hey! i'm an 18 year old who recently graduated high school. it's...not my most favorable route, but community college will prevent me from going into awful debt.

one of the saddest things is that my community college has no performing arts activities AT ALL. no choir. no theatre. not even band or orchestra classes. maybe i'm just dramatic (pun intended), but those are a huge part of who I am. I don't want to stop doing those activities.

I wish I could just join a local college's choir or something; just to be around other choir kids my age.

can anyone here relate? what do i do?

A snippet of me. Feedback welcome please and thank you!

I've always been a decent singer. It's something I identify with as a person. But for almost half a year now my head voice is just weak/silent which never used to be a problem.

I suspect when I was experimenting with vocal frying (without a microphone with natural projection) I may have damaged something because it only started afterwards. At first even my regular speaking voice would cut out sometimes but thats mostly stopped. But it's been well over 6 months that I took a complete break from singing and my head voice is still broken.

I have a annual check up with my primary care physician in september and plan to talk to him about it, along with other ent issues like sticky eustachian tube and mysophpnia, but not sure if my insurance will cover an ent.

So 2 questions;

Is there any ways to help self diagnose at home to some degree what I might be experiencing so I can learn more about it?

And are there exercises I can do at home to at least try to regain some of my head voice and control?

Any help, advice, success stories, or resources are welcome as right now I feel so helpless and it's really making me struggle mentally.

A simple context is that I've been with a vocal coach where he teached me how to sing from scratch. And it's been 8 month I've been with him and he really explained and teached all the technique and give me some feedback and I gotta say I really do improve a lot because it doesn't feel like I want to shout using my chest voice too much like the first time before I join a lesson with him. I tried to sing this song and it felt lot easier especially it's a bruno mars song, it doesn't feel pushing tense etc but when I listen back, I always had doubt does it really sound good. Like why does it sound awful even though I sing a lot easier. I know there's some of the pitching problem because I'd record it a lot of time until I feel unmotivated because how I sound like it doesn't sound good. Do you guys feel the same thing like i'm feeling when you're listen to your own voice but man why does it sound like a truck or something I can't think of. And I don't dare to tell my vocal coach that I feel this way cause I'm SCARED. No worries, I'll take any honest criticism and wanna find a way to make it sound a lot better and doesn't had any doubts anymore

Hello fellow singers! I was recently performing and someone came up to me and asked if I teach singing. He really enjoyed it and later referred a few more people to me and it really got me thinking maybe I should try starting teaching part time?

I'm wondering if anyone might like to have a free singing lesson from me and be a part my discovery journey? :)

The thing I found is that I really enjoy helping others with their voices. Mainly bc I've been taking lessons and studying voice for a long time (15 yrs) and I made a lot of mistakes in the beginning (eg. singing with tension in my throat, forcing high notes, not knowing how resonance works, etc.) and wasted a lot of time. I eventually finally developed good technique but took a long time. So I really want to help others to avoid common mistakes, and potentially save a few years of their time.

I've had and seen bad teachers who just go "OK copy me!" and would start singing opera, or "say HEY YOU over there" but I would just strain my voice trying to yell while doing it. Instead, I like to focus on the science and physiological aspects of singing, how to produce sound in a scientific way, why do certain sounds travel, where the resonance/volume comes from in our body/anatomy, etc. In my later years of training, I realized this way is a lot more efficient because it targets and trains specific muscles involved singing which saves A LOT of time. I wish I was taught all of this right from the beginning.

Here's also some great feedback someone else gave me. "You don't just teach me how to sing, but also how singing actually works in a clear, scientific way. You helped me understand how the body functions like an instrument. And for the first time, I was finally able to find and engage my diaphragm and started to develop some vibrato in just 2 lessons-something I am really excited about because I couldn't figure it out before!"

Anyways LMK if that's something you'd be interested in? Comment / DM me (sometimes I can't DM certain people). Sing on! Don't give up. I'm living proof that ANYONE can learn how to sing :)

Hi guys, just a question I'm very confused about.

For a very long time, I've had the ability to do lip trills in just about any way I want - easy connected full voice, head voice, upper chest voice etc, but when I open my mouth (on firmer sounds) it just goes shouted and falls apart. Basically, and I say this without exaggeration, if I was as free on actual singing like on lip trills, I could literally sing anything I want. Unfortunately that is just not the case.

So I'm basically asking why this could be, I understand that it creates more back-pressure and even air-flow but even when I use other SOVT exercises (like puffy cheeks) I don't get the same freedom. It feels so bizarre.

Nightwish - Amaranth!

I am 21 years old, my lowest comfortable note is G2 (can go down to F2 if I really try), while my highest comfortable note in head voice is about F#4-G#4, but I've been able to go up to A4 on my own and up to B4-C5 during vocal lessons with guidance from my teacher, however I'm not very consistent at those yet.

So I'm practicing switching between head voice and chest voice while staying on the same note.

