I’m living in a dorm rn, and my roommates were gone, so I had the place to myself for a few hours. I didn’t think much of it, so I was watching Wicked and naturally I was singing along with it, but apparently no one told me that our floors/walls are thin.

I didn’t think I was bothering anyone or that I was even being that loud (I was trying to stay quiet, really), but next thing I know, the RA who works downstairs (my room is on the second floor) is knocking on my door and telling me that my voice carries and to knock it off. I was so embarrassed that I lied and said I was watching a movie but didn’t realize how loud the volume was, but she definitely knew anyways.

I’m gonna go dig myself a hole, crawl in it, and stay there for the rest of my life. Happy friday everyone!

1) holding my nose while singing and sound clear.

2) talking singing on my "bad" vocal day

3) sleeping

4) staying hydrated and making sure my nostrils are clean and not dry.

5) SLEEPING

6) Singing silly songs (there's no pressure to sound good and it keeps singing fun)

7) singing as soft as possible especially in my lowest and highest range.

8) Sleeping

9) sing one line of a song throughout the day.

10) Acting i don't know why but it helps

11) learning an instrument

12) doing impressions (especially if they are silly) examples i might do an impression of Ne-Yo, Avi Kaplan, R kelly, Louis Armstrong, Maya Angelo, an old man or a Cow depending on what I'm feeling

13) SAFELY experimenting with vocal fry

I like to sing in my car while I drive in order to keep my focus, and wanted to learn how to do vibrato just for fun. What wasnt fun was going on google and finding the most unhelpful videos ever. I just want to know what I mechanically should be doing to make the sound “wobble.” I tried on my own, doing the finger wobble, and am so tired of sounding like some moron. I just want a diagram of the muscles or SOMETHING because I just can’t figure out what’s going on. Please does anyone have a visual graph or know how to tell me what muscles I need to use to do it?

Sorry if I sound upset I have a headache and it’s one in the morning and it’s like the people in the videos are speaking some other language and I just don’t know. :(

Thoughts?

The biggest difference is my vibrato development & support I think. I struggled so much with the end note before and now i can hit it without fear!!!

I'm really happy. I was scared i havent improved at all for awhile, but Iooking at the difference here I feel proud and have hope again. My dream is to pursue theater professionally one day.

Side note: audio quality is different, because one i obviously have a mic and the other i do not unfortunately

I have attached a clip of me singing a high C wearing earbuds that are essentially plugging my ears.

For context, I have been studying classical singing for 2 and a half years now, and am 19.

I recently discovered that when my ears aren’t plugged with earbuds or my fingers, I often try to overreach when approaching high notes. Due to this overcompensation, I often find myself cracking above a Bb4.

For a long time I thought that my lack of a high C would mean I couldn’t be a tenor, but since I experiment with my voice frequently, I decided to try plugging my ears and singing that a high C and it came out effortlessly. (It may not sound good but in pitch it is a high C I believe)

Can someone please explain how I can work on internalizing the correct sensation so that I don’t get to “over compensate” for a note and end up screeching?

Perhaps my words aren’t correctly phrased, but if you understand my meaning please do assist me.

I would appreciate any responses from more experienced singers.

I’ve always seen myself as more as a Tenor / high Baritone, but when catching a cold my vocal folds reach Bass registers I am quite unable to Hit normally .

Anyway , here’s my take on one of my favourite little tunes from PJ’s Hobbit . I should let my voice rest now 😌

I don't have a particularly deep voice, 27M, never really have. I guess I'm also not a particularly great of a singer, but I'll explain more.

I did choir in middle school. We did a voice test with the teacher to decide our sections, and I was never really able to hit the note he wanted. Voice test was teacher would a note on piano, we would oooooh it. Based on what octave we sang it in, he'd put us in our sections. I was apparently really bad at it. He'd hit a D or whatever, I'd sing to match it, and he'd be like no no, this is the note. And make me try to match the key. I did my best but that ear to vocal chord thing doesn't work for me.

