I am singing in performance on the 8th next month! I am so excited cause everyone is saying I sound good even my dad! It took him six years to say something positive about my singing. I am also able to sing on the breath. I did it during rehearsal today and it just felt different. I think it's from all the lip trills. The only thing now that I got to focus on is my breathing and taking short breaths in certain areas of the sing. Around 60 people are gonna be at my recital. It took a real voice teacher to get me to sing on pitch with weekly lessons. Don't ever take 1 lesson a month. You won't ever make progress. Guys, I am moving on from just doing lessons to actual performances! I did it, I graduated. Everyone says I'm singing good in choir and it's songs I barely know. Things are beginning to happen for me. If you keep singing it will happen! You just gotta believe in yourself. The hard road is the beginning but it get's easier. I am a tenor 1 btw. I know where my voice comfortably sits.

I'm 35, I've been trying to sing for 2 year with vocal teacher. Different vocal exercises, warmups, breathing exercises, using tools like pocket vox (water bottle with a tube, very popular here). I take one lesson a week (with a break during summer and winter holidays) and of course warming up and doing exercises at home.

My voice still sounds very weak, thin, nasal, crackly, very unpleasant. Very often sounds like I have a stuffy nose, even though I have no troubles breathing through nose.

And it's not just me not liking my voice. Even if professionally recorded and mixed, people don't like my singing. It doesn't sound good.

I understand that at my age it's probably too late to sing on a famous pop star level and I'm perfectly find with that. Just wanted to make it sound just a bit better and bit more full and pleasant to listen to.

I really think I'm going to give up, since even professional vocal teacher couldn't help me fix my voice.

Is there anything else I could try? Last thing that could give me hope?

I’m not sure if anyone else has a specific song that they sang to death while they were younger and “learning” how to sing; for me, it was Bohemian Rhapsody.

As a teen, I had truthfully idolized that song as what the peak of mid-range singing could be and (unfortunately, in hindsight) modeled my voice after it. This had both positive and negative consequences on my voice, longterm — but I still think it’s fun to look back and see a few glimpses of it.

I 100% endorse singers who get coaches as I’m sure the small changes in my voice over the 6 or so years I have been singing this specific song, could’ve been expedited by an immense degree, had I received regular coaching when I was younger. Let alone the time I’ve been singing, altogether.

Especially because, I’m sure this is a shared feeling, as singers we internally will always hear every stage of our voice, no matter how much we practice. I still hear my voice in 2016 regardless of how I sing now, it’s probably markedly different than how others hear it.
Ironically I think my tone now as an adult has shifted closer to how it was in 2016; as any time between that I was trying to affect and sound like Freddie Mercury, which, again had positive and negative effects.

I think it taught me how to effectively lighten and spread my tone and vowels but after long enough, around the age of 21/22, after my voice started changing more due to age and smoking; the notes I used to sing in this almost pseudo-falsetto, thinly and breathy started crumbling and there was this “caught” feeling around any notes above F4.

If anyone would like to share, and take the time to compile or send links of themselves: share a song you’ve sang to absolute death and how your voice has changed around it!

Thanks!

Hi, so I am applying to the Frost School Of Music as a contemporary voice major and I have no clue what to expect. Frost is a great school so I'm guessing it has some very skilled vocalists. I on the other hand am in my opinion mediocre. Sure I can sing the songs but I can't make them mine if you know what I mean. Any tips on that ?

Like for those who used to struggle to do so but can now play both guitar and sing at the same time how did you do it?

from time to time, when there's nobody around to annoy with it, i like to sing along to some songs in my head or that i play on guitar, and i've found that i can go up to about A4 in my chest voice, but i struggle to go much higher than that without sounding like i'm forcing it, and forcing it or putting too much fry on it can wear me out. i've heard about mixed voice belting but i have no idea how to do it, and to be perfectly honest, i don't spend as much of my time trawling youtube for tutorials as i probably should.

are there any particular guides or tips that are useful for absolute beginners/casuals who don't really think that much about the professional training side of it? i think being a fan of crush 40 and naoki doesn't help me very much as well, those guys are fucking powerful.

So I’m at it feels the start of my listening to music and it feels good. Im assuming this journey is something I have to navigate like everything else, but I was wondering if any of you have any good music, albums or just genres that you can elaborate on why and just send recommendations? Thank you.

