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Is there really any point in me trying to learn to sing?
The highest I can reach with my chest voice is E above middle C. I can reach a G if I really pull to the point that it's horribly painful, but it sounds awful. Anything higher than E and I'm pretty much forced to use my head voice, and my head voice sounds absolutely atrocious. It's sharp, screechy, and genuinely painful on the ears. I feel like the only songs I'll ever be able to sing well are the songs that stay in a low enough range that chest voice alone is sufficient, and that doesn't give me a lot of options. Seems like it's not even worth the effort, given that I'll never sound good if I'm ever forced to use my head voice.
Don't give up on singing. It's something you can definitely work on, but you'll only be as good as your dedication and hard work take you. Because it WILL pay off.
You have to use head voice, even if it's just a little, to reach your higher register. You can make the sound more chesty, but that's later on once you have more experience and expertise. Pulling up chest to your upper register without any head voice is just shouting, and 90% of the time you'll be flat because you're straining. Not to mention, the beautiful and resonant overtones that you would have when you mix chest and head voice would be gone and be replaced with a generally ugly sound.
You can definitely pull up chest voice, but you're too inexperienced for that right now, and you still need to get your voice into the idea of just crossing over the bridge. Don't fight the natural transition of your voice, because it's going to hinder all vocal growth.
Trust me when I say this: Do your exercises with a very light and right approach, with no change in volume as you ascend/descend. You can add power and all of that jazz later on. Right now, it's apparent that you're singing with bad technique, and you need to accustom your vocal apparatus to relax no matter what part of your range it's in. Yes, this'll require you to just let go and transition into your head voice. When you develop your mix, it'll get stronger, and you'll be able to switch between a chestier or a headier sound at will. This'll only come with your dedication and willingness to give up all your previous bad habits.
Good luck man! You can get there, just work with it. : )
You have to use head voice, even if it's just a little, to reach your higher register. You can make the sound more chesty, but that's later on once you have more experience and expertise. Pulling up chest to your upper register without any head voice is just shouting, and 90% of the time you'll be flat because you're straining. Not to mention, the beautiful and resonant overtones that you would have when you mix chest and head voice would be gone and be replaced with a generally ugly sound.
You can definitely pull up chest voice, but you're too inexperienced for that right now, and you still need to get your voice into the idea of just crossing over the bridge. Don't fight the natural transition of your voice, because it's going to hinder all vocal growth.
Trust me when I say this: Do your exercises with a very light and right approach, with no change in volume as you ascend/descend. You can add power and all of that jazz later on. Right now, it's apparent that you're singing with bad technique, and you need to accustom your vocal apparatus to relax no matter what part of your range it's in. Yes, this'll require you to just let go and transition into your head voice. When you develop your mix, it'll get stronger, and you'll be able to switch between a chestier or a headier sound at will. This'll only come with your dedication and willingness to give up all your previous bad habits.
Good luck man! You can get there, just work with it. : )
I agree with all that Azure wrote. It's my 7 month working with SS now, but many times I was wondering if things will be better. But i stuck with it, and there came a point when I realize that I needed to practice with a "light & Right" approach to makes things easiere. Before SS i was "tone deaf", and now I KNOW that my dreams can come true, because I like my voice even that I know there is a loong way. Keep practise with a attitude like a winner. Be relax and take it easy you WILL get sooo much better if you only stick with it.
And yes.. Believe me, if you find your headvoice and makes it stronger EVERYTHING will be so much lightere and more smooth, because you will notice a lot more freedom when you have a headvoice.
And yes.. Believe me, if you find your headvoice and makes it stronger EVERYTHING will be so much lightere and more smooth, because you will notice a lot more freedom when you have a headvoice.
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Singing Success just isn't working for me.
I've been stuck on the first lesson (disc 3) for over a month now. I'm still horribly inconsistent. Some days I sound great, other days I break constantly and can't even do the warm up exercises (lip rolls etc) without frequent breaks. Some days I can go rather high up the scale with my chest voice alone before needing to switch to head voice, and other times I can't hit middle C with my chest voice and am forced to use my head voice from that point in the scale onwards.I still can't do the tongue trills or nay nay nays either. I'm CAPABLE of tongue trilling, but my tongue seems to vibrate at a much higher rate than what is normal and I have to push a lot of air out really hard to actually get the trill going, which causes fatigue very quickly and often causes breaks.
As for the nay nay nays, they're just a mess. In order to reach the high notes with these I really have to reach and by the half way point every muscle in my neck is tensed. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I know that's not supposed to happen.
I just don't know what to do to get around these issues. The inconsistency I assume will diminish with time and proper technique, but I really don't know what I'm doing wrong with the tongue trills and nay nay nays. It's very discouraging to go more than a month without any improvement.
It happened the same to me, but if you are stuck on a lesson, keep going and leave it for another day, maybe just move on to disc 4 or to the style part to relax. I also use another sites to practice or listen to advices about singing. And of course, nothing better than a teacher to tell what you are doing wrong. Invest time, money, energy and everything in what you like. Success!
Well...
I can suggest you to buy a one month subscription to the site, and watch as many lessons as possible, searching those, where there are students with your same problems.
That helped me very very much, and it is not expensive.
You will also be able to download 5 lessons.
I downloaded theese, wich are very very very good:
CLASSICAL TECHNIQUE FOR THE COMMERCIAL SINGER Data: 6 Agosto 2009
SMART SINGING di Jesse Nemitz. Data: 14 Aprile 2010
SPLIT OF RESONANCE: PART I PHARYNGEAL di Shelby Rollins. Data: 20 Luglio 2011
SPLIT OF RESONANCE: PART II EDGE di Shelby Rollins. Data: 25 Agosto 2011
CONTROLLING YOUR LARYNX di Shelby Rollins. Data: 20 Ottobre 2011
In general, I suggest you the lesson of Jesse and Shelby.
I can suggest you to buy a one month subscription to the site, and watch as many lessons as possible, searching those, where there are students with your same problems.
That helped me very very much, and it is not expensive.
You will also be able to download 5 lessons.
I downloaded theese, wich are very very very good:
CLASSICAL TECHNIQUE FOR THE COMMERCIAL SINGER Data: 6 Agosto 2009
SMART SINGING di Jesse Nemitz. Data: 14 Aprile 2010
SPLIT OF RESONANCE: PART I PHARYNGEAL di Shelby Rollins. Data: 20 Luglio 2011
SPLIT OF RESONANCE: PART II EDGE di Shelby Rollins. Data: 25 Agosto 2011
CONTROLLING YOUR LARYNX di Shelby Rollins. Data: 20 Ottobre 2011
In general, I suggest you the lesson of Jesse and Shelby.
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