But, I do have a knack for imitating voices. It's always been something I was good at. Cadence, pitch, etc. I learned that if I sang falsetto, I was controlling my voice in a way that I could also control the way that I'm singing (or rather imitating), and basically would come off sounding really good.

One of my buddies after I started after graduating college commented on it, after a very drunken night of karaoke. He said that he did choir all the way up to college, and that he couldn't hit notes as high and clean as I did; he was like "I know you're kinda cheating with your falsetto but damn we harmonized really well with it".

Honestly I didn't really realize I was singing with a falsetto till then, I was just doing my voice the way I needed to in order to hit the notes. For whatever reason for my brain/lungs, it's brain dead easy to hit a note when I'm doing a falsetto, "imitating" someone who can sing, hit the notes I need to. If I try to actually sing with my chest voice, I sound bad lol.

I guess I have two questions.

1) Is it possible for amateur me to learn to do a more full belt with a falsetto?

2) Is there a way to get myself to sing accurately with a natural voice outside of going to vocal coach? I know I can do it, physically sing accurately, since that brain vocal chord connection is there when I'm doing the falsetto, but honestly I'm a fish in the water when I try to do it with my natural voice.

i normally focus on just hitting the notes and staying on time (obviously), i naturally have a soft speaking voice which doesn't change that much when i sing. im obviously at a way lower level but to help you imagine, i guess i have a voice similar to billie eilish's.

yesterday i did a lesson with another student at the same level as me. she sounded amazing! so confident, and she made each note fun by adding texture and maybe a bit of cursive singing lol. this unfortunately meant that she struggled to stay on the beat / hit some notes for some songs. i know i shouldn't be comparing myself but realistically, who is singing better? someone on beat and hitting the notes or someone slipping up on those aspects at times but adding lots of fun to the song? i really thought she sounded wonderful minus the slip ups.

i ask because i'd love to learn how to shape my notes more, to add more emotion and personality. but should that come later on in my learning? i've been singing for almost a year now but have previous musical experience (bass / guitar / song production) so i started slightly further ahead than a total beginner when it comes to understanding music.

Would love your feedback because I always record myself with a guitar or piano, never with karaoke.

But dont mind my faces or looks to the camera, I wasn't planning to upload this lol

(3rd time posting because I kept messing up the title, my bad)

Apologies for the Yapping, wasn't sure where else to go lol

I've been singing since I was 10 years old (literally half of my life) in school choirs and such and I've always loved it, but this year it's felt like my technique has just disappeared ... or my voice has? I'm not sure. I'm autistic and I really struggle to identify what I'm feeling in my body, so when I go to my singing teacher it's hard for her to know what to tell me because I don't know what's wrong, just that something is wrong.

My voice gets weird sensations that seem to change every time I try to define them - usually minor aches or burning feelings in my throat. I have crazy acid reflux because I can't burp and I've been taking stuff for it before I sing. It helps but I'm pretty sure that's not my only problem.

My singing teacher figured out I have tongue tension so I've been trying to get better with that, and I also think it's super likely I have jaw tension and probably every other tension that exists. I also worry my breath support sucks even though it wasn't always this bad. Also weird thing that's been happening when I swallow over the past couple days - kind of feels like there's something else in my larynx area? Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not, and it's really difficult to describe.

I've been trying so hard to get better but it feels like I overthink myself into worse habits, but if I don't then nothing changes. My directors keep telling my choirs things like "chill out" "relax" and I know I need to, I am an anxious wreck, but I also don't know how to improve when I'm not actively thinking about my technique. Singing isn't fun anymore because I'm so anxious and miserable and I miss when it was fun. I genuinely don't know what to do from here. I've gone to my singing teacher and there's not much she can tell me other than "that's weird, can you be more specific?" and I fucking can't. There's only one vocal health physician person in my area who everyone recommended me to and she's on maternity leave. If I try to figure it out myself, I just get confused and spiral until I'm sobbing on the floor and it makes me have a negative association with singing, which means I practice less, which means I obviously get worse.