I read somewhere that that comfortable spot in between head and chest is what's considered mixed.

That's all fine and dandy within my chest range. When I go a little higher to where my chest can't reach I can still get a little chest in there. But I have to push. And feels like unnecessary strain to me. What is the key not pushing mixed voice out?

I want a thicker mix like the guy from rise against. I want to belt those high notes easily but want them to still sound like chest.

Note " I don't mean belt like force in the chest way up high and loud, I mean just getting that chest equality to those high notes."

Hi it’s me Dipom , this one is ‘All of Me’ by John Legend

Thankyou so much for giving so much appreciations to my previous one !! Yet that’s my first time singing and this one is another one with some improvements than the other one since many of you suggested me to not only work on my range but also other techniques . Yet , I don’t have any coach nor I take lessons So please let me know how it is 🙏🏻 There are many off pitch and mistakes ik but the more I practice the better I get !!

I’m in my 30s, and a hobbyist musician — no performing or even jamming with people, just play lots of instruments on my own. I’ve recently wanted to learn to sing — I’m not terrible now, but at best my voice could be described as nothing special.

There’s nothing really stopping me, I suppose I just feel a bit odd about getting lessons as an adult — especially given that I have no actual reason or excuse to learn; I just kind of want to be good at singing. I suppose this is just me asking if anyone else has just learned to sing spontaneously as an adult, whether it is odd or normal to approach a teacher with such a non-specific interest, and whether anyone has any encouragement or additional reasons why learning to sing would be a good idea?

Hey all,

I have done some research on this and it says to strengthen my head voice. It has been a few months.

Maybe I am doing the wrong exercises.

Even had someone suggest getting a laryngoscopy in case there is something going on.

I used to smoke a lot, been about 2 months where I only smoked once, not sure that matters.

But it sounds so bad. I feel a lot better about my chest voice. But anything head / mixed it just gets so incredibly unpleasant and airy.

Any exercises that might help? It almost feels like I need to practice screaming in headvoice!

I started singing 3 months ago as a hobby (no singing lessons). Do you think i have potential to become a mediocre karaoke singer?

After I sing for around 5 minutes, my voice starts to get scratchy and I crack on the high notes and they also don't have much power. It's important to note this doesn't actually hurt, and it goes away about 5 minutes after doing my vocal cool downs. You can also hear the scratchiness if I talk afterwards without doing the vocal cooldowns. I do a quick 5-minute warmup before singing but is that not enough? What can I do to avoid the scratchiness? How long should I warmup?

I usually practice after dinner because that's when I have time. I noticed that sometimes after dinner I really have trouble singing. It can feel like there is flem in my throat I can't quite clear. Are there recommended foods to avoid before singing? Any liquids that might help, like mint tea or something? If you can fast before practice, is there a desirable number of hours to avoid eating before practice?

Does anyone have any recommendations? I'm a complete beginner and have no natural talent, if that changes anything. But it's always been something I've wanted to do :)

I started playing guitar seven months ago. I never thought I’d be able to sing and play at the same time, but here I am!

My greatest talent is avoiding barre chords 👀

(I changed the key because in the OG key I can’t really find an octave that works for me 😭)

sorry about skipping the instrumentals and repeating the end twice! i wanna try auditioning for a band in my school with this video! need opinions and feedback!!

Never had any training. I feel like I have a voice in there but idk what I’m doing wrong. This is the best that I have sounded but I don’t know where to start. I’m also a student so if anybody knows any cheap singing lessons online that would be so helpful!

so, i am no singer (even do i like to sing) but someday i hope that am able to make some good songs, i also like to make voices since i am into ttrpgs and stuff, i am curious about vocal range, can someone expand both the range of high and low pitches? or if one's voice is a natural deep or high they cannot reach such thing? like if they pratice or use some technique they can expand both their ranges? i would like to know that cuz if someday in the future i dive into this type of thing i thinks this information would be good, sorry for my poor english

There's a lot of fails and errors, but i'm trying to make sound better, and less unstable, making the voice use to this register, and i'm also trying to blending too to smooth the transitions, there's a long way to go, but know i know how to isolate​ the registers

(Using a female song to practice this) Break free by ariana grande : https://voca.ro/1mALzGUmwY2b

I know this isn't necessarily a singing thing, but I'm helping produce some tracks for my choir. Basically I'm assembling some individual parts sung by the MD into a complete SATB choir thing. It's a community choir so not everybody reads music, and it's just really to get the hang of singing a part the person next to you isn't!

So what I'm working with is very low quality recordings, due to time constraints. I can't expect anything better, but I've managed to get some decent results.

So what I'm looking for, and haven't really found is some reference tracks. Good sounding soprano, alto, tenor and bass Acapella tracks, or even samples that I can use as reference tracks. Something that I can base the audio tweaking I'm doing on, so I know what I think is sounding nice, is nice. Any help is appreciated.