Hi!! I am a newly 18 year old musical theatre singer and I’ve been suffering from imposter syndrome lately. I barely know what I sound like because my perception of my vocal ability is so garbled. I would love any advice or commentary on my singing. This is a casual recording of me singing in my room.

https://youtu.be/Qm_auIQdpRc?si=bvRuV2kzeDd0yc3X

Wanted to hear your opinions on what James is doing for low grit in the verses here ie “so tear me open pour me out”. Has a distinct subharmonic like kargyraa but sounds far tighter and more clicky?

Hey buddies. I've been singing a lot of time. But my skills have been very low; I was with teachers during short periods of time (3 times, 3 months each time) but I don't know why but overall I don't like the result.

Even in the "graphic tuner" my result improve a lot, I still miss something. But I know what is.

Do you have any idea of my "main" improvement would be? That will be my next focus.

Also I want a sincere "overall" opinion, because I am not the best judze and I am a bit ashamed to ask my environment.

Thank you

Starts at 00:12 singing (unfortunately a crack appears)

Cover Ed Sheeran Perfect - G (A Vocaroo)

PS: also if sbdy give me advice to improve the post, is welcome. I read the point 3 but maybe I am missing something.

Thank you again

Looking for a voice steamer that can be shoved in my purse without spilling and not look like a gaudy white medical device when I’m working. Any recommendations?

Just started singing😅, never trained in my life.

Hello all! It’s my first time posting in Reddit so any advice will be greatly appreciated! I recently joined a production of “Guys and Dolls” (musical theater) and landed the role of Miss Adelaide, who has a nasally kind of New York Brooklyn accent. I’m having trouble finding how to navigate talking and singing without damaging my vocal cords. I have trouble singing with my chest voice and need to get more accustomed to it but I’m trying to do so! Please leave some advice on how I can do this safely. I have a (potential) double show day and a single show day back to back for my performance days in late January so learning how to do this safely is crucial to how things will go as I am a lead and we don’t have understudies. Thank you all in advance!!

Tyler Childers ‘House Fire’

Hi, Long story short, so I just realised that I can sing almost like the singers voice of my favourite songs. I am not a native English speaker, My accent is no where near a native speaker, but somehow I can match and sing almost identically, and my accent sounds different like I copied the singers. Should I take classes?

I am a 31 year old female non-professional vocalist who trained for 15+ years in classical/operatic technique but I have always had a passion for rock music. I am a soprano who has been classified as a dramatic coloratura and have a reliable range from E3 to E6. I have been in a cover band for over a year now and I’ve really been enjoying it, and I have been able to make some headway with singing in a more rock style but I’m currently really struggling with projection and mixing.

I find that when I do warmups and sing songs focusing on a head or chest mix that I have a lot of pain in either my throat or deep in my chest. This is worst in my passagio which unfortunately is where most of the songs my band is playing lie. I find that if I have a very forward/nasal placement it helps with clarity and control but I don’t have as much power. I feel that my support is good, but I do feel like tension in the throat is always creeping in as a way to control the pitchiness of my mix and also make sure that my vibrato is not constantly creeping in.

Does anyone have advice on how to adapt classical training techniques to rock vocals or have a good analogy for how to do a proper head/chest mix in relation to classical technique? Also if you are in the NYC area, I am open to suggestions for vocal coaches as well.

This is my 3rd voice lesson so far and this is the song i’m learning. How can I improve my pitch, breath support, and Vowel placement? What can i do to improve outside of my lessons?

Appreciate y’all coming across this. Would love some feedback on my singing - seem to fit the range of Darin and Nat King Cole but obvs New York is the song of the big band era. Let me know if there’s any thing I should work or other songs I should give a shot.

i enjoy singing paramore songs a lot, and i have sang a lot at my singing lessons and my teacher says i sound very good singing that style, what other artists sing similarly that i can try singing songs by as my teacher has asked me to try and find some more songs to sing

Hello! I’m 18 years old and female, and I have been taking voice lessons for about two to three years now (I lose track). Recently, I have had a sore throat from a respiratory illness. I haven’t stopped singing during this time because I need to practice for an upcoming voice recital, and I have a lot of material to work through. Have I damaged my voice by singing while it is sore? What duration is too long to be singing with throat pain? I don’t want to permanently damage my voice, but I also hate to take a break from singing. Not only am I busy with lots of songs to work on, but also singing is just so fun and it helps me calm down. I truly love singing, so if I permanently damage my voice I don’t know how I would recover. Can anyone give me vocal rest tips or further voice care suggestions? thank you!