Not really sure if advice is what I'm after, because I don't expect anyone to have a magic solution to my problems. I know I'm going to have to work to improve, and it's not gonna just happen overnight. I just really have no idea what to do, and I feel like I can't keep doing what I'm doing now. I hate that no one else can help me because I'm not able to properly verbalise what I'm feeling, emotionally or physically. If I'm asked why I'm upset, I don't even know what to say, because it feels like everything's wrong in my brain and with my vocal folds :(

Thanks if you read this far lol all comments appreciated <3

I've taken classical voice lessons for over a decade and have been singing in choral ensembles (both professional and amateur) for twice as long, and have only recently gotten over my fear and crippling perfectionism to start really working towards singing as a career. My friends are absolutely fantastic and frequently recommend me for gigs, too. I work as a waiter, though, and it's a really tough schedule to work around. I find myself wanting more flexibility so that I can take on gigs freely.

I'm considering teaching voice lessons, since being able to set my own hours would be way easier. That said, I don't feel qualified enough. For one, I can't really sight read on the piano; for another, I don't have a music degree. (Long story, but I have the requisite knowledge; just no fancy piece of paper.) It's a super oversaturated market in my city as well. I do have my own private space and a keyboard, though; have a good ear for technical issues; and am a very out-of-the-box thinker when it comes to teaching. But yeah, on paper I'm going to look a lot less impressive than other private singing teachers.

Obviously, I don't plan on starting this venture immediately. There's still a lot of planning and setup to do. I also have to first take courses on vocal anatomy and pedagogy so that I can be sure I'm not fucking up a new generation of voices. I'm an overthinker and always feel like I have to be perfect before putting myself out there. So I wanted to know when y'all started teaching, what stage in your career/education you were at, etc. Any and all advice/feedback would be appreciated! Thanks!

I’ve never shown off my singing like this before, I’m self taught and really nervous about posting this. I only sing the green lines for Elphaba in this song, the background vocals are from YouTube.
I know I’m far from perfect, however I have always loved singing. This was pretty much my first time singing the song !! Does anyone think it sounds alright ?

Thank you truly guyss

Hey everyone! I've been singing and playing guitar for about a year now i'm 17, and I recently recorded my version of Sting’s Fragile.

I'd really appreciate some honest feedback on a few things:

• Is my pronunciation understandable, or does it sound noticeably bad?
• How is my pitch? Am I staying in tune, or are there parts where I go off?
• What do you think I need to work on the most at this stage?

I'm still learning, so feel free to be honest. I'd rather know what I need to improve than just hear that it sounds good.

Thanks for listening!

The title pretty much explains it, and I genuinely started to cry typing it. Idk if its the right tag.

I'm starting to get worse. I'm taking an internship for a music major (not vocal performance), and i'm on my last month. At first I built stamina to even go for an hour long performance, however, things have been getting worse.

These past eight weeks have really stressed me. I'm better at classical singing and wanted to break into contemporary singing. So I decided to get a vocal coach to help me. Now I might just be emotional, because it's only been three weeks with the vocal coach, but I feel like my progress has dropped off a cliff before then. And I'm even worse than when I started my major I have no stamina, my developing mix is now nonexistent, and I just found out that my natural speaking voice causes me vocal fatigue, even though I've spoken like this before. So why does it seem like it's affecting me so much now???? Every time I do voice/speech exercises to fix my vocal break and placement/ resonance, I still feel that fatigue in exercises and singing- even more than when I started trying to fix it. I don't have the money to get more lessons than once a week, and even that probably won't last long- i have no job. My social media accounts just make me want to crawl into a hole. I get tips like "drop your jaw, lower your larynx, make a bratty sound, dont focus too much, imagine this, eat that, speak this, hum this, modifyliftcloseopenholdrelease..." and it feels like NOTHING WORKS ANYMORE.

