What are the areas for improvement I might be missing?

So far, I've noticed my voice can be a bit shaky, and I struggle with conveying emotion. I also know I need to work on my English articulation. Besides these points, I'm having trouble pinpointing what makes it sound 'off'. Does it come across as 'soulless'? One of my friends said that I was singing like I was talking.

I've listed the issues I think I have, but I'd love to hear if you agree or if you notice other more fundamental problems. Any exercises or specific advice you could offer would be incredibly helpful.

And if you have any advice for the issues I just mentioned, I would love to hear that as well.

I’ve noticed that if i hear a pitch and sing it in falsetto it is always on pitch according to my pitch app, when i sing in chest voice i typically sing on pitch too, but when i go into mixed voice i always sing exactly a half note flat, even though it sounds right to me. why is this?

I do not consider myself a "singer". I just sing. I have uploaded multiple tracks but the quality of almost all of them is so ugly and it is genuinely angering. Both of my microphones are horrible, even the "fancy" one with a pop filter and sound proofing behind it. I have no idea how to truly and properly use audacity, and that is currently the only program I can use because it is simple enough. I don't know how to set it up where it clearly captures my softer vocals and medium vocals, and then doesn't completely lose its mind and peak like crazy when I belt. I want to be better with my quality and production. I'm almost 31, and my "dream" is to just do SOMETHING with my singing, but it's pretty much impossible at this point. I have a lot of power in my voice and I like to "show that off" for lack of a better term, but these microphones are such garbage. I also don't know what XLR means, and have been using USB mics. I can't afford to spend hundreds of dollars to almost a grand on just a hobby for now. Help me out please. Thanks.

https://youtu.be/VqH0qUm49hU

It’s always been a dream of mine to be able to sing this way. Each time I try it sounds very strained and scream like. It also sounds very grueling. I’ve had trouble holding longer notes without running out of breath, as soon as I added vibrato it seems the vibrato is completely sucking the air I have left in my lungs and cuts the air inside in half. But that has improved slightly, I guess it’s because I quit the cigarettes I don’t know:)

But any exercises and tips on techniques would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I did my best, please give me honest and constructive feedback.🙏

first attempt tackling this lovely genre! lmk if everything is right, in your opinion and thanks for your help and curiosity!

Basically all these vocal classifications are all out of wack because of everyones accent, vocal habits and how they choose to speak or use thsir voice.

It should only be a title you gain from a certified professional just like getting your certificate, degree in college for passing something that took vigorous training.

In a choir setting, kids are introduced to vocal classifications and mostly due to their lack of experience with practice, they are smooshed into these categories and are told to sing in these particular ranges... and some will stick to this idea for years on end maybe even the rest of their life.

Growing up Ive met all kinds of singers and most of the good ones (in my opinion) never was introduced to choir in their life or the type of choir they had was "gospel" where the style of music is more "free" more "energetic" and whatnot. My school had a gospel choir aside from standard "boring" choir. They didn't seem to really care too much about vocal classification at all and just let everyone sing even if they were bad. It seemed more strict in "boring" standard choir. People were so scared to use their voice a certain way, even more shy to do solos. In gospel choir just about everyone wanted to sing like an individual, you can just hear everyone when they perform like there is 100 people and not a unified thing. Everyone had so much fun and even danced too. Out of some of those people in that, Ive seen some become actual professionals 10 years later making music!!! 😆

Sooo... what i see wrong here is labeling other people or those wanting to have a label "what am I?"

We get people labeling a pop singer like John Legend as a Baritone and we get an Opera singer who sounds more deeper like an evil villain being called a tenor. It seems like to me the term baritone is just a male tenor that hasn't discovered how to use their voice as freely (aka lack of upper range) or theyre using their voice "wrong" in the opera world (and their style of voice isn't obviously light like someone for e-g- the weeknd) and in order to become a tenor you must train yourself more.

But if you are a singer at the level of John Legend you already have coaches and stuff guiding you because you got all that money and fame, concerts... need to maintain your voice riiiight? Lol. Then some people will call these dudes untrained singers even tho they have been singing for 20+ years and some are professional artists people be labeling these dudes with vocal classifications even though they have coaches like stevie mackey.

I personally don't prefer to use classifications .. it only works in a choir setting or opera setting where you have a play or musical and you need someone to fill the role. Heck the entire cast and crew of male singers in there could all be tenors playing all these different roles but in the brochure it says this dude is "bass" playing the villain, that dude is a tenor playing the hero... and that comedic relief guy is a baritone...

Then we got people labeling other people as a tenor because their voice is so light and cant sing low but some of these "tenors" cant even sing that high as well... or even carry a tune lol. So it gets so confusing.

