singshot.com. It’s almost like the MySpace of music. You fill out a quick sign-up form using a valid e-mail address, and then you’re bombarded with tons of songs, old and new, that you can sing as the lyrics go by. If you have a microphone, you can record your songs and save them to make them public, or you can keep your songs in private if you’re a little shy about your voice. I have been with SingShot for a little while now, but the SingShot community is wonderful. People have a chance to rate your music and give constructive criticism. They can rate your songs from one to five songs. Surprisingly people in the SingShot community are extremely generous and kind. There is a slight problem, however, affecting many SingShot members. This problem involves people that are making fake account only to go around and give SingShot members one star. And to add insult to injury, these people make very rude remarks on the song of the victim I haven’t had it happen to me…yet….but many members from SingShot were and are actually appalled by this, and many members have actually left. But other than that, SingShot is a great medium in which to share your singing and your voice talents. I think that the private feature is wonderful, too, because if you had a sub-par voice, but you still want to sing your heart out, you can! And it’s only for you to listen, no one else.
SingShot also allows you to use a web camera so that you can record yourself singing and publish it as a video with song. The only problem with this is that sometimes the camera and the singing do not match up, which causes an awkward video view back. And if you are going to get a microphone for SingShot, make sure to get a good quality one, and to keep it away from your speakers so that the feedback from the speakers doesn’t overpower your voice. Something else that’s pretty special about SingShot is that they are trying very hard to obtain more rights to more songs, but they have a pretty impressive list of songs as it is. They have everything from Disco to Rock. The song shows up at lyrics at first, but later on when you want to publish the song, you can opt to have a slideshow play instead of the lyrics, of you can even use some of your personal pictures as a slideshow.
But the very best aspect of SingShot is that it is absolutely free. There’s no kind of trick to signing up and having access to all the free songs and even your own mini-recording studio. At SingShot, you can view other people’s musical performance and rate them yourself. To share your recording with your friends, you can email your songs or even just save the link that appears on your search bar when you’re listening to your own song. SingShot makes singing fun, easy, and shareable! If you have never heard of SingShot, I suggest you give it a try. I’m still waiting for them to add a few more songs from Selena and such, but in time, I’m sure their music database will expand for sure!
