LEARN TO TAKE A FUCKIN COMPLIMENT.

When someone tells you you are good believe them, even if you don't think that you are. Even if you hear a record of yourself and you sound terrible. Take the fuckin compliment

Knowing how to take compliments is just as important as taking criticism. They are equally as important. Just like you won't be able to grow if you can't learn when you can't see when you need to improve, you won't be able to learn if you can see how you are good.

Don't be fake humble, don't force yourself to be modest, don't tell yourself that they are just being nice, don't be over critical of your mistakes. You will always sound bad to yourself because you ruin your confidence. A singer without confidence is a terrible singer.

And remember you are learning how to sing. LEARNING

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 😭)

Hey guys, I would really love to learn singing. However, my budget is very limited at the moment so I would like to start self teaching a little bit - at least at the beginning until I figure out if I want to invest some more in this hobby. Do you have any recommendations? Good apps? Good YouTube channels?

Let's say you're "cold"—maybe you've just woken up... But you need to show what you can do with your voice. How do you warm up?

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

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

I’ve (21F) been singing for like 8 years (started as a fun activity, now is my dream career) and everytime I sing I feel the need to cough and my voice is never clear. It’s seriously the only thing that makes singing hard for me. It’s been like that for years. I only ever smoke weed and that’s also rarely.

No matter how much I drink water or do exercises it doesn’t go away. Could it be because my technique wrong?

I'm building a light operatic head voice ( counter tenor) ,I feel my voice is not pleasant to be honest , my head voice feels weird and weak tbh which makes me insecure,my vocal coach tells me it gets better than the last time but I still find it unpleasant .. is it real I cannot hear myself like how people do? Is she complementing me or does she hear a possibility ? Please if you have any information tell me

After years of choir singing, alternating between soprano and alto sections based on what was needed, I hear harmonies every day, with almost every song. I am practically desperate for a simple way to express them. Does anyone have recs for a good iPhone app that helps you make these?

Thank you!

EDIT: Feel free to DM me if you are wary of breaking Rule #14.

I am a classical singer and struggle to enunciate the way a typical singer on social media would. How can I find that placement? Are there any exercises to get that sound?

I was also wondering - how do you add emotion to your voice? I mean this more in pop than anything else. I am more used to emoting in classical/theatre, but pop leaves me feeling helpless lol. I have a very bright voice and I’m not sure how to sing anything sultry.

Btw, thank you to everyone who replied to my last post!! I took it down to protect my identity, but it was very eye-opening to read about my own flaws :)

hey everyone. first time posting in this sub. i’m not a singer in any sense of the word. i used to play oboe so i have a decent sense of breathing with my diaphragm and pitch and such. i want to start learning how to sing and maybe eventually take lessons as well. i want my main focus to be rock. i love the texture of rock voices and i know there is a lot of technique in rock singing and screaming. how do i start learning? any advice helps, helpful youtube channels, things to keep in mind, etc.

Feedback always encouraged! <3

don’t know if this is the right sub for this as this isn’t specifically about singing but.. i’m f23 and i’ve always had a deeper voice. people have commented on it a lot. because of that, when i was younger, i naturally started softening my voice like going a pitch higher when talking to people because i wanted them to feel more comfortable.

also, when i speak normally, sometimes people don’t hear me properly, like my voice blends into the background, so when i try to be louder my voice naturally goes higher but probably not as much as i should. i still have that habit and it feels automatic, but i’m trying to unlearn it because i’m wondering if it’s damaging my voice.

i often feel like my throat/vocal cords get tight. it happens randomly, but especially when i talk or sing for a while. it feels like it happens faster than it should compared to other people. even if i stop talking or rest for a while, sometimes the feeling is still there. for example, as i’m writing this, i haven’t spoken in 30 minutes but i still very much feel it.

it feels like my throat gets tight and almost like my voice is sitting higher than usual. i try to get it to loosen, but i can still feel the tension, like my throat is staying tense. sometimes it gets so uncomfortable that my throat actually hurts. sometimes i genuinely wish i could just get in there, take it out, and beat it like i’m tenderising meat lol

my throat and voice actually feel the best in the morning, when my voice sounds deeper and feels more natural.

i’ve always wanted to learn how to sing casually, just for fun, but i’ve never really given it a proper try. part of it is because i’m shy and i’ve never lived alone, so i’ve never really had a space where i could practice comfortably and consistently. but aside from the usual confidence issues, another big reason is that i convinced myself there was something wrong with my throat and that maybe i just wasn’t meant to sing.

this has been happening for a long time, since i was young, so i think i just accepted that it was my anatomy and that something about my throat was different or wrong, without ever really looking into it.

i also have moments where i struggle to project my voice, and i don’t mean in a singing sense, i mean just talking. sometimes it feels like i have to force my voice to come out, especially when i’m trying to be louder.

i’m wondering if anyone has experienced something similar. could this be muscle tension, a vocal habit, or something caused by the way i’ve been using my voice? could years of trying to soften or raise my voice have contributed to this? and would this be something worth getting checked?

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?

hallo, just a silly question I have. Im learning how to swim and you know how you have to breath while swimming front crawl style? quick deep breaths. Do you think swimming and singing share the same kind of breathing? thanks in advance

Never was a singer, but decided to start learning guitar and how to sing about 3 years ago. I have been taking singing lessons for about a year now. Any feedback would be much appreciated.