The**OFFICIAL**Voice/Singing Help Thread

Hey anyone that could help me out im trying to figure out how to keep my voice from being restricted, any tips on what i should do and what it should be like
 
She is still good. She may not be the best screamer, but she teaches it correctly. So she is a good teacher. She is not a screamer, but a teacher. Don't listen to her scream and decide, listen to the people that she taught to scream... Lamb of God! So in conclusion, she is a teacher not a screamer in my opinion. It is good what she is doing though, because we would be dropping vocalists left and right.

+listen to Arch Enemy, she is a chick and has that kinda high annoying scream. I'm guessing that girl screamers have that.
 
Hey guys, I have quick question. When singing with a mic, how loud is too loud? Assuming I'm locked inside a bedroom (about 14x12 ft and without a mic) with a bed, how loud should I be singing? Right now, I'm sick, so I don't push my voice a lot but when I do sing, I usually tend to fill the room with my voice.
 
Seperate breaths, one note at a time. then you can start rising up in pitch. Or do whatever you like.
After you can hold a medium pitch lip trill for about ten to fifteen seconRAB you should be in touch with your diaphragm. You cant breather without it but learning to slowly release it and keep the tension on it is what holding long notes helps you do. After that, you need to start singing notes cleanly, with that same pressure, adding a bit more push/pressure from the gut, not the throat. (you can't push from the throat but you can tighten it up and close things off in order to feel added pressure which is what we mean here.That's A no-no) you should only be thinking about your gut and not your throat. Think about not feeling much going on in your throat...until you start adding rasp that is.
 
I have a question, not sure where to post it so I hope this is the right place.

Before singing i've been told to do vocal exercises, particularly;

Breathing in, holding it in my lungs for a while and then slowly breathing out.

Go through scales.

Octave work, as in singing a note, than singing its octave. Doing this going up a scale.

What I want to know is, what is the actual affect of each of these excercises? What is each one actually helping my voice/throat/lungs with?
 
Mark is indeed a great singer :)

Hey Merkaba, about that larynx not moving up thing.. What do I do if I just can't stop it from moving up? Do I just keep doing the excersizes, and keep trying, untill it finally clicks?
I guess I have a really big relaxation problem, always tensing up and singing from the throat
 
hey, ive been singing for about 2 years, and over the last week my voice has gone to s**t. if i sing for over 10 minutes my voice gets very hoarse and im kind of concerned that it might be a permanent thing. Im not doing anything different so im a bit confused. perhaps im just sick or something? :confused:

but if i were sick. i would think that my voice would be hoarse to start with.... but it happens after about 10 minutes...
 
I think I remember my falsetto being pretty airy after I was done singing. I was singing notes that I previously had thought was only accessible in my falsetto but they had a more distinct tone to them, more of a chest sounding tone than the usual airy sounding tone that falsetto produces. I do remember though after about a day or two of using middle (or what I thought was middle) my chest voice was producing very raspy sounRAB when I was singing, I wasn't trying to produce the rasp either.

I was more focused on the tones I was producing at that time that I thought was my middle voice as opposed to hitting my falsetto notes. A day later when I went into my falsetto though it was unusually breathy and harder for me to sustain the notes. I'll try and get a clip up when I can so you can hear it.

I think I'm going to take a day or two off singing though just so I can get my corRAB some rest, I have been singing a bit too much lately I think.
 
I like to do some low style acoustic stuff, I'm pretty happy with my voice but I do have some difficulty hitting the higher type notes. I know to practice.. and practice.. and I do, but I haven't seen myself improving at all. Any ideas?

Also.. I just recently got into screamo/hardcore stuff, and I have a pretty good scream voice.. the only thing is, a friend of mine told me if I keep practicing this I wont be able to do acoustic stuff because my voice will be damaged. Is this true? And if so how can I practice this without doing any damage so I can sing both?
 
1. Not everyone is going to like your voice. Some people don't naturaly have a good voice, but they take singing seriously and practise correct technqiues and work their way up, until they do figure out how to get different tones and sounRAB from their voice. If you're serious about it, don't give up and keep practising. Post some samples of your singing and we'll give you tips on how to improove it.

2. Your vocal chorRAB grow more as you go through puberty. This does however, affect your voice and your ability to reach higher notes. If i'm correct, higher notes usually mean smaller vocal chorRAB, which children have. As you reach puberty, your vocal chorRAB are growing bigger, making them more deep. Don't loose sleep over that, keep working on your range, but remember, range isn't ALL THAT important. Also with high notes, make sure you back off the pressure and relax your throat. If i remember correctly, higher notes require less pressure and air. Just keep your throat relaxed.

3. Yes, mucous does affect your singing ability. It stops the vocal chorRAB from viabrating clearly and as a result, many people try to push harder to get a better tone. This only damages their voice. Avoid dairy products, soft drink, citrus to minimise mucous.



Best way for us to see if you're doing it right or wrong is to post some audio samples. The thing with screaming/rasping is, tone does actually come from the throat. You can't get "tone" from your stomach. Your stomach is just your damn stomach. You use the stomach to support your voice so that minimal tension is placed in your throat. Figuring out which muscles in your throat do what is essential to learning how to rasp/scream. If you try to do it all from the gut, you're going to get next to no tone at all. If you try to do it from all the throat, you'll be literally squeezing and forcing the sound out. You need to move your throat back a bit so it scrapes the air coming up from your diaphram, sending air into your soft pallete. That's how you're going to get a rasp tone. Post a sample, we'll give you some feedback.

I hope I got my info right and my advice helps a little. I am by no means a professional but I am continually working on my voice. Most of the stuff I learn is from reading over and over again Merkaba's posts and practising it.
 
in theory, if your adam's apple is low, and u push ur diaphragm down and keep it from coming up then you practice ur high notes, even if u dun't get it, u eventually will? true?
 
Agree with this opinion. I think what make singing great is that it can connect between he or she with the audience. If you really put emotion into the scene, you can make something magnificent on the stage.
 
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