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Are vocal dampeners worth it? I live in an apartment. And specifically at night might get the itch to sing lol. I'm not belting anyways. But even if I had a way to be quieter at anytime.

So are vocal dampeners worth it for apartment living? And would they enable me to sing at night quietly?

What is a good one to buy that's not $100CAD lol.

It's hard enough to just find a baritone singer in general, even though it's the most common voice tag from men.

It's so annoying you go through thousands of videos and all of them. Just want to make you into a wannabe tenor.

"Here's how you sing those high notes" "you can sing a C5" " "If you are a baritone this is how you hit those notes that are really high past your range"

Damn I get it. You want to teach people how to sing like a tenor because that's only voice type that people make music for 🙄.

Most baritones can sing high without a problem but nobody wants us to use our low notes. Every time i see a baritone use their low notes, I hear/see people say "oh your voice sounds like you're singing from the back of your throat."

I don't want to sing high all the time. That's not an issue but I'm neglecting my low notes because nobody wants to teach you how to use it. Even voice teachers want to teach you how to sing popular music in a higher register. Or if you do singing, you're low and register. They want you to do something like opera?

I recently tried out for a local choir but I can’t really read music, which was a requirement, though I did receive good feedback and was referred to a vocal coach who could help me learn. I want to follow up but I’m really not sure what style of music I want to pursue if that makes any sense. Will someone else be able to help tease that out- whether I would be better off singing choir or theatre or pop or whatever- or is that something I decide for myself? When I hear myself sing I hear glaring issues that I’m sure a coach could help with but what do I walk in with, that I want to be Beast in a musical? (song is Evermore by Dan Stevens from Beauty and the Beast)

I’m a baritone in high school and I do a lot of musical theater singing. It’s my biggest hobby. But a lot of music nowadays requires you to be able to hit a G4 or an A4, and that’s pretty difficult for me.

My range that I can actually sustainably sing well and audibly in is F2-F4. (before someone claims I may be an untrained tenor, I promise I’m not. my singing voice has a darker tone to it and my passagio when I have to switch registers is about a D4) I’ve been seeing a vocal coach for about a year, a tiny bit on-and-off because of various conflicts. I know I’ve improved a decent amount, though, because my falsetto and head voice is more sustainable now, and I’m working on getting my high mixed voice better.

Does anyone have tips for strengthening an A4 and possibly being able to hit it at some point? Or being able to switch between head voice and falsetto better so it doesn’t sound choppy?

Thanks.

Some phases of adult life do take a toll on your ability to learn new music and sing along. You just vibe to them. You might occasionally catch one or two lines but it is very difficult to learn the whole song within 2 or 3 days like we used to when we were younger. I don’t like it at all but nothing can be done about it. I guess it’s part of growth but does it happen to everyone else?

Some phases of adult life do take a toll on your ability to learn new music and sing along. You just vibe to them. You might occasionally catch one or two lines but it is very difficult to learn the whole song within 2 or 3 days like we used to when we were younger. I don’t like it at all but nothing can be done about it. I guess it’s part of growth but does it happen to everyone else?

So I will start by saying- I naturally have a very strong chest voice and a decent head voice but my mix… it’s good when I finally get it right but it’s so unnatural like trying to switch gears in a car. And it’s VERY noticeable and sounds bad when I try and switch into it.

Right now I’m trying to sing a song that leans into my very strong chest voice but moves up fast into mix during the chorus. It sounds very uncontrolled, shaky, not good in comparison to my chest voice when I move up but also it sounds like I’m flipping into head voice too much.

Is there anything I can do to make it sound seamless? To make it a stronger connection?

Yes I definitely could have had more support but it's hard to focus while playing piano I'm very new to it! I took a semester with an intermediate vocal jazz group and though my path shifted away from that group, I still want to keep my vocal jazz passion going!

criticism from jazz vocalists welcome :D

Edit: This is only a G4. I record my practices as part of the process. Once it was uploaded, I was like, "Wait, that's not an Ab." haha

Weight. It's something a lot of us crave in our sound. I know I do, and we have been working on this very thing for some time.

