How many times of singing the same song make u tired?

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How many times of singing the same song make u tired?

How many times must one sing the song (with emotion or imageries) in order to fully understand the song? What does it mean to understand a song? Do you ever get sick of practicing the same song over and over and how do you.... make it seem "fresh and new" with new perspective each time you perform it? Thanks so much.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: To make the song fresh put it away! Seriously. Take a break from it! Maybe sing it in a silly voice or change the words to have a secret meaning to you and your friends.

I have performed Pirates of Penzance over 200 times with 6 different companies. I can't tell you how sick "Climbing Over A Rocky Mountian" has made me. I rewrote the words to the song to Falling Off A Rocky Mountain, Pushing (snobby person in company) Off a Rocky Mountain, and other such things. It gave me a laugh as well as my cast mates. (Never do this onstage tho, that's just wrong). It made things fresh and new.

As for understanding the song, you have to understand the character singing it. For example, "Loverly", is a pretty dumb song with simple wants from the singer, except that she's a street girl whose selling flowers instead of her body, but for how long? How long before starvation drives her to prostitution? The poverty she has endured has not given her the vision to see the things she could wish for, but rather, the things she knows. Warmth, food, a comfortbale chair, and a man who wouldn't treat her like dirt and who would care for her.

If you can't understand how she feels and get lost in being her, you're going to get sick of the song really quick, and at that point I say put it away for a day or two and come back to it, hopefully with a better understanding of who is singing it and why, not just the notes and how you sound.