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Chapter 1: Does singing really make you happy?
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Chapter 2: What are the benefits of singing in a group?
There's something about singing, including singing in front of other people that actually does give you a positive vibe.
Yes.
So you said something, though. I mean, like you can sing at home in the shower. You can sing at home on the couch. You can sing at home in the kitchen.
Sing in the car, for sure.
Sing in the car. You could sing in the laundry room. Like you could sing basically anywhere by yourself. And yes, there are benefits, as we'll see. But because there's something about singing in a group, as we'll kind of unpack, It's just it provides greater benefits. But if you do sing in your laundry room, you're still going to get some benefits from it.
But if you've got a group of people to sing with you in your laundry room, you would be doing really good.
For sure. Good time for a break? Yeah. All right. We're going to talk about what those benefits are because they seem kind of mysterious right after this.
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Chapter 3: How does singing impact mental health?
Yeah, for sure. I remember talking. Oh, when was that? I guess it was sometime late last year when or I guess early last year when I was very upset a lot about politics. Not not like I am now, which is like just super stoked all the time. But I remember talking about sing therapy, and that's what I did for a little while. I would put on my piano. It was a little player piano.
So I would put that on, and I would sing as hard as I could sing. And it really, really felt good. It made a big difference in how I felt.
What were you singing?
Whatever. A lot of Billy Joel.
Oh, that's great.
No, I was singing whatever. Whatever you could really belt out, you know?
Okay. I think that's wonderful that you did that for yourself, man.
Yeah, it was fun.
So one of the things that you could have also done, since you probably know every word to every Billy Joel song, you could have learned some new songs, right? Sure. And had you done that, you would have been working your brain, which is another benefit of singing, especially in a group. You have to learn new stuff every week.
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Chapter 4: What studies support the happiness of choral singers?
Work on your tenor part. And then when you get together with your little choir or big choir and you're like, all right, I got to remember my part here where I come in. Like, that's what you're thinking of. That's what's on your mind. You're not thinking of the stress at work or the stress at home or the stress in your life or whatever.
Or your health stress, like it's your chance to park that stuff and really dwell on something else for a while.
Right. And then we finally arrive at one of the big reasons why probably the biggest reason why singing in a choir actually has the most benefits of any kind of singing is because you are becoming part of a group. Like if you've ever been a member of any kind of choir, like that's a fairly tight group. Everybody knows one another. You're required to rely on one another.
Like you are needed by this group. Your voice is needed. Your part is needed. Like there's a sense of belonging and inclusion that comes from being a member of a choir. And then on top of that, adding in all of the benefits of singing. Again, like this is it's just really good for you.
Yeah, it's amazing. I think I told you this backstage, but when we were in Madison, I went a day early, and I woke up the next morning, and my hotel was kind of right on the water, so I had the windows open because I could hear the water gently lapping, and it sounded really nice. But I heard singing, like group singing, and I was like, where is that coming from?
And I went and looked out of my window and there was it turns out that in the hotel there was a choral festival going on. So there were a bunch of choir standing there and there was a group of young people like probably 20 of them on a dock on a pier singing a Radiohead song. And it was the most lovely thing I had ever heard.
You can't imagine a better way to sort of start your morning than just by hearing that.
In reality, though, backstage, everybody, he told me that he shouted, pipe down and slammed his window shut.
Shut up, kids. That's cool, man. It was great. It was so, so lovely.
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