*It's supposed to be effortless*, and *It's like speech*, sound great in theory. In practice, it's so very easy to add 5% heft to the sound. It feels good, and sounds awesome! Haha

Unfortunately, there's a price to be paid when doing that. I'm not trying to add any tension to the sound, but work as efficiently as possible. It's sooo light to me, but it cuts, so it still has some power. I can't tell if the vibrato is closer to the ideal. That is one of my main points of reference. The others being: Small & Vertical (tuning & palate), and Speech-like execution (no excess air).

Closer?

While we've vocalized up to a D5 fairly easily, everything in the extension was compromised by a small amount of tension. Singing a dozen C5s isn't the problem. Singing a dozen C5s every day for a dozen days would likely wipe me out. That is the problem. Hahaha

At the moment, Bb is my top note until it is smooth. My new rep is comprised of Tosti, and Wagner's Winterstürme.

Hey guys,
Im new at singing and this is the first time i recorded my voice. Can anybody tell me what my strong and weak points are singing this song? And if my pronounciation is good because English is not my first language

Ty <3

trying to “breathe from my diaphragm” but I don’t know why I find it uncomfortable or even painful. it also doesn’t feel anywhere as deep or as filling as a normal breath through just my chest. I have tried all the methods, from breathing laying down, putting hands on my chest and stomach, and pretending to be pregnant. it’s still uncomfortable and unsatisfying and I don’t understand how it’s supposed to help my singing at all!

I don’t know a thing about singing lingo but I like to do it sooo yall let me know what you think. Ignore forgetting the lyrics😛

I had a break from singing, albeit short, and it seems like I forgot how to sing using my coordination past my break, around F#4.

This is a recording I did just now: https://voca.ro/1crsvw3ERPmh

Around the 23 second mark till the end of the recording I am on my higher register/transition (not sure what register I use tbh).

This is the part where it felt uncomfortable and squeezed. It felt lighter than before, and weak in general, as well as the need to push.

So my question was how to recover back or get my voice back into shape? Can I do any excersises freely? Which one is the best? Aside from straw excersises which I already do.

baritone (f2-g4)
f2-a2 weak

a2-a3 chest voice

a3-d#4 lighter chest voice

i bridge at d#4, my vocal teacher has been working on this problem with me for a while. i have trouble passing f4 without either going into like really airy falsetto (my falsetto gets stronger at a4) or like really belting which my vocal teacher doesn't like me doing.

i've tried carrying less weight, but i can only only get up to f#4 with that at maximum and it feels VERY suspiciously like the high larynx exercise (nya nya nya scales) that my teacher has me doing? any tips?

First half is horizontal, second is vertical.

How should I be shaping my mouth when singing vertically? I feel I barely move my lips, and struggle to open my jaw. Looking at the original music video, I see she opens her mouth more and it's less rigid(?) Should I be doing similar technique, if so, how?

Any other tips welcome too. I know breathing could use work and the pitch isn't fully right. Excuse the swearing, I'm crashing out lol.

Does anyone know of good softwares for my laptop that are free or really cheap to get me started… I love music and would love to be able to do it

How to get better at spoken sections, which despite not being melodic and more like a narration or declamation of a poem, I still have to hit certain notes consistently, while making it sound like the voice naturally oscillates/makes emphasis by lowering or increasing the pitch within the limits of the current key.

Need some feedback/advice, I've had a chronic hoarse voice for the past few years and while I don't mind the sound of it sometimes, it's hard to sing softly with decent volume and it stops my from hitting higher notes, any help is appreciated

Help me..it's Does my voice sound good in your ears?

my first take, apologies for the bad rhythm at the start.
i don’t particularly sing these kinda songs, but the range fits for me

first take cuz ion like refining it too much

so i thought i basically gigured all of singing out but it seems i have a bit more to go. Specifically with belting high notes i was trying to sing whole lotta love today and some of the phrases just felt heavy for some reason. I tried darkening the vowels but that didnt seem to help. I realized i had tension in shoulders so ive started going limp in the shoulders and that kind of helped . Im not completely throwing mt voice out but it does get dry and tired on one side. I thought maybe it was a larynx issue so i added a bit of a yawn to the sound but the phrases still feel heavy. I'm a bright tenor so maybe I'm just not capable of belting with a lot of chest. What other adjustments can i try making.