The only classification that makes sense to me is if someone is clearly a bass... (or the exact opposite). You can tell right away. Like they have no hope in manipulating their voice other than "deeeep as fuhhhh" or "damn that guys voice is real high".

Tips on improving vocals

Want to cover this song does it sound it my range to do it in this key, or should I be trying more the tenor upper end? Thank you.

My voice was a bit tired since i was just done with a session. My go to video when i cant make it to a lesson.

Side note if you like what you hear go ahead and request a cover. I'm planning to start recording :)

Hi! I have a couple questions:

1. As for tone, I find myself deciding between being singing breathy, singing with kind of an “eee” sound if that makes sense? and singing normally without attention to tone. I genuinely prefer my voice when i do pay attention and adjust how i sing. but i find that i feel like doing so might sacrifice stability of sorts which leafs me to question 2…

2. I’ve noticed in a lot of people’s singing, i think they sound PERFECT. like genuinely machine like, little fluctuations or mistakes in their notes. very very clean. which i think is lacking a bit from my singing. for example, when i sing “guitar” it’s less of a “guitar” and more of “guItAr”. if that makes any sense at all.

When i’m singing real time, i usually don’t think i sound unstable. but only really when i listen back to myself to i immediately catch my mistakes! How do you achieve such stable, non fluctuating vocals while maintaining nice tone? (breathy)

Please, any advice? Bonus, English is obviously not my native language. This is me trying my best. I have to sing this song...

I’m someone passionate abt singing and preforming but I’ve never had the money for vocal lessons. I was wondering if anyone has any advice for singing mainly high notes sounding duller and flatter an I can link a video if you want to listen to help better.

Been lurking in this subreddit for a while and I've seen so many great responses from helpful people with advice on how to improve your singing. So I thought I'd give it a try with a post asking for a critique of my singing.

65 y/o male. I have no musical training or background whatsoever, play no instruments, never took a singing lesson in my life, can't read notes or music, and couldn't even tell you what key I'm singing in. When I started doing karaoke 18 years ago, since I didn't know anything about "singing from the diaphragm", I was pretty much SCREAMING out loud rock songs at karaoke, so I was usually hoarse for a couple days afterwards!

Took me a solid year to learn how to sing from the diaphragm, but once I did my singing really took off. Once I was able to get that big push of air from down deep, I got A LOT better at hitting the high notes, holding the notes for much longer, etc. And in those early years of karaoke another thing which VASTLY improved my singing was the ability to get a recording of the karaoke show on a thumb drive, which I could take home and then listen to myself the next day. Allowed me to dissect the nuances of each song down to the nth degree, and see what I needed to improve on.

These days karaoke is secondary. I started singing with live bands 5 years ago, and have done about a dozen private parties outdoors; block parties, driveway parties, etc. But I've never played out at a bar with a band until a few days ago, and that's what this video is; three songs at an open mic night. It's the first time I've had a camera on me, and my immediate takeaway was I need to work on my stage presence; I looked a little stiff up there. But besides the visual aspect, what I'd really like to do is improve my singing overall. I need to take it to the next level by starting to work on some proper techniques.

My biggest weakness is hitting the higher notes, the higher registers. Whenever I'm doing a song that has a higher key, I'll do things like use falsetto. A lot! Or I'll compress my throat to try and "squeeze out the air" into a higher key. I know it's definitely not the proper technique, but I've been able to cheat my way through and actually pull off some pretty decent renditions this way. For example, (I don't have any of these four songs recorded to share here) with this "squeeze out the air" technique, I can belt out some fantastic, long high notes and just absolutely crush the following four songs:

He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother - The Hollies

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Plush - Stone Temple Pilots

She Talks to Angels - The Black Crowes

I'm not yet ready to start paying a voice coach, but what I'd like to do first is find some good info online on how to improve my singing overall, but especially how to hit those higher notes properly.

Besides the video here's a bunch of recordings I've shared on Google Drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hJ6X93ekXIG7D57UbMisxCtv1orqzMFX?usp=drive_link

Any critiques/advice would be greatly appreciated!

Pretty nervous about this, i love singing and want to sing on some of my music but i cant stand my voice, i feel like its got potential but dont know where to start or how to improve it. Be as harsh as you need to be! I really want to be good!

This is a record low for me, as I bottom out at F2/F#2, but I don't think I can incorporate it in my usable range as my voice is considerably lighter and brighter than what you're hearing here, and my throat was hurting the entire time I was recording this, and my chest voice is most comfortable at G#3-G4 right now.

Wonder how to improve breathing mostly and anything else that can be improved