Vocals

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Former pro singer here.

You won't be able to sing everything you want to sing. Some things will be either out of your range entirely, or you won't have the right voice to sound right.

My advice is to not waste your time trying to do something you aren't physically capable, and focus on the things that are. Practice the things you're good at and slowly work on things you aren't, but know that you could do.

BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF! I couldn't do a lot of what pic related did, but I could still kill it doing what I did.

In case you think I'm larping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3SHSammQcM

You really want to know ok then.

Breathing (You may already know) - Inhale through both your nose and mouth this raises the soft palette that can cause you to sing flat. Also tense you abs/core and work on controlling airflow. Note that airflow isn't self-evident low notes need WAY MORE air flow than high notes and therefore way more support than high notes. Both however do need support.

Resonance - There are multiple areas to resonate your voice the most basic can be understood through Forehead/head voice, Nasal voice, Mouth voice, Throat voice (this will cause permanent damage), and Guttural screaming. For the vast majority of pop singing it's using the mouth and nasal voice. When singing properly into these areas you WILL feel vibrations in those areas. I quick check to make sure you not singing in your throat is to gently tap your throat while singing. If all sound stops you are singing in your throat if not and it just gets a bit quieter you are not.

Enunciation - You must over pronounce everything or else you'll just sound like you mumbling. Like try to sound fucking retarded with your over enunciation or else you'll just miss the point. You may be doing everything else right but it's all for not kinda like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_r3jMBJ7CI&t=420s like without the lyrics sheet good fucking luck.

Proper mouth movement? - I don't know how to really explain but it's different than enunciation. Your lips must be pursed a bit like your trying to have nigger lips. Your tongue must for the most part glued to the bottom of you mouth. Both these help with being flat and add overtones to your voice.

Pitch This is just practice. A good way to help is to cup you ears forward like your trying to hear someone in front of you. This will help to remove the internal bone resonance that you experience when listening to when you sing. Oh and btw fucking RECORD yourself and listen to how you actually sound.

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Listen to this album, you'll have a singing voice in no time.

>>73685199
Support/Training - You are only as powerful as you allow yourself to be. If you don't strengthen your vocal chords and fucking support them your body by singing hunched your gonna sound like shit. YOUR BODY is the instrument fucking respect it at least a little bit. Sit up straight, plant your feet, relax your vocal chords by having your head pitched down the tinyest amount. Oh and quit smoking if you do seriously.

Practice/Warm up - Don't just jump into the highest/hardest song you can, your voice is a muscle warm it up and practice properly with intent and clarity. Go through the song find the places to breath, places that problematic etc.

To be honest it took me four years to even develop enough strength to actually do most of this good luck anon.

>>73685320
Singing hunched over is what your not supposed to do puff up your chest and stand or sit tall and proud. Sorry fucked up the typing

>>73685320
>>73685199

thanks for these tips

as a musician I think my largest problem is trying to utilize my voice correctly

I always feel like my voice is just lacking in something, like its "flat" and boring and doesn't have that life or energy to it that makes a great vocalist

any idea what that could be? probably just need to practice more until Im really comfortable and can express something idk

>>73684861
Oh, and don't forget it's ok to sound terrible sometimes. Don't be to hard on yourself, keep trying. Don't hold back, and be natural. Forcing yourself to sound a certain way will sound forced, obviously.

Also remember that everyones a critic and everyone thinks they know what the fuck they're talking about (this fucker included) especially "trained" vocalists.

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>>73685199
>>73685320
Thank you people!

>>73685351
Don't listen to this guy, it really doesn't matter.

>>73685845

Agreed, a singing coach would call this wrong...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBdXLRl2g2E

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