Also using this to hopefully signal some teachers. I'm in the NJ/NY area and after fiddling with superprof for a few days ,only to realize their really strange subscription model, I'm on the lookout again for a vocal teacher using a wider net.

I've looked up the question before of course, and most say the average is 50-100$~/hr, but most in person here is 100-150$/hr range which is a decent bit more than I was really hoping to pay.

I don't mind it I suppose since I really do want to explore singing as a career, and I guess I'm looking for some advice, or hoping if someone can network me to one in a slightly different price range?

i got my braces off today & my mouth feels so weird when I try to sing , I can’t rift anymore , is this temporary?

https://share.singsnap.com/play/13347649

Hi, I’ve never performed in public before. My grandmother is getting remarried in a couple weeks and her fiancé asked me a couple days ago to sing at the wedding. I don’t think I’m necessarily a bad singer, but I’m not super confident in my skills either. I’ll be playing a song on the guitar as I sing, and I was wondering if there are any tips or exercises that could help me improve over the next couple weeks. Any help would be appreciated, currently scared out of my mind

Any tips and reviews will be appreciated https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBzzUj9OLJf/?igsh=ZGlwNTZ5ZnlpeTg4

Have you ever seen those videos where people are singing a song and they sing a high note and they're like "I didn't think I could sing that high"? That's exactly what happened to me a couple of minutes ago when I was singing Sam Smiths: Writings On The Wall. I've been told I have a tenor voice but I hadn't been able to sing higher than an F#4 (sometimes G4) without yelling or strain. I don't know maybe I wasn't singing as high as I thought but I can usually tell when I'm singing off key or an octave lower. It was such an effortless and easy feeling. It just like flowed out of me and it was super resonant (granted I was in the bathroom) but if you asked me to do it again I wouldn't be able to. I should also mention that this was in full chest voice and not mixed voice. I'm 15 and don't know much about the science behind this stuff so maybe I didn't sing as high as I think but it sounded like it but it felt super easy. How do I get it back?

https://vocaroo.com/1hkyHfDvDV42

Some parts of it I had to use falsetto because E5s and G5s are too hard for me

I’ve been do

I got bronchitis and it is kicking my ass and my mood. I got a round of drugs but I can’t sing without getting light headed. And I know I need to relax and recovery but it is so frustrating when all I want to do is write music and sing and I literally cannot. Just needed to complain to some people who get it

Usually when I perform live, the house has mics and mic stands they're comfortable with so I use those, but I bring my own just in case I need them. If I'm just singing, that's all I bring though - my Shure SM58, an XLR cable and a good mic stand.

I recently joined a new band and the drummer was telling me that their previous singer had something that he plugged his mic into before it plugged into the PA that "made him louder" (his words). I'm used to just plugging my mic directly into an XLR input on the mixer.

Do you bring any extra processors/equipment with you? Anything that "makes you louder" lol?

Hello everyone,

I’d really appreciate your honest opinion on my singing. Recently, I had an unexpected opportunity to record a few songs in a music teacher’s studio. He was very enthusiastic about my voice and shared the recordings with others, who also responded positively. Despite the encouragement, I found it difficult to enjoy listening to my own voice. After recording three songs, I actually felt like stopping altogether because I wasn’t satisfied with how it sounded.

That’s why I’m hoping to gather some anonymous, honest feedback. I’d love to hear your thoughts on my voice and singing style. All comments are welcome—positive or constructive—as this will help me decide how to move forward. Or not.

Thank you in advance! ❤️

https://youtube.com/channel/UCtZXnVFZFxe2mOP8baiOj4Q?si=_tee1fL9Jcacf5pF

Also on Spotify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIeD4X9FqSQ

Hi ya’ll So I’m pretty comfortable in my chest voice in the 4th octave when it comes to belting. I also took almost 2 years of vocal lessons with a coach for me to tackle my issues with tension and develop my head voice, which I can hit an A5 in head voice and ,on a good day, can hit an F6 in the whistle register. However, when I’m practicing songs, I notice I have issues of pulling too much chest when belting into the 5th octave, like I can touch around E5 but I have issues sustaining it and have that awful pulling feeling. Any tips/help for mixing for a belt would be much appreciated!

Obviously everyone likes to pick Freddie Mercury, but my personal favourite is Tony Williams of the platters, especially for his work at the end of My Prayer. I believe he is in the top 5 of greatest singers personally, and obviously Freddie Mercury is in there somewhere (I realize that's a cold take).

Hey Guys! I am a 20 Y/O man who wants to start learning how to Sing (I sound Horrible when I try).
Sadly, I dont have much time to learn not online, so i was wondering,

1. Should I take a Online Course/Coach? and if so who would u recommend and why?
2. would u still recommend taking a 1on1 Vocal Lesson not online? even if it is only a once every week or 2 weeks?

thanks for anyone answering!

Probably the hardest thing I’m doing in terms of singing. I guess this is more of a vent? Help is permitted too.

It’s a new musical still in its workshop progress. There is so much high note belting in this for my character because she’s going through a lot of turmoil throughout the entirety of the play, and her songs are extremely punchy aside from 2/8 songs where I can actually take a break (but even then has punchy moments in those soft songs as well).

I’m struggling so much, a lot of the vowels used as well are “ee’s” and “oo’s” on those high notes too, making it near impossible for me to fully drop my jaw.

I’m really beating myself up about this because I’m horribly struggling to keep this up. Another big solo I have too is not allowing me to breathe either in terms of words being on top of each other back to back.

