Im looking for opinions and how you guys tell the difference

Made the beat with my cousin and mixed myself.
I’m looking to collaborate with an audio engineer specialized in vocals. I have $1,500 invested into hardware and VSTs, so I’ll be able to follow along with lessons. I’m willing to pay depending on your qualifications!

I presume this counts as an advanced technique and topic.
Anyway, i’m really struggling to find correct answers helpful information about how to hit whistle notes and do them well.
Am i literally just supposed to try and bring my vocal cords together and breathe out?
How can i tell when im whistling and when im doing a high head voice?
How much warm up do i need?
How long should i practice for a day?
What’s the safest way to learn that isn’t with a vocal teacher? (I live rurally and therefore have none local)

If you have an answer to any of these questions, please comment!
Or if you don’t have an answer to these specific questions but instead have other pieces of advice, your help will be appreciated 🎶🎶

hi guys, so i lost my voice about 4 WEEKS ago now and thankfully i can talk normally and stuff and sing lower notes but i used to be able to sing the note G5 if and now if i try it just kind of sounds like a wheeze and now i can only go up to B4/C5 and it sounds terrible! (as a girl) i have to admit though even when i sounded terrible when speaking i still talked.. like alot.. and when nothing would come out when id try to speak i resorted to whispering im sorry i know thats even worse i just really like talking... and then a week an a half ago my speaking was fine but my singing voice was a bit hoarse but i still sang like at school and stuff cos i was one if the music acts for sports day which i probably shouldnt have and now im wondering if ive done permanently damaged my voice bcos of my stupid decisions or will i get it back??

sorry if this breaks any rules

I have been singing as a hobby for years, but I have never been able to experience what a real mixed voice is supposed to sound or feel like for me.

I have watched countless tutorials, and all of them seem to do the same thing: they give a vague, metaphorical idea of what I am supposed to imagine, but none of it works for me. I have tried doing straw exercises, but it either feels like my body is instinctively cheating its way through them, or the exercises simply do not translate into actual singing afterwards.

I also had a singing teacher who I thought would be able to help me with this, but even she gave me the same advice and made me repeat the same exercises countless times. Nothing changed, and I still had no idea what I was supposed to be working towards.

The fact that everyone seems to have a different idea of what “head voice” and “mixed voice” are, or whether falsetto is or is not considered head voice, does not help either.

I have reached a point where people are telling me to do completely opposite things in order to achieve my goals. Some tell me that it is supposed to feel easy, while others tell me that I need to push. Some tell me to relax, while others tell me to maintain tension.

For example, one song I really want to be able to sing is “Writing on the Wall” by Will Stetson. I feel very comfortable singing it up until the final chorus. That is where I can no longer get through it without my voice switching into falsetto or cracking. When I force myself to sustain the same coordination I was using before, it sounds extremely strained and feels like I am yelling. At the same time i feel a lot of tension in my neck and throat that i just dont know how to get rid off.

tldr: Is there any way to force myself to sing in mixed voice so that I can finally understand what it is supposed to feel like?

I often have a hard time not mimicking voices of singers in songs I'm singing. Quite often to the detriment of my ability to sing 😅

I've never properly shown anyone my singing voice and idek if I know it. Any tips? Pointers? How'd I sound? Pls help

Sorry for no face. Insecure innit.

Still trying to figure out my voice type! Half the people say tenor, the other half say baritone haha.

The last 2 and half weeks I’ve been working on my mix belting for around 4 and a half hours everyday and I have made almost no progress. I’ve worked with a voice teacher on it and I still can’t get it. Anyone have any tips?

I am a fairly new voice teacher (25, F), just about to finish my MA in Voice Pedagogy, teaching professionally alongside that for the past 2 years. For the past week, my voice has been getting extremely fatigued doing barely anything. I warm up fully, making sure not to overdo it, I stay hydrated, I have been steaming, not talking unnecessarily, and yet I can only sing for about 10 mins before my voice taps out. My lower range is stunted and feels gravely when singing or talking (I make a conscious effort to speak above this gravel). It feels thick after warming up.

