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?

@GiantPinesAhem

I'd love that! Can't wait to have friends round to do it. We have a music room which we often open up the doors, no one has complained yet...

I think as long as it's reasonable times of the day, you are happy to drop if asked for good reasons, and you don't sound like you're strangling a cat, then it's fine!

Just because no ones complained doesn't mean they're happy about it!

It's bloody inconsiderate playing music outside whether it's 'live' or 'generated' you can't make it stop at your fence line, so keep it in your house - preferably with your doors & windows closed!

Please no matter who you are, how good you think you are or how much YOU love rick/folk/metal...

@GiantPinesAhem

TorkTorkBam

There is a huge difference between doing it nicely, and tunefully – and deliberately making a cacophony of noise like you suggest.

Not really. I don't want To hear your family whether you think it's 'nice' or not. Often it's not, but even if it's 'well done' I don't want to hear anyone's music. I like the peace & quiet. I don't mind children playing or people cracking on with DIY, but I don't want other people's music choices it's bloody inconsiderate

Why do you have to play outside? Sounds like you want an audience....

Such rudeness. Of course you can play your guitar in your own garden. And in your own house with open windows. I play the piano and the harp with open windows because I need to practice. It's hardly a harmful
past time and without practice no one would learn to play an instrument.

I don't think many people really enjoy listening to someone else's music be it recorded or live.

On our estate there's a chap who goes out with his guitar and sings, thankfully nowhere near us so we can only hear it faintly.
Last week he put a post on the local fb saying how touched he was by the round of applause he heard as he finished. First response "Thankful you were finishing, mate" and no one else responded.

If your neighbours were decent I wouldn’t do it. But they’re obviously twats who don’t care about you so why should you care about them? If you play your guitar loudly (preferably through an amplifier) every time they put their music on, you may find they stop putting their music on?

I would love it for an hour or so a day. Even better if I can sing along (I'm not great but it makes me happy). Music is a gift. Live music is a joy.

Personally I would love it and would probably give you requests :)

I'm generally really supportive of people doing what they want. But I've had to stop work any time my neighbours play music because it is so loud and distracting. I have single glazing so even if I close the windows I can still hear it. I just hope I don't lose my job. But drum and bass at 2pm is not a conducive work environment. Guitar would be better at least. BBQs mainly bother me because inevitably I'm doing laundry when someone decides to light up.

Sit in the garden and play “Kumbaya my Lord” on high repeat- just for fun.
Seriously I would be delighted If you where my neighbour.

On Sunday the neighbours hired a sounds system "for the street", terraced street of about 50 houses and only 20 people outside, and played loudly for 4 hours. I wasn't working (although Sunday is usually a work day in my industry) but by the time it got to 930pm DH and I were fed up of shouting to communicate with each other. I couldn't focus enough to read a book. And when they belted out Matt Lucas's Potato Song I wanted to scream.

Jesus PurBal I’d have called the police. That is not acceptable. I hope you’re hiring your own sound system this weekend to play music they will hate for four hours?

I would love it but then I love Folk music ( and many other genres including death metal).

I detest having to put up with my neighbours playing Shit FM.

I'd be sending requests Op.

How showy-offy can you get? Really OP, nobody wants to hear you. If you get pleasure out of your music then do it as much as you want inside without inflicting it on the rest of us.

If you want to play and sing in your own garden as long as it's not a time when you would expect others to be sleeping, just do it. Honestly you can't ask on here for advice because so many people are opposed to do many things you would just end up never doing anything at all for fear of upsetting someone.

I'd rather hear a guitar/singing than the air grinder that's been going all week at my neighbours', but even then I understand they have the right to angle grind as much as they need to during the day!

Some people may like it, some people may hate it. If I want to listen to music in my garden I'd use earphones. I don't want to be dictated to by anyone else's preferences. Personally the sound of wind in the trees, bees buzzing and birds singing is all I want to hear, but rarely get.

We have a neighbour who screeches loudly thinking she can sing opera, she can't. I honestly thought her dog was wailing in pain the first time I heard it.

Good grief no.

I voted YABU but I think this is coloured by the fact that our (generally OK) neighbours both sing to their kids in the bath every.single.night.

You may think I'm some kind of monster...nope. This couple will massacre belt out a bit of Simon and Garfunkel or similar. Then try to teach their kids that "Mummy and Daddy are harmonising now - listen!". They go for every high note with a bit of a warble and depending on our mood DH and I will either go inside or sit there pissing ourselves laughing.

Jesus fucking Christ shoot me now

If it’s within sociable hours it’s no one business what you do in your garden.
I’ve never understood the angst against people having fun on this forum!

Yeah you can tell lockdown is palling when people are really moaning about neighbours singing to their kids in the bath . It's not performance parenting if it's in your own house. Jeez.

I never understand this performance mentality... Why can't you do it indoors? What makes you think your neighbours will be delighted to listen to you?!

Honestly I would bloody hate it

If you're the sort of person who is comfortable driving around in public, windows down, foisting your choice of music upon the unsuspecting public, then crack on.

If not, then I'd suggest you do the polite thing and refrain from inflicting your playing and signing upon people who have not chosen to turn up to a specific venue to witness it.

Having said that, I'd walk straight past you to get to the family who are currently holding hour-long step aerobic sessions in the communal garden next to me every other night. Nothing worse than inane chart garbage being blasted out when you're just trying to enjoy a nice summer's evening.

If you were my neighbour, I would send my three folk musician children out to join you with their instruments! However, I accept we are probably in the minority
Yes, I think you are and thank Christ for that

@OtterBe4

Jesus NO!! About as cringey as the endless SM posts of ppl trying to cheer everyone up with their bloody ‘musical talents’ Folk music? I’d be accidentally having you.

God, I thought it was just me...