@chanele @statsjew @sheepchase I suspect that in this age of recorded music, more and more people are self-conscious about any kind of singing, even chant.

When I'm teaching how to leyn Torah, I remind students that we're chanting, not singing, and a "good voice" has little or nothing to do with it. Torah cantillation (tunes) are clues to the meaning of a passage, or occasionally commentary on it, and are not intended to be "music" per se. The main thing is to get the words right.

@adar @chanele @statsjew @sheepchase
I would not have thought of that.
The shul is really the place where I feel safe to chant, even loudly (which is the same word as singing in french : chanter).
Everywhere else I am worried to not be in tone, in the shul, it's another thing.
Part of it is because this is a safe place in some ways, part of it is because I have never practiced any sound as much as I have chanted prayer.

I think it is one of the reason I came back, even without believing.

@nershelam @adar @chanele @statsjew I’m in the land of karaoke so I’m used to bad singing I guess but I’m self-conscious myself 😂

It would be nice to have a shul that was so comfortable.