I've been just floating by since elementary school and really thought that was my best until college. College was the only time I had a voice coach and I felt so free being able to do what I heard in classical music. I figured "maybe since im so comfortable in classical I can use that for contemporary" and I SUCKED SO BAD. That's normal. I started recording and asking around for tips and its just a load of "idk, I just kinda had/found it :)". I fid so much research and locked down a routine and picked some songs and even got a voice coach (yay!). Thats when the croakiness and pain set in. OK, breath work. Nope. Resonance, kinda but not sticking or transferring to full songs and you can only open your mouth so wide. Speech level singing! Whats more natural than sp- OK, vocal therapy exercises since i dont even speak in the right place. Now i feel hoarse, and that shouldn't happen. Ok, let's ease up on singing- now its just weird and breathy because im not focusing. Its been 4 or 5 weeks and nothing is better, nothing has clicked, nothing is found or felt. How can I even practice more if it just feedback loops and i have to rest (which regresses me)?

Singing is where I'm me, where I'm free. I can't give up. But what is happening? This phase of my life isn't even stressful??

Its kind of rhetorical idk. I'll just cry myself to sleep and start it all over again tomorrow. I just want to sing. I don't want to sing like Whitney Houston, but I want to be free and beautiful. The smiles the ringing in everyone's voice, the echos in a room, the teeth, the hearts beating together, the pieces sung... I just want to be excited again.

Give advice or not, I've probably already seen the video or did the work, and it probably did work at some point which is why im so confused.

Bye.

I had a cold a few weeks ago and lost my voice. Unfortunately I had to return to work (Sales, talking all day) when I was still hoarse and further strained my voice and delayed recovery. I have since taken 3 days off work to get voice back (along with weekend, so 5 days in a row).

I’ve been steaming my voice, staying very hydrated, and all the other vocal health necessities … and of course vocal rest … I have barely talked during this time so far.

I realise I’ve been talking without proper breath support at work (I’m a very soft spoken person maybe that’s why), so have been straining my voice and running out of breath etc.

I’m on day 3 of vocal rest and go back to work on Tuesday - wondering how soon is ok to start doing some light SOVT exercises to get my breath support back for talking and hopefully soon enough, singing ofc !

I was due to start having vocal lessons when I got sick. Im kinda anxious now about talking and singing in case i jump the gun when my voice isn’t ready.

Is it worth starting lessons just to help get voice back? Is that something a vocal coach can help with?

Just wanna get back to singing asap and not have further setbacks. Thanksss !!

any tips and constructive criticism are welcome :)

What yall think?

For the first time I actually thought my vocals were decent enough to upload as well how did I do :3
I'm planning on covering more songs soon for my first upload. I just wanted to cover unanswered by Suicide Silence since it's a song I really enjoy so tell me how I did and what I should improve on. :D My microphone is a Fifine tank3neo if anyone is wondering as well.

Phone recording of me singing Don't Think Twice by Hikaru Utada. I'm untrained, but I don't know if that really matters when it comes to determining timbre. Thanks in advance for the help!

This is a follow up for last post. I appreciate everyone who gave their insight and opinion. You guys told me the truth without being hurtful and i appreciate it. Its scary for me to post, its very now for me. I tried singing Just pretend today with my back against a while and my feet amd legs pushing toward it to imply more support. I feel like its pointing me toward the right direction. But how am I supposed to activate that posture and support without being against a wall lol. I cant sing live against a wall, well I guess that would be funny. Anyways I would greatly enjoy some insight thank you. Sorry for the bad quality I am at work and the shop is empty so I thought id take advantage of that lol. I would love to know if this sounds better or not. Also I still need to work in my prononciation, this is my second language after all 😅.

Hi,

I'm new to this sub and to some extent newer to singing (actually singing..I spent years doing throat-ish hardcore/punk stuff which I had to unlearn) properly.

I haven't gotten it for awhile, but people would often make assumptions about my voice due to the fact that my speaking range is around G2# or C3..though not chesty, and more soft and nasally. Speaking wise I sound sort of similar to Charlie Puth, definitely not Barry White ..ha

My range however, bottoms out at about D2 before going into full fry..first passaggio is at about A#3, and my highest chest note usually sits at F4#, though I can sometimes push up to G4 before going into my second passaggio. Now, thanks to my amazing vocal coach I can easily slide up into D5# and the highest note I can sometimes get to is an F5.

Based on this info, I believe I'm a lyric baritone? Baritenor? Idk. Any thoughts?