Let’s face it, drunk people can’t sing and below is a list of 10 karaoke songs that all drunk people try to sing. And yes, I’ve tried to sing them all myself when I shouldn’t have.

What also strikes me as odd is people actually post these videos on the internet for all of us to listen to and shake our collective heads. So here we go:

We are the Champions

I think this is a glee club from small town America and they just beat the choir from the assisted living center in a sing off, this is there victory song.

Bye Bye Miss American Pie

I’m not sure but this woman may have this song confused with a Bob Dylan song. She may not remember if she cried, but I know I did.

Like a Virgin

I’m pretty sure if this guy keeps singing he’ll be a virgin for a long, long time! And check out those shorts: hot, hot, hot.

Friends in Low Places

I wonder if they were playing strip poker?

Margaritaville

I’m a big Jimmy Buffet fan but even I can’t listen to this. On a positive note at least these two have a couple of women there to catch them if they fall of the stage.

Good Bye Earl

These two must have got some cool new video editing software I figure. Why else would they post this?

Love Shack

The woman in this video isn’t too bad. The guy I’m pretty sure after this company Christmas party performance isn’t going to be up for promotion any time soon.

Hound Dog

Does screaming really help?

Mustang Sally

It’s really hard to sing when you can no longer read the words on the screen.

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One of the greatest educational benefits you can offer a child is teaching children how to sing. Singing does many things in the human brain for making connections between neurons, by helping kids associate words with certain activities. Children who sing are much likelier to hang structures together for retaining knowledge, and are likelier to make associations between words and objects shown to them when they’re linked by singing.

This aspect of teaching children to sing is nothing new; singing your lessons has been a part of educational pedagogy since the Greeks and Romans, where in addition to several techniques about building the palace of the mind, the key lessons were tied to singing to reinforce the connection between the data and the comprehension mechanism. It was preserved in the monasteries of Europ during the middle ages, where singing ones devotions helped a monk retain knowledge, and acolytes and initiates were shown their tasks by a friar who sang the steps as they were being shown.

This practice advanced in the Middle Ages, where it was (again) applied to children and teaching children to sing, though mostly for those wealthy enough to have tutors. The Renaissance expanded on this procedure, but it wasn’t until the Reformation that it really hit the massive bulk of the populace, with the movement to present the teachings of the Church in the common language of the people rather than Latin.

One of the leaders in teaching children to sing as an educational process was England, with compulsory education, and its intellectual inheritor, the United States. Both benefited from the development of the printing press, making both hymnals and text books much cheaper to produce, and putting a significant benefit on universal literacy.

With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, and literacy needing wider acceptance, and then the creation of both recorded media and radio broadcasting, it was common practice to make things that had to be remembered tied to a system of mnemonics (the ancient Greek system) and to make the mnemonic catchy – presenting it as a jingle. This is why nearly every radio and television commercial uses music. When it came to children’s education, this had slipped out of the mainstream until the 1970s, when School House Rock, a series of 3 minute clips on various topics, were aired on ABC as part of the requirements for educational content for children. These little cartoon clips taught children to sing and taught them history, mathematics, and several other concepts by associating them with catchy jingles. Public Broadcasting caught into the same trend with The Electric Company and Sesame Street, where similar processes happened.

There are many benefits to teaching children to sing, and most of them will help them throughout their lives; studies of Alzheimer’s patients have shown that those who imprinted information by singing had some advantages in retaining their knowledge and fighting off the effects of the disease.

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Even the best singer needs some improvements. Many of the noted singers have taken singing lessons at some point in their lives. Online singing lessons is the next best thing to a vocal coach. Why? Because in an online setting, you can learn how to sing at your own pace.

These lessons can range from a do-it-yourself type of education to a full out combination of lessons with a teacher. When you take your lessons online, you have the ability to go as slow or fast as you want. Of course, you never want to go too fast as you might miss key and important elements to learning how to sing.

Online singing lessons can teach you where you may be having trouble, where you need to improve, and overall improve the quality of your singing, which is the most important element. When you learn how to properly breathe while singing, which is a part of singing lessons, you can carry your notes clearer, longer, and with more power.

When you learn how to control your voice, you can hit notes that you never thought possible, either high or low. You can belt a tune out in style and with quality, instead of inhibiting yourself and perhaps even straining your vocal chords because you lack control.

Singing lessons also teach you about the imperative posture and how to support yourself when you are singing. This can help you further with control, power, and breathing. Support is necessary to ensure that your voice is fluid and compelling.

With singing lessons, you can also take advantage of vocal exercises. These exercises are designed to help you in the areas of diction, breathing, posture, fitness, pitching, and training the ear. You will find helpful scales and exercises that can improve your ability to sing overall.

Taking online singing lessons is a great way for the busy person to get the encouragement and tools they need to take their singing talents to the next level. It is also a great thing for those who have yet to get over stage fright and find the opportunity to learn on their own extremely appealing. At the same time, it is great for those who may not be able to afford an “offline” vocal coach or professional training.

You can get much of the same results with online singing lessons, as you could if you took lessons offline.

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