WIBU to play the guitar and sing in my back garden?

[sadpapercourtesan]

Reading the multitude of threads over recent weeks about people enraging each other with their garden behaviours - barbecues, bonfires, even bagpipes

I was thinking about getting my guitar outside this afternoon and playing a bit of music in my garden. It's a large garden but we do have neighbours on both sides who would certainly hear it if they were outside. I am not dreadful (I used to get paid to do it) but of course that doesn't mean it's to everyone's taste! It's folk music, mostly. My neighbours do have parties (when not in lockdown), have noisy children, play their own pop music in the garden and one of them is a welder so it's not always quiet.

WIBU?

Ugh no thanks - when i step into my garden all I want to hear are the birds chattering,

Yes YABU. Play your guitar and sing to your heart's delight indoors.

Great! Where do you live? My friend can bring his drum kit and I've got a trombone.

Oh god yes the bloody local von trap family round here thought they’d ‘bless’ everyone with their instruments and singing every Thursday night
Parents filming of course, for Facebook.

Everyone gushing over it later on said Facebook post. It was mediocre at best, nothing better than a class of normal school kids singing.

@ChilliCheese123

Oh god yes the bloody local von trap family round here thought they’d ‘bless’ everyone with their instruments and singing every Thursday night Parents filming of course, for Facebook.

Everyone gushing over it later on said Facebook post. It was mediocre at best, nothing better than a class of normal school kids singing.

Thats exactly what we had. It was fucking awful. I served my time as a parent in junior school recitals listening to small children screech out barely recognisable tunes on recorders and violins. I don't need them outside my home from someone else's kids.

Nope- it's Monday, so you can expect people to be working at home potentially, it's boiling hot and no one wants to have to sit inside with their doors and windows shut so they can a)concentrate and b) hear clients on the phone. Play it after 5pm if you must, or in your house. As you may be able to tell this is an issue I'm struggling with although it's incessant rock music on a loop rather than the lesser spotted evil of live garden music.

God no.

Sorry, no one else wants to listen to you.

My neighbour does this and it makes my blood boil thinking everyone else wants to listen to them. Selfish.

Well - considering I have to put up with someone's shit dance music I'd appreciate a bit of quiet folk.

Not during the week. WFH it's boiling hot.

We've got the windows open and it's bad enough with the 3 screaming kids next door.

Neighbour throws them out at 7am every day. They do nothing but screech.
A new one yesterday was a toy amplifier microphone.

Horrendous.

A few years back one of my neighbours decided to learn the saxophone. I never did work out which flat it was, so couldn't complain. That was a long, painful summer. Fortunately, they either gave up or moved away..

Mime. Unless it’s to pay back neighbors for their row.

@TheFencePainter...so far we've not needed to break out Rammstein but it's nearby on my phone playlist along with some other brain bleeding stuff😉

Playing - fine.

Singing - not really.

I'm with @TorkTorkBam, I have a sweet voice, and God do I love to sing...love my music...especially in the shower...

I must admit I have absolutely NO idea who that blood curdling witch was that my daughter recorded a couple of years ago.

All I know is she should be put out of her misery....absolutely an act of mercy..

Do it OP!

Pre children this would really annoy me. Now, they'd probably love it, and I'm aware that my small children are noisy.

My neighbour does this and tbh I hate it and wish he would stfu, even though I like both acoustic guitar and folk music, and he can in fairness sing. But none of those things mean I want to hear what he wants to play when he wants to play it.

But your neighbours play pop music in their garden, which changes things completely imo, as either they think music in the garden is completely fine whoever's doing it, or they're selfish bastards who deserve to be put through what they're putting everyone else through when it suits them.

Either way, I think you should go ahead. And ignore the folk haters, of course.

I'd love it, I like guitars and I like folk music,

It'd be really nice to hear someone sing and play.

Some nasty comments on here about folk music.

I won’t mind, as long as you won’t mind my singing along to Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

I wouldn't enjoy this one bit. But then that's why I have earphones. However I would certainly not complain.

Perhaps you could keep the guitar at the ready for when there's loads of other noise then it really won't matter

It would depend on how good your voice was! If you could hold a tune I would actually love this, for a short period of time! However, if you sang like shit I'd be cringing to death.

i live in the middle of a terraced row and have neigbours (dont know who) that sing, play guitar and play piano. i love this and enjoy listening. its not hours and i can go inside if i didn't like it. but i do. its generally beautiful.

As for me, im taking singing lessons via zoom. which I'm sure can be heard by neighbours (note that singing lessons are never pleasant. its all kinds of squawks and squeaks and boring scales, followed by a song currently beyond the current skill level). Fear of annoying the neighbours means i dont get to practice enough, which frustrates me. it's all musical theatre belting songs and definitely not everyone's cup of tea but what choice do i have?

there needs to be a degree of tolerance and i would LOVE to hear folky tunes of an evening.

We sometimes do, for about half an hour, in the early evening, quietly. We have elderly neighbours who are either inside at that time, or being deafened by their grandchildren, so I think it’s okay. Definite no to any amplification. The older DC play electric guitar and drums and that is a strictly day time only, bedroom windows closed job.

@squiggleirl I was wondering the same thing!

We've had Les Dawson on a violin. The cat hates it.