#I need help improving my singing. Haven't had vocal lessons before.

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spice anchor
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Hello, some of you might've met me in voice channels before. My singing is mediocre at best and I want to improve it. I've been asked for a band and I really don't wanna embarrass myself.
If anyone could give me any tips, I'd appreciate it

spice anchor
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I wanna add that I feel like my belts aren't powerful + I also have trouble maintaining notes at the high end of my range. I also have a little trouble staying on pitch.

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Anyone? 😭

desert quiver
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found it!!

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Imma take a listen

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thanks :D

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hahahaha get well soon bruh

desert quiver
# spice anchor Hello, some of you might've met me in voice channels before. My singing is medio...

I’m thinking the mic at the start must’ve cut out a little, no worries about that! Your pitch had a few shakes at the start but was mostly dead on and got more precise towards the end - it’s pretty common when you hit record and get a few nerves or you’ve done endless takes and you just want to get a good one, I know the feeling 😭 whatever happens next time, take some shallow but slow breaths (we aren’t looking to raise your heart rate here!), prepare yourself to sing and then hit it!

Your tone sounded pretty good to me, but I’m getting too much tiktoker from it - you sure this is the way you really sing? I know a lot of people talk about ‘finding your own voice’, but if you look at @lusty gulch’s post #1223262744376119407 you’ll see that finding your own natural tone doesn’t magically happen by pulling it out of how one other singer sings or how everyone else sings now - go to the great singers of every genre; go on Spotify and listen to a bunch of different ones every day (jazz, R&B, country, pop, other styles you wouldn’t even think of listening to… heck, even classical has a few surprises), and all you have to do is listen again to the ones you like, expand your listening and imitate the sounds of the singers you like the sound of - get to the bottom of why they sound so good and what they do with their body to sound that way! I could go on about this, but you can check out the post and listen to my voice message there to save yourself some time haha

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Ok so what I gathered from the rest is that you get stronger AS you continue to belt and have time to condition yourself and get into it, but we need you to belt smoothly with power behind it from the get-go - for this, breath support is something you need to learn. My method of breath support is all about providing a good base for the rest of your singing to fall on in layers (your voice, then any internal effects you might apply to it - and believe me, you can use and create so many just by moving the muscles in your face, mouth and throat!) through muscles - diverting any tension in the vocal folds straight to other muscles in the body that will not only make singing safer for you, but will help you to reach those high notes straight away (eventually, with no warm up - it’s all in HOW you train and condition those muscles!) it’ll give you so much more control over your control of air flow (side note: for people starting out, breathiness ≠ good high notes! Being breathy on certain notes is a good effect and adds warmth, romance etc to your sound, but when done on high notes, you’ll push too much air through the vocal folds which will cause lesions, polyps… a whole host of vocal problems, so having good control of your air flow is super important!) your pitch, it’ll help you hit high notes with little to no effort… most people get this instantly, then practise consistently and after a week or two have it ingrained into their muscle memory so they can just whip out their voice and sound great whenever they want to!

Speaking of tone and volume, we could use these and other elements to change up the way you sing this song to make it sound like a pro live performance, and you said that a band asked you to sing with them too, so are these things something you would like to develop/learn how to do?

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Oh my lord that was long -

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On the whole, you had great projection, pitch really came through solid and precise at the end (you played 4 instruments my guy of course you’d nail it!!) vowels and all were great and I have no worries about that, but if you tweaked them just a little you’d sound so much better! Great job, you’re killing this already!!

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ALSO, some of this won’t stick with you immediately and this is why I don’t teach breath support or belting or anything like that by text - it’s not hard to master at all and it comes quickly to a lot of people (initially - it’s the consistency and practise that gets you there!), but I need to see what you’re doing and you need to see and hear me and we gotta exchange feedback and make sure everything feels right so that you don’t feel any discomfort etc etc, that’s all!

desert quiver
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spice anchor
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This it REALLY useful thanks

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Is there a chance we might be able to get on a voice call sometime?

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