But I guess what this is for, a workshop progress.

Mods, you know this post isn't hateful. If you take this post down it means you are afraid of the truth being out here. The truth that some people need to hear. (I'm expecting this to be removed without reason anyway. Heck, I'm probably getting banned.)

Edit: Trust Reddit to intentionally misconstrue your post. And to all the voice teachers: For the record, I did not mean to pose you a threat with this post. I'm sorry if it seemed like I was trying to start a fight with you, evident by the nature of your replies.

This is not a troll post nor a hate post. It's a long post, though. I'm writing this as someone who, for a long time, dreamed of being someone that people wanted to listen to. I have had a good ear and ability to pitch match since childhood. I'm writing to you now to tell you that none of that matters, literally none of it — and you should start making peace with it as I have started to. I hope to catalyze self-reflection and awareness with this post.

The truth is that if you identify with this post, you can't win. Your God-given tone is, frankly, a curse. You have a good ear? That's just God's cruel joke on you, so that you can hear yourself singing in key and tempo while still sounding utterly cringe. Don't even bother trying to change your sound — you'll have people tell you that you should "sing naturally". They'll know it doesn't match your cringey speaking voice. And for what it's worth, there is even truth in that it's not healthy to change your sound too much.

If you're reading this post and find yourself in the exact opposite situation: Congratulations! No, seriously. The fact is, it doesn't matter if your pitch isn't perfect now, as long as you're not completely tone deaf (because that distorts how your tone is perceived, but even that can be remedied in due course). You have people who are actually interested in your voice. You have teachers who literally want to help you work on your voice. You have hope.

Now I know what some of you are thinking: "But I'm a baritone/mezzo! My problem is that my vocal range sucks!" Respectfully, shut up. You have the blessing of sounding like the average joe/jane. Take it and stop complaining. Higher notes can be trained. Your range can be extended. I could write more about the purported "failings" of the other voice types, but that would be digressing. Just know that at least you are unlikely to sound annoying singing in your supposed "signature" ranges. Low is almost always safe. Oh, and sopranos aren't complaining, so there's nothing to be said there.

Of course, you may still have some annoying quality to your voice despite all this, and in that case, you are indeed among the people I am addressing now.

Now, I would like to clarify myself before going further: I am NOT saying that tenors are inherently disadvantaged. But I'm shedding some light on the fact that tenors aren't necessarily blessed at all, and we're in fact more susceptible to the God-given curse than others. If you're a tenor who just naturally sounds masculine no matter which part of your range you sing in, congratulations! God loves you. If you're one of the others, well... tough luck, buddy.

For starters, don't fool yourself and try to cope with the fact that you can sing higher than most other guys, that you can sing most male pop songs: literally nobody wants to hear that part of your voice, and I don't even mean specifically the ladies by this, lmao. Then, you're pretty much a failed baritone. You can cope by working on your lower voice, sure, but unless you're part of yet another talented minority, you'll never sound like a true baritone.

I know it sounds hateful/trolling but it really isn't, and you know it. It's almost objective fact that some of us have voices that just aren't meant to be heard; not everything can be fixed with a voice teacher.

Speaking of teachers — Isn't it funny that many people find that their teachers themselves don't sound good, despite how knowledgeable they are? That's precisely what I've been talking about. This specific group of teachers may actually be worth their salt, and they can help you for sure, but they can't help themselves, not any further. That is all. This isn't hate on teachers either. I'm merely using them as an example of what people who've "maxed out" their technique, but are just untalented, sound like.

Nobody actually wants to hear them, still, other than people who would otherwise care about them. If you think you would be content with that after years of training, and don't even have the intention of becoming a teacher yourself, then by all means, go for it. But I don't think you would.

Finally, let's talk about this sub. I'll say now that if you're an amateur it doesn't matter what you post — provided your technique is decent, as long as you're lucky enough a few people see it and comment on it, you're only going to get positive feedback, never mind the overall impression your voice has on them. But there are subtle hints: if your natural tone sucks, they'll say it's "pleasant" or "fine", but just take a look at posts of people who ACTUALLY have nice-sounding voices and see the contrast in the adjectives yourself.

Try asking for brutal advice instead and see how it goes — chances are that you'll barely get any engagement on these posts, because nobody ever dares to spell out honest truths here. The only things people will have the courage to point out are lapses in pitch, timing, etc. If you're hitting all the notes and just think you still sound dogwater, you'll be met with radio silence — that's everyone agreeing with you that it sounds bad.

The ones who still choose to say nice things when they're clearly hearing someone untalented, but not technically poor, say those things because they've conditioned themselves to "spread positivity". Just take a look at their comment history to understand what I'm saying.

And I know I'm going to sound like a broken record saying this, but this isn't hate either. It's just a commentary on the culture of this sub, just so you know, just so that you don't give yourself false hope based on what you read here. There isn't really any point in posting anything here for feedback if you aren't technically struggling.

If you identify with this post and you've managed to read this far, don't despair but consider yourself lucky to have received this message. I write all this with the genuine intent of helping you to stop wasting your time and to come to terms with the fact that you aren't meant to be a singer — that maybe you need to be the one to tell yourself that, because no one else will. And that is all I have to say.

I have been practicing singing for a month because I was encouraged to join a singing competition at school. I want to be able to sing like Vic Fuentes or Kellin Quinn but my vocal range is only B4 and C3 is it possible to get a higher vocal range by practicing? And how high can I extend my vocal range? (I'm sorry if I have bad English)