The**OFFICIAL**Voice/Singing Help Thread

Okay, I already posted this problem to another forum, but the people there seem to be pretty quiet so I searched for a better music-forum and found this. :) (I love it already :p) *clears throat*


I have sang since I can only remember and it has always been my favourite doing/hobby/or whatever and I guess I used to be good at it. I could sing pretty high notes and stuff. I usually sang Christina Aguilera's, Celine Dion's or Britney Spears's songs. But then about 2 years ago a baby was born in our family and of course my mom had to stayn at home. I am very shy and afraid that someone will hear me singing and I've been "caught" singing a few times when I was little and I got so embarresed.
 
anybody have any tips for the most efficient way to strengthen your falsetto?

i have like no falsetto and i'm not sure if i just don't know how to use it right or it just isn't very developed. i

've also heard that tenors don't have much falsetto, and although my voice is kind of the high side i've always just assumed i was baritone, so i'm not sure if this is the case with me or not but can anyone confirm this (about tenors not having much falsettto that is)?
 
Zen 2 is the screaming technique one, although theres only a couple of actual exercises for it. It still explains everything and you'll figure it out just by hearing it. If you cant afford the money though, just keep experimenting and your going to eventually get it. Its as simple as coordinating everything (the breathing, push, breath pressure), then just letting loose and screaming a note, but people always hold back just a little to much and run into problems.
 
Dairy products are only bad for your voice if they cause excess mucus. Which they do in some people, but not in others.

Kristina
 
Hi,

I am still working at getting my highest notes to be thicker and have more tone to them. But it still sounRAB thin even if i put in more resonance. Am I doing it wrong? To get the voice I want do I have to pull my chest voice all the way up? A lot of times I feel like I am working on the wrong 'voice'. I want something strong and powerful like a belt.

Thanks.
 
Believe me, I don't try to. Ok, basically my scream amounts to that sort of gurgly thingy that your death growlers use. It's just a basic daiphragm motivated gurgle. I don't want that. I want a raspy scream. But I cannot figure out how to develop a raspy scream without using my throat. That's what I need advice on. I need to develop something along the lines of Avenged Sevenfold, A Static Lullaby, ect. without hurting my throat.

So I've tried relaxing my throat and just pushing air out faster with my diaphragm but it still hurts my throat. Obviously I'm doing something wrong.
 
well i was wanting merkaba to answer this (thanks for your answer though:thumb: ). I just didnt want to be following a tutorial some person using improper technique made. It is really cool. It focuses on growls. Everyone in my town wants to scream. I wanna growl!

EDIT: and about joining the band. I didnt want to be pressured into growling when i didnt want to, like if it starts to hurt. Thats why i wanted to wait a few months so i can develop it so i can have more stamina.
 
You completely missed it.

Tsuruka said he has been coughing up more mucus lately, and I'm saying that this doesn't have anything to do with his singing.

He (but the looks of it) just has a cold, and what happens when you're feeling a little shitty?

/tries to remember year 9 anatomy

Your body pumps out mucus to counter any infection entering your throat or nose. Therefore, this extra mucus is coming from being sick...not from his singing practice. I'm not telling him to do vocals when he's sick, No no no. Just clearing things up. :D
 
http://www.melissacross.com

this is wear i look for my singing questions

They have vocal solutions (which are kind of like vocal tutorials), a Video you can order online that shows excercises, etc. (The Zen of Screaming), and you can contact the melissacross crew for any vocal questions. You will get a reply within atleast 48 hours, and yes, they do help you when you email them. I find them useful, you guys should try it
 
Well yes...warming up always helps and its good to practice for vocal safety. Singing is like jogging compared to talking's walking. Singing aggresively is like Sprinting. And while you can sprint without warming up...you will always be running a higher risk of pulling a muscle or doing damage.

You have an acoustic instrument. Not an electric. It neeRAB to be amplified properly. If you were playing acoustic guitar you would have it plugged in and amped up to mix. Your mic probably isnt the problem, its more about the mix. You shouldnt have to strain just to be heard. You need to talk to whoever, the "manager", etc.

Well your brother might be a tenor. Tenor falsetto...well I've never heard of it put that way before. But I'm guessing it just means higher falsetto. There is no specific technique for singing as a tenor. Tenor makeup is something youre born with. Power falsetto and a good bridge in and out of your top head voice really helps alot though. Try to imagine singing both head and falsetto at the same time. Some people really cant grasp the feelings of higher head voice and you might be cutting yourself short there. Be sure to warm up. I suggest you spend about ten good minutes. Grab your guitar and start in speaking chest voice range. Singing lightly and do melodies up and down in chest. THen move to head and do the same mixing it with chest. Light singing, nothing forceful.

Be on the look out for a new "finding head voice" post I'm working on.
 
Pop and R&B especially, you can change the key around quite a bit to suit your voice. In rock/metal, most singers just push the hell out of their voice because more than likely the band isnt going to change the key to better suit your voice since in most rock/metal, the voice isn't really the main focus.

In pop and r&b, it is the main focus so anything can be adjusted. Even if you don't want to change the key, you should still be able to get away with just changing it around a bit. Seal for example, one of my favorite singers in the world but he doesn't have much range. Its his tone thats difficult to match, so you can do your own version of any of his songs but either ina different key or with a totally different tonal approach.

The categorization does matter to an extent, but basically as long as you train you are going to develop the ability to sing any note in your range however you want it to sound. Once you have that kind of control over your range, the possibilites of what you can sing are pretty much limitless.
 
You're probably not doing them right then. Just go from the top of your mouth/pharynx region, and push down, it's not actually completely, "inhaling," why a lot of people call it, "inward," instead.... true inhales would be:
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But whenever I do that, it makes my voice crack.
 
Heh... no I just mean back when I was about 14 and was a treble I had a stupidly powerful voice (and I mean stupidly powerful). Now nearly four years on my cracking teenage voice has completely settled and I'm looking to retrain to sing for my band. But now I seem to have hardly any power at all.
 
If you make the "annnk" wrong answer sound youre getting in touch with them. They also are part of the phonation you hear when you cough, but I wouldnt recommend you cough to get the feel. But you can start one to feel that pressure....Its easier to get false cord stuff across in person or on samples. The key is to play around with low push sounRAB because youre not trying to get a loud true vocal cord sound or push in order to get the rasp because its not coming from that. So play around with trying to "scream" or get a good rasp at a very low volume and push.


Theres no way to know for sure whether or not your vocal corRAB are infected (laryngitis). But from what you've stated, I would bet you dont have any, and you should be ok with what you prescribed.
 
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