International Karaoke

If you like to sing in the shower, in your car, or on the street, then come and join us to sing your heart out in the languages that you like. Singing karaoke has been found to be not only therapeutic 🙃 but it also helps to improve on the pronunciation of the new language that one is learning.

Once you have RSVPed, you will see the Zoom meeting link on this Meetup a day or so before the event. At or before the meeting, open a YouTube window and find your songs by typing in the name of the song followed by the word “karaoke.” When it is your turn to sing, share your YouTube window with the “Share Sound” option checked and you are ready to rock. Don’t worry if this is too confusing as I can also share my screen with your song for you to sing. You can also play the song on your device without sharing your screen.

Karaoke is for us “thick skin” people who don’t care what others think about our singing. We sing for fun, to de-stress oneself, and to stress out our listeners 🤪

Here are some helpful tips when participating in the event -

1. Singing in Zoom is best experienced using a laptop. Using a phone may result with lower sound quality and limited functionality in Zoom.
2. To set up Zoom for karaoke, check out this video -

https://youtu.be/xqddFGlw4Kc

3) When sharing your YouTube karaoke video, set the Youtube volume to about 25%. This volume control can be found near the lower left corner of the Youtube video. If you can’t hear the music, increase the sound volume of your device.

4) Have your song queued up in YouTube before your turn to sing.

5) Mute your microphone when others are singing, unmute when you are speaking or singing.

6) Set the “Original sound for musician” setting in Zoom to “On”.

7) You can sing solo or invite people to sing along with you.

8) To prevent Zoom bombers, participants must RSVP on MeetUp. When joining the event, click on the Zoom link posted on the MeetUp page. Be sure to use the same Zoom id that you used to make the RSVP on MeetUp. Those who try to directly join the event using the Zoom link outside of MeetUp will not be allowed to participate.

9) We sing in the order of “first come first sing” basis. I will assign a number in front of each participant’s name which depicts the order of which the person will be singing.

Have fun!