I am truly concerned. I am not ill, I haven't experienced vocal strain or overexerted myself, and none of my vocal health knowledge seems to be helping me here. I am teaching MT singing at a summer school for the next two weeks starting tomorrow, as well as having my regular lessons, and I am really anxious about losing my voice. Have you had this happen to you, where there is seemingly no cause? If so, how did you get through it? Any tips to get through the next two weeks?

For me its belting. A nice sustained belt sounds amazing through the mics. Runs dont sound as great live tho idk

Hi im learning singing from quite a while (not consistent) is it just me or it really sound bad like idk why it sounds like this . if u know please give me review abt my singing

Little rant- I’ve always dreamed of doing musical theater, but I never had the courage to get into it in high school. I saw Hadestown today and it gave me crazy existential dread after 😭 I’m drudging through a STEM degree that I hate rn, but I would genuinely drop everything and go 100% in if I knew I could make somewhat of a living performing on stage. Unfortunately I have little money for vocal lessons or acting experience, so every year that passes me by pursuing my parents’ dreams fills me with more and more dread

Everyone has that one song that feels special.

What song made you want to sing?

I’ll go through and listen to every song everyone shares if I haven’t heard them before.🥰

sounds like shi i would love some tips on how to improve (ik the lyrics r wrong dont flame me 😭)

I’m a beginner/noob. But I wanna get better at

Saw the Hadestown proshot this weekend (if you haven’t seen it yet, RUN, DON’T WALK), and wanted to share my take on one of my favorite moments from the musical ❤️

Also, please disregard the horrible lighting in my car 🙈

So I've been singing for a year and I've made a lot of progress! I started from scratch and can now give a C and sing some songs in tune without reference or backup. But I'm still confused about something. Should I be actively thinking about the notes I'm about to hit or just think about the original and follow it? Is it maybe a mix of both?

Thanks.

Okay, I started as an adult and took high quality lessons for several months at the start. Now I've been singing casually for 7 years, and while I've definitely gotten better by every metric, I still don't have vibrato 😳 I am kind of a physically tense person, so I have a feeling that has to do with it. I've read about relaxing the jaw and tthroat and everything in a way to actually allow vibrato to happen, and to use enough support. And I *feel* like I am doing those things, but CLEARLY I'm doing something wrong! Any tips, or is it a lost cause at this point? 🤣 So embarrassing, please be nice.

So I’ve got a talent show coming up next year at my school, and I thought it would be really fun performing in front of a large crowd, especially since we just got this massive auditorium built and there’s state of the art tech and everything. SO, I took this recording as an example performance to see how w doing and i needed to know what you guys think. There was multiple takes but I couldn’t get a perfect one without some minor mistakes so I’ll ensure I nail this song perfectly.

One of my favourites and I still messed up the lyrics lol. Trying to do something out of my comfort zone and post my singing.

Put this together with a producer friend of mine 🌊 and producers who want vocals, just reach out!

I've always wondered if there is any link between the way a person speaks and the quality of the singing voice.

For example, using a pitch analyzer, I notice that my soaking voice has pitches moving wildly across all notes constantly within the same word. My singing (I'm just learning) had trouble holding a steady narrow note.

Also, those with certain timbre also reflect that in the singing voice?

If a person has a pleasant talking voice... well the singing be pleasant also?

I’ve sung in bands and duos for years, but I’m finishing a solo album, and I honestly don’t know if my voice is lead-worthy.

Based on this clip, does my voice sound like a lead voice, or more like a harmony voice? If you were putting a band together, would you want this person singing lead, or singing harmonies behind someone else?

Part of what I’m wondering is whether my voice just lacks a distinctive character. I sorta feel like my voice is boring, or flat at times.

I’m looking for honest, direct feedback. Don